Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] RCU dyntick nesting counter cleanups for rcu -dev

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Sun May 17 2020 - 12:15:48 EST


On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 12:26:43PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Paul,
>
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > And I have allegedly resolved the conflicts with Thomas's and Peter's
> > series, or at least the noinstr-rcu-nmi-2020-05-15 branch of that series.
> > At least one conflict was completely invisible to "git rebase" (but
> > fortunately blindingly obvious to the compiler). This naturally makes
> > me suspect that additional adjustments might be needed. Especially
> > given that misplaced instrumentation_begin() and instrumentation_end()
> > calls are invisible not only to the compiler, but also to rcutorture in
> > my setup. (For example, tracing before instrumentation_begin() or after
> > instrumentation_end() is a bug.)
>
> there is tooling to verify that. If you merge
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/devel.git entry-v7-full
>
> into your dev branch (trivial conflict) and after building it, run:
>
> objtool check -fal $BUILDIR/vmlinux.o

The conflict was trivial, but for future reference, where should I be
getting the proper objtool from?

Thanx, Paul