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objtool: Improve register reporting during function validation
authorAlexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:53:22 +0000 (10:53 +0100)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:30:10 +0000 (15:30 +0100)
commit26a453fb5637907a538d6ea5ef23651142811e15
tree73fdb0ff0a96ea939f4a339c2bbcb4a50ba75254
parentfcb268b47a2f4a497fdb40ef24bb9e06488b7213
objtool: Improve register reporting during function validation

When tracing function validation, instruction state changes can
report changes involving registers. These registers are reported
with the name "r<num>" (e.g. "r3"). Print the CPU specific register
name instead of a generic name (e.g. print "rbx" instead of "r3"
on x86).

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121095340.464045-13-alexandre.chartre@oracle.com
tools/objtool/arch/loongarch/decode.c
tools/objtool/arch/powerpc/decode.c
tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c
tools/objtool/include/objtool/arch.h
tools/objtool/trace.c