Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] x86: assembly, FUNC_START for fn, DATA_START for data

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Mon Mar 20 2017 - 09:34:08 EST


On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 01:32:14PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> This is a start of series to cleanup macros used for starting functions,
> data, globals etc. across x86. When we have all this sorted out, this
> will help to inject DWARF unwinding info by objtool later.
>
> The goal is forcing SYM_FUNC_START to emit .cfi_startproc and
> SYM_FUNC_END to emit .cfi_endproc. Automatically at best.

Do we still want to emit .cfi_startproc/endproc from the macro? From
our last discussion, that seemed to be up in the air.

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217211804.j6l2d7t5mfzqzmbt@treble

What did you think about making CFI read-only for .c object files and
write-only for .S object files?

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Josh