Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: provide include/asm/asm-prototypes.h for ARM

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 07:32:00PM +1100, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:05:26 +0200
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> 
> > This adds an asm/asm-prototypes.h header for ARM to fix the
> > broken symbol versioning for symbols exported from assembler
> > files.
> > 
> > In addition to the header, we have to do these other small
> > changes:
> > 
> > - move the exports from bitops.h to {change,clear,set,...}bit.S
> > - move the exports from csumpartialgeneric.S into the files
> >   including it
> > 
> > I couldn't find the correct prototypes for the compiler builtins,
> > so I went with the fake 'void f(void)' prototypes that we had
> > before.
> > 
> > This leaves the mmioset/mmiocpy function for now, as it's not
> > obvious how to best handle them.
> 
> 
> This looks nicer. I like variant B because it keeps the GENKSYMS cruft to
> a single location, but either one isn't too bad.
> 
> I'd like to get moving on this, so let's at least get the generic kbuild
> change merged. In the end, the kbuild code does not prevent a maintainer
> from putting their EXPORT_SYMBOL in whatever location they like, so there
> is no reason not to merge it (certainly there will be archs that do use
> it).
> 
> Michal, what's your thoughts? If you merge my patch 2/2 and skip 1/2, it
> should not give any new build warnings or errors, so then arch patches can
> go via arch trees. 1/2 could go in after everyone is up to date.

So what's the conclusion on this?  I've just had a failure due to
CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS reported on ARM, and it looks like (at
least some of) patch 1 could resolve it.

Do we need to split patch 1?

Has any of these patches been committed yet?

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