This patch reads special sections which have alternate instructions, only when stackval or orc or uaccess or noinstr options are passed to objtool.
Signed-off-by: Sathvika Vasireddy <s...@linux.ibm.com> --- tools/objtool/check.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c index 7f0dc504dd92..98e869721bc4 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/check.c +++ b/tools/objtool/check.c @@ -2261,9 +2261,11 @@ static int decode_sections(struct objtool_file *file) * Must be before add_jump_destinations(), which depends on 'func' * being set for alternatives, to enable proper sibling call detection. */ - ret = add_special_section_alts(file); - if (ret) - return ret; + if (opts.stackval || opts.orc || opts.uaccess || opts.noinstr) { + ret = add_special_section_alts(file); + if (ret) + return ret; + } ret = add_jump_destinations(file); if (ret) -- 2.25.1