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From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/29] objtool: Add a pass for generating __mcount_loc
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On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 03:36:12PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 03:17:07PM +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> 
> > I also wonder about making 'mcount' command separate from 'check'. Similar 
> > to what is 'orc' now. But that could be done later.
> 
> I'm not convinced more commands make sense. That only begets us the
> problem of having to run multiple commands.

Agreed, it gets hairy when we need to combine things.  I think "orc" as
a separate subcommand was a mistake.

We should change to something like

  objtool run [--check] [--orc] [--mcount]
  objtool dump [--orc] [--mcount]

-- 
Josh