Re: [PATCH 4/5] objtool: Add option to generate prefix symbols

[Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 09:40:26PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> When code is compiled with:
> 
>   -fpatchable-function-entry=${PADDING_BYTES},${PADDING_BYTES}
> 
> functions will have PADDING_BYTES of NOP in front of them. Unwinders
> and other things that symbolize code locations will typically
> attribute these bytes to the preceding function.
> 
> Given that these bytes nominally belong to the following symbol this
> mis-attribution is confusing.
> 
> Inspired by the fact that CFI_CLANG emits __cfi_##name symbols to
> claim these bytes, allow objtool to emit __pfx_##name symbols to do
> the same.
> 
> Therefore add the objtool --prefix=N argument, to conditionally place
> a __pfx_##name symbol at N bytes ahead of symbol 'name' when: all
> these preceding bytes are NOP and name-N is an instruction boundary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> ---
>  tools/objtool/builtin-check.c           |    1 +
>  tools/objtool/check.c                   |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/objtool/elf.c                     |   30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/objtool/include/objtool/builtin.h |    1 +
>  tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h     |    2 ++
>  5 files changed, 61 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c
> +++ b/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c
> @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ const struct option check_options[] = {
>  	OPT_BOOLEAN('r', "retpoline", &opts.retpoline, "validate and annotate retpoline usage"),
>  	OPT_BOOLEAN(0,   "rethunk", &opts.rethunk, "validate and annotate rethunk usage"),
>  	OPT_BOOLEAN(0,   "unret", &opts.unret, "validate entry unret placement"),
> +	OPT_INTEGER(0,   "prefix", &opts.prefix, "generate prefix symbols"),

"generate prefix symbols for function padding with size 'n' bytes" ?

-- 
Josh