Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/unwind/orc: Silence warnings caused by missing ORC data

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Mon Feb 08 2021 - 16:06:33 EST


On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 08:24:03AM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> The ORC unwinder attempts to fall back to frame pointers when ORC data
> is missing for a given instruction. It sets state->error, but then
> tries to keep going as a best-effort type of thing. That may result in
> further warnings if the unwinder gets lost.
>
> Until we have some way to register generated code with the unwinder,
> missing ORC will be expected, and occasionally going off the rails will
> also be expected. So don't warn about it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Josh