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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/asm-annotations.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/linkage.h | 5 |
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst b/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst index 32ea57483378..76424e0431f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst +++ b/Documentation/asm-annotations.rst @@ -100,6 +100,11 @@ Instruction Macros ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This section covers ``SYM_FUNC_*`` and ``SYM_CODE_*`` enumerated above. +``objtool`` requires that all code must be contained in an ELF symbol. Symbol +names that have a ``.L`` prefix do not emit symbol table entries. ``.L`` +prefixed symbols can be used within a code region, but should be avoided for +denoting a range of code via ``SYM_*_START/END`` annotations. + * ``SYM_FUNC_START`` and ``SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL`` are supposed to be **the most frequent markings**. They are used for functions with standard calling conventions -- global and local. Like in C, they both align the functions to diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S index ccd32877a3c4..c9a9fbf1655f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_NOALIGN(\name) .endif call \func - jmp .L_restore + jmp __thunk_restore SYM_FUNC_END(\name) _ASM_NOKPROBE(\name) .endm @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(\name) #endif #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPTION -SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(.L_restore) +SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(__thunk_restore) popq %r11 popq %r10 popq %r9 @@ -56,6 +56,6 @@ SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(.L_restore) popq %rdi popq %rbp ret - _ASM_NOKPROBE(.L_restore) -SYM_CODE_END(.L_restore) + _ASM_NOKPROBE(__thunk_restore) +SYM_CODE_END(__thunk_restore) #endif diff --git a/include/linux/linkage.h b/include/linux/linkage.h index 5bcfbd972e97..dbf8506decca 100644 --- a/include/linux/linkage.h +++ b/include/linux/linkage.h @@ -178,6 +178,11 @@ * Objtool generates debug info for both FUNC & CODE, but needs special * annotations for each CODE's start (to describe the actual stack frame). * + * Objtool requires that all code must be contained in an ELF symbol. Symbol + * names that have a .L prefix do not emit symbol table entries. .L + * prefixed symbols can be used within a code region, but should be avoided for + * denoting a range of code via ``SYM_*_START/END`` annotations. + * * ALIAS -- does not generate debug info -- the aliased function will */ |