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| author | Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> | 2022-06-14 23:33:03 +0200 |
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| committer | Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> | 2022-07-01 23:50:01 +0200 |
| commit | 2cc39179acbbe524127f0427cee92b629db4d64b (patch) | |
| tree | 742545d6ce30a2a26b2bd03cea23daf1f6e83fff /Documentation/livepatch | |
| parent | module: Fix "warning: variable 'exit' set but not used" (diff) | |
| download | linux-2cc39179acbbe524127f0427cee92b629db4d64b.tar.xz linux-2cc39179acbbe524127f0427cee92b629db4d64b.zip | |
doc: module: update file references
Adjust documents to the file moves made by commit cfc1d277891e ("module:
Move all into module/").
Thanks to Yanteng Si for helping me to update
Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/kernel-api.rst
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/livepatch')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/livepatch/module-elf-format.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/livepatch/module-elf-format.rst b/Documentation/livepatch/module-elf-format.rst index dbe9b400e39f..7347638895a0 100644 --- a/Documentation/livepatch/module-elf-format.rst +++ b/Documentation/livepatch/module-elf-format.rst @@ -210,11 +210,11 @@ module->symtab. ===================================== Normally, a stripped down copy of a module's symbol table (containing only "core" symbols) is made available through module->symtab (See layout_symtab() -in kernel/module.c). For livepatch modules, the symbol table copied into memory -on module load must be exactly the same as the symbol table produced when the -patch module was compiled. This is because the relocations in each livepatch -relocation section refer to their respective symbols with their symbol indices, -and the original symbol indices (and thus the symtab ordering) must be +in kernel/module/kallsyms.c). For livepatch modules, the symbol table copied +into memory on module load must be exactly the same as the symbol table produced +when the patch module was compiled. This is because the relocations in each +livepatch relocation section refer to their respective symbols with their symbol +indices, and the original symbol indices (and thus the symtab ordering) must be preserved in order for apply_relocate_add() to find the right symbol. For example, take this particular rela from a livepatch module::: |