From: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
To: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: objdiff: Ignore debug info when comparing
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:58:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170217135810.GJ25924@io.lakedaemon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170216211820.4337-1-stephen.boyd@linaro.org>
Hi Stephen,
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 01:18:20PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> If the kernel is configured to be built with debug symbols, or
> has bug tables, comparing files may not work if line numbers
> change. This makes comparing object files with these options
> harder to do. Let's strip out the debug info and drop the
> __bug_table here so that we don't see false positives. There may
> be other things to drop later, and it may be architecture
> specific, but this works for me with my ARM64 build.
>
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
> Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
I'm glad it's useful!
thx,
Jason.
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2017-02-16 21:18 Stephen Boyd
2017-02-17 13:58 ` Jason Cooper [this message]
2017-02-26 6:12 ` Masahiro Yamada
2017-03-11 5:48 ` Masahiro Yamada
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