vmcoreinfo: make hwerr_data visible for debugging

If the kernel is compiled with LTO, hwerr_data symbol might be lost, and
vmcoreinfo doesn't have it dumped.  This is currently seen in some
production kernels with LTO enabled.

Remove the static qualifier from hwerr_data so that the information is
still preserved when the kernel is built with LTO.  Making hwerr_data a
global symbol ensures its debug info survives the LTO link process and
appears in kallsyms.  Also document it, so it doesn't get removed in
the future as suggested by akpm.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260122-fix_vmcoreinfo-v2-1-2d6311f9e36c@debian.org
Fixes: 3fa805c37dd4 ("vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors")
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Cc: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhiquan Li <zhiquan1.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/kernel/vmcore_info.c b/kernel/vmcore_info.c
index fe9bf8db1922e6a269e3d4034b238266751dcbcb..e2784038bbed7911233d9fba6904a9b3f1c4bab0 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/vmcore_info.c
+++ b/kernel/vmcore_info.c
@@ -36,7 +36,11 @@ struct hwerr_info {
        time64_t timestamp;
 };
 
-static struct hwerr_info hwerr_data[HWERR_RECOV_MAX];
+/*
+ * The hwerr_data[] array is declared with global scope so that it remains
+ * accessible to vmcoreinfo even when Link Time Optimization (LTO) is enabled.
+ */
+struct hwerr_info hwerr_data[HWERR_RECOV_MAX];
 
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