[Devel] [PATCH 11/39] compiler: introduce __alias(symbol) shortcut

[Andrey Ryabinin]

From: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin at samsung.com>

commit cb4188ac8e5779f66b9f55888ac2c75b391cde44 upstream.

To be consistent with other compiler attributes introduce __alias(symbol)
macro expanding into __attribute__((alias(#symbol)))

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin at samsung.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc at google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo at gmail.com>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005 at gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i at gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin at oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl at linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim at lge.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl at linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg at kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin at odin.com>
---
 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index 0c5d746..637aeaf 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #define __deprecated			__attribute__((deprecated))
 #define __packed			__attribute__((packed))
 #define __weak				__attribute__((weak))
+#define __alias(symbol)		__attribute__((alias(#symbol)))
 
 /*
  * it doesn't make sense on ARM (currently the only user of __naked) to trace
-- 
2.4.6