@@ -130,8 +130,20 @@ denoting a range of code via ``SYM_*_START/END`` annotations.
In fact, this kind of annotation corresponds to the now deprecated ``ENTRY``
and ``ENDPROC`` macros.
-* ``SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS`` and ``SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL_ALIAS`` serve for those
- who decided to have two or more names for one function. The typical use is::
+* ``SYM_FUNC_ALIAS``, ``SYM_FUNC_ALIAS_WEAK``, and ``SYM_FUNC_LOCAL_ALIAS`` can
+ be used to define multiple names for a function. The typical use is::
+
+ SYM_FUNC_START(__memset)
+ ... asm insns ...
+ SYN_FUNC_END(__memset)
+ SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(memset, __memset)
+
+ In this example, one can call ``__memset`` or ``memset`` with the same
+ result, except the debug information for the instructions is generated to
+ the object file only once -- for the non-``ALIAS`` case.
+
+* ``SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS`` and ``SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL_ALIAS`` are deprecated
+ ways to define two or more names for one function. The typical use is::
SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS(__memset)
SYM_FUNC_START(memset)
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@
#ifndef SYM_ENTRY_AT
#define SYM_ENTRY_AT(name, location, linkage, align...) \
linkage(name) ASM_NL \
+ .set .L____sym_entry__##name, location ASM_NL \
.set name, location ASM_NL
#endif
@@ -176,6 +177,7 @@
#ifndef SYM_END_AT
#define SYM_END_AT(name, location, sym_type) \
.type name sym_type ASM_NL \
+ .set .L____sym_end__##name, location ASM_NL \
.size name, location-name ASM_NL
#endif
@@ -292,6 +294,33 @@
SYM_END(name, SYM_T_FUNC)
#endif
+/*
+ * SYM_FUNC_LOCAL_ALIAS -- define a local alias for an existing function
+ */
+#ifndef SYM_FUNC_LOCAL_ALIAS
+#define SYM_FUNC_LOCAL_ALIAS(alias, name) \
+ SYM_START_AT(alias, .L____sym_entry__##name, SYM_L_LOCAL, SYM_A_NONE) \
+ SYM_END_AT(alias, .L____sym_end__##name, SYM_T_FUNC)
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * SYM_FUNC_ALIAS -- define a global alias for an existing function
+ */
+#ifndef SYM_FUNC_ALIAS
+#define SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(alias, name) \
+ SYM_START_AT(alias, .L____sym_entry__##name, SYM_L_GLOBAL, SYM_A_NONE) \
+ SYM_END_AT(alias, .L____sym_end__##name, SYM_T_FUNC)
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * SYM_FUNC_ALIAS_WEAK -- define a weak global alias for an existing function
+ */
+#ifndef SYM_FUNC_ALIAS_WEAK
+#define SYM_FUNC_ALIAS_WEAK(alias, name) \
+ SYM_START_AT(alias, .L____sym_entry__##name, SYM_L_WEAK, SYM_A_NONE) \
+ SYM_END_AT(alias, .L____sym_end__##name, SYM_T_FUNC)
+#endif
+
/* SYM_CODE_START -- use for non-C (special) functions */
#ifndef SYM_CODE_START
#define SYM_CODE_START(name) \
Currently aliasing an asm function requires adding START and END annotations for each name, as per Documentation/asm-annotations.rst: SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS(__memset) SYM_FUNC_START(memset) ... asm insns ... SYM_FUNC_END(memset) SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS(__memset) This is more painful than necessary to maintain, especially where a function has many aliases, some of which we may wish to define conditionally. For example, arm64's memcpy/memmove implementation (which uses some arch-specific SYM_*() helpers) has: SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS(__memmove) SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS_WEAK_PI(memmove) SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS(__memcpy) SYM_FUNC_START_WEAK_PI(memcpy) ... asm insns ... SYM_FUNC_END_PI(memcpy) EXPORT_SYMBOL(memcpy) SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS(__memcpy) EXPORT_SYMBOL(__memcpy) SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS_PI(memmove) EXPORT_SYMBOL(memmove) SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS(__memmove) EXPORT_SYMBOL(__memmove) SYM_FUNC_START(name) It would be much nicer if we could define the aliases *after* the standard function definition. This would avoid the need to specify each symbol name twice, and would make it easier to spot the canonical function definition. This patch adds new macros to allow us to do so, which allows the above example to be rewritten more succinctly as: SYM_FUNC_START(__pi_memcpy) ... asm insns ... SYM_FUNC_END(__pi_memcpy) SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(__memcpy, __pi_memcpy) EXPORT_SYMBOL(__memcpy) SYM_FUNC_ALIAS_WEAK(memcpy, __memcpy) EXPORT_SYMBOL(memcpy) SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(__pi_memmove, __pi_memcpy) SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(__memmove, __pi_memmove) EXPORT_SYMBOL(__memmove) SYM_FUNC_ALIAS_WEAK(memmove, __memmove) EXPORT_SYMBOL(memmove) The reduction in duplication will also make it possible to replace some uses of WEAK with more accurate Kconfig guards, e.g. #ifndef CONFIG_KASAN SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(memmove, __memmove) EXPORT_SYMBOL(memmove) #endif ... which should make it easier to ensure that symbols are neither used nor overidden unexpectedly. The existing SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS() and SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL_ALIAS() are marked as deprecated, and will be removed once existing users are moved over to the new scheme. TODO: * Handle tools/ copy Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> --- Documentation/asm-annotations.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++-- include/linux/linkage.h | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)