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Date:   Sat, 29 Oct 2022 11:23:31 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 04/27] kallsyms: support "big" kernel symbols
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On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 10:41:49AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> 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>
> > Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > ---
> >  kernel/kallsyms.c  | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >  scripts/kallsyms.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> >  2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> This patch results in the following spurious build error.
> 
> Building powerpc:allnoconfig ... failed
> --------------
> Error log:
> Inconsistent kallsyms data
> Try make KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1 as a workaround

I should have added: KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1 does not help.

Guenter

> 
> Symbol file differences:
> 10c10
> < 00009720 g       .rodata	00000000 kallsyms_relative_base
> ---
> > 0000971c g       .rodata	00000000 kallsyms_relative_base
> 12,16c12,16
> < 00009724 g       .rodata	00000000 kallsyms_num_syms
> < 00009728 g       .rodata	00000000 kallsyms_names
> < 00022628 g       .rodata	00000000 kallsyms_markers
> < 000226c0 g       .rodata	00000000 kallsyms_token_table
> < 00022a2c g       .rodata	00000000 kallsyms_token_index
> ---
> > 00009720 g       .rodata	00000000 kallsyms_num_syms
> > 00009724 g       .rodata	00000000 kallsyms_names
> > 00022618 g       .rodata	00000000 kallsyms_markers
> > 000226b0 g       .rodata	00000000 kallsyms_token_table
> > 00022a1c g       .rodata	00000000 kallsyms_token_index
> 
> This is the only difference. There are no additional symbols.
> 
> Reverting this patch fixes the problem.
> 
> Guenter