Re: [PATCH v4 04/29] objtool: Add a pass for generating __mcount_loc

[Miroslav Benes]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 03:36:12PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 03:17:07PM +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> > 
> > > I also wonder about making 'mcount' command separate from 'check'. Similar 
> > > to what is 'orc' now. But that could be done later.
> > 
> > I'm not convinced more commands make sense. That only begets us the
> > problem of having to run multiple commands.
> 
> Agreed, it gets hairy when we need to combine things.  I think "orc" as
> a separate subcommand was a mistake.
> 
> We should change to something like
> 
>   objtool run [--check] [--orc] [--mcount]
>   objtool dump [--orc] [--mcount]

Yes, that makes sense.

Miroslav