compiler: introduce __alias(symbol) shortcut

To be consistent with other compiler attributes introduce __alias(symbol)
macro expanding into __attribute__((alias(#symbol)))

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index 02ae99e8e6d38a49ba59e76ecb722fce64376a51..cdf13ca7cac32b61e07dcdbc9f9a79c68dd9ee3e 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
 #define __deprecated                   __attribute__((deprecated))
 #define __packed                       __attribute__((packed))
 #define __weak                         __attribute__((weak))
+#define __alias(symbol)                __attribute__((alias(#symbol)))
 
 /*
  * it doesn't make sense on ARM (currently the only user of __naked) to trace