Re: [PATCH v2 00/19] Implement DWARF modversions
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Aug 16 2024 - 03:15:38 EST
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 05:39:04PM +0000, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> Changes in v2:
> - Per Luis' request, dropped Rust-specific patches and added
> gendwarfksyms as an alternative to genksyms for the entire
> kernel.
>
> - Added support for missing DWARF features needed to handle
> also non-Rust code.
>
> - Changed symbol address matching to use the symbol table
> information instead of relying on addresses in DWARF.
>
> - Added __gendwarfksyms_ptr patches to ensure the compiler emits
> the necessary type information in DWARF even for symbols that
> are defined in other TUs.
>
> - Refactored debugging output and moved the more verbose output
> behind --dump* flags.
>
> - Added a --symtypes flag for generating a genksyms-style
> symtypes output based on Petr's feedback, and refactored
> symbol version calculations to be based on symtypes instead
> of raw --dump-dies output.
>
> - Based on feedback from Greg and Petr, added --stable flag and
> support for reserved data structure fields and declaration-onl
> structures. Also added examples for using these features.
I missed the examples for this, is there a Documentation/ update
somewhere to explain this? What patch of the series handles this?
thanks,
greg k-h