An ordinary arm64 defconfig build has ~64 KB worth of __ksymtab
entries, each consisting of two 64-bit fields containing absolute
references, to the symbol itself and to a char array containing
its name, respectively.
When we build the same configuration with KASLR enabled, we end
up with an addit
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 12:50 AM, Ard Biesheuvel
wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
> index 52e611ab9a6c..fe752d365334 100644
> --- a/include/linux/compiler.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
> @@ -327,4 +327,15 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_siz
On 27 December 2017 at 20:07, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 12:50 AM, Ard Biesheuvel
> wrote:
>> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
>> index 52e611ab9a6c..fe752d365334 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/compiler.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
>> @@
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Ard Biesheuvel
wrote:
>
> I tried to keep the generic patches generic, so perhaps I should just
> put the arm64 vmlinux.lds.S change in a patch on its own?
I guess it doesn't matter, but regardless of where it gets introduced
I would like to see the explanation f
On 27 December 2017 at 20:13, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Ard Biesheuvel
> wrote:
>>
>> I tried to keep the generic patches generic, so perhaps I should just
>> put the arm64 vmlinux.lds.S change in a patch on its own?
>
> I guess it doesn't matter, but regardless of
* Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Annoyingly, we need this because there is a single instance of a
> special section that ends up in the EFI stub code: we build lib/sort.c
> again as a EFI libstub object, and given that sort() is exported, we
> end up with a ksymtab section in the EFI stub. The sort() t
On 28 December 2017 at 12:05, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
>> Annoyingly, we need this because there is a single instance of a
>> special section that ends up in the EFI stub code: we build lib/sort.c
>> again as a EFI libstub object, and given that sort() is exported, we
>> e
Hi Ard,
I love your patch! Yet something to improve:
[auto build test ERROR on linus/master]
[also build test ERROR on v4.15-rc5 next-20171222]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help
improve the system]
url:
https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Ar
