Re: [PATCH V2] livepatch: fix non-static warnings

[Nicholas Mc Guire]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 11:30:30AM -0500, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> On 12/18/18 10:18 AM, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> >On 12/18/2018 03:49 AM, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> >>On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> >>
> >>>I'm just being picky about its documentation and how we should note its
> >>>usage in the v3 patch.  Think that s/__noclone/used/g of the v2 commit
> >>>message would be sufficient?
> >>
> >>We could rephrase it. After all it is not only about symbol names in the
> >>symbol table. The traceable/patchable code has to be present...
> >>
> >>"Sparse reported warnings about non-static symbols. For the variables
> >>a simple static attribute is fine - for the functions referenced by
> >>livepatch via klp_func the symbol-names must be unmodified in the
> >>symbol table and the patchable code has to be emitted.
> >>
> >>Attach __used attribute to the shared statically declared functions."
> >>
> >>?
> >
> >That works for me.
> >
> Hi Nicholas,
> 
> Did you still want to post a v3 for this fix?  I think there were only a few
> v3 suggestions (link tag, tag order, __used attribute, and commit msg
> phrasing.)
>
yup - will go cleanup and repost.

thx!
hofrat