Re: [PATCH 4/5] objtool: Add per-function rate limiting for unreachable warnings

[Miroslav Benes]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2023, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

> Unreachable instruction warnings are rate limited to once per object
> file.  That no longer makes sense for vmlinux validation, which might
> have other unreachable instructions lurking in other places.  Change it
> to once per function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/objtool/check.c               | 4 ++++
>  tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
> index 73dd091c0075..67a684225702 100644
> --- a/tools/objtool/check.c
> +++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
> @@ -4557,6 +4557,10 @@ static int validate_reachable_instructions(struct objtool_file *file)
>  		if (insn->visited || ignore_unreachable_insn(file, insn))
>  			continue;
>  
> +		if (insn->sym->warned)
> +			continue;
> +		insn->sym->warned = 1;
> +

Ok

>  		WARN_FUNC("unreachable instruction", insn->sec, insn->offset);
>  		return 1;

But we still return here when an unreachable instruction is encountered 
and warned about. Or maybe I am just misunderstanding the purpose.

If not, would it be better to just collect the number of warnings per 
object as we do elsewhere?

  warnings++;

and then at the end

  return warnings;

Miroslav