Re: [PATCH 13/20] objtool: Hande function aliases

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 01:23:58PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 12:45:24PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Function aliases result in different symbols for the same set of
> > instructions; track a canonical symbol so there is a unique point of
> > access.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> s/Hande/Handle/ in $SUBJECT

Whoops :-)

> Also you can clarify why we need to track aliases?

Function attributes (as per that previous patch) and: git grep "alias"
mm/kasan.