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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:51:07 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To:     "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
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        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>,
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        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
        Martin Liska <mliska@suse.cz>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/46] static_call, lto: Mark static keys as __visible
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 12:43:06PM +0100, Jiri Slaby (SUSE) wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
> 
> Symbols referenced from assembler (either directly or e.f. from
> DEFINE_STATIC_KEY()) need to be global and visible in gcc LTO because
> they could end up in a different object file than the assembler. This
> can lead to linker errors without this patch.
> 
> So mark static call functions as __visible, namely static keys here.

Why doesn't llvm-lto need this?

Also, why am I getting a random selection of the patchset?