Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] arch/powerpc/kvm: kvmppc_hv_entry: remove .global scope

[Nicholas Piggin]

On Thu Mar 16, 2023 at 3:10 PM AEST, Kautuk Consul wrote:
> kvmppc_hv_entry isn't called from anywhere other than
> book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S itself. Removing .global scope for
> this function and annotating it with SYM_INNER_LABEL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <kconsul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> index acf80915f406..b81ba4ee0521 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> @@ -502,8 +502,7 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
>   *                                                                            *
>   *****************************************************************************/
>  
> -.global kvmppc_hv_entry

I think this is okay.

> -kvmppc_hv_entry:
> +SYM_INNER_LABEL(kvmppc_hv_entry, SYM_L_LOCAL)

The documentation for SYM_INNER_LABEL says it for labels inside a SYM
function block, is that a problem? This is a function but doesn't have
C calling convention, so asm annotation docs say that it should use
SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL?

BTW. why don't our _GLOBAL() macros use these SYM annotations? I haven't
really looked into them.

Thanks,
Nick