Starting with GCC 8, a lot of unlikely code was moved out of line to "cold" subfunctions in .text.unlikely.
For example, the unlikely bits of: irq_do_set_affinity() are moved out to the following subfunction: irq_do_set_affinity.cold.49() Starting with GCC 9, the numbered suffix has been removed. So in the above example, the cold subfunction is instead: irq_do_set_affinity.cold() Tweak the objtool subfunction detection logic so that it detects both GCC 8 and GCC 9 naming schemes. Reported-and-tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> --- tools/objtool/elf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c index f7082de1ee82..6dbb9fae0f9d 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/elf.c +++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static int read_symbols(struct elf *elf) if (sym->type != STT_FUNC) continue; sym->pfunc = sym->cfunc = sym; - coldstr = strstr(sym->name, ".cold."); + coldstr = strstr(sym->name, ".cold"); if (!coldstr) continue; -- 2.17.2