Re: [tip: objtool/core] jump_label, x86: Allow short NOPs

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 09:35:37PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 09:01:25PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > So this got merged without the corresponding Kbuild update being merged,
> > and my kernel failed to boot.  Bisect got as far as
> > 
> > $ git bisect good
> > Bisecting: 4 revisions left to test after this (roughly 2 steps)
> > [ab3257042c26d0cd44793c741e2f89bf38b21fe8] jump_label, x86: Allow short NOPs
> > 
> > before my sluggish memory remembered this thread from six weeks ago.
> > 
> > So if anybody else hits this, do a make clean.
> 
> Actually, this is a different bug with the same symptom.
> 
> Applying the patch from Peter, and running it:
> 
> $ ./.build_test_kernel-x86_64/tools/objtool/objtool check -abdJsuld .build_test_kernel-x86_64/vmlinux.o
> nr_sections: 15446
> section_bits: 13
> nr_symbols: 116448
> symbol_bits: 16
> max_reloc: 8031700
> tot_reloc: 12477754
> reloc_bits: 19
> nr_insns: 2523443
> .build_test_kernel-x86_64/vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: want_init_on_free()+0x0: jump-label unpatched
> 
> This is against a freshly built kernel -- i removed the build directory,
> copied in a .config file and built a fresh kernel.

You happen to have said .config for me?