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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:58:36 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Masahiro Yamada
<masahiroy@...nel.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] objtool,x86_64: Replace recordmcount with objtool
On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 09:52:37 -0700
Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com> wrote:
> > Does x86 have a way to differentiate between the two that record mcount
> > can check?
>
> I'm not sure if looking at the relocation alone is sufficient on x86,
> we might also have to decode the instruction, which is what objtool
> does. Did you have any thoughts on Peter's patch, or my initial
> suggestion, which adds a __nomcount attribute to affected functions?
There's a lot of code in this thread. Can you give me the message-id of
Peter's patch in question.
Thanks,
-- Steve
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