linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ix86: fix vDSO build

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Message-ID: <CALCETrW2+jYz6NXaReTsEu4pN9G-pAkF8q7p+wP3-MPruy=DsA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 Jul 2014 08:34:36 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ix86: fix vDSO build

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com> wrote:
> Relying on static functions used just once to get inlined (and
> subsequently have dead code paths eliminated) is wrong: Compilers are
> free to decide whether they do this, regardless of optimization level.
> With this not happening for vdso_addr() (observed with gcc 4.1.x), an
> unresolved reference to align_vdso_addr() causes the build to fail.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>

Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>

Any chance you could send a dump of the symbol and relocation tables
of a .so.dbg with this problem?  I'm curious why checkundef.sh never
caught it.

--Andy
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