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    objtool: Add option to generate prefix symbols · 9f2899fe
    Peter Zijlstra authored
    When code is compiled with:
    
      -fpatchable-function-entry=${PADDING_BYTES},${PADDING_BYTES}
    
    functions will have PADDING_BYTES of NOP in front of them. Unwinders
    and other things that symbolize code locations will typically
    attribute these bytes to the preceding function.
    
    Given that these bytes nominally belong to the following symbol this
    mis-attribution is confusing.
    
    Inspired by the fact that CFI_CLANG emits __cfi_##name symbols to
    claim these bytes, allow objtool to emit __pfx_##name symbols to do
    the same.
    
    Therefore add the objtool --prefix=N argument, to conditionally place
    a __pfx_##name symbol at N bytes ahead of symbol 'name' when: all
    these preceding bytes are NOP and name-N is an instruction boundary.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Tested-by: default avatarYujie Liu <yujie.liu@intel.com>
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221028194453.526899822@infradead.org
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