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authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>2022-02-16 19:22:29 +0300
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>2022-02-22 19:21:34 +0300
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linkage: remove SYM_FUNC_{START,END}_ALIAS()
Now that all aliases are defined using SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(), remove the old SYM_FUNC_{START,END}_ALIAS() macros. There should be no functional change as a result of this patch. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220216162229.1076788-5-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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@@ -142,19 +142,6 @@ denoting a range of code via ``SYM_*_START/END`` annotations.
result, except the debug information for the instructions is generated to
the object file only once -- for the non-``ALIAS`` case.
-* ``SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS`` and ``SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL_ALIAS`` are deprecated
- ways to define two or more names for one function. The typical use is::
-
- SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS(__memset)
- SYM_FUNC_START(memset)
- ... asm insns ...
- SYM_FUNC_END(memset)
- SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS(__memset)
-
- In this example, one can call ``__memset`` or ``memset`` with the same
- result, except the debug information for the instructions is generated to
- the object file only once -- for the non-``ALIAS`` case.
-
* ``SYM_CODE_START`` and ``SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL`` should be used only in
special cases -- if you know what you are doing. This is used exclusively
for interrupt handlers and similar where the calling convention is not the C