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Re: [regression] 72042a8c7b01 x86/purgatory: Make functions and variables static

From Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [regression] 72042a8c7b01 x86/purgatory: Make functions and variables static
Date 2017-03-09 19:30 +0100
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On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 18:50 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I bisected kdump breakage to $subject, and verified the identified
> > culprit via revert.  Seems kexec needs those variables as they were.
> 
> Yuck. That does not make any sense at all. I'll try to figure out why.

Dunno, but I did find this.

git@homer:..kexec-tools/kexec-tools-2.0.5> grep -IR 'elf_rel_.*symbol' . | egrep 'backup_|digest'|grep x86_64
./kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-x86_64.c:     elf_rel_set_symbol(&info->rhdr, "backup_src_start",
./kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-x86_64.c:     elf_rel_set_symbol(&info->rhdr, "backup_src_size",
./kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-x86_64.c:             elf_rel_set_symbol(&info->rhdr, "backup_start",

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[regression] 72042a8c7b01 x86/purgatory: Make functions and  variables static Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2017-03-09 15:20 +0100
  Re: [regression] 72042a8c7b01 x86/purgatory: Make functions and  variables static Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-03-09 19:00 +0100
    Re: [regression] 72042a8c7b01 x86/purgatory: Make functions and  variables static Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2017-03-09 19:30 +0100
      Re: [regression] 72042a8c7b01 x86/purgatory: Make functions and  variables static Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-03-09 20:20 +0100
        Re: [regression] 72042a8c7b01 x86/purgatory: Make functions and  variables static "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc> - 2017-03-09 21:20 +0100
        Re: [regression] 72042a8c7b01 x86/purgatory: Make functions and  variables static Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-03-09 21:40 +0100
          Re: [regression] 72042a8c7b01 x86/purgatory: Make functions and  variables static Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-03-09 21:50 +0100

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