On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:28:07AM +0100, Miroslav Benes wrote:

I don't think we have something special at SUSE not generally available...

...and I don't think it is really important to discuss that and replying 
to the above, because there is a legitimate use case which relies on the 
flag. We decided to support different use cases right at the beginning.

I understand it currently complicates things for objtool, but objtool is 
sensitive to GCC code generation by definition. "Issues" appear with every 
new GCC version. I see no difference here and luckily it is not so 
difficult to fix it.

I am happy to help with acting on those objtool warning reports you 
mentioned in the other email. Just Cc me where appropriate. We will take a 
look.

As I said, the objtool warnings aren't even the main issue.

There are N users[*] of CONFIG_LIVEPATCH, where N is perhaps dozens.
For N-1 users, they have to suffer ALL the drawbacks, with NONE of the
benefits.

And, even if they wanted those benefits, they have no idea how to get
them because the patch creation process isn't documented.

And, there's no direct upstream usage of the flag, i.e. the only user
does so in a distro which can easily modify KCFLAGS in the spec file.

As best as I can tell, these are facts, which you seem to keep glossing
over.  Did I get any of the facts wrong?


[*] The term 'user' describes the creator/distributor of the
    live patches.

-- 
Josh