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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
	Sathvika Vasireddy <sv@linux.ibm.com>,
	"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Cc: "jpoimboe@redhat.com" <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	"peterz@infradead.org" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"aik@ozlabs.ru" <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
	"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"rostedt@goodmis.org" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"mbenes@suse.cz" <mbenes@suse.cz>,
	"npiggin@gmail.com" <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	"chenzhongjin@huawei.com" <chenzhongjin@huawei.com>,
	"naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com"
	<naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 02/16] powerpc: Override __ALIGN and __ALIGN_STR macros
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 11:01:54 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tu3gsy6l.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <327c371a-a8f4-1676-3da8-f454612b5c58@csgroup.eu>

Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> writes:
> Le 28/10/2022 à 16:33, Sathvika Vasireddy a écrit :
>> In a subsequent patch, we would want to annotate powerpc assembly functions
>> with SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL macro. This macro depends on __ALIGN macro.
>> 
>> The default expansion of __ALIGN macro is:
>>          #define __ALIGN      .align 4,0x90
>> 
>> So, override __ALIGN and __ALIGN_STR macros to use the same alignment as
>> that of the existing _GLOBAL macro. Also, do not pad with 0x90, because
>> repeated 0x90s are not a nop or trap on powerpc.
>
> By the way, do we know what the instruction 0x90909090 is on powerpc ? 
> Is that something valid or not ?

According to objdump it's:

stw     r4,-28528(r16)

cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-03  0:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-28 14:33 [PATCH v5 00/16] objtool: Enable and implement --mcount option on powerpc Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-10-28 14:33 ` [PATCH v5 01/16] powerpc: Fix __WARN_FLAGS() for use with Objtool Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-10-28 14:33 ` [PATCH v5 02/16] powerpc: Override __ALIGN and __ALIGN_STR macros Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-11-02 12:35   ` Christophe Leroy
2022-11-03  0:01     ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2022-11-03  8:48     ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-11-14  3:48       ` Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-10-28 14:33 ` [PATCH v5 03/16] powerpc: Fix objtool unannotated intra-function call warnings Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-10-28 14:33 ` [PATCH v5 04/16] powerpc: Curb objtool unannotated intra-function warnings Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-10-28 14:33 ` [PATCH v5 05/16] powerpc: Skip objtool from running on drivers/crypto/vmx/aesp8-ppc.o Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-10-28 14:33 ` [PATCH v5 06/16] powerpc: Fix objtool unannotated intra-function call warnings on PPC32 Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-11-02 12:44   ` Christophe Leroy
2022-10-28 14:33 ` [PATCH v5 07/16] powerpc: Skip objtool from running on VDSO files Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-10-28 14:33 ` [PATCH v5 08/16] objtool: Fix SEGFAULT Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-10-28 14:33 ` [PATCH v5 09/16] objtool: Use target file endianness instead of a compiled constant Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-10-28 14:33 ` [PATCH v5 10/16] objtool: Use target file class size " Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-10-28 14:33 ` [PATCH v5 11/16] objtool: Add --mnop as an option to --mcount Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-10-28 14:33 ` [PATCH v5 12/16] objtool: Read special sections with alts only when specific options are selected Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-10-28 14:33 ` [PATCH v5 13/16] objtool: Use macros to define arch specific reloc types Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-10-28 14:33 ` [PATCH v5 14/16] objtool: Add arch specific function arch_ftrace_match() Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-10-28 14:33 ` [PATCH v5 15/16] objtool/powerpc: Enable objtool to be built on ppc Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-10-28 14:33 ` [PATCH v5 16/16] objtool/powerpc: Add --mcount specific implementation Sathvika Vasireddy
2022-11-02 12:44 ` [PATCH v5 00/16] objtool: Enable and implement --mcount option on powerpc Christophe Leroy

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