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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 4/4] objtool/powerpc: Add --mcount specific implementation
Christophe Leroy wrote:
>
>
> Le 25/05/2022 à 19:27, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
>>
>>
>> Le 24/05/2022 à 15:33, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 24/05/2022 à 13:00, Sathvika Vasireddy a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>>> +{
>>>>>> +    switch (elf->ehdr.e_machine) {
>>>>>> +    case EM_X86_64:
>>>>>> +            return R_X86_64_64;
>>>>>> +    case EM_PPC64:
>>>>>> +            return R_PPC64_ADDR64;
>>>>>> +    default:
>>>>>> +            WARN("unknown machine...");
>>>>>> +            exit(-1);
>>>>>> +    }
>>>>>> +}
>>>>> Wouldn't it be better to make that function arch specific ?
>>>>
>>>> This is so that we can support cross architecture builds.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure I follow you here.
>>>
>>> This is only based on the target, it doesn't depend on the build host so
>>> I can't the link with cross arch builds.
>>>
>>> The same as you have arch_decode_instruction(), you could have
>>> arch_elf_reloc_type_long()
>>> It would make sense indeed, because there is no point in supporting X86
>>> relocation when you don't support X86 instruction decoding.
>>>
>>
>> Could simply be some macro defined in
>> tools/objtool/arch/powerpc/include/arch/elf.h and
>> tools/objtool/arch/x86/include/arch/elf.h
>>
>> The x86 version would be:
>>
>> #define R_ADDR(elf) R_X86_64_64
>>
>> And the powerpc version would be:
>>
>> #define R_ADDR(elf) (elf->ehdr.e_machine == EM_PPC64 ? R_PPC64_ADDR64 :
>> R_PPC_ADDR32)
>>
>
> Well, looking once more, and taking into account the patch from Chen
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220531020744.236970-4-chenzhongjin@huawei.com/
>
> It would be easier to just define two macros:
>
> #define R_ABS64 R_PPC64_ADDR64
> #define R_ABS32 R_PPC_ADDR32
>
> And then in the caller, as we know the size, do something like
>
> size == sizeof(u64) ? R_ABS64 : R_ABS32;

How does 'sizeof(u64)' work here?


- Naveen

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