On Mon, 27 Apr 2026, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 11:34:33AM +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Apr 2026, Miroslav Benes wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:03:31 -0700, Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > Symbols created by __ADDRESSABLE() are only used to convince the > > > > toolchain not to optimize out the referenced symbol. > > > > > > Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <[email protected]> > > > > Looking at it again... wouldn't it be better to address this in > > is_special_section() which is looking at .discard.addressable already > > (only the outcome is different)? > > No, I don't think so. If .discard.addressable were classified as a > "special" section then klp-diff would try to extract its entries into > the livepatch module, which is completely unnecessary as these are > throwaway symbols.
True. Thanks. Miroslav
