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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 10:47:01 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@...wei.com>
Cc: Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Objtool toolchain proposal:
-fannotate-{jump-table,noreturn}
On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 10:56:58AM +0800, Chen Zhongjin wrote:
> We have found some anonymous information on x86 in .rodata.
Well yes, but that's still a bunch of heuristics on our side.
> I'm not sure if those are *all* of Josh wanted on x86, however for arm64 we
> did not found that in the same section so it is a problem on arm64 now.
Nick found Bolt managed the ARM64 jumptables:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/bolt/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64MCPlusBuilder.cpp#L484
But that does look like a less than ideal solution too.
> Does the compiler will emit these for all arches? At lease I tried and
> didn't find anything meaningful (maybe I omitted it).
That's the question; can we get the compiler to help us here in a well
defined manner.
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