Linux内核启动流程head.S文件中ENTRY(_start)/END(_start)指令

见Linux5.4/arch/riscv/kernel/head.S，"…"表示省略部分代码。

...
__HEAD
ENTRY(_start)
         /*
          * Image header expected by Linux boot-loaders. The image header data
          * structure is described in asm/image.h.
          * Do not modify it without modifying the structure and all bootloaders
          * that expects this header format!!
          */
         /* jump to start kernel */
         j _start_kernel
         /* reserved */
         .word 0
         .balign 8
  #ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE
         /* Image load offset (0MB) from start of RAM for M-mode */
         .dword 0
  #else
  #if __riscv_xlen == 64
          /* Image load offset(2MB) from start of RAM */
         .dword 0x200000
  #else
          /* Image load offset(4MB) from start of RAM */
         .dword 0x400000
...
END(_start)
...

查看arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds链接脚本，第二行就是ENTRY(_start)，故_start本是Linux内核入口函数，ENTRY(_start)常见于链接脚本文件，何故出现在此.S文件中，查找以后发现，本质一样只是在封了一层。见include/linux/linkage.h文件：

...
11 #ifndef ASM_NL
12 #define ASM_NL           ;
13 #endif

...
97 /* SYM_L_* -- linkage of symbols */
98 #define SYM_L_GLOBAL(name)                      .globl name
...

115 #ifndef ENTRY
116 /* deprecated, use SYM_FUNC_START */
117 #define ENTRY(name) \
118         SYM_FUNC_START(name)
119 #endif
...

146 /* SYM_ENTRY -- use only if you have to for non-paired symbols */
147 #ifndef SYM_ENTRY
148 #define SYM_ENTRY(name, linkage, align...)              \
149         linkage(name) ASM_NL                            \
150         align ASM_NL                                    \
151         name:
152 #endif
...

154 /* SYM_START -- use only if you have to */
155 #ifndef SYM_START
156 #define SYM_START(name, linkage, align...)              \
157         SYM_ENTRY(name, linkage, align)
158 #endif
...

218 #define SYM_FUNC_START(name)                            \
219         SYM_START(name, SYM_L_GLOBAL, SYM_A_ALIGN)
220 #endif
...

分析上述代码可知，一环套一环，ENTRY(_start)最终展开就是：

.globl _start;
align;
_start:

END(_start)分析和上面一样，可在include/linux/linkage.h文件中找到。