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Josh Poimboeuf 3d1e236022 objtool: Prevent GCC from merging annotate_unreachable()
0-day bot reported some new objtool warnings which were caused by the
new annotate_unreachable() macro:

  fs/afs/flock.o: warning: objtool: afs_do_unlk()+0x0: duplicate frame pointer save
  fs/afs/flock.o: warning: objtool: afs_do_unlk()+0x0: frame pointer state mismatch
  fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.o: warning: objtool: btrfs_delete_delayed_dir_index()+0x0: duplicate frame pointer save
  fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.o: warning: objtool: btrfs_delete_delayed_dir_index()+0x0: frame pointer state mismatch
  fs/dlm/lock.o: warning: objtool: _grant_lock()+0x0: duplicate frame pointer save
  fs/dlm/lock.o: warning: objtool: _grant_lock()+0x0: frame pointer state mismatch
  fs/ocfs2/alloc.o: warning: objtool: ocfs2_mv_path()+0x0: duplicate frame pointer save
  fs/ocfs2/alloc.o: warning: objtool: ocfs2_mv_path()+0x0: frame pointer state mismatch

It turns out that, for older versions of GCC, if a function has multiple
BUG() incantations, GCC will sometimes merge the corresponding
annotate_unreachable() inline asm statements into a single block.  That
has the undesirable effect of removing one of the entries in the
__unreachable section, confusing objtool greatly.

A workaround for this issue is to ensure that each instance of the
inline asm statement uses a different label, so that GCC sees the
statements are unique and leaves them alone.  The inline asm ‘%=’ token
could be used for that, but unfortunately older versions of GCC don't
support it.  So I implemented a poor man's version of it with the
__LINE__ macro.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: d1091c7fa3 ("objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0c14b00baf9f68d1b0221ddb6c88b925181c8be8.1487997036.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-02-25 10:11:23 +01:00
Documentation media fixes for v4.10-rc8 2017-02-14 06:29:21 -08:00
arch objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends 2017-02-24 09:10:52 +01:00
block cfq-iosched: don't call wbt_disable_default() with IRQs disabled 2017-02-16 08:02:06 -07:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: algif_aead - Fix kernel panic on list_del 2017-02-03 17:45:48 +08:00
drivers Fix missing sanity check in /dev/sg 2017-02-19 09:54:31 -08:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs vfs: fix uninitialized flags in splice_to_pipe() 2017-02-16 09:09:02 -08:00
include objtool: Prevent GCC from merging annotate_unreachable() 2017-02-25 10:11:23 +01:00
init kbuild: modversions: add infrastructure for emitting relative CRCs 2017-02-03 08:28:25 -08:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-02-18 17:33:17 -08:00
lib rhashtable: Revert nested table changes. 2017-02-15 22:29:51 -05:00
mm mm/slub.c: fix random_seq offset destruction 2017-02-08 15:41:43 -08:00
net ipv6: release dst on error in ip6_dst_lookup_tail 2017-02-18 22:55:13 -05:00
samples bpf: introduce BPF_F_ALLOW_OVERRIDE flag 2017-02-12 21:52:19 -05:00
scripts kbuild: modversions: add infrastructure for emitting relative CRCs 2017-02-03 08:28:25 -08:00
security selinux: fix off-by-one in setprocattr 2017-02-08 19:09:53 +11:00
sound ALSA: hda - adding a new NV HDMI/DP codec ID in the driver 2017-02-09 08:57:47 +01:00
tools objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends 2017-02-24 09:10:52 +01:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM/ARM updates for 4.10-rc4 2017-01-17 15:04:59 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-08-02 16:48:52 -04:00
.mailmap mailmap: add codeaurora.org names for nameless email commits 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
COPYING
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Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
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Makefile objtool: Fix CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y warning for out-of-tree modules 2017-02-20 09:49:34 +01:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.