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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 11/12] retpoline/objtool: Disable some objtool warnings
On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 07:59:14AM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > NAK. We can't blindly disable objtool warnings, that will break
> > livepatch and the ORC unwinder. If you share a .o file (or the GCC
> > code) I can look at adding retpoline support.
>
> I don't think we can wait for that. We can disable livepatch and the
> unwinder for now. They are not essential. Frame pointers should work
> well enough for unwinding

If you want to make this feature conflict with livepatch and ORC,
silencing objtool warnings is not the way to do it.

> and afaik nobody can use livepatch in mainline anyways.

Why not? The patch creation tooling is still out-of-tree, but livepatch
itself is fully supported in mainline.

--
Josh

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