On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 06:33:18PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:37:24AM +0100, Dave Martin wrote: > > For the kernel, I suggest using a .L prefix so that the generated > > symbols don't bloat the vmlinux symbol table (similar to numbered local > > labels) -- unless you really want the symbols retained. > > > > Having a common prefix for all "unique" assembler symbols may help us > > to avoid namespace collisions, say > > > > .L__asm__foo_\@ > > .L__asm__bar_\@ > > Hmm, yes, and that would allow us to replace the open-coded labels in > our assembler.h macros as well, wouldn't it? Yup. For this patch, I'll rename skip_apply_ssbd\@ to .L__asm_ssbd_skip\@. I'll send another patch (or series) converting our other macros to this scheme. We can either take that with this series, or as subsequent cleanup. Thanks, Mark.
