Re: [PATCH] objtool: fix objtool regression on x32 systems

Peter Zijlstra
2022-05-17T09:43:36Z

On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 08:26:42AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra
> > Sent: 16 May 2022 22:25
> ...
> > A quick look seems to suggest at least all the 'offset' fields should be
> > u64 or something. The only reason that works is because -mcmodel=kernel
> > keeps everything in the 2G range to make s32 immediates work. But it
> > isn't right.
>
> Offsets in instructions are only 8bit or 32bit.
> The mod/reg/rm and SiB encodings don't support anything else.
> If offsets might be large then they have to be loaded into
> registers - which will slow things down.

Not relevant; these are Elf64_Addr fields, objtool currently uses
'unsigned long' for them, but that goes sideways if ILP32.