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diff --git a/include/linux/hidden.h b/include/linux/hidden.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000..49a17b6b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/include/linux/hidden.h @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ +/* + * When building position independent code with GCC using the -fPIC option, + * (or even the -fPIE one on older versions), it will assume that we are + * building a dynamic object (either a shared library or an executable) that + * may have symbol references that can only be resolved at load time. For a + * variety of reasons (ELF symbol preemption, the CoW footprint of the section + * that is modified by the loader), this results in all references to symbols + * with external linkage to go via entries in the Global Offset Table (GOT), + * which carries absolute addresses which need to be fixed up when the + * executable image is loaded at an offset which is different from its link + * time offset. + * + * Fortunately, there is a way to inform the compiler that such symbol + * references will be satisfied at link time rather than at load time, by + * giving them 'hidden' visibility. + */ + +#pragma GCC visibility push(hidden) |