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Building with the Clang assembler shows the following warning:
arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_64.o: warning: objtool: missing symbol for insn at offset 0x16
The Clang assembler strips section symbols. That ends up giving
objtool's find_func_containing() much more test coverage than normal.
Turns out, find_func_containing() doesn't work so well for overlapping
symbols:
2: 000000000000000e 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT 2 fgraph_trace
3: 000000000000000f 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT 2 trace
4: 0000000000000000 165 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 2 __fentry__
5: 000000000000000e 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 2 ftrace_stub
The zero-length NOTYPE symbols are inside __fentry__(), confusing the
rbtree search for any __fentry__() offset coming after a NOTYPE.
Try to avoid this problem by not adding zero-length symbols to the
rbtree. They're rare and aren't needed in the rbtree anyway.
One caveat, this actually might not end up being the right fix.
Non-empty overlapping symbols, if they exist, could have the same
problem. But that would need bigger changes, let's see if we can get
away with the easy fix for now.
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.