linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/asmlinkage] lto: Handle LTO common symbols in module loader

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Date:	Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:37:56 -0800
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org, Joe Mario <jmario@...hat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, mingo@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/asmlinkage] lto: Handle LTO common symbols in module
 loader

> >>  		case SHN_COMMON:
> >> +			/* Ignore common symbols */
> >> +			if (!strncmp(name, "__gnu_lto", 9))
> >> +				break;
> >> +
> >>  			/* We compiled with -fno-common.  These are not
> > 
> > /* Ignore common symbols */ is so bad, it's not even wrong.
> > 
> 
> Joe, Andi, could one of you submit an incremental patch to clean up this
> comment?

You can just remove the patch. It was only needed for fat LTO,
which I stopped supporting.

-Andi
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