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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Section mismatch in parainstructions
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:21:17 +0100
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On Monday 11 December 2006 00:58, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> =

> Is it OK for section .parainstructions to reference
> exit.text?

Yes it's ok because

 /* .exit.text is discard at runtime, not link time, to deal with references
     from .altinstructions and .eh_frame */

Same applies to paravirtops patching.

-Andi