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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 09:13:03 -0500
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
	Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
	clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/29] objtool: Add a pass for generating __mcount_loc

On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 03:36:12PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 03:17:07PM +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> 
> > I also wonder about making 'mcount' command separate from 'check'. Similar 
> > to what is 'orc' now. But that could be done later.
> 
> I'm not convinced more commands make sense. That only begets us the
> problem of having to run multiple commands.

Agreed, it gets hairy when we need to combine things.  I think "orc" as
a separate subcommand was a mistake.

We should change to something like

  objtool run [--check] [--orc] [--mcount]
  objtool dump [--orc] [--mcount]

-- 
Josh

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