On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 11:22:12AM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 05:44:31PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > +static __always_inline void arch_static_assert(void)
> > +{
> > + asm volatile ("1:\n\t"
> > + ".pushsection .discard.jump_assert, \"aw\" \n\t"
> > + _ASM_ALIGN "\n\t"
> > + _ASM_PTR "1b \n\t"
> > + ".popsection \n\t");
> > +}
> > +
>
> This needs a nice comment about what exactly it asserts.
Right, I'll go write one, if you don't see anything horrendous in the
objtool code ofcourse :-)
> And also, people without objtool enabled (i.e., no ORC or livepatch)
> won't see the assertion. Do we care about those people? :-)
Nah, we should get plenty of build coverage with the others I think.
