On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 01:30:33PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:

Select HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT if STACK_VALIDATION is selected to use
objtool to generate __mcount_loc sections for dynamic ftrace with
Clang and gcc <5.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>

Am I right to understand that this fixes mcount for Clang generally
(i.e. it's not _strictly_ related to LTO, though LTO depends on this
change)? And does this mean mcount was working for gcc < 5?

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <redacted>

-- 
Kees Cook

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