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diff --git a/tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt b/tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt index 8a671902a187..8e53fc6735ef 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt +++ b/tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt @@ -410,6 +410,14 @@ the objtool maintainers. can remove this warning by putting the ANNOTATE_INTRA_FUNCTION_CALL directive right before the call. +12. file.o: warning: func(): not an indirect call target + + This means that objtool is running with --ibt and a function expected + to be an indirect call target is not. In particular, this happens for + init_module() or cleanup_module() if a module relies on these special + names and does not use module_init() / module_exit() macros to create + them. + If the error doesn't seem to make sense, it could be a bug in objtool. Feel free to ask the objtool maintainer for help. |