linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/build: Fix vmlinux size check on 64-bit

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Message-ID: <20201029200546.GE31903@zn.tnic>
Date:   Thu, 29 Oct 2020 21:05:46 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/build: Fix vmlinux size check on 64-bit

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 04:45:49PM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> It's become ABI I think: looks like it's included by that name in
> vmcoreinfo for kexec crash dumps.

Yeah, last time we had the ABI discussion we agreed with the kexec/crash
folks that this is not an ABI and that crash is "tied" more or less to a
kernel version. So I wouldn't worry about that.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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