Re: [PATCH 05/22] kbuild: lto: postpone objtool

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On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:19:08PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 01:31:43PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> > diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
> > index 30827f82ad62..12b115152532 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/compiler.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
> > @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,
> >  /* Annotate a C jump table to allow objtool to follow the code flow */
> >  #define __annotate_jump_table __section(.rodata..c_jump_table)
> >  
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY
> > +#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY) || defined(CONFIG_LTO_CLANG)
> >  /* Begin/end of an instrumentation safe region */
> >  #define instrumentation_begin() ({					\
> >  	asm volatile("%c0:\n\t"						\
> 
> Why would you be doing noinstr validation for lto builds? That doesn't
> make sense.

This is just to avoid a ton of noinstr warnings when we run objtool on
vmlinux.o, but I'm also fine with skipping noinstr validation with LTO.

> > +ifdef CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION
> > +ifneq ($(SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION),1)
> > +cmd_ld_ko_o +=								\
> > +	$(objtree)/tools/objtool/objtool				\
> > +		$(if $(CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC),orc generate,check)		\
> > +		--module						\
> > +		$(if $(CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER),,--no-fp)			\
> > +		$(if $(CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL),--no-unreachable,)		\
> > +		$(if $(CONFIG_RETPOLINE),--retpoline,)			\
> > +		$(if $(CONFIG_X86_SMAP),--uaccess,)			\
> > +		$(@:.ko=$(prelink-ext).o);
> > +
> > +endif # SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION
> > +endif # CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION
> 
> What about the objtool invocation from link-vmlinux.sh ?

What about it? The existing objtool_link invocation in link-vmlinux.sh
works fine for our purposes as well.

Sami



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