From: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Sathvika Vasireddy <sv@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "aik@ozlabs.ru" <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"npiggin@gmail.com" <npiggin@gmail.com>,
"peterz@infradead.org" <peterz@infradead.org>,
"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"rostedt@goodmis.org" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
"jpoimboe@redhat.com" <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
"mbenes@suse.cz" <mbenes@suse.cz>,
"chenzhongjin@huawei.com" <chenzhongjin@huawei.com>,
"Elliott, Robert \(Servers\)" <elliott@hpe.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/16] objtool/powerpc: Enable objtool to be built on ppc
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 16:07:55 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1662373828.xrnduc1uco.naveen@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33924523-5437-eb9a-116a-8e249ce99bd2@csgroup.eu>
Christophe Leroy wrote:
>
>
> Le 29/08/2022 à 07:52, Sathvika Vasireddy a écrit :
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> index 4c466acdc70d..dc05cd23c233 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> @@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ config PPC
>> select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
>> select HAVE_NMI if PERF_EVENTS || (PPC64 && PPC_BOOK3S)
>> select HAVE_OPTPROBES
>> + select HAVE_OBJTOOL if PPC32 || MPROFILE_KERNEL
>
> Why restrict it to MPROFILE_KERNEL ? In your RFC it was for all PPC64.
>
> Recent discussion on the list shows new problem with recordmcount, see
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/MW5PR84MB184250EA1CAE04497C1E7CE9AB769@MW5PR84MB1842.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM/
>
> Those ones are with ppc64 big endian, so objtool would be welcome here
> as well.
I don't think adding support for objtool on ppc64 elfv1 is a good idea.
While it might solve the immediate issue with recordmcount, I worry that
the function descriptors and dot symbols in ppc64 elfv1 might throw up
issues in the future causing maintenance overhead.
- Naveen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-05 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-29 5:52 [PATCH v2 00/16] objtool: Enable and implement --mcount option on powerpc Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-08-29 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 01/16] powerpc: Replace unreachable() with it's builtin variant in __WARN_FLAGS() Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-08-30 6:15 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-09-05 10:18 ` Naveen N. Rao
2022-08-29 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 02/16] powerpc: override __ALIGN() and __ALIGN_STR() macros Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-08-29 13:26 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-08-29 14:39 ` Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-08-31 3:24 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-31 7:22 ` Michael Ellerman
2022-09-05 11:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-08-29 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 03/16] powerpc: Fix objtool unannotated intra-function call warnings Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-08-30 6:16 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-08-30 12:42 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-09-05 11:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-08-29 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 04/16] powerpc: Curb objtool unannotated intra-function warnings Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-08-30 6:26 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-08-29 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 05/16] powerpc: Skip objtool from running on drivers/crypto/vmx/aesp8-ppc.o Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-08-30 6:26 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-09-01 19:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-05 10:47 ` Naveen N. Rao
2022-08-29 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 06/16] powerpc: Fix objtool unannotated intra-function call warnings on PPC32 Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-08-29 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 07/16] powerpc: Skip objtool from running on VDSO files Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-08-30 6:27 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-09-01 19:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-02 7:40 ` Michael Ellerman
2022-08-29 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 08/16] objtool: Fix SEGFAULT Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-09-01 19:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-02 8:06 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-09-02 8:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-08-29 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 09/16] objtool: Use target file endianness instead of a compiled constant Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-09-01 19:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-08-29 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 10/16] objtool: Use target file class size " Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-09-01 19:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-08-29 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 11/16] objtool: Add --mnop as an option to --mcount Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-08-30 6:28 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-09-01 19:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-05 10:55 ` Naveen N. Rao
2022-08-29 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 12/16] objtool: Read special sections with alts only when specific options are selected Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-08-30 6:31 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-08-29 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 13/16] objtool: Use macros to define arch specific reloc types Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-08-30 6:33 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-09-01 19:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-08-29 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 14/16] objtool: Add arch specific function arch_ftrace_match() Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-08-30 6:36 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-08-29 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 15/16] objtool/powerpc: Enable objtool to be built on ppc Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-08-30 6:41 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-09-05 10:37 ` Naveen N. Rao [this message]
2023-02-04 8:19 ` Randy Dunlap
2023-02-04 8:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2023-02-04 8:30 ` Randy Dunlap
2023-02-04 11:55 ` Christophe Leroy
2023-02-04 13:10 ` Christophe Leroy
2023-02-04 15:47 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2022-09-01 9:32 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-09-01 15:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-09-01 16:38 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-09-01 19:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-08-29 5:52 ` [PATCH v2 16/16] objtool/powerpc: Add --mcount specific implementation Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-08-30 6:44 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-08-31 12:50 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-08-31 17:51 ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-09-05 10:45 ` Naveen N. Rao
2022-09-05 20:43 ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-09-06 6:22 ` Christophe Leroy
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