[PATCH v2 28/35] event: Change EVENT_SPY to global

[Simon Glass]

This creates static records at present, but it causes a problem with clang
and LTO: the linker list records are sometimes dropped from the image.

Fix this by making the records global.

Update to use __used while we are here.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---

(no changes since v1)

 include/event.h | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/event.h b/include/event.h
index c00c4fb68dc..fb0734ed4e1 100644
--- a/include/event.h
+++ b/include/event.h
@@ -123,10 +123,13 @@ static inline const char *event_spy_id(struct evspy_info *spy)
  * The only solution I can think of is to mark linker-list entries as 'used'
  * using an attribute. This should be safe, since we don't actually want to drop
  * any of these. However this does slightly limit LTO's optimisation choices.
+ *
+ * Another issue has come up, only with clang: using 'static' makes it throw
+ * away the linker-list entry sometimes, e.g. with the EVT_FT_FIXUP entry in
+ * vbe_simple.c - so for now, make it global.
  */
 #define EVENT_SPY(_type, _func) \
-	static __attribute__((used)) ll_entry_declare(struct evspy_info, \
-						      _type, evspy_info) = \
+	__used ll_entry_declare(struct evspy_info, _type, evspy_info) = \
 	_ESPY_REC(_type, _func)
 
 /**
-- 
2.37.1.455.g008518b4e5-goog