linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/9] objtool: Rewrite annotations

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Message-ID: <20241122174056.jtkddvh24plvw2bd@jpoimboe>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:40:56 -0800
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] objtool: Rewrite annotations

On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 01:10:16PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Just the objtool annotation rewrite bits.
> 
> Changes since last time:
> 
>  - split from the x86 and kvm patches
>  - s/ANNOTYPE_INTRA_FUNCTION_CALLS/ANNOTYPE_INTRA_FUNCTION_CALL/g
>  - made __ASM_ANNOTATE() take a full label name (no longer appends 'b')
>  - added a patch that moves all the annotations to objtool.h
>  - some changes to the first patch

For Valentin's thing we'll be adding annotations for static keys.  Those
will be symbol specific, like STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD().  In which case
we could have a generic .discard.annotate_sym.  And then rename
.discard.annotate to .discard.annotate_insn?

-- 
Josh