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diff --git a/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst b/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst index 32ea57483378..76424e0431f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst +++ b/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst @@ -100,6 +100,11 @@ Instruction Macros ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This section covers ``SYM_FUNC_*`` and ``SYM_CODE_*`` enumerated above. +``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. ``.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. + * ``SYM_FUNC_START`` and ``SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL`` are supposed to be **the most frequent markings**. They are used for functions with standard calling conventions -- global and local. Like in C, they both align the functions to |