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From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 0/9] Compile-time stack metadata validation
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:04:41 -0600
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 09:02:04AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > This is v17 of the compile-time stack metadata validation patch set.
> > 
> > It's based on tip:x86/debug.  However, note that when run against that
> > branch it will give a lot of warnings:
> > 
> >   objtool: arch/x86/ia32/sys_ia32.o: __ex_table size not a multiple of 12
> >   objtool: arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.o: __ex_table size not a multiple of 12
> >   objtool: arch/x86/entry/common.o: __ex_table size not a multiple of 12
> >   ...
> > 
> > These warnings means that objtool is expecting the new exception table
> > format which was introduced with:
> > 
> >   548acf19234d ("x86/mm: Expand the exception table logic to allow new handling options")
> > 
> > So that commit is needed for those warnings to go away.
> 
> Ok. I have created a new topic branch for the objtool commits: tip:core/objtool, 
> and merged tip:ras/core into it (which hosts 548acf19234d).
> 
> So please use tip:core/objtool as a base from now on.
> 
> Two more minor observations:
> 
> Please re-order the patches slightly so that the annotations are added first, and 
> objtool is added and Kconfig-enabled in the final patches.
> 
> >   x86/objtool: Compile-time stack metadata validation
> >   x86/objtool: Add CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option
> >   x86/objtool: Enable objtool on x86_64
> >   x86/objtool: Add STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD macro
> >   x86/objtool: Add directory and file whitelists
> 
> btw., please use the more generic 'objtool: ' prefix, the concept is not 
> fundamentally x86 specific - especially once dwarf debuginfo is interpreted it 
> will be useful beyond x86 as well I suspect.
> 
> >   x86/xen: Add xen_cpuid() to objtool whitelist
> >   bpf: Add __bpf_prog_run() to objtool whitelist
> >   sched: Add __schedule() to objtool whitelist
> >   x86/kprobes: Add kretprobe_trampoline() to objtool whitelist

Ok.  I'll make all your suggested changes and post v18 today.

-- 
Josh