Re: [PATCH] objtool: Disable stack validation when CROSS_COMPILE is used

From: Sedat Dilek
Date: Thu Mar 03 2016 - 02:32:05 EST


On 3/2/16, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 15:54:51 -0600 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Changing it to use the host compiler would probably be an easy fix, but
>> that would expose a harder bug related to endianness.
>
> Just by luck, my PowerPC host is little endian :-)
>
>> How about the below workaround patch to disable objtool and warn when
>> CROSS_COMPILE is used? If anybody complains about lack of cross-compile
>> support later, we could try to fix it then.
>
> This seems reasonable.
>
>> From a3c65947011a420743f308b698171c4209105d3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> Message-Id:
>> <a3c65947011a420743f308b698171c4209105d3f.1456868910.git.jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 13:35:51 -0600
>> Subject: [PATCH] objtool: Disable stack validation when CROSS_COMPILE is
>> used
>
> I have applied this to the merge of the tip tree in linux-next today
> and it compiles fine for me. I will continue applying it until
> something better comes along or it is applied to the tip tree.
>

Does Linux next-20160303 has this patch?
On a quick view I could not find it.

- Sedat -

> Thanks for that.
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell
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