linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 2/8] lib: prepare xxhash for preboot environment

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Date:   Wed, 8 Jul 2020 02:03:24 +0000
From:   Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>
To:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
CC:     Nick Terrell <nickrterrell@...il.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        "linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Petr Malat <oss@...at.biz>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>,
        Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        Patrick Williams <patrickw3@...com>,
        "Michael van der Westhuizen" <rmikey@...com>,
        "mingo@...nel.org" <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "Patrick Williams" <patrick@...cx.xyz>,
        Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
        "Norbert Lange" <nolange79@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/8] lib: prepare xxhash for preboot environment



> On Jul 7, 2020, at 5:59 PM, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 08:45:58PM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote:
>> From: Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>
>> 
>> Don't export symbols if XXH_PREBOOT is defined.
>> 
>> This change is necessary to get xxhash to work in a preboot environment,
>> which is needed to support zstd-compressed kernels.
> 
> The usual way to do it is by adding -D__DISABLE_EXPORTS to the CFLAGS, which will
> cause EXPORT_SYMBOL to be stubbed out. Doesn't that work here?

I can do that. I did it this way because this was how other compressors did it.

Thanks,
Nick