On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 11:32:13AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:56:06AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > I do not see these in particular, although I do see a lot of:
> > 
> >   "sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame"
> 
> defconfig-build/vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: msr_write()+0x10a: sibling call 
> from callable instruction with modified stack frame
> defconfig-build/vmlinux.o: warning: objtool:   msr_write()+0x99: (branch)
> defconfig-build/vmlinux.o: warning: objtool:   msr_write()+0x3e: (branch)
> defconfig-build/vmlinux.o: warning: objtool:   msr_write()+0x0: <=== (sym)
> 
> $ nm defconfig-build/vmlinux.o | grep msr_write
> 0000000000043250 t msr_write
> 00000000004289c0 T msr_write
> 0000000000003056 t msr_write.cold
> 
> Below 'fixes' it. So this is also caused by duplicate symbols.

There's a new linker flag for renaming duplicates:

  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26391

But I guess that doesn't help us now.

I don't have access to GCC 10 at the moment so I can't recreate it.
Does this fix it?

diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c
index 4e1d7460574b..aecdf25b2381 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c
@@ -217,11 +217,14 @@ struct symbol *find_func_containing(struct section *sec, 
unsigned long offset)
        return NULL;
 }
 
+#define for_each_possible_sym(elf, name, sym)                          \
+       elf_hash_for_each_possible(elf->symbol_name_hash, sym, name_hash, 
str_hash(name))
+
 struct symbol *find_symbol_by_name(const struct elf *elf, const char *name)
 {
        struct symbol *sym;
 
-       elf_hash_for_each_possible(elf->symbol_name_hash, sym, name_hash, 
str_hash(name))
+       for_each_possible_sym(elf, name, sym)
                if (!strcmp(sym->name, name))
                        return sym;
 
@@ -432,6 +435,8 @@ static int read_symbols(struct elf *elf)
                list_for_each_entry(sym, &sec->symbol_list, list) {
                        char pname[MAX_NAME_LEN + 1];
                        size_t pnamelen;
+                       struct symbol *psym;
+
                        if (sym->type != STT_FUNC)
                                continue;
 
@@ -454,8 +459,14 @@ static int read_symbols(struct elf *elf)
 
                        strncpy(pname, sym->name, pnamelen);
                        pname[pnamelen] = '\0';
-                       pfunc = find_symbol_by_name(elf, pname);
-
+                       pfunc = NULL;
+                       for_each_possible_sym(elf, pname, psym) {
+                               if ((!psym->cfunc || psym->cfunc == psym) &&
+                                   !strcmp(psym->name, pname)) {
+                                       pfunc = psym;
+                                       break;
+                               }
+                       }
                        if (!pfunc) {
                                WARN("%s(): can't find parent function",
                                     sym->name);

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