Re: [PATCH 00/33] Compile-time stack metadata validation

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-02-23T14:27:22Z

Em Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 09:14:06AM +0100, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> The fact that 'stacktool' already checks about assembly details like __ex_table[]
> shows that my review feedback early iterations of this series, that the
> 'stacktool' name is too specific, was correct.
>
> We really need to rename it before it gets upstream and the situation gets worse.
> __ex_table[] has obviously nothing to do with the 'stack layout' of binaries.
>
> Another suitable name would be 'asmtool' or 'objtool'. For example the following
> would naturally express what it does:
>
> objtool check kernel/built-in.o
>
> the name expresses that the tool checks object files, independently of the
> existing toolchain. Its primary purpose right now is the checking of stack layout
> details, but the tool is not limited to that at all.

Removing 'tool' from the tool name would be nice too :-) Making it
easily googlable would be good too, lotsa people complain about 'perf'
being too vague, see for a quick laugher:

http://www.brendangregg.com/perf.html

``Searching for just "perf" finds sites on the police, petroleum, weed
control, and a T-shirt. This is not an official perf page, for either
perf_events or the T-shirt.''

The T-shirt: http://www.brendangregg.com/perf_events/omg-so-perf.jpg

Maybe we should ask Linus to come with some other nice, short,
searchable, funny name like 'git'?

'chob' as in 'check object'?

- Arnaldo