On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 08:05:32PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:24:17 -0700 > Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > Thanks! As you have also Cc'd Matt Helsley, perhaps you have noticed we > are trying to get this code merged with objtool. > > How would that affect this? Yes, I saw the patches. If you are copying over code, a similar fix might be needed, but otherwise I don't see any issues. I also sent a patch for objtool a couple of days ago to support >64k sections: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200421220843.188260-2-samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx/ Sami
