linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 09/16] objtool: Use target file endianness instead of a compiled constant

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Date:   Thu, 1 Sep 2022 21:22:16 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Sathvika Vasireddy <sv@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, jpoimboe@...hat.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, aik@...abs.ru, mpe@...erman.id.au,
        mingo@...hat.com, christophe.leroy@...roup.eu, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        mbenes@...e.cz, npiggin@...il.com, chenzhongjin@...wei.com,
        naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/16] objtool: Use target file endianness instead of
 a compiled constant

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 11:22:16AM +0530, Sathvika Vasireddy wrote:
> From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
> 
> Some architectures like powerpc support both endianness, it's
> therefore not possible to fix the endianness via arch/endianness.h
> because there is no easy way to get the target endianness at
> build time.
> 
> Use the endianness recorded in the file objtool is working on.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>