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From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
To: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	sdf@google.com, andriin@fb.com
Subject: Re: Kernel build error on BTFIDS vmlinux
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:34:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ddf7bc5-be05-cc06-05d7-2778c53d023b@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c9c4a42ba6b4d36e557a5441e90f7f4961ec3f72.camel@klomp.org>

Hi Mark,

> Adding Nick, the binutils maintainer, so we can make sure
> binutils/elfutils agree on some ELF section compression corner case.

Thanks for doing this.

> But it would obviously be better if that wasn't necessary. So I'll try
> to fix libelf so that if it fixes up the alignment when reading the
> compressed data, it also does that when writing out the data again. But
> that would only help for a new version of elfutils.
> 
> So it would be nice if binutils ld could also be fixed to write out
> compressed sections with the correct alignment.

OK, I will look into doing this.

By any chance is there a small test case that you are using to check
this behaviour ?   If so, please may I have a copy for myself ?

Cheers
  Nick




  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-19 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-18  8:55 Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-08-18  9:14 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-08-18 10:56   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-08-18 13:45     ` Jiri Olsa
2020-08-18 16:33       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-08-18 17:29         ` Mark Wielaard
2020-08-19 15:34           ` Nick Clifton [this message]
2020-08-19 17:18             ` Jiri Olsa
2020-08-19 22:00               ` Mark Wielaard
2020-08-20 12:14                 ` Nick Clifton

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