linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] objtool,ftrace: Implement UNWIND_HINT_RET

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Date:   Tue, 31 Mar 2020 11:31:36 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, tglx@...utronix.de,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, mhiramat@...nel.org,
        mbenes@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] objtool,ftrace: Implement UNWIND_HINT_RET_OFFSET

On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:16:52 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> @@ -235,8 +237,8 @@ SYM_INNER_LABEL(ftrace_regs_call, SYM_L_GLOBAL)
>  
>  	/* If ORIG_RAX is anything but zero, make this a call to that */
>  	movq ORIG_RAX(%rsp), %rax
> -	cmpq	$0, %rax
> -	je	1f
> +	testq	%rax, %rax
> +	jz	1f
>  
>  	/* Swap the flags with orig_rax */
>  	movq MCOUNT_REG_SIZE(%rsp), %rdi

Hi Peter,

Can you send this change as a separate patch as it has nothing to do with
this current change, and is a clean up patch that stands on its own.

Thanks,

-- Steve