Teach objtool to parse options from the OBJTOOL_ARGS environment
variable.

Then enables things like:

  $ OBJTOOL_ARGS="--backup" make O=defconfig-build/ kernel/ponies.o

to obtain both defconfig-build/kernel/ponies.{o,obj} and easily
inspect what objtool actually did.

Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
---
 tools/objtool/builtin-check.c |   25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

--- a/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 #include <subcmd/parse-options.h>
 #include <string.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
 #include <objtool/builtin.h>
 #include <objtool/objtool.h>
 
@@ -26,6 +27,11 @@ static const char * const check_usage[]
        NULL,
 };
 
+static const char * const env_usage[] = {
+       "OBJTOOL_ARGS=\"<options>\"",
+       NULL,
+};
+
 const struct option check_options[] = {
        OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "no-fp", &no_fp, "Skip frame pointer validation"),
        OPT_BOOLEAN('u', "no-unreachable", &no_unreachable, "Skip 'unreachable 
instruction' warnings"),
@@ -42,6 +48,25 @@ const struct option check_options[] = {
 
 int cmd_parse_options(int argc, const char **argv, const char * const usage[])
 {
+       const char *envv[16] = { };
+       char *env;
+       int envc;
+
+       env = getenv("OBJTOOL_ARGS");
+       if (env) {
+               envv[0] = "OBJTOOL_ARGS";
+               for (envc = 1; envc < ARRAY_SIZE(envv); ) {
+                       envv[envc++] = env;
+                       env = strchr(env, ' ');
+                       if (!env)
+                               break;
+                       *env = '\0';
+                       env++;
+               }
+
+               parse_options(envc, envv, check_options, env_usage, 0);
+       }
+
        argc = parse_options(argc, argv, check_options, usage, 0);
        if (argc != 1)
                usage_with_options(usage, check_options);


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