objtool: Skip unreachable warnings for 'alt' instructions

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When a whitelisted function uses one of the ALTERNATIVE macros, it
produces false positive warnings like:

  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.o: warning: objtool: .altinstr_replacement+0x0: unreachable instruction
  arch/x86/kvm/svm.o: warning: objtool: .altinstr_replacement+0x6e: unreachable instruction

There's no easy way to whitelist alternative instructions, so instead
just skip any 'unreachable' warnings associated with them.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a5d0a8c60155f03b36a31fac871e12cf75f35fd0.1501188854.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Josh Poimboeuf 2017-07-27 15:56:54 -05:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar

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