On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 04:39:54PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

objtool_dep includes include/config/{ORC_UNWINDER,STACK_VALIDATION}
so that all the objects are rebuilt when any of CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER
and CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION is toggled.

As you can see in 'objtool_args', there are more CONFIG options
that affect the objtool command line.

Adding more and more include/config/* is ugly and unmaintainable.

Another issue is that non-standard objects are needlessly rebuilt.
Objects specified as OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD is not processed by
objtool, but they are rebuilt anyway when CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER or
CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION is toggled. This is not a big deal, but
better to fix.

A cleaner and more precise fix is to include the objtool command in
*.cmd files so any command change is naturally detected by if_change.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Yeah, nice solution for this.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <redacted>

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Kees Cook