Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:20:03 +0200 (CEST) | From | Miroslav Benes <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 7/7] objtool: Make unwind_hints available for all architectures |
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Hi Julien,
On Mon, 8 Jun 2020, Julien Thierry wrote:
> Unwind hints are useful to give some information about the call frame > or stack states in non-standard code. > > Despite unwind hints being used in arch-independent code, the > unwind_hint structure type itself is define in x86 kernel headers. > > This is because what an unwind hint will describe is very architecture > specific, both regarding the state and the affected registers. > > To get to share this concept, expose the unwind_hint structure across > architecutres. However, the hint types remain defined by the > architecture code. Objtool then needs it's arch specific code to > "decode" the unwind hint into a cfi_state.
I think it would be nice to split the patch. Something like.
1. current include/linux/frame.h mixes assembly and non-assembly definitions, so introduce ASSEMBLY ifdef first seems like a good idea to me.
2. move the relevant definitions to frame.h and add the file to sync-check
3. the rest of the patch
Would it make sense?
Otherwise, it looks good to me.
Miroslav
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