objtool: Support Clang AUTOFDO .cold functions
authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:52:15 +0000 (12:52 -0800)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:04:07 +0000 (10:04 +0100)
commit024020e2b6adb4e568fb80f624b5e20d8943f107
tree558d3035bbf5eeb3d43c5a8a2b0632ef73d285c7
parent2092007aa32f8dd968c38751bd1b7cac9b1f738d
objtool: Support Clang AUTOFDO .cold functions

AutoFDO enables -fsplit-machine-functions which can move the cold parts
of a function to a <func>.cold symbol in a .text.split.<func> section.

Unlike GCC, the Clang <func>.cold symbols are not marked STT_FUNC.  This
confuses objtool in several ways, resulting in warnings like the
following:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: apply_retpolines.cold+0xfc: unsupported instruction in callable function
  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: machine_check_poll.cold+0x2e: unsupported instruction in callable function
  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: free_deferred_objects.cold+0x1f: relocation to !ENDBR: free_deferred_objects.cold+0x26
  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: rpm_idle.cold+0xe0: relocation to !ENDBR: rpm_idle.cold+0xe7
  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: tcp_rcv_state_process.cold+0x1c: relocation to !ENDBR: tcp_rcv_state_process.cold+0x23

Fix it by marking the .cold symbols as STT_FUNC.

Fixes: 2fd65f7afd5a ("AutoFDO: Enable machine function split optimization for AutoFDO")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20251103215244.2080638-2-xur@google.com
Reported-by: Rong Xu <xur@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: xur@google.com
Tested-by: xur@google.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20a67326f04b2a361c031b56d58e8a803b3c5893.1763671318.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
tools/objtool/elf.c