Re: [PATCH v2 00/20] objtool: vmlinux.o and CLANG LTO support

[Sami Tolvanen]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 6:26 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 05:32:43PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > In this specific case, find_func_by_offset returns NULL for
> > > .text..L.cfi.jumptable.43 at addend 0x8, because Clang doesn't emit
> > > jump table symbols for static functions:
> > >
> > > 0000000000000000 <__typeid__ZTSFjmiE_global_addr>:
> > >    0:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   5 <__typeid__ZTSFjmiE_global_addr+0x5>
> > >                         1: R_X86_64_PLT32       io_serial_in-0x4
> > >    5:   cc                      int3
> > >    6:   cc                      int3
> > >    7:   cc                      int3
> > >    8:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   d <__typeid__ZTSFjmiE_global_addr+0xd>
> > >                         9: R_X86_64_PLT32       mem32_serial_in-0x4
> > >    d:   cc                      int3
> > >    e:   cc                      int3
> > >    f:   cc                      int3
> > >
> > > Nick, do you remember if there were plans to change this?
> >
> > Do you have a link to any previous discussion to help jog my mind; I
> > don't really remember this one.
> >
> > Is it that `__typeid__ZTSFjmiE_global_addr` is the synthesized jump
> > table, and yet there is no `__typeid__ZTSFjmiE_global_addr` entry in
> > the symbol table?
>
> I think he means there's not a 'mem32_serial_in.cfi_jt' symbol at
> '__typeid__ZTSFjmiE_global_addr+8'.  Probably more aggressive symbol
> pruning from the assembler.

Correct, the compiler is not emitting mem32_serial_in.cfi_jt here. I
seem to recall that the missing jump table symbols also made stack
traces harder to follow (__typeid__ZTSFjmiE_global_addr+8 is not very
readable), so ideally they shouldn't be pruned.

> It's fine though.  I just need to rewrite the CFI support a bit.
>
> But that can come later.  For now I'll just drop the two CFI-related
> patches from this set so I can merge the others next week.

Sure, sounds good.

Sami