Hi Markus, On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 11:19:34AM -0800, Markus Mayer wrote: > On Aarch64, Linux is using Pointer Authentication Code (PAC) for pointer > authentication.[1] The struct "user_pac_mask" has been part of the Linux > kernel since version 5.0 as part of this feature. However, older kernels > do not define it. > > Therefore, we want to check if the definition is present in the kernel > headers and provide one if it isn't. This ensures two things: > > * elfutils will continue to compile against kernel headers from 4.x > * binaries built against older kernel headers will still be fully > functional if used on a newer system
This looks very nice. I added a reference to https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32684 to the commit message and pushed your commit. Thanks, Mark
