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Revision de93245c00a44578ae73964b7e36607d04fed5b3 authored by Aditya Srivastava on 26 February 2021, 01:21:57 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 26 February 2021, 17:41:04 UTC
objtool requires that all code must be contained in an ELF symbol.  Symbol
names that have a '.L' prefix do not emit symbol table entries, as they
have special meaning for the assembler.

'.L' prefixed symbols can be used within a code region, but should be
avoided for denoting a range of code via 'SYM_*_START/END' annotations.

Add a new check to emit a warning on finding the usage of '.L' symbols for
'.S' files, if it denotes range of code via SYM_*_START/END annotation
pair.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210123190459.9701-1-yashsri421@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210112210154.GI4646@sirena.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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History
Tip revision: de93245c00a44578ae73964b7e36607d04fed5b3 authored by Aditya Srivastava on 26 February 2021, 01:21:57 UTC
checkpatch: add warning for avoiding .L prefix symbols in assembly files
Tip revision: de93245
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