From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from lists.xenproject.org (lists.xenproject.org [192.237.175.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 436DAC982FA for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:13:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lists.xenproject.org with outflank-mailman.1428321.1651050 (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1x8vcQ-0001SG-Lq; Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:12:50 +0000 X-Outflank-Mailman: Message body and most headers restored to incoming version Received: by outflank-mailman (output) from mailman id 1428321.1651050; Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:12:50 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.xenproject.org) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1x8vcQ-0001S9-JA; Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:12:50 +0000 Received: by outflank-mailman (input) for mailman id 1428321; Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:12:49 +0000 Received: from mail.xenproject.org ([104.130.215.37]) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1x8vcP-0001S1-IZ for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:12:49 +0000 Received: from xenbits.xenproject.org ([104.239.192.120]) by mail.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1x8vcO-00AgsG-14; Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:12:48 +0000 Received: from 224.pool85-54-217.dynamic.orange.es ([85.54.217.224] helo=localhost) by xenbits.xenproject.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1x8vcO-003bxv-2e; Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:12:48 +0000 X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Precedence: list Sender: "Xen-devel" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=xenproject.org; s=20200302mail; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date; bh=6VTN88SjBuYNs1nRC0ISw/3lDgxFPUOXRaAn6oA/2TI=; b=mKseR2icXmN0MVatlBCFyDVGQr zpqBsYeQAwtZ+xiKsLreYfGDZaYUdEbWZJD+um+oSbCaSHAt079pS1BWm01b6+9w1T06igUJqZ8uU rbFolLl06GhIhMv3au009RvCByI47lnN+8wYRTECYQBDLIFdNW/o2Wpd/QRB76w74tGk=; Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:12:46 +0200 From: Roger Pau =?utf-8?B?TW9ubsOp?= To: Jan Beulich Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" , Andrew Cooper , Julien Grall , Stefano Stabellini , Anthony PERARD , Michal Orzel Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] symbols: also special-case symbols aliasing _sinittext Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: 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 Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné (with the _sextratext mention removed) Thanks, Roger.