On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 8:46 AM, Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > "H.J. Lu" <hjl.to...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> Talking about PIC thunks, those have I believe . character in their symbols, >>> so that they can't be confused with user functions. Any reason these >>> retpoline thunks aren't? >>> >> >> They used to have '.'. It was changed at the last minute since kernel needs >> to >> export them as regular symbols. > > The kernel doesn't actually need that to export the symbols. > > While symbol CRCs cannot be generated for symbols with '.', CRCs are not > needed and there were already patches to hide the resulting warnings. >
Andi, can you work it out with David? -- H.J.
