Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] Make check implementation arch agnostic

[Miroslav Benes]

On Fri, 4 Sep 2020, Julien Thierry wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The current implementation of the check subcommand has various x86 bits
> here and there. In order to prepare objtool to provide check for other
> architectures, add some abstraction over the x86 specific bits, relying
> on objtool arch specific code to provide some necessary operations.
> 
> This is part of the effort to implement check for arm64, initiated [1]
> by Raphael. The series is based on top of the separation of check & orc
> subcommands series[2].
> 
> I've push both series base on top of tip/objtool/core at [3].
> 
> - The first two patches make it simpler for new arches to provide their
> list of kernel headers, without worrying about modifications in the x86
> headers.
> - Patch 3 Moves arch specific macros to more suitable location
> - Patches 4 and 5 add abstraction to handle alternatives
> - Patch 6 adds abstraction to handle jump table
> - Patches 7-10 makes unwind hint definitions shared across architectures
> 
> Changes since v2 [4]:
> - Rebased on v5.9-rc1
> - Under tools/objtool/arch/x86/, rename arch_special.c to special.c
> - Rename include/linux/frame.h to inclide/linux/objtool.h
> - Share unwind hint types across architectures
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/16/400
> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/4/675
> [3] https://github.com/julien-thierry/linux/tree/arch-independent-check
> [4] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/30/424

Hi,

Josh merged the patch set already, but FWIW

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx>

for the new changes (patches 7, 9 and 10).

Miroslav