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Commit 0f61f6be authored by Mark Rutland's avatar Mark Rutland Committed by Will Deacon
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arm64: clean up symbol aliasing



Now that we have SYM_FUNC_ALIAS() and SYM_FUNC_ALIAS_WEAK(), use those
to simplify and more consistently define function aliases across
arch/arm64.

Aliases are now defined in terms of a canonical function name. For
position-independent functions I've made the __pi_<func> name the
canonical name, and defined other alises in terms of this.

The SYM_FUNC_{START,END}_PI(func) macros obscure the __pi_<func> name,
and make this hard to seatch for. The SYM_FUNC_START_WEAK_PI() macro
also obscures the fact that the __pi_<func> fymbol is global and the
<func> symbol is weak. For clarity, I have removed these macros and used
SYM_FUNC_{START,END}() directly with the __pi_<func> name.

For example:

	SYM_FUNC_START_WEAK_PI(func)
	... asm insns ...
	SYM_FUNC_END_PI(func)
	EXPORT_SYMBOL(func)

... becomes:

	SYM_FUNC_START(__pi_func)
	... asm insns ...
	SYM_FUNC_END(__pi_func)

	SYM_FUNC_ALIAS_WEAK(func, __pi_func)
	EXPORT_SYMBOL(func)

For clarity, where there are multiple annotations such as
EXPORT_SYMBOL(), I've tried to keep annotations grouped by symbol. For
example, where a function has a name and an alias which are both
exported, this is organised as:

	SYM_FUNC_START(func)
	... asm insns ...
	SYM_FUNC_END(func)
	EXPORT_SYMBOL(func)

	SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(alias, func)
	EXPORT_SYMBOL(alias)

For consistency with the other string functions, I've defined strrchr as
a position-independent function, as it can safely be used as such even
though we have no users today.

As we no longer use SYM_FUNC_{START,END}_ALIAS(), our local copies are
removed. The common versions will be removed by a subsequent patch.

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

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220216162229.1076788-3-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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