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Date:   Tue, 27 Sep 2022 16:55:22 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
        Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>,
        Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@google.com>,
        Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 04/27] kallsyms: support "big" kernel symbols
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 <20220927131518.30000-5-ojeda@kernel.org>
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 03:14:35PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> Rust symbols can become quite long due to namespacing introduced
> by modules, types, traits, generics, etc.
> 
> Increasing to 255 is not enough in some cases, therefore
> introduce longer lengths to the symbol table.
> 
> In order to avoid increasing all lengths to 2 bytes (since most
> of them are small, including many Rust ones), use ULEB128 to
> keep smaller symbols in 1 byte, with the rest in 2 bytes.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Co-developed-by: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
> Co-developed-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@google.com>
> Co-developed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
> Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
> Co-developed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
> Co-developed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
> ---
>  kernel/kallsyms.c  | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  scripts/kallsyms.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>