Re: [PATCH v15 13/25] x86/reboot: Add ljmp instructions to stacktool whitelist

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Jan 20 2016 - 05:45:11 EST


On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:42:56PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> I've now gotten the number of warnings down to 0 (except for a few
> staging drivers), even with allyesconfig (with !CONFIG_GCOV).
>
> I've also managed to make stacktool a little smarter such that the
> in-code STACKTOOL_IGNORE_INSN markers are no longer needed, woot!

Oh wow! :-)

> There's still a need for 4 STACKTOOL_IGNORE_FUNC(name) markers in the
> entire tree, due to the weird cases I mentioned. But they're placed
> after the functions, so they're much less disruptive.

Sounds nice.

Thanks!

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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