Re: [RFC][PATCH 03/36] objtool: Enable compilation of objtool for all architectures

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:39:23 +0100
Julien Thierry <jthierry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My concern with this it that most of the structures and code in arch.h 
> and check.c can/should be reused across architectures. So, when 
> providing support for a new architecutre, the first thing that will be 
> needed is to move those back under tools/objtool whithout disturbing the 
> arches that don't yet provide support for "check" subcommand.

Are all the enums and structs in arch.h non-arch specific?

Or would they need to be split?

> 
> So, if it is decided that recordmcount should be an objtool subcommand, 
> the code itself should probably stay under tools/objtool and then have 
> different compilation configurations for objtool depending on the 
> architecture (e.g. HAVE_OBJTOOL_CHECK, HAVE_OBJTOOL_ORC) or something of 
> the sort.

That could work.

-- Steve