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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 14/20] livepatch: ARM 32|64: Ignore mapping symbols: $[d, a, x, t]

To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, konrad@xxxxxxxxxx, ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx, sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx, julien.grall@xxxxxxx
From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:03:23 +0100
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 14:03:38 +0000
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xen.org>

On 25/08/16 14:37, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:

Those symbols are used to help final linkers to replace insn.
The ARM ELF specification mandates that they are present
to denote the start of certain CPU features. There are two
variants of it - short and long format.

Either way - we can ignore these symbols.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>

x86 bits Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

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References:
- [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] Livepatch for ARM 64 and 32.
  - From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
- [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 14/20] livepatch: ARM 32|64: Ignore mapping symbols: $[d, a, x, t]
  - From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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