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authorUlises Mendez Martinez <umendez@google.com>2026-09-04 15:07:09 +0000
committerJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>2026-09-13 18:15:43 -0700
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objtool: Validate disassembler headers in libopcodes probegrafted
commit 3f2de814c059 ("objtool: Fix libopcodes linking with static libraries") tested for libopcodes availability by linking a test snippet with a forward declaration of disassemble_init_for_target(). However, testing symbol linkage with an extern declaration only verifies the presence of the library (.so/.a) and bypasses checking for development headers (binutils-dev). On systems where libopcodes is present without development headers installed, the probe succeeds, enabling BUILD_DISAS. Subsequent compilation of objtool then fails: fatal error: 'bfd.h' file not found 113 | #include <bfd.h> Additionally, the probe invokes $(HOSTCC) without $(HOSTCFLAGS), ignoring any sysroot or include flags specified for the host compiler. Fix this by including <bfd.h> and <dis-asm.h> directly in the test snippet, passing $(HOSTCFLAGS) so host compiler options are respected, and defining PACKAGE="objtool" to satisfy the configuration check in <bfd.h>. Fixes: 3f2de814c059 ("objtool: Fix libopcodes linking with static libraries") Fixes: 436326bc525d ("objtool: fix build failure due to missing libopcodes check") Reported-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Assisted-by: Antigravity:Gemini-Next Signed-off-by: Ulises Mendez Martinez <umendez@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904150710.2997558-1-umendez@google.com Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: This folder contains the relevant debugfs files for the
+ hardware trace macro to use. CONFIG_PPC64_HARDWARE_TRACING
+ must be set.
+
+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/enable
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: Write an integer containing the size in bytes of the memory
+ you want removed from each NUMA node to this file - it must be
+ aligned to the memblock size. This amount of RAM will be removed
+ from each NUMA node in the kernel mappings and the following
+ debugfs files will be created. Once memory is successfully
+ removed from each node, the following files are created. To
+ re-add memory to the kernel, echo 0 into this file (it will be
+ automatically onlined).
+
+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/<node-id>
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: This directory contains information about the removed memory
+ from the specific NUMA node.
+
+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/<node-id>/size
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: This contains the size of the memory removed from the node.
+
+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/<node-id>/start
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: This contains the start address of the removed memory.
+
+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/<node-id>/trace
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: This is where the hardware trace macro will output the trace
+ it generates.