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* [PATCH] linux/export.h: remove unneeded .balign directive
@ 2024-01-03 13:54 Masahiro Yamada
  2024-01-03 16:04 ` Sedat Dilek
  2024-01-10 23:11 ` Guenter Roeck
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Masahiro Yamada @ 2024-01-03 13:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kbuild; +Cc: Masahiro Yamada, linux-kernel

The .export_symbol section is discarded by the linker script, hence
no alignment is needed. Simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
---

 include/linux/export.h | 10 +++-------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/export.h b/include/linux/export.h
index 0bbd02fd351d..dff230bb5aca 100644
--- a/include/linux/export.h
+++ b/include/linux/export.h
@@ -15,13 +15,9 @@
  */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
-#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL_REF(sym)			\
-	.balign 8				ASM_NL	\
-	.quad sym
+#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL_PTR	.quad
 #else
-#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL_REF(sym)			\
-	.balign 4				ASM_NL	\
-	.long sym
+#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL_PTR	.long
 #endif
 
 #define ___EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, license, ns)		\
@@ -29,7 +25,7 @@
 	__export_symbol_##sym:			ASM_NL	\
 		.asciz license			ASM_NL	\
 		.asciz ns			ASM_NL	\
-		__EXPORT_SYMBOL_REF(sym)	ASM_NL	\
+		__EXPORT_SYMBOL_PTR sym		ASM_NL	\
 	.previous
 
 #if defined(__DISABLE_EXPORTS)
-- 
2.40.1


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