Re: [RFC PATCH 11/20] objtool: Detect code coverage instrumentation in noinstr code

[Sasha Levin]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 03:11:48PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>Since you can have many relocations to the same symbol; does it make
>sense to cache the results of those many strcmp()s in symbol::coverage
>or something? We have plenty bits left in struct symbol.

Sure, I'll throw in a symbol::coverage_counter bit in classify_symbols(). It
has to happen before the is_global_sym() check there, since the counters, and
the section symbols that relocations often point at, are local.

>Perhaps merge with the previous conditional?

Will do.

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Thanks,
Sasha