objtool, x86: Add facility for asm code to provide unwind hints

Some asm (and inline asm) code does special things to the stack which
objtool can't understand.  (Nor can GCC or GNU assembler, for that
matter.)  In such cases we need a facility for the code to provide
annotations, so the unwinder can unwind through it.

This provides such a facility, in the form of unwind hints.  They're
similar to the GNU assembler .cfi* directives, but they give more
information, and are needed in far fewer places, because objtool can
fill in the blanks by following branches and adjusting the stack pointer
for pushes and pops.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0f5f3c9104fca559ff4088bece1d14ae3bca52d5.1499786555.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.h b/tools/objtool/check.h
index 046874bbe226..ac3d4b13f17b 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/check.h
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.h
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ struct instruction {
 	unsigned int len;
 	unsigned char type;
 	unsigned long immediate;
-	bool alt_group, visited, dead_end, ignore;
+	bool alt_group, visited, dead_end, ignore, hint, save, restore;
 	struct symbol *call_dest;
 	struct instruction *jump_dest;
 	struct list_head alts;
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ struct objtool_file {
 	struct list_head insn_list;
 	DECLARE_HASHTABLE(insn_hash, 16);
 	struct section *rodata, *whitelist;
-	bool ignore_unreachables, c_file;
+	bool ignore_unreachables, c_file, hints;
 };
 
 int check(const char *objname, bool nofp, bool orc);