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authorJulien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>2020-03-27 16:28:42 +0100
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2020-04-30 20:14:31 +0200
commit9e98d62aa7ea1375052895650f3e6d362336c5c9 (patch)
tree1a4ee6266ff4f2f579a6d9cfa69cc1ce4cfca5f1 /tools
parentobjtool: Constify arch_decode_instruction() (diff)
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objtool: Remove check preventing branches within alternative
While jumping from outside an alternative region to the middle of an alternative region is very likely wrong, jumping from an alternative region into the same region is valid. It is a common pattern on arm64. The first pattern is unlikely to happen in practice and checking only for this adds a lot of complexity. Just remove the current check. Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327152847.15294-6-jthierry@redhat.com
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/objtool/check.c6
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
index 12e2aea42bb2..cc52da61eda3 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
@@ -2162,12 +2162,6 @@ static int validate_branch(struct objtool_file *file, struct symbol *func,
sec = insn->sec;
- if (insn->alt_group && list_empty(&insn->alts)) {
- WARN_FUNC("don't know how to handle branch to middle of alternative instruction group",
- sec, insn->offset);
- return 1;
- }
-
while (1) {
next_insn = next_insn_same_sec(file, insn);