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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>2016-02-28 22:22:35 -0600
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-02-29 08:35:10 +0100
commit9a99417acbad99ba6c6a9389b45a53a4d002bb7e (patch)
treea7eb9724371faa5314cbd8c9e4a26c278c9ffc05 /include/linux/frame.h
parentc0dd671686b2229e888ede77682ab0633b2a0dd7 (diff)
objtool: Add STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD() macro
Add a new macro, STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(), which is used to denote a function which does something unusual related to its stack frame. Use of the macro prevents objtool from emitting a false positive warning. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/34487a17b23dba43c50941599d47054a9584b219.1456719558.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/frame.h b/include/linux/frame.h
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+#ifndef _LINUX_FRAME_H
+#define _LINUX_FRAME_H
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION
+/*
+ * This macro marks the given function's stack frame as "non-standard", which
+ * tells objtool to ignore the function when doing stack metadata validation.
+ * It should only be used in special cases where you're 100% sure it won't
+ * affect the reliability of frame pointers and kernel stack traces.
+ *
+ * For more information, see tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
+ */
+#define STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(func) \
+ static void __used __section(__func_stack_frame_non_standard) \
+ *__func_stack_frame_non_standard_##func = func
+
+#else /* !CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION */
+
+#define STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(func)
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION */
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_FRAME_H */