Re: [PATCH 08/46] static_call, lto: Mark static keys as __visible

Peter Zijlstra
2022-11-14T17:08:43Z

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 12:43:06PM +0100, Jiri Slaby (SUSE) wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
>
> Symbols referenced from assembler (either directly or e.f. from
> DEFINE_STATIC_KEY()) need to be global and visible in gcc LTO because
> they could end up in a different object file than the assembler. This
> can lead to linker errors without this patch.
>
> So mark static call functions as __visible, namely static keys here.

Why doesn't llvm-lto need this?

Also, why am I getting a random selection of the patchset?