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 <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/linkage.h b/include/linux/linkage.h
index 7c47b1a..7e02078 100644
--- 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 \