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- Speed up objtool significantly, especially when there are large number of sections
- Improve objtool's understanding of special instructions such as IRET,
to reduce the number of annotations required
- Implement 'noinstr' validation
- Do baby steps for non-x86 objtool use
- Simplify/fix retpoline decoding
- Add vmlinux validation
- Improve documentation
- Fix various bugs and apply smaller cleanups
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'objtool-core-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:
"There are a lot of objtool changes in this cycle, all across the map:
- Speed up objtool significantly, especially when there are large
number of sections
- Improve objtool's understanding of special instructions such as
IRET, to reduce the number of annotations required
- Implement 'noinstr' validation
- Do baby steps for non-x86 objtool use
- Simplify/fix retpoline decoding
- Add vmlinux validation
- Improve documentation
- Fix various bugs and apply smaller cleanups"
* tag 'objtool-core-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits)
objtool: Enable compilation of objtool for all architectures
objtool: Move struct objtool_file into arch-independent header
objtool: Exit successfully when requesting help
objtool: Add check_kcov_mode() to the uaccess safelist
samples/ftrace: Fix asm function ELF annotations
objtool: optimize add_dead_ends for split sections
objtool: use gelf_getsymshndx to handle >64k sections
objtool: Allow no-op CFI ops in alternatives
x86/retpoline: Fix retpoline unwind
x86: Change {JMP,CALL}_NOSPEC argument
x86: Simplify retpoline declaration
x86/speculation: Change FILL_RETURN_BUFFER to work with objtool
objtool: Add support for intra-function calls
objtool: Move the IRET hack into the arch decoder
objtool: Remove INSN_STACK
objtool: Make handle_insn_ops() unconditional
objtool: Rework allocating stack_ops on decode
objtool: UNWIND_HINT_RET_OFFSET should not check registers
objtool: is_fentry_call() crashes if call has no destination
x86,smap: Fix smap_{save,restore}() alternatives
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