Re: [GIT PULL] objtool changes for v5.19

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue May 24 2022 - 14:08:25 EST


On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 10:53:40AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 11:02 PM Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Note that with your latest tree you'll get 3 new conflicts:
>
> No problem, but the conflicts did make something clear: the objtool
> code should just get rid of the "--uaccess" flag that is now
> unconditional when CONFIG_X86_SMAP has been removed.
>
> I didn't actually do that, and instead just did the mindless merge
> conflict resolution, but it might be a good idea.

Yes, I think there is patch pending for that, but given the total merge
pain we already had, I was waiting for all the dust to settle before
taking it further.