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Date:   Fri, 2 Oct 2020 10:18:41 -0500
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To:     Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 2/4] objtool: x86 instruction decoder and big
 endian cross compiles
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On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 12:17:25AM +0200, Vasily Gorbik wrote:
> From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
> 
> Currently objtool seems to be the only tool from build tools needed
> which breaks x86 cross compilation on big endian systems. Make the x86
> instruction decoder of the objtool usable on big endian machines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
> Co-developed-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>

Since this changes the decoder (which is shared with the kernel), please
prefix the subject with "x86/insn:" instead of "objtool".

This patch is a bit ugly, but I don't necessarily have a better idea.

Masami?

-- 
Josh