Symbols created by __ADDRESSABLE() are only used to convince the toolchain not to optimize out the referenced symbol.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> --- tools/objtool/klp-diff.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c b/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c index cb26c1c92a74..36753eeba58c 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c +++ b/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c @@ -352,6 +352,15 @@ static bool is_special_section_aux(struct section *sec) return false; } +/* + * Symbols created by ___ADDRESSABLE() are only used to convince the toolchain + * not to optimize out the referenced symbol. + */ +static bool is_addressable_sym(struct symbol *sym) +{ + return !strcmp(sym->sec->name, ".discard.addressable"); +} + /* * These symbols should never be correlated, so their local patched versions * are used instead of linking to the originals. @@ -365,6 +374,7 @@ static bool dont_correlate(struct symbol *sym) is_uncorrelated_static_local(sym) || is_clang_tmp_label(sym) || is_string_sec(sym->sec) || + is_addressable_sym(sym) || is_special_section(sym->sec) || is_special_section_aux(sym->sec) || strstarts(sym->name, "__initcall__"); -- 2.53.0
