Re: [PATCH] x86: introduce push/pop macros which generate CFI_REL_OFFSET and CFI_RESTORE

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:07:35AM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> Sequences
>         pushl_cfi %reg
>         CFI_REL_OFFSET reg, 0
> and
>         popl_cfi %reg
>         CFI_RESTORE reg
> happen quite often. This patch adds macros which generate them.
> 
> No assembly changes (verified with objdump -dr vmlinux.o).

...

> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h
> index f6f1598..de1cdaf 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h
> @@ -86,11 +86,23 @@
>  	CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET 8
>  	.endm
>  
> +	.macro pushq_cfi_reg reg
> +	pushq %\reg
> +	CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET 8
> +	CFI_REL_OFFSET \reg, 0
> +	.endm

What's wrong with adding the CFI_REL_OFFSET to the pushl/popl_cfi macro
and not add two new _reg macros?

I.e., have the _cfi macros add all the CFI annotations needed.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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