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Subject[tip: objtool/core] objtool: Avoid iterating !text section symbols
The following commit has been merged into the objtool/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 32cd779457c84c3d0ef34f9b45854f1c876395dc
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/32cd779457c84c3d0ef34f9b45854f1c876395dc
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
AuthorDate: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:11:14 +01:00
Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CommitterDate: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 23:10:08 +02:00

objtool: Avoid iterating !text section symbols

validate_functions() iterates all sections their symbols; this is
pointless to do for !text sections as they won't have instructions
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416115119.346582716@infradead.org
---
tools/objtool/check.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
index 584f221..ef082a3 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
@@ -2567,8 +2567,12 @@ static int validate_functions(struct objtool_file *file)
struct section *sec;
int warnings = 0;

- for_each_sec(file, sec)
+ for_each_sec(file, sec) {
+ if (!(sec->sh.sh_flags & SHF_EXECINSTR))
+ continue;
+
warnings += validate_section(file, sec);
+ }

return warnings;
}
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