Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: Add option to fail build on vmlinux objtool issues

From: Brendan Jackman
Date: Mon Dec 16 2024 - 05:01:29 EST


On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 at 01:52, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Note that *any* objtool warning has a good change of being a major bug
> in the kernel or compiler which could result in crashing the kernel or
> breaking the livepatch consistency model. So the option shouldn't be
> restricted to noinstr builds only. In which case it should be called
> CONFIG_OBJTOOL_WERROR, analagous to CONFIG_WERROR.

Sure, sounds good too.

Just to make sure I'm on the same page - are you saying I should add
the flag to $(objtool-args-y) instead of $(vmlinux-objtool-args-y)?