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The kbuild test robot reported the following issue:
kernel/time/posix-stubs.o: warning: objtool: sys_ni_posix_timers.cold.1()+0x0: unreachable instruction
This file creates symbol aliases for the sys_ni_posix_timers() function.
So there are multiple ELF function symbols for the same function:
23: 0000000000000150 26 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 1 __x64_sys_timer_create
24: 0000000000000150 26 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 1 sys_ni_posix_timers
25: 0000000000000150 26 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 1 __ia32_sys_timer_create
26: 0000000000000150 26 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 1 __x64_sys_timer_gettime
Here's the corresponding cold subfunction:
11: 0000000000000000 45 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 6 sys_ni_posix_timers.cold.1
When analyzing overlapping functions, objtool only looks at the first
one in the symbol list. The rest of the functions are basically ignored
because they point to instructions which have already been analyzed.
So in this case it analyzes the __x64_sys_timer_create() function, but
then it fails to recognize that its cold subfunction is
sys_ni_posix_timers.cold.1(), because the names are different.
Make the subfunction detection a little smarter by associating each
subfunction with the first function which jumps to it, since that's the
one which will be analyzed.
Unfortunately we still have to leave the original subfunction detection
code in place, thanks to GCC switch tables. (See the comment for more
details.)
Fixes:
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.