[PATCH v4 08/29] x86, build: use objtool mcount

Sami Tolvanen samitolvanen at google.com
Tue Sep 29 17:46:10 EDT 2020


Select HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT if STACK_VALIDATION is selected to use
objtool to generate __mcount_loc sections for dynamic ftrace with
Clang and gcc <5 (later versions of gcc use -mrecord-mcount).

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen at google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 7101ac64bb20..6de2e5c0bdba 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ config X86
 	select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
 	select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING		if X86_64
 	select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
+	select HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT		if STACK_VALIDATION
 	select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
 	select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
-- 
2.28.0.709.gb0816b6eb0-goog




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