Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 7/7] livepatch-build: Strip all metadata symbols from hotpatch modules

[Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/16/19 12:30 PM, Pawel Wieczorkiewicz wrote:
> Strip all unneeded metadata symbols from generated hotpatch modules.
> The metadata symbols are the symbols from metadata-like sections (e.g.
> '.livepatch.funcs') or livepatch hooks symbols (defined by a set of
> prefixes. E.g. 'livepatch_load_data_').
> 
> By default the create-diff-object does not create symbols in metadata
> sections. However, such symbols may be implicitly added by speciying
> extra entries in the sections manually (in a given patch).
> The symbols are not needed for the hotpatch modules and should be
> stripped to avoid symbol names collisions and to save hotpatch files
> space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx>

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