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

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Date:   Wed, 15 Dec 2021 11:28:05 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, tabba@...gle.com, maz@...nel.org,
        dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
        broonie@...nel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        ardb@...nel.org
Subject: Re: (subset) [RFC PATCH 0/6] linkage: better symbol aliasing

On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 12:47:09 +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> This series aims to make symbol aliasing simpler and more consistent.
> The basic idea is to replace SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS(alias) and
> SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS(alias) with a new SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(alias, name), so
> that e.g.
> 
>     SYM_FUNC_START(func)
>     SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS(alias1)
>     SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS(alias2)
>         ... asm insns ...
>     SYM_FUNC_END(func)
>     SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS(alias1)
>     SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS(alias2)
>     EXPORT_SYMBOL(alias1)
>     EXPORT_SYMBOL(alias2)
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!

[3/6] arm64: remove __dma_*_area() aliases
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/c2c529b27ceb

-- 
Catalin