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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>2016-02-28 22:22:35 -0600
committerMichael Bestas <mkbestas@lineageos.org>2022-04-19 00:51:35 +0300
commit80d9285dc2d08ea8dc93d279626d10530e61f789 (patch)
tree4a5d199274021c3c19b9c838233f649b2b95607c /include/linux
parent912f78ee8b0c9dda91da609b042c20f49d8ab193 (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> Signed-off-by: Chatur27 <jasonbright2709@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
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1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/frame.h b/include/linux/frame.h
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index 000000000000..e6baaba3f1ae
--- /dev/null
+++ 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 */