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
