linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] linkage: better symbol aliasing

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Date:   Tue, 7 Dec 2021 13:33:42 +0000
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, ardb@...nel.org,
        broonie@...nel.org, catalin.marinas@....com,
        dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        maz@...nel.org, mingo@...hat.com, tabba@...gle.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, will@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] linkage: better symbol aliasing

On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 09:23:04PM -0800, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 12:47:09PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > This avoids repetition and hopefully make it easier to ensure
> > consistency (e.g. so each function has a single canonical name and
> > associated metadata).
> > 
> > I'm sending this as an RFC since I want to check:
> > 
> > a) People are happy with the idea in principle.
> > 
> > b) People are happy with the implementation within <linux/linkage.h>.
> > 
> > ... and I haven't yet converted the headers under tools/, which is
> > largely a copy+paste job.
> 
> Looks like a definite improvement to me.
> 
> The only suggestion I'd have would be to fix a minor naming
> inconsistency: change "SYM_FUNC_LOCAL_ALIAS" to "SYM_FUNC_ALIAS_LOCAL"
> to match the other "<noun>_<verb>" macros.

Sure; I was following the example set by `SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL_ALIAS`, but I
agree that placing LOCAL on the end looks more consistent overall once that's
removed.

For V2 I'll make that `SYM_FUNC_ALIAS_LOCAL`.

Thanks,
Mark.