Re: [PATCH v4 18/22] objtool/klp: Don't correlate arm64 mapping symbols

From: Song Liu

Date: Tue Aug 11 2026 - 20:00:54 EST


On Sat, Aug 8, 2026 at 4:18 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ARM64 ELF files contain mapping symbols ($d, $x, $a, etc.) which mark
> transitions between code and data. There are thousands of them per
> object file, all sharing the same few names.
>
> They aren't "real" symbols so there's no need to correlate them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>