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objtool: Add ORC unwind table generation

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Now that objtool knows the states of all registers on the stack for each
instruction, it's straightforward to generate debuginfo for an unwinder
to use.

Instead of generating DWARF, generate a new format called ORC, which is
more suitable for an in-kernel unwinder.  See
Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt for a more detailed description of
this new debuginfo format and why it's preferable to DWARF.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c9b9f01ba6c5ed2bdc9bb0957b78167fdbf9632e.1499786555.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Josh Poimboeuf
2017-07-11 10:33:42 -05:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 5a3cf86978
commit 627fce1480
14 changed files with 916 additions and 60 deletions
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@@ -42,10 +42,11 @@ struct cmd_struct {
};
static const char objtool_usage_string[] =
"objtool [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]";
"objtool COMMAND [ARGS]";
static struct cmd_struct objtool_cmds[] = {
{"check", cmd_check, "Perform stack metadata validation on an object file" },
{"orc", cmd_orc, "Generate in-place ORC unwind tables for an object file" },
};
bool help;