Re: [PATCH 44/74] lto: Mark functions used by the vsyscall init code visible

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Sep 01 2012 - 13:16:54 EST


> I think that there should be a comment why the symbol needs to be
> visible (just copy the reasoning from the changelog). Otherwise someone
> might attempt to do a cleanup a few years later, noticing that there is
> no assembler code calling get_random_int().

Ok. On hindsight maybe it's better to split vsyscall_64.c into two
files, one only with the vsyscall code and another with the init code.

-Andi
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