[PATCH v4 18/22] objtool/klp: Don't correlate arm64 mapping symbols

Song Liu song at kernel.org
Tue Aug 11 17:00:12 PDT 2026


On Sat, Aug 8, 2026 at 4:18 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> ARM64 ELF files contain mapping symbols ($d, $x, $a, etc.) which mark
> transitions between code and data.  There are thousands of them per
> object file, all sharing the same few names.
>
> They aren't "real" symbols so there's no need to correlate them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at kernel.org>

Acked-by: Song Liu <song at kernel.org>



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