Re: [PATCH v3 6/8] x86/module: perpare module loading for ROX allocations of text

Steven Rostedt
2024-09-09T14:49:48Z

On Mon, 9 Sep 2024 17:34:48 +0300
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> wrote:

> > This is insane, just force BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
>
> The comment in ftrace.c says "... while mcount loc in modules can not be
> sorted at build time"
>
> I don't know enough about objtool, but I'd presume it's because the sorting
> should happen after relocations, no?
>

IIRC, the sorting at build time uses scripts/sorttable.c, which from what I
can tell, only gets called on vmlinux.

-- Steve