Re: Remaining randconfig objtool warnings, linux-next-20200428

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 02:46:30PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > Yup, makes sense.  I think I've been getting confused by the syscall
> > wrappers.
> > 
> > > How hard would it be to change objtool instead of changing the sources?

So I just realized this is an objtool bug after all.  Or at least a new
GCC quirk.  The quick fix is:

  sed -si 's/cold./cold/' tools/objtool/check.c

However... after studying how all this works, I'm actually thinking that
it makes sense to move the SYS_NI usage into kernel/sys_ni.c, like you
originally suggested.  That seems cleaner to me: all the syscall
aliasing code together in one file.  SYS_NI is similar to COND_SYSCALL,
except it has a custom ENOSYS handler.  Having "NI" in the name is
another clue it belongs in sys_ni.c.

Alternatively, I could do the x86-specific SYSCALL_ALIAS, which is easy
enough, but I really prefer the sys_ni.c approach.

Either of those would allow the removal of some hacky objtool code,
which only ever existed in the first place because of posix-stubs.c and
that inline asm SYSCALL_ALIAS macro.

One of objtool's goals is to standardize ELF data, and it seems
reasonable to require the use of C-based aliases.  And I think it would
be a nice cleanup anyway.

-- 
Josh