Re: [RFC PATCH v2 09/20] objtool: arm64: Implement command to invoke the decoder

From: Madhavan T. Venkataraman
Date: Sun May 29 2022 - 10:50:08 EST




On 5/24/22 09:09, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 07:16:26PM -0500, madvenka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" <madvenka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Implement a built-in command called cmd_fpv() that can be invoked as
>> follows:
>>
>> objtool fpv generate file.o
>>
>> The built-in command invokes decode_instructions() to walk each function
>> and decode the instructions of the function.
>
> In commit b51277eb9775ce91 ("objtool: Ditch subcommands") Josh removed
> subcommands so this interface is going to need a rethink.

Thanks for mentioning this. I will sync my patchset to the latest and send out version 3.

Thanks!

Madhavan