linux-kernel - Re: [GIT pull] objtool/core for 5.12

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Date:   Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:21:42 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT pull] objtool/core for 5.12

On Tue, Feb 23 2021 at 15:02, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Linus,
>
> please pull the latest objtool/core branch from:
>
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git objtool-core-2021-02-23
>
> up to:  aafeb14e9da2: objtool: Support stack-swizzle
>
> objtool updates:
>
>  - Make objtool work for big-endian cross compiles
>
>  - Make stack tracking via stack pointer memory operations match push/pop
>    semantics to prepare for architectures w/o PUSH/POP instructions.
>
>  - Add support for analyzing alternatives
>
>  - Improve retpoline detection and handling
>
>  - Improve assembly code coverage on x86
>
>  - Provide support for inlined stack switching

There is a trivial merge conflict in the XEN assembly code. xen_sysret64
got removed upstream and objtool modifies it. Removal is the way to go.

Thanks,

        tglx