[Devel] [PATCH RHEL7 COMMIT] ms/compiler: introduce __alias(symbol) shortcut

[Konstantin Khorenko]

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commit 9747950ef28a0e57fba0f50b3a5a7cfa9ec22897
Author: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin at odin.com>
Date:   Thu Sep 3 19:27:35 2015 +0400

    ms/compiler: introduce __alias(symbol) shortcut
    
    https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-26429
    
    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>
    
    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