On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 05:19:51PM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 12:34:53PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 12:52:40PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 01:16:56PM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > > > It's common to use --dryrun on binaries that have already been > > > > processed. Don't print the section skipping warnings in that case. > > > > > > Ah, I rather like this warning, it gives me an easy check to see if the > > > file has already been processed. > > > > > > I typically do a OBJTOOL_ARGS="--backup" build and run dryrun debug > > > sessions against those .orig files. > > > > Turns out, you already broke this.. :-( > > > > I'm now having a case where objtool fails on vmlinux.o and make happily > > deletes vmlinux.o and I'm left empty handed. > > > > Let me go resurrect --backup > > Yeah, as I just mentioned in that other email, --verbose should give you > what you need. It also prints the cmdline args, which is nice. > > But also, feel free to resurrect --backup, or you can yell at me to do > it as the backup code changed a bit.
I have the patch somewhere, failed to send it out. I'll try and dig it out later today.
