Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:20:46 +0200 (CEST) | From | Miroslav Benes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] Make check implementation arch agnostic |
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On Mon, 8 Jun 2020, Julien Thierry wrote:
> Hi, > > The current implementation of the check subcommand has various x86 bits > here and there. In order to prepare objtool to provide check for other > architectures, add some abstraction over the x86 specific bits, relying > on objtool arch specific code to provide some necessary operations. > > This is part of the effort to implement check for arm64, initiated [1] > by Raphael. The series is based on top of the separation of check & orc > subcommands series[2]. > > I've push both series base on top of tip/objtool/core at [3]. > > - The first two patches make it simpler for new arches to provide their > list of kernel headers, without worrying about modifications in the x86 > headers. > - Patch 3 Moves arch specific macros to more suitable location > - Patches 4 and 5 add abstraction to handle alternatives > - Patch 6 adds abstraction to handle jump table > - Patch 7 abstracts the use of unwind hints. Adding it as RFC as I'm sure > there's room for improvement.
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
for patches 1-6.
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