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Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Make livepatch dependent on !TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS

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On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 02:45:21PM +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> If TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is enabled, all unneeded exported symbols are made
> unexported. Two-pass build of the kernel is done to find out which
> symbols are needed based on a configuration. This effectively
> complicates things for out-of-tree modules.
> 
> Livepatch exports functions to (un)register and enable/disable a live
> patch. The only in-tree module which uses these functions is a sample in
> samples/livepatch/. If the sample is disabled, the functions are
> trimmed and out-of-tree live patches cannot be built.
> 
> Note that live patches are intended to be built out-of-tree.
> 
> Suggested-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>

Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>

-- 
Josh

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[PATCH] livepatch: Make livepatch dependent on !TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> - 2017-05-26 14:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Make livepatch dependent on !TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-05-26 19:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Make livepatch dependent on !TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> - 2017-05-27 03:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Make livepatch dependent on  !TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2017-05-27 03:30 +0200

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