Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 11:09:16 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
        x86@kernel.org, jpoimboe@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
        linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] x86: assembly, ENTRY for fn, GLOBAL for data
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On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> wrote:
> 
> > This is a start of series to unify use of ENTRY, ENDPROC, GLOBAL, END,
> > and other macros across x86. When we have all this sorted out, this will
> > help to inject DWARF unwinding info by objtool later.
> > 
> > So, let us use the macros this way:
> > * ENTRY -- start of a global function
> > * ENDPROC -- end of a local/global function
> > * GLOBAL -- start of a globally visible data symbol
> > * END -- end of local/global data symbol
> 
> So how about using macro names that actually show the purpose, instead of 
> importing all the crappy, historic, essentially randomly chosen debug symbol macro 
> names from the binutils and older kernels?
> 
> Something sane, like:
> 
> 	SYM__FUNCTION_START

Sane would be:

     	SYM_FUNCTION_START

The double underscore is just not giving any value.

Thanks,

	tglx