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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] arm64: asm: Add new-style position independent function annotations
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 16:45:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200107164524.GF4877@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200107144407.GB29001@willie-the-truck>


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On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 02:44:08PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 07:58:16PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > +#define SYM_FUNC_START_PI_WEAK(x) \
> > +		SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS(__pi_##x) ASM_NL \
> > +		SYM_FUNC_START_WEAK(x)

> Naming's hard, but I think this is particularly bad because it reads to me
> like it's declaring a weak, position-independent symbol, whereas the weak
> symbol is actually the version without the "__pi_" prefix. Maybe
> SYM_FUNC_START_WEAK_PI() is a tiny bit better? Hrm.

I really don't have strong feelings about the name, if you're happy with
_WEAK_PI I'm more than happy to go with that.  Like you say it's messy.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-07 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-06 19:58 [PATCH 0/3] arm64: Conversions to modern assembly annotations Mark Brown
2020-01-06 19:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] arm64: asm: Add new-style position independent function annotations Mark Brown
2020-01-07 14:44   ` Will Deacon
2020-01-07 16:45     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2020-01-06 19:58 ` [PATCH 2/3] arm64: lib: Use modern annotations for assembly functions Mark Brown
2020-01-07 14:44   ` Will Deacon
2020-01-07 17:47     ` Mark Brown
2020-01-08 12:29       ` Will Deacon
2020-01-10 16:56         ` Jiri Slaby
2020-01-15 18:43           ` Will Deacon
2020-01-06 19:58 ` [PATCH 3/3] arm64: mm: " Mark Brown
2020-01-07 14:43   ` Will Deacon
2020-01-07 16:42     ` Mark Brown
2020-01-08 12:17       ` Will Deacon
2020-01-08 13:50         ` Mark Brown
2020-01-08 14:56           ` Will Deacon

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