Re: [PATCH] x86: remove __phys_reloc_hide

[Andi Kleen]

> I'm not talking about the RELOC_HIDE itself. I do know we need it for
> some specific case, ie. percpu. But in this case __pa_symbol(x) is
> expanded to RELOC_HIDE((unsigned long)(x), 0) which does nothing
> meaningful. I believe the overflow is not a concern here.

It hides the value conversion from the compiler through asm()

-Andi

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