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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Popov <alpopov@ptsecurity.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/head64: no need to define early_idt_ripmsg only if CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:36:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160218133608.GC28860@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455782295-3877-1-git-send-email-kuleshovmail@gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 01:58:15PM +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote:
> We have definition of the early_idt_ripmsg which represents string header
> for the output of the kernel symbols during early exception. But the
> header with kernel symbols will be printed in a case if the CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y.

And this is a problem because... ?

Also, try to search how many distros and configs enable KALLSYMS. That
might clear some uncertainties when deciding to add one more ifdef to an
already hard to read code.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
-- 

      reply	other threads:[~2016-02-18 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-18  7:58 [PATCH v2] x86/head64: no need to define early_idt_ripmsg only if CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n Alexander Kuleshov
2016-02-18 13:36 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]

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