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* [PATCH] Use gcc alias instead of assembler aliases for syscalls
@ 2013-08-05 22:09 Andi Kleen
  2013-08-06  5:59 ` Andrew Morton
  2013-08-07 23:54 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Andi Kleen @ 2013-08-05 22:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: viro; +Cc: linux-kernel, Andi Kleen

From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

Use standard gcc __attribute__((alias(foo))) to define
the syscall aliases instead of custom assembler macros.

This is far cleaner, and also fixes my LTO kernel build.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
---
 include/linux/compat.h   | 4 ++--
 include/linux/syscalls.h | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h
index 7f0c1dd..18e4b75 100644
--- a/include/linux/compat.h
+++ b/include/linux/compat.h
@@ -41,13 +41,13 @@
 	COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx(6, _##name, __VA_ARGS__)
 
 #define COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, name, ...)				\
-	asmlinkage long compat_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__));\
+	asmlinkage long compat_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__))\
+		__attribute__((alias(__stringify(compat_SyS##name))));  \
 	static inline long C_SYSC##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__));\
 	asmlinkage long compat_SyS##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__))\
 	{								\
 		return C_SYSC##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DELOUSE,__VA_ARGS__));	\
 	}								\
-	SYSCALL_ALIAS(compat_sys##name, compat_SyS##name);		\
 	static inline long C_SYSC##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__))
 
 #ifndef compat_user_stack_pointer
diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index 4147d70..87039ad 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -184,7 +184,8 @@ extern struct trace_event_functions exit_syscall_print_funcs;
 
 #define __PROTECT(...) asmlinkage_protect(__VA_ARGS__)
 #define __SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, name, ...)					\
-	asmlinkage long sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__));	\
+	asmlinkage long sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__))	\
+		__attribute__((alias(__stringify(SyS##name))));		\
 	static inline long SYSC##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__));	\
 	asmlinkage long SyS##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__))	\
 	{								\
@@ -193,7 +194,6 @@ extern struct trace_event_functions exit_syscall_print_funcs;
 		__PROTECT(x, ret,__MAP(x,__SC_ARGS,__VA_ARGS__));	\
 		return ret;						\
 	}								\
-	SYSCALL_ALIAS(sys##name, SyS##name);				\
 	static inline long SYSC##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__))
 
 asmlinkage long sys_time(time_t __user *tloc);
-- 
1.8.3.1


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2013-08-06  7:40     ` Al Viro
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