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| author | Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> | 2025-03-24 14:56:01 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2025-03-25 09:20:27 +0100 |
| commit | 24fe172b50b5749c315349e740e4a09e3a0165d5 (patch) | |
| tree | e66fb65c7ba183cc202db3d637ad1319d4e0d5e7 /tools/objtool | |
| parent | objtool: Reduce CONFIG_OBJTOOL_WERROR verbosity (diff) | |
| download | linux-24fe172b50b5749c315349e740e4a09e3a0165d5.tar.gz linux-24fe172b50b5749c315349e740e4a09e3a0165d5.zip | |
objtool: Fix up some outdated references to ENTRY/ENDPROC
ENTRY and ENDPROC were deprecated years ago and replaced with
SYM_FUNC_{START,END}. Fix up a few outdated references in the objtool
documentation and comments. Also fix a few typos.
Suggested-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Suggested-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5eb7e06e1a0e87aaeda8d583ab060e7638a6ea8e.1742852846.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/objtool')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt b/tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt index 28ac57b9e102..9e97fc25b2d8 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt +++ b/tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Objtool has the following features: - Return thunk annotation -- annotates all return thunk sites so kernel can patch them inline, depending on enabled mitigations -- Return thunk training valiation -- validate that all entry paths +- Return thunk untraining validation -- validate that all entry paths untrain a "safe return" before the first return (or call) - Non-instrumentation validation -- validates non-instrumentable @@ -281,8 +281,8 @@ the objtool maintainers. If the error is for an asm file, and func() is indeed a callable function, add proper frame pointer logic using the FRAME_BEGIN and FRAME_END macros. Otherwise, if it's not a callable function, remove - its ELF function annotation by changing ENDPROC to END, and instead - use the manual unwind hint macros in asm/unwind_hints.h. + its ELF function annotation by using SYM_CODE_{START,END} and use the + manual unwind hint macros in asm/unwind_hints.h. If it's a GCC-compiled .c file, the error may be because the function uses an inline asm() statement which has a "call" instruction. An @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ the objtool maintainers. This is a kernel entry/exit instruction like sysenter or iret. Such instructions aren't allowed in a callable function, and are most likely part of the kernel entry code. Such code should probably be - placed in a SYM_FUNC_CODE block with unwind hints. + placed in a SYM_CODE_{START,END} block with unwind hints. 6. file.o: warning: objtool: func()+0x26: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ the objtool maintainers. Another possibility is that the code has some asm or inline asm which does some unusual things to the stack or the frame pointer. In such - cases it's probably appropriate to use SYM_FUNC_CODE with unwind + cases it's probably appropriate to use SYM_CODE_{START,END} with unwind hints. |