From ad697a1aecac19ec351063b5d8e6fc9d4bca7ee5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Rutland Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 22:41:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] linkage: add generic GLOBAL() macro Declaring a global symbol in assembly is tedious, error-prone, and painful to read. While ENTRY() exists, this is supposed to be used for function entry points, and this affects alignment in a potentially undesireable manner. Instead, let's add a generic GLOBAL() macro for this, as x86 added locally in commit: 95695547a7db44b8 ("x86: asm linkage - introduce GLOBAL macro") ... thus allowing us to use this more freely in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Cc: AKASHI Takahiro Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Torsten Duwe Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Will Deacon --- include/linux/linkage.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/linkage.h b/include/linux/linkage.h index 7c47b1a471d4..7e020782ade2 100644 --- a/include/linux/linkage.h +++ b/include/linux/linkage.h @@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ #define ALIGN __ALIGN #define ALIGN_STR __ALIGN_STR +#ifndef GLOBAL +#define GLOBAL(name) \ + .globl name ASM_NL \ + name: +#endif + #ifndef ENTRY #define ENTRY(name) \ .globl name ASM_NL \ -- 2.30.2