From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech>,
Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] symbols: check table sizes don't change between linking passes 2 and 3
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:38:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aXEPEwpsaH9pkgF2@Mac.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7e550d03-13c3-4607-bfa5-1a4bd57ecef6@suse.com>
On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 11:11:40AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> While sizes (and possibly positions) of the symbol table related symbols
> (and as a result other ones) are expected to change from linking pass 1
> to pass 2, no such change should happen anymore from pass 2 to pass 3, or
> else the internally recorded symbol table wouldn't represent the ELF or
> PE/COFF ones.
>
> For comparing to be actually useful, i.e. most notably also covering the
> last of the arrays emitted, symbol sizes need establishing. Make use of
> the xen/linkage.h machinery to achieve that.
>
> Suggested-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Thanks, Roger.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-21 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-09 10:11 [PATCH v2] symbols: check table sizes don't change between linking passes 2 and 3 Jan Beulich
2026-01-21 17:38 ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2026-01-26 10:23 ` Jan Beulich
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