linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] objtool: Constify most of the instruction decoding loop

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Message-ID: <20200422204952.ct54cxbp7c2kbppf@treble>
Date:   Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:49:52 -0500
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] objtool: Constify most of the instruction decoding
 loop

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:32:02PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Constify some of the decoding primitives, to ascertain and enforce that
> arch_decode_instructions() is a read-only consumer of the various ELF data
> structures. (Which it is.)
> 
> This is in preparation to parallelize the most expensive parts of objtool,
> but makes sense independently as well.
> 
> These bits can also be found at:
> 
>   git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git WIP.core/objtool

Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>

-- 
Josh