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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 17/28] x86/asm: use SYM_INNER_LABEL instead of GLOBAL
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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On 05/18/2018, 09:41 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 2:17 AM Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> wrote:
> 
>> GLOBAL had several meanings and is going away. In this patch, convert
>> all the inner function labels marked with GLOBAL to use SYM_INNER_LABEL
>> instead.
> 
>> Note that retint_user needs not be global, perhaps since commit
>> 2ec67971facc ("x86/entry/64/compat: Remove most of the fast system call
>> machinery"), where entry_64_compat's caller was removed. So mark the
>> label as LOCAL.
> 
> 
>> -GLOBAL(entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe)
>> +SYM_INNER_LABEL(entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe, SYM_L_GLOBAL)
> 
> I've missed all the context here.   I agree that GLOBAL is misleading, and
> "inner label" is nice.  But this is a rather wordy macro.  Would:
> 
> INNER_LABEL_GLOBAL(name)
> 
> be better?  (With just INNER_LABEL(name) for the local version?)

All the macros have SYM_ prefix. Other macros look like this:
SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(name)
SYM_FUNC_START(name)

So I can make the inner one:
SYM_INNER_LABEL_LOCAL(name)
SYM_INNER_LABEL(name)

to be consistent with the rest, if that is OK?

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs