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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] kallsyms: get rid of code for absolute kallsyms
On Wed, Feb 21, 2024, at 21:26, Jann Horn wrote:
> To compile code for absolute kallsyms, you had to turn off
> KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE. I think based on the way it was declared in
> Kconfig (without a string after "bool"), it wasn't even possible to
> select it.
>
> Get rid of this config option, as preparation for some kallsyms
> optimizations that would otherwise be infeasible.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>

Nice catch!

The code was needed until cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove
Itanium (IA-64) architecture"), and we missed that this
allowed the cleanup you now did.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Arnd

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