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Re: new static user probe types

> The .probes section stores the addresses of the generated labels that
> are used to find the probe addresses. This isn't a problem for an
> executable that isn't relocatable. But it is for shared libraries which
> has relocatable addresses (if you have selinux memory protection turned
> on). In that case the section has to be writable for the linker. See
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10381

Bah!  I'm sure I already told you about doing this right!  The .probes
section should contain relative addresses fixed at compile time, just like
every other kind of static annotation (and code itself) is made PIC-friendly.
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