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x86/linkage: Add SYM_PIC_ALIAS() macro helper to emit symbol aliases

Startup code that may execute from the early 1:1 mapping of memory will
be confined into its own address space, and only be permitted to access
ordinary kernel symbols if this is known to be safe.

Introduce a macro helper SYM_PIC_ALIAS() that emits a __pi_ prefixed
alias for a symbol, which allows startup code to access it.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Dionna Amalie Glaze <dionnaglaze@google.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kevin Loughlin <kevinloughlin@google.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250504095230.2932860-38-ardb+git@google.com

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Ard Biesheuvel and committed by
Ingo Molnar
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arch/x86/include/asm/linkage.h
··· 141 141 #define SYM_FUNC_START_WEAK_NOALIGN(name) \ 142 142 SYM_START(name, SYM_L_WEAK, SYM_A_NONE) 143 143 144 + /* 145 + * Expose 'sym' to the startup code in arch/x86/boot/startup/, by emitting an 146 + * alias prefixed with __pi_ 147 + */ 148 + #ifdef __ASSEMBLER__ 149 + #define SYM_PIC_ALIAS(sym) SYM_ALIAS(__pi_ ## sym, sym, SYM_L_GLOBAL) 150 + #else 151 + #define SYM_PIC_ALIAS(sym) extern typeof(sym) __PASTE(__pi_, sym) __alias(sym) 152 + #endif 153 + 144 154 #endif /* _ASM_X86_LINKAGE_H */ 145 155