Re: [regression] 72042a8c7b01 x86/purgatory: Make functions and variables static
From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Thu Mar 09 2017 - 13:23:07 EST
On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 18:50 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I bisected kdump breakage to $subject, and verified the identified
> > culprit via revert. Seems kexec needs those variables as they were.
>
> Yuck. That does not make any sense at all. I'll try to figure out why.
Dunno, but I did find this.
git@homer:..kexec-tools/kexec-tools-2.0.5> grep -IR 'elf_rel_.*symbol' . | egrep 'backup_|digest'|grep x86_64
./kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-x86_64.c: elf_rel_set_symbol(&info->rhdr, "backup_src_start",
./kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-x86_64.c: elf_rel_set_symbol(&info->rhdr, "backup_src_size",
./kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-x86_64.c: elf_rel_set_symbol(&info->rhdr, "backup_start",