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Date:   Fri, 3 Sep 2021 21:46:49 -0700
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To:     Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Cc:     x86@kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
        Andy Lavr <andy.lavr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] objtool: altinstructions fix and cleanup
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On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 06:50:35PM -0400, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> This version won't eat your memory and swap when building the entire
> kernel.  Apologies to Andy who discovered this over the weekend.
> 
> Tested full build and boot w/o problem.  The vmlinux sections, relocs,
> size, etc. all appear to be the same before and after this set.
> External tooling (kpatch-build) is happy, too.
> 
> v3:
> - fix bug introduced in arch_decode_instruction() [andy]
> 
> v2:
> - drop the sec->len update from the first patch [josh]
> - rip out sec->len as suggested [josh]
> 
> 
> Joe Lawrence (2):
>   objtool: make .altinstructions section entry size consistent
>   objtool: remove redundant len value from struct section

Thanks! Queueing up for testing.

-- 
Josh