Aditya Srivastava de93245c00 checkpatch: add warning for avoiding .L prefix symbols in assembly files
objtool requires that all code must be contained in an ELF symbol.  Symbol
names that have a '.L' prefix do not emit symbol table entries, as they
have special meaning for the assembler.

'.L' prefixed symbols can be used within a code region, but should be
avoided for denoting a range of code via 'SYM_*_START/END' annotations.

Add a new check to emit a warning on finding the usage of '.L' symbols for
'.S' files, if it denotes range of code via SYM_*_START/END annotation
pair.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210123190459.9701-1-yashsri421@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210112210154.GI4646@sirena.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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