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From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: Vincenzo MEZZELA <vincenzo.mezzela@suse.com>,
	live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jpoimboe@kernel.org, jikos@kernel.org, mbenes@suse.cz,
	pmladek@suse.com, joe.lawrence@redhat.com, corbet@lwn.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs: livepatch: move text out of code block
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:04:11 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z8EZm2CXB6yVRoue@archie.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250227163929.141053-1-vincenzo.mezzela@suse.com>

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On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 05:39:29PM +0100, Vincenzo MEZZELA wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/livepatch/module-elf-format.rst b/Documentation/livepatch/module-elf-format.rst
> index a03ed02ec57e..5d48778d4dfc 100644
> --- a/Documentation/livepatch/module-elf-format.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/livepatch/module-elf-format.rst
> @@ -217,16 +217,19 @@ livepatch relocation section refer to their respective symbols with their symbol
>  indices, and the original symbol indices (and thus the symtab ordering) must be
>  preserved in order for apply_relocate_add() to find the right symbol.
>  
> -For example, take this particular rela from a livepatch module:::
> +For example, take this particular rela from a livepatch module::
>  
>    Relocation section '.klp.rela.btrfs.text.btrfs_feature_attr_show' at offset 0x2ba0 contains 4 entries:
>        Offset             Info             Type               Symbol's Value  Symbol's Name + Addend
>    000000000000001f  0000005e00000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 .klp.sym.vmlinux.printk,0 - 4
>  
> -  This rela refers to the symbol '.klp.sym.vmlinux.printk,0', and the symbol index is encoded
> -  in 'Info'. Here its symbol index is 0x5e, which is 94 in decimal, which refers to the
> -  symbol index 94.
> -  And in this patch module's corresponding symbol table, symbol index 94 refers to that very symbol:
> +This rela refers to the symbol '.klp.sym.vmlinux.printk,0', and the symbol
> +index is encoded in 'Info'. Here its symbol index is 0x5e, which is 94 in
> +decimal, which refers to the symbol index 94.
> +
> +And in this patch module's corresponding symbol table, symbol index 94 refers
> +to that very symbol::
> +
>    [ snip ]
>    94: 0000000000000000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT OS [0xff20] .klp.sym.vmlinux.printk,0
>    [ snip ]

LGTM, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2025-02-28  2:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-27 16:39 [PATCH v2] docs: livepatch: move text out of code block Vincenzo MEZZELA
2025-02-28  2:04 ` Bagas Sanjaya [this message]
2025-02-28 14:12 ` Miroslav Benes
2025-03-04 15:51 ` Petr Mladek

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