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From: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org (Ard Biesheuvel)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:51:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH v4 2/2] ARM: ftrace: Add MODULE_PLTS support
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On 13 March 2018 at 17:49, Alexander Sverdlin
<alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com> wrote:
> On 13/03/18 18:39, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM_MODULE_PLTS))
>>     module_plt_alloc_fixed();
>
> Do you consider this a legal C code if without module-plts.o the function would not exist at all?
> That's too much relying on optimizer I think...
>

Yes, we rely on that in many different places in the kernel.