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[v4,4/4] linkage: remove SYM_FUNC_{START,END}_ALIAS()

Message ID 20220216162229.1076788-5-mark.rutland@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
Headers show
Series linkage: better symbol aliasing | expand

Commit Message

Mark Rutland Feb. 16, 2022, 4:22 p.m. UTC 
Now that all aliases are defined using SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(), remove the old
SYM_FUNC_{START,END}_ALIAS() macros.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
---
 Documentation/asm-annotations.rst       | 13 -----------
 include/linux/linkage.h                 | 30 -------------------------
 tools/perf/util/include/linux/linkage.h | 21 -----------------
 3 files changed, 64 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst b/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst
index 4868b58c60fb..a64f2ca469d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst
+++ b/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst
@@ -142,19 +142,6 @@  denoting a range of code via ``SYM_*_START/END`` annotations.
   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)
-        ... asm insns ...
-    SYM_FUNC_END(memset)
-    SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS(__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_CODE_START`` and ``SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL`` should be used only in
   special cases -- if you know what you are doing. This is used exclusively
   for interrupt handlers and similar where the calling convention is not the C
diff --git a/include/linux/linkage.h b/include/linux/linkage.h
index e574a84d8b11..acb1ad2356f1 100644
--- a/include/linux/linkage.h
+++ b/include/linux/linkage.h
@@ -211,30 +211,8 @@ 
 	SYM_ENTRY(name, linkage, SYM_A_NONE)
 #endif
 
-/*
- * SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL_ALIAS -- use where there are two local names for one
- * function
- */
-#ifndef SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL_ALIAS
-#define SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL_ALIAS(name)		\
-	SYM_START(name, SYM_L_LOCAL, SYM_A_ALIGN)
-#endif
-
-/*
- * SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS -- use where there are two global names for one
- * function
- */
-#ifndef SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS
-#define SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS(name)			\
-	SYM_START(name, SYM_L_GLOBAL, SYM_A_ALIGN)
-#endif
-
 /* SYM_FUNC_START -- use for global functions */
 #ifndef SYM_FUNC_START
-/*
- * The same as SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS, but we will need to distinguish these two
- * later.
- */
 #define SYM_FUNC_START(name)				\
 	SYM_START(name, SYM_L_GLOBAL, SYM_A_ALIGN)
 #endif
@@ -247,7 +225,6 @@ 
 
 /* SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL -- use for local functions */
 #ifndef SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL
-/* the same as SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL_ALIAS, see comment near SYM_FUNC_START */
 #define SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(name)			\
 	SYM_START(name, SYM_L_LOCAL, SYM_A_ALIGN)
 #endif
@@ -270,18 +247,11 @@ 
 	SYM_START(name, SYM_L_WEAK, SYM_A_NONE)
 #endif
 
-/* SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS -- the end of LOCAL_ALIASed or ALIASed function */
-#ifndef SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS
-#define SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS(name)			\
-	SYM_END(name, SYM_T_FUNC)
-#endif
-
 /*
  * SYM_FUNC_END -- the end of SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL, SYM_FUNC_START,
  * SYM_FUNC_START_WEAK, ...
  */
 #ifndef SYM_FUNC_END
-/* the same as SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS, see comment near SYM_FUNC_START */
 #define SYM_FUNC_END(name)				\
 	SYM_END(name, SYM_T_FUNC)
 #endif
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/include/linux/linkage.h b/tools/perf/util/include/linux/linkage.h
index 7b4cd7947e3f..aa0c5179836d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/include/linux/linkage.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/include/linux/linkage.h
@@ -64,38 +64,18 @@ 
 	.size alias, .L__sym_size_##alias
 #endif
 
-/*
- * SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS -- use where there are two global names for one
- * function
- */
-#ifndef SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS
-#define SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS(name)			\
-	SYM_START(name, SYM_L_GLOBAL, SYM_A_ALIGN)
-#endif
-
 /* SYM_FUNC_START -- use for global functions */
 #ifndef SYM_FUNC_START
-/*
- * The same as SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS, but we will need to distinguish these two
- * later.
- */
 #define SYM_FUNC_START(name)				\
 	SYM_START(name, SYM_L_GLOBAL, SYM_A_ALIGN)
 #endif
 
 /* SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL -- use for local functions */
 #ifndef SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL
-/* the same as SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL_ALIAS, see comment near SYM_FUNC_START */
 #define SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(name)			\
 	SYM_START(name, SYM_L_LOCAL, SYM_A_ALIGN)
 #endif
 
-/* SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS -- the end of LOCAL_ALIASed or ALIASed function */
-#ifndef SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS
-#define SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS(name)			\
-	SYM_END(name, SYM_T_FUNC)
-#endif
-
 /* SYM_FUNC_START_WEAK -- use for weak functions */
 #ifndef SYM_FUNC_START_WEAK
 #define SYM_FUNC_START_WEAK(name)			\
@@ -107,7 +87,6 @@ 
  * SYM_FUNC_START_WEAK, ...
  */
 #ifndef SYM_FUNC_END
-/* the same as SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS, see comment near SYM_FUNC_START */
 #define SYM_FUNC_END(name)				\
 	SYM_END(name, SYM_T_FUNC)
 #endif