linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/17] kallsyms: support big kernel symbols (2-byte lengths)

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Message-ID: <CANiq72=eHs870jbmZz8CUEUuN2NOCaKS9-F6-jAb0QXje2x1Eg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 4 Jul 2021 23:17:50 +0200
From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        rust-for-linux <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
        Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@...reload.com>,
        Finn Behrens <me@...enk.de>,
        Adam Bratschi-Kaye <ark.email@...il.com>,
        Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/17] kallsyms: support big kernel symbols (2-byte lengths)

On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 11:05 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> What happened to my suggestion from last time of encoding symbols < 128
> as 0-127 and symbols larger than that as (data[0] - 128) * 256 +
> data[1]) ?

Nothing, sorry, we focused on other parts (e.g. the allocation panics)
during this iteration. I can take a look for v2.

Cheers,
Miguel