ARM: assembler.h: Add string declaration macro

Declaring strings in assembler source involves a certain amount of
tedious boilerplate code in order to annotate the resulting symbol
correctly.

Encapsulating this boilerplate in a macro should help to avoid some
duplication and the occasional mistake.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h
index 65c3f2474f5e..29035e86a59d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h
@@ -293,4 +293,13 @@
         .macro  ldrusr, reg, ptr, inc, cond=al, rept=1, abort=9001f
         usracc  ldr, \reg, \ptr, \inc, \cond, \rept, \abort
         .endm
+
+/* Utility macro for declaring string literals */
+        .macro  string name:req, string
+        .type \name , #object
+\name:
+        .asciz "\string"
+        .size \name , . - \name
+        .endm
+
 #endif /* __ASM_ASSEMBLER_H__ */