Re: Weak x86 aliases

[Cherry G.Mathew <cherry%zyx.in@localhost>]

Maxime Villard <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost> writes:

>> Introduce a weak alias method of exporting different implementations
>> of the same API.
>
> Please revert or fix this change. 

I'm not sure what the fix is - do you have a suggestion ?

> The kernel modules that use these functions can't be modloaded
> anymore, because weak symbols aren't resolved.
>
> Eg, NVMM can't be modloaded anymore, because it uses rcr0 among others.
>

I think I'll revert these for now, because PVHVM doesn't/shouldn't use
them anyway, but I'd like to know how to fix this properly. modload not
working due to __weak_alias() sounds like something we don't do properly
in the modload path.

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~cherry