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drivers/xen/xenbus: Fix namespace collision and split() section placement with AutoFDO
authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Wed, 12 Nov 2025 23:47:50 +0000 (15:47 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:03:10 +0000 (08:03 +0100)
commit0330b7fbbf313b35470306a492b9e7a703b5af56
tree8ff9c736da4fc2e855a65636db0b609c88ac44a0
parent56255fa96871d3bd0d924a53585cdf5594262891
drivers/xen/xenbus: Fix namespace collision and split() section placement with AutoFDO

When compiling the kernel with -ffunction-sections enabled, the split()
function gets compiled into the .text.split section.  In some cases it
can even be cloned into .text.split.constprop.0 or .text.split.isra.0.

However, .text.split.* is already reserved for use by the Clang
-fsplit-machine-functions flag, which is used by AutoFDO.  That may
place part of a function's code in a .text.split.<func> section.

This naming conflict causes the vmlinux linker script to wrongly place
split() with other .text.split.* code, rather than where it belongs with
regular text.

Fix it by renaming split() to split_strings().

Fixes: 6568f14cb5ae ("vmlinux.lds: Exclude .text.startup and .text.exit from TEXT_MAIN")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/92a194234a0f757765e275b288bb1a7236c2c35c.1762991150.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c