On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 03:03:30PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 2:51 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 01:30:30PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote: > > > From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Add the --mcount option for generating __mcount_loc sections > > > needed for dynamic ftrace. Using this pass requires the kernel to > > > be compiled with -mfentry and CC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT to be defined > > > in Makefile. > > > > > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200625200235.GQ4781@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Hmm, I'm not sure why this hasn't gotten picked up yet. Is this expected > > to go through -tip or something else? > > Note that I picked up this patch from Peter's original email, to which > I included a link in the commit message, but it wasn't officially > submitted as a patch. However, the previous discussion seems to have > died, so I included the patch in this series, as it cleanly solves the > problem of whitelisting non-call references to __fentry__. I was > hoping for Peter and Steven to comment on how they prefer to proceed > here. Right; so I'm obviously fine with this patch and I suppose I can pick it (and the next) into tip/objtool/core, provided Steve is okay with this approach.
