On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Jiri Slaby <jsl...@suse.cz> wrote:
> 
> > This is a start of series to unify use of ENTRY, ENDPROC, GLOBAL, END,
> > and other macros across x86. When we have all this sorted out, this will
> > help to inject DWARF unwinding info by objtool later.
> > 
> > So, let us use the macros this way:
> > * ENTRY -- start of a global function
> > * ENDPROC -- end of a local/global function
> > * GLOBAL -- start of a globally visible data symbol
> > * END -- end of local/global data symbol
> 
> So how about using macro names that actually show the purpose, instead of 
> importing all the crappy, historic, essentially randomly chosen debug symbol 
> macro 
> names from the binutils and older kernels?
> 
> Something sane, like:
> 
>       SYM__FUNCTION_START

Sane would be:

        SYM_FUNCTION_START

The double underscore is just not giving any value.

Thanks,

        tglx

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