Re: [RFC][PATCH] objtool,x86_64: Replace recordmcount with objtool

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On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 10:58 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 09:52:37 -0700
> Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Does x86 have a way to differentiate between the two that record mcount
> > > can check?
> >
> > I'm not sure if looking at the relocation alone is sufficient on x86,
> > we might also have to decode the instruction, which is what objtool
> > does. Did you have any thoughts on Peter's patch, or my initial
> > suggestion, which adds a __nomcount attribute to affected functions?
>
> There's a lot of code in this thread. Can you give me the message-id of
> Peter's patch in question.

Sure, I was referring to the objtool patch in this message:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200625200235.GQ4781@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Sami



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