Re: [RFC v5 00/57] objtool: Add support for arm64

From: Julien Thierry
Date: Thu Jan 23 2020 - 08:56:48 EST




On 1/21/20 5:50 PM, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 04:07:11PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 04:02:03PM +0000, Julien Thierry wrote:
In the mean time, any feedback on the current state is appreciated.

* Patches 1 to 18 adapts the current objtool code to make it easier to
support new architectures.

In the interrest of moving things along; I've looked through these
and 1-14,16 look good to me, 17,18 hurt my brain.

Josh, what say you?

Agreed.

Julien, thanks a lot for splitting these up nicely. If you post 1-14
(updated based on the recent comments), we can look at merging those
sooner.


Sure, I'll repost the refactoring patches separately once I've updated them.

15-18 also hurt my brain -- probably a symptom of the existing fragile
mess -- so I'll need to spend more time staring at them.


Yes, the whole state update code hurt quite a lot as well. It took me a while to convince myself that my changes felt correct (to me at least, it might be that I got things wrong :) ).

Thanks,

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Julien Thierry