Flush existing debug messages before writing an error to stderr. stderr
is usually unbuffered and stdout is usually buffered. This results in
odd looking output when an error occurs and both stderr/stdout are
printed on the same console/file. More precisely, the error message is
printed in the mid
From: Raphael Ning
Not all .o files generated by the Xen build need to be passed to
create-diff-object for analysis. The latest example is:
Run create-diff-object on xen/arch/x86/efi/buildid.o
Open base
/usr/libexec/livepatch-build-tools/create-diff-object: ERROR: buildid.o:
kpatch_create_se
s duplicates of all referenced symbols
with the scope set to SHN_ABS and the address to the one resolved from
xen-syms. This new symbol is prefixed with a unique string to generate a
new name.
This forces all calls to be directed to the original function which
contains the trampoline.
Signed-of
From: Raphael Ning
Fix a bug in create_patch() where cp, strip, etc. will fail if the new
object file introduced by the patch is located in a new subdirectory:
DEBUG: cp: cannot create regular file `output/xen/common/lu/lu.o': No such
file or directory
DEBUG: strip: 'output/xen/common/lu/lu.o
):
common.h: Flush stdout before writing to stderr
Raphael Ning (2):
livepatch-build: Allow a patch to introduce new subdirs
livepatch-gcc: Ignore buildid.o
Stanislav Uschakow / Mihails Strasuns (1):
create-diff-object: Add new symbols for relocation aliases
common.h | 1
