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From: Matt Helsley <mhelsley@vmware.com>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] recordmcount: support >64k sections
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:22:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200424222214.GC9040@rlwimi.vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200424193046.160744-1-samitolvanen@google.com>

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 12:30:46PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> When compiling a kernel with Clang and LTO, we need to run
> recordmcount on vmlinux.o with a large number of sections, which
> currently fails as the program doesn't understand extended
> section indexes. This change adds support for processing binaries
> with >64k sections.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>

Feel free to add

Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley <mhelsley@vmware.com>

> ---
> Changes in v2:
>  - Switched to unsigned int for (old|new)_shnum in append_func.
>  - Added set_shnum and find_symtab helper functions and moved
>    the new logic there.
> 
> ---
>  scripts/recordmcount.h | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 92 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

<snip>

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-24 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-22 23:24 [PATCH] recordmcount: support >64k sections Sami Tolvanen
2020-04-23  0:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-04-23 18:47   ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-04-23 21:47 ` Matt Helsley
2020-04-24 19:18   ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-04-24 19:30 ` [PATCH v2] " Sami Tolvanen
2020-04-24 22:22   ` Matt Helsley [this message]
2020-06-16 18:03     ` Kees Cook
2020-06-16 18:38       ` Steven Rostedt
2020-06-16 18:45         ` Kees Cook

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