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Josh Poimboeuf 029223d301 objtool/klp: Add .klp.symid for sympos disambiguation
Livepatch identifies a duplicate-named symbol by its position (sympos)
among same-named kallsyms entries, which for vmlinux are counted in
ascending address order in the final linked kernel.  That order can't be
reliably derived from vmlinux.o: the final link reorders sub-sections
(.text.unlikely*, .data..*, etc).

Bridge the gap with a new .klp.symid section which can be used to
correlate symbols between vmlinux.o and vmlinux so that klp-diff can
reliably determine the sympos.

The table can't survive --gc-sections: keeping it alive would keep every
duplicate-named symbol's section alive, so the reference kernel would
stop matching the one which ships.  klp-build rejects
CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION instead.  Nothing is lost today:
x86_64 is the only HAVE_KLP_BUILD arch and doesn't select
HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION, arm64 and s390 have never selected
it either, and on powerpc, it's still EXPERIMENTAL and disabled by every
distro kernel.

This is the build-time half of reliable vmlinux sympos computation;
"objtool klp diff" will consume the table in a subsequent commit.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/64d50f077b569f47883c015cdb7079edb068efe8.1785727106.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2026-08-03 07:12:39 +02:00

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objtool-y += arch/$(SRCARCH)/
objtool-y += weak.o
objtool-y += check.o
objtool-y += special.o
objtool-y += builtin-check.o
objtool-y += elf.o
objtool-y += klp-symid.o
objtool-y += objtool.o
objtool-$(BUILD_DISAS) += disas.o
objtool-$(BUILD_DISAS) += trace.o
objtool-$(BUILD_ORC) += orc_gen.o orc_dump.o
objtool-$(BUILD_KLP) += builtin-klp.o klp-checksum.o klp-diff.o klp-post-link.o
objtool-y += libstring.o
objtool-y += libctype.o
objtool-y += str_error_r.o
objtool-y += librbtree.o
objtool-y += signal.o
$(OUTPUT)libstring.o: ../lib/string.c FORCE
$(call rule_mkdir)
$(call if_changed_dep,cc_o_c)
$(OUTPUT)libctype.o: ../lib/ctype.c FORCE
$(call rule_mkdir)
$(call if_changed_dep,cc_o_c)
$(OUTPUT)str_error_r.o: ../lib/str_error_r.c FORCE
$(call rule_mkdir)
$(call if_changed_dep,cc_o_c)
$(OUTPUT)librbtree.o: ../lib/rbtree.c FORCE
$(call rule_mkdir)
$(call if_changed_dep,cc_o_c)