Re: [PATCH 2/3 v4] livepatch: add old_sympos as disambiguator field to klp_reloc

[Miroslav Benes]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Chris J Arges wrote:

> In cases of duplicate symbols, sympos will be used to disambiguate instead
> of val. By default old_sympos will be 0, and patching will only succeed if
> the symbol is unique. Specifying a positive value will ensure that
> occurrence of the symbol will be used for patching if it is valid.

Again "...occurrence of the symbol in kallsyms for the patched object 
will be used..."

>  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)

And this is indeed great.

Miroslav
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