Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] symbols: also special-case symbols aliasing _sinittext

[Roger Pau Monné <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 04:29:25PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> A recent 4.22 randconfig build job hit a situation where (LIVEPATCH=n,
> i.e. --all-symbols not specified) both __note_gnu_build_id_end and
> _erodata aliased _sinittext on the 1st linking pass, but they didn't on
> the 2nd one. As a result two fewer symbols were emitted on the 2nd pass,
> causing $(call compare-symbol-tables, ...) to fail.
> 
> Extend the existing "corner case" by also considering aliases with
> _sinittext (_stext really shouldn't have anything ahead of it), but
> discard only non-text symbols.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

(with the _sextratext mention removed)

Thanks, Roger.