Re: [tip: objtool/core] x86/insn: Support big endian cross-compiles

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 04:20:19PM -0000, tip-bot2 for Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> The following commit has been merged into the objtool/core branch of tip:
> 
> Commit-ID:     2a522b53c47051d3bf98748418f4f8e5f20d2c04
> Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/2a522b53c47051d3bf98748418f4f8e5f20d2c04
> Author:        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate:    Mon, 05 Oct 2020 17:50:31 +02:00
> Committer:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CommitterDate: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 09:32:29 -05:00
> 
> x86/insn: Support big endian cross-compiles
> 
> x86 instruction decoder code is shared across the kernel source and the
> tools. Currently objtool seems to be the only tool from build tools needed
> which breaks x86 cross compilation on big endian systems. Make the x86
> instruction decoder build host endianness agnostic to support x86 cross
> compilation and enable objtool to implement endianness awareness for
> big endian architectures support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Co-developed-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>

This commit breaks the x86 build with CONFIG_X86_DECODER_SELFTEST=y.

I've asked Boris to truncate tip/objtool/core.