The patch titled
Subject: include/linux/linkage.h: align weak symbols
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
linkageh-align-weak-symbols.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/linkageh-align-weak-symbols.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/linkageh-align-weak-symbols.patch
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From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: include/linux/linkage.h: align weak symbols
Since WEAK() supposed to be used instead of ENTRY() to define weak
symbols, but unlike ENTRY() it doesn't have ALIGN directive. It seems
there is no actual reason to not have, so let's add ALIGN to WEAK() too.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180920135631.23833-1-aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Kyeongdon Kim <kyeongdon.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff -puN include/linux/linkage.h~linkageh-align-weak-symbols include/linux/linkage.h
--- a/include/linux/linkage.h~linkageh-align-weak-symbols
+++ a/include/linux/linkage.h
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@
#ifndef WEAK
#define WEAK(name) \
.weak name ASM_NL \
+ ALIGN ASM_NL \
name:
#endif
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
linkageh-align-weak-symbols.patch
arm64-lib-use-c-string-functions-with-kasan-enabled.patch
lib-test_kasan-add-tests-for-several-string-memory-api-functions.patch
kvfree-fix-misleading-comment.patch
mm-vmalloc-improve-vfree-kerneldoc.patch
vfree-kvfree-add-debug-might-sleeps.patch
vfree-kvfree-add-debug-might-sleeps-fix.patch
