Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 07/17] livepatch/arm/x86: Strip note_depends symbol from test-cases.

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 12.09.17 at 02:37, <konrad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This surfaced due to "xen/livepatch/x86/arm32: Force
> .livepatch.depends section to be uint32_t aligned." which switched
> to a different way of including the build-id.
> 
> Each livepatch ends with a global:
> 
>     30: 00000000     1 OBJECT  GLOBAL HIDDEN     7 note_depends
> 
> which will cause collision when loading.
> 
> One attempted solution was to add in the Makefile stanza:
>  @sed -i '/unsigned/static unsinged/' $@
> 
> But that resulted in the note_depends being omitted from the livepatch
> (as it was static and not used) which meant we would not have an
> .livepatch_depends section which we require.

Did you consider using objcopy's --localize-symbol instead?

Jan


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