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

[Naveen N. Rao]

On 2016/11/18 08:41PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> "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.

Can't say I didn't get tempted to rename _GLOBAL() to _GLOBAL_FUNC() :D
I'll convert the files I touch.

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

Sure.

Thanks!
- Naveen