[RFC PATCH 1/4] powerpc: asm: introduce new macros for assembly globals

[Michael Ellerman]

"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> - Introduce _GLOBAL_SYM() for global symbols in assembly. This helps
> reduce verbosity of assembly files.

Unfortunately you've walked into a bit of mine field here :)

In user space they use FUNC_START() to declare the start of a function,
and we should do the same. Anton added FUNC_START/END, but didn't quite
get around to converting everything, see 151f25112ff7 ("powerpc: define
FUNC_START/FUNC_END").

So what I'd like is all uses of _GLOBAL() to become FUNC_START(), and
then we can change _GLOBAL() to just define a global symbol.

We can probably decouple that from most of this series though, as I
mentioned in my other reply, just by using _ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL().

cheers