Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] objtool/powerpc: Skip jump destination analysis and unnanotated intra-function call warnings for --ftr-fixup

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 11:21:35AM +0530, Shivang Upadhyay wrote:
> From: Sathvika Vasireddy <sv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Objtool is throwing unannotated intra-function call warnings
> when run on vmlinux with --ftr-fixup option.
> 
> One such example:
> 
> vmlinux: warning: objtool: .text+0x3d94:
>                         unannotated intra-function call
> 
> .text + 0x3d94 = c000000000008000 + 3d94 = c0000000000081d4
> 
> c0000000000081d4: 45 24 02 48  bl c00000000002a618
> <system_reset_exception+0x8>
> 
> c00000000002a610 <system_reset_exception>:
> c00000000002a610:       0e 01 4c 3c     addis   r2,r12,270
>                         c00000000002a610: R_PPC64_REL16_HA    .TOC.
> c00000000002a614:       f0 6c 42 38     addi    r2,r2,27888
>                         c00000000002a614: R_PPC64_REL16_LO    .TOC.+0x4
> c00000000002a618:       a6 02 08 7c     mflr    r0
> 
> This is happening because we should be looking for destination
> symbols that are at absolute offsets instead of relative offsets.

Again, confused. We run objtool on objects, this is pre-linking, there
are no absolute offsets.