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

[Andrew Morton]

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.

I wonder what gcc version this was added in.  Seems fairly longstanding.

>  	{								\
>  		return C_SYSC##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DELOUSE,__VA_ARGS__));	\
>  	}								\
> -	SYSCALL_ALIAS(compat_sys##name, compat_SyS##name);		\

I think we can remove the SYSCALL_ALIAS definitions?


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