From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 00/10] arm64: assembly export cleanup
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:50:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181210115040.GA23485@edgewater-inn.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181207180823.36612-1-mark.rutland@arm.com>
On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 06:08:13PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> When exporting a C function, we place the EXPORT_SYMBOL() immediately after the
> function definition. Historically we couldn't do this with assembly functions,
> and hence we collected all of these exports in arm64ksyms.c. Over time, this
> has retained redundant includes and exports for items defined in C code.
>
> For a while now it has been possible to export functions directly from assembly
> files, which is beneficial for ongoing maintenance.
>
> These patches move the exports from arm64ksyms.c into their relevant assembly
> files, and remove the newly redundant arm64ksyms.c. I've pushed the series to
> my arm64/export-cleanup branch [1] on kernel.org.
Cheers, I've picked this up.
Will
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-07 18:08 [PATCHv2 00/10] arm64: assembly export cleanup Mark Rutland
2018-12-07 18:08 ` [PATCHv2 01/10] arm64: remove bitop exports Mark Rutland
2018-12-07 18:08 ` [PATCHv2 02/10] arm64: move memstart_addr export inline Mark Rutland
2018-12-07 18:08 ` [PATCHv2 03/10] arm64: add EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOKASAN() Mark Rutland
2018-12-07 18:08 ` [PATCHv2 04/10] arm64: tishift: use asm EXPORT_SYMBOL() Mark Rutland
2018-12-07 18:08 ` [PATCHv2 05/10] arm64: smccc: " Mark Rutland
2018-12-07 18:08 ` [PATCHv2 06/10] arm64: page: " Mark Rutland
2018-12-07 18:08 ` [PATCHv2 07/10] arm64: uaccess: " Mark Rutland
2018-12-07 18:08 ` [PATCHv2 08/10] arm64: string: " Mark Rutland
2018-12-07 18:08 ` [PATCHv2 09/10] arm64: frace: " Mark Rutland
2018-12-07 18:08 ` [PATCHv2 10/10] arm64: remove arm64ksyms.c Mark Rutland
2018-12-10 11:50 ` Will Deacon [this message]
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