Re: [PATCH v2 05/28] objtool: Add a pass for generating __mcount_loc

[peterz]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 03:03:30PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 2:51 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 01:30:30PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> > > From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Add the --mcount option for generating __mcount_loc sections
> > > needed for dynamic ftrace. Using this pass requires the kernel to
> > > be compiled with -mfentry and CC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT to be defined
> > > in Makefile.
> > >
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200625200235.GQ4781@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Hmm, I'm not sure why this hasn't gotten picked up yet. Is this expected
> > to go through -tip or something else?
> 
> Note that I picked up this patch from Peter's original email, to which
> I included a link in the commit message, but it wasn't officially
> submitted as a patch. However, the previous discussion seems to have
> died, so I included the patch in this series, as it cleanly solves the
> problem of whitelisting non-call references to __fentry__. I was
> hoping for Peter and Steven to comment on how they prefer to proceed
> here.

Right; so I'm obviously fine with this patch and I suppose I can pick it
(and the next) into tip/objtool/core, provided Steve is okay with this
approach.