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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Fāng-ruì Sòng" <maskray@google.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86/entry: emit a symbol for register restoring thunk
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 02:00:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210112010010.GA8239@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFP8O3+uEE4Lity-asyFLN6_+8qRUD3hgcZVapXwk6EfmGM+DA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 04:41:52PM -0800, Fāng-ruì Sòng wrote:
> To be fair: we cannot use

Who's "we"?

> .L-prefixed local because of the objtool limitation.

What objtool limitation? I thought clang's assembler removes .text which
objtool uses. It worked fine with GNU as so far.

> The LLVM integrated assembler behavior is a good one

Please explain what "good one" means in that particular context.

> and binutils global maintainers have agreed so H.J. went ahead and
> implemented it for GNU as x86.

But they don't break old behavior, do they? Or are they removing .text
unconditionally now too?

> --generate-unused-section-symbols=[yes|no] as an assembler option has
> been rejected.

Meaning what exactly? There's no way for clang's integrated assembler to
even get a cmdline option to not strip .text?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-12  1:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-23 23:21 [PATCH] x86/entry: use STB_GLOBAL for register restoring thunk Nick Desaulniers
2020-12-24  4:55 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-06  0:43   ` [PATCH v2] " Nick Desaulniers
2021-01-06  1:58     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-11 20:38       ` [PATCH v3] x86/entry: emit a symbol " Nick Desaulniers
2021-01-11 20:58         ` Fangrui Song
2021-01-11 22:09           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-11 22:16             ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-01-11 22:12         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-12  0:38         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-12  0:41           ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-01-12  1:00             ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2021-01-12  1:13               ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-01-12  1:59                 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-12 11:54                   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-12 19:46                     ` [PATCH v4] " Nick Desaulniers
2021-01-12 21:01                       ` Mark Brown
2021-01-13 16:59                         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-13 17:46                           ` [PATCH] Documentation: asm-annotation: clarify .L local symbol names Nick Desaulniers
2021-01-13 19:56                             ` Mark Brown
2021-01-13 17:56                           ` [PATCH v4] x86/entry: emit a symbol for register restoring thunk Nick Desaulniers
2021-01-14 10:39                             ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-14 11:36                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-14 13:28                                 ` [PATCH] x86/entry: Remove put_ret_addr_in_rdi THUNK macro argument Borislav Petkov
2021-01-14 15:53                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-19 10:12                                 ` [tip: x86/entry] " tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
2021-01-14 15:14                               ` [PATCH v4] x86/entry: emit a symbol for register restoring thunk Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-14 11:49                         ` [Linux-kernel-mentees] Fwd: " Lukas Bulwahn
2021-01-14 14:21                           ` Aditya
2021-01-14 14:35                             ` Lukas Bulwahn
2021-01-13 11:52                       ` [tip: x86/entry] x86/entry: Emit " tip-bot2 for Nick Desaulniers
2021-01-19 10:12                       ` tip-bot2 for Nick Desaulniers
2021-01-12 11:47                 ` [PATCH v3] x86/entry: emit " Borislav Petkov

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