From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat•com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel•org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix•de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte•hu>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead•org>,
linux-next@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] objtool: Disable stack validation when CROSS_COMPILE is used
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 09:21:34 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160303092134.7c750589@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160302211726.GA23501@treble.redhat.com>
Hi Josh,
On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 15:17:26 -0600 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat•com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 01:27:35PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 15:54:51 -0600 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat•com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Changing it to use the host compiler would probably be an easy fix, but
> > > that would expose a harder bug related to endianness.
> >
> > Just by luck, my PowerPC host is little endian :-)
>
> Aha! In that case, I think I'll take a different approach and try to
> add support for CROSS_COMPILE.
>
> We'll need it anyway, later on, when we port objtool to more
> architectures.
That would be great. I was discussing this briefly with the powerpc
maintainer and he expressed some interest.
> Thanks. I should have the patch(es) soon. If/when they get merged,
> I'll let you know, and then you can drop this one.
OK, I will keep an eye out - I usually notice when stuff get fixed, but
a heads up is always helpful.
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-02 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-01 1:29 linux-next: build failure after merge of the tip tree Stephen Rothwell
2016-03-01 7:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-01 7:28 ` Sedat Dilek
2016-03-01 7:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-03-01 8:41 ` Sedat Dilek
2016-03-01 9:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-01 9:40 ` Stephen Rothwell
2016-03-01 21:54 ` [PATCH] objtool: Disable stack validation when CROSS_COMPILE is used Josh Poimboeuf
2016-03-02 2:27 ` Stephen Rothwell
2016-03-02 21:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-03-02 22:21 ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2016-03-03 7:31 ` Sedat Dilek
2016-03-03 7:57 ` Stephen Rothwell
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