Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com> writes:
> Use the preferred form of branch-and-link for finding the current
> address so objtool doesn't think it is an unannotated intra-function
> call.
We don't run objtool on this code in mainline AFAIK. Because BOOTAS
doesn't call it.
Did you actually see a warning, or are you just anticipating that it
would warn about it?
This diff would run it on boot asm and seems to build OK, so maybe we
should do that.
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
index 08071bac056d..5d3a4c5354d7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ quiet_cmd_bootcc = BOOTCC $@
cmd_bootcc = $(BOOTCC) -Wp,-MD,$(depfile) $(BOOTCFLAGS) -c -o $@ $<
quiet_cmd_bootas = BOOTAS $@
- cmd_bootas = $(BOOTCC) -Wp,-MD,$(depfile) $(BOOTAFLAGS) -c -o $@ $<
+ cmd_bootas = $(BOOTCC) -Wp,-MD,$(depfile) $(BOOTAFLAGS) -c -o $@ $<
$(cmd_objtool)
quiet_cmd_bootar = BOOTAR $@
cmd_bootar = $(BOOTAR) $(BOOTARFLAGS) $@.$$$$ $(real-prereqs); mv
$@.$$$$ $@
cheers
