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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

  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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