Re: [PATCH 2/5] objtool: Combine '--backtrace' with '--verbose'

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 10:07:43AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 09:00:45AM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > Get rid of the '--backtrace' option, instead including that
> > functionality in '--verbose'.  This makes it easy to gather all the
> > information needed for diagnosing objtool warnings.
> 
> Hurmm.. can't we have verbose imply backtrace but keep the separate
> option? I'm not sure if I always want the objdump thing -- esp with
> multiple warnings on vmlinux that's going to be really slow -- better to
> dump the whole of vmlinux.o once at the end.

That's a good point, vmlinux would be unbearable for multiple warnings.

We could accumulate a list of affected functions and then supply that to
objdump-func.sh at the end and dump them all at the same time.

objdump-func.sh would need to be changed to look for multiple funcs at
once.

If I do that, do you still want the separate backtrace option?

-- 
Josh