Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] kallsyms: handle special absolute symbols

[Rusty Russell]

Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Why not just do this with 0-base-address detection like my v2? That
> would mean we don't need to remember to add this flag in the future to
> imagined new architectures that might want this 0-based per_cpu
> feature.

Because future architectures will get this right and emit absolute
symbols.  I hope!

I'm swamped at the moment, but am hoping to investigate that for
x86-64.  This is a stop-gap.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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