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From: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
To: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] livepatch: fix non-static warnings
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 10:18:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adeb1bca-9fa1-b150-d551-a9cf0853a63b@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.21.1812180934090.9644@pobox.suse.cz>

On 12/18/2018 03:49 AM, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> 
>> I'm just being picky about its documentation and how we should note its
>> usage in the v3 patch.  Think that s/__noclone/used/g of the v2 commit
>> message would be sufficient?
> 
> We could rephrase it. After all it is not only about symbol names in the 
> symbol table. The traceable/patchable code has to be present...
> 
> "Sparse reported warnings about non-static symbols. For the variables
> a simple static attribute is fine - for the functions referenced by
> livepatch via klp_func the symbol-names must be unmodified in the
> symbol table and the patchable code has to be emitted.
> 
> Attach __used attribute to the shared statically declared functions."
> 
> ?

That works for me.

-- Joe

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-18 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-16 13:07 [PATCH V2] livepatch: fix non-static warnings Nicholas Mc Guire
2018-12-17 12:03 ` Petr Mladek
2018-12-17 12:03 ` Miroslav Benes
2018-12-17 15:44   ` Joe Lawrence
2018-12-17 19:23     ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2018-12-18  9:00       ` Miroslav Benes
2018-12-18  8:49     ` Miroslav Benes
2018-12-18 15:18       ` Joe Lawrence [this message]
2019-01-22 16:30         ` Joe Lawrence
2019-01-23  1:10           ` Nicholas Mc Guire

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