On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 01:27:35PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Josh, > > On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 15:54:51 -0600 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Changing it to use the host compiler would probably be an easy fix, but > > that would expose a harder bug related to endianness. > > Just by luck, my PowerPC host is little endian :-) Aha! In that case, I think I'll take a different approach and try to add support for CROSS_COMPILE. We'll need it anyway, later on, when we port objtool to more architectures. > > How about the below workaround patch to disable objtool and warn when > > CROSS_COMPILE is used? If anybody complains about lack of cross-compile > > support later, we could try to fix it then. > > This seems reasonable. > > > From a3c65947011a420743f308b698171c4209105d3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > Message-Id: <a3c65947011a420743f308b698171c4209105d3f.1456868910.git.jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> > > From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 13:35:51 -0600 > > Subject: [PATCH] objtool: Disable stack validation when CROSS_COMPILE is used > > I have applied this to the merge of the tip tree in linux-next today > and it compiles fine for me. I will continue applying it until > something better comes along or it is applied to the tip tree. Thanks. I should have the patch(es) soon. If/when they get merged, I'll let you know, and then you can drop this one. -- Josh -- 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
