Re: [PATCH] Use gcc alias instead of assembler aliases for syscalls

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Aug 08 2013 - 00:39:14 EST


On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 04:54:21PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 15:09:35 -0700 Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Use standard gcc __attribute__((alias(foo))) to define
> > the syscall aliases instead of custom assembler macros.
> >
> > This is far cleaner, and also fixes my LTO kernel build.
> >
>
> This makes my x86_64 allmodconfig build emit screenfuls of

Ok I can reproduce with MODVERSIONS. Very mysterious, as I
didn't change EXPORT_SYMBOL. Will look into it.

Thanks.

-Andi
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