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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 02:12:47 +0200
From: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, 
	Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, 
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>, 
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, 
	clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>, 
	Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, 
	linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, 
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, 
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 16/25] init: lto: fix PREL32 relocations

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:34 AM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com> wrote:
> With LTO, the compiler can rename static functions to avoid global
> naming collisions. As initcall functions are typically static,
> renaming can break references to them in inline assembly. This
> change adds a global stub with a stable name for each initcall to
> fix the issue when PREL32 relocations are used.

While I understand that this may be necessary for now, are there any
plans to fix this in the compiler in the future? There was a thread
about this issue at
<http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-April/thread.html#98047>,
and possible solutions were discussed there, but it looks like that
fizzled out...

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