linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/35] objtool: Another static block fail

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Message-ID: <20180129180105.khoilqb6cijsw4sh@treble>
Date:   Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:01:05 -0600
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@...el.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@...el.com>,
        Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@...el.com>,
        Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/35] objtool: Another static block fail

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 05:42:29PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Josh, how would you feel about adding the bits required to make objtool
> a full disassembler? That would make it far easier to visualse the state
> and I don't think its _that_ much more, all the difficult bits are
> already done afaict, all we need is infrastructure to print the already
> fully decoded instruction.

It sounds interesting, but I have no idea what you mean :-)  Can you
elaborate?

-- 
Josh