* Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Here are the patches which update x86 instruction decoder build-time > test. As Stephen reported on linux-next, sometimes objdump decodes bad > instructions as normal. This will cause a false positive result on x86 > insn decoder test. This patches update the test as below; > > - Show more information with V=1 > - Show in which symbol the difference places. > - Just warning instead of build failure. yes, -tip testing was showing such build bugs too: Error: ffffffff8104aae3: c5 83 3d 49 80 ee lds 0xffffffffee80493d(%rbx),%eax Error: objdump says 6 bytes, but insn_get_length() says 3 (attr:0) it happens with older tools, such as binutils-2.17. Modern binutils (2.19) is fine. We dont want to remove the build error: it helped us fix a number of real bugs in the decoder - instead please try to create a make based workaround based on binutils, to not run the test with binutils older than 2.19 or so. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
