linkage: add generic GLOBAL() macro

Declaring a global symbol in assembly is tedious, error-prone, and
painful to read. While ENTRY() exists, this is supposed to be used for
function entry points, and this affects alignment in a potentially
undesireable manner.

Instead, let's add a generic GLOBAL() macro for this, as x86 added
locally in commit:

  95695547a7db44b8 ("x86: asm linkage - introduce GLOBAL macro")

... thus allowing us to use this more freely in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <[email protected]>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Torsten Duwe <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>

diff --git a/include/linux/linkage.h b/include/linux/linkage.h
index 7c47b1a471d4dbdddb22ce0375e17996a59f9c5a..7e020782ade22adbef8dd4ad2ddae555a74dcb7c 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/linkage.h
+++ b/include/linux/linkage.h
@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@
 #define ALIGN __ALIGN
 #define ALIGN_STR __ALIGN_STR
 
+#ifndef GLOBAL
+#define GLOBAL(name) \
+       .globl name ASM_NL \
+       name:
+#endif
+
 #ifndef ENTRY
 #define ENTRY(name) \
        .globl name ASM_NL \