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From: peterz@infradead.org
To: Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jpoimboe@redhat.com,
	mhelsley@vmware.com, mbenes@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] objtool: orc_gen: Move orc_entry out of instruction structure
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 15:33:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200730133343.GN2655@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4e239ad-120e-bd8f-4128-6976146c8512@redhat.com>

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 01:40:48PM +0100, Julien Thierry wrote:
> 
> 
> On 7/30/20 11:03 AM, peterz@infradead.org wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:41:43AM +0100, Julien Thierry wrote:
> > > One orc_entry is associated with each instruction in the object file,
> > > but having the orc_entry contained by the instruction structure forces
> > > architectures not implementing the orc subcommands to provide a dummy
> > > definition of the orc_entry.

> I guess I forgot about the usecase of running objtool on vmlinux...

Right, and LTO builds will even do ORC at that level.

> On a kernel build for x86_64 defconfig, the difference in time seems to be
> withing the noise.

Good.

> But I agree the proposed code is not ideal and on the other we've tried
> avoiding #ifdef in the code. Ideally I'd have an empty orc_entry definition
> when SUBCMD_ORC is not implemented.
> 
> Would you have a suggested approach to do that?

How ugly is having that:

struct orc_entry { };

?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-30 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-30  9:41 [PATCH v3 0/4] Remove dependency of check subcmd upon orc Julien Thierry
2020-07-30  9:41 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] objtool: Move object file loading out of check Julien Thierry
2020-07-30 14:09   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-07-30 14:42     ` Julien Thierry
2020-07-30  9:41 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] objtool: Move orc outside " Julien Thierry
2020-07-30  9:57   ` peterz
2020-07-30 12:40     ` Julien Thierry
2020-07-30 13:22       ` peterz
2020-07-30 13:29         ` Julien Thierry
2020-07-30 14:15           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-07-30 14:44             ` Julien Thierry
2020-07-31  7:56               ` Miroslav Benes
2020-07-31  8:19                 ` Julien Thierry
2020-07-30  9:41 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] objtool: orc: Skip setting orc_entry for non-text sections Julien Thierry
2020-07-30  9:41 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] objtool: orc_gen: Move orc_entry out of instruction structure Julien Thierry
2020-07-30 10:03   ` peterz
2020-07-30 12:40     ` Julien Thierry
2020-07-30 13:33       ` peterz [this message]
2020-07-30 13:45         ` Julien Thierry
2020-07-30 14:28           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-07-30 14:06 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] Remove dependency of check subcmd upon orc Josh Poimboeuf
2020-07-30 14:42   ` Julien Thierry
2020-07-30 15:05     ` Josh Poimboeuf

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