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[RFC,dwarves,3/4] pahole: update descriptions for btf_gen_optimized, skip_encoding_btf_inconsistent_proto

Message ID 1676675433-10583-4-git-send-email-alan.maguire@oracle.com (mailing list archive)
State RFC
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Series dwarves: change BTF encoding skip logic for functions | expand

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Alan Maguire Feb. 17, 2023, 11:10 p.m. UTC 
Semantics are changed such that we do not skip for optimized-out parameters,
rather unexpected register use.

Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
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 pahole.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/pahole.c b/pahole.c
index 53dfb07..6fc4ed6 100644
--- a/pahole.c
+++ b/pahole.c
@@ -1647,12 +1647,12 @@  static const struct argp_option pahole__options[] = {
 	{
 		.name = "btf_gen_optimized",
 		.key  = ARGP_btf_gen_optimized,
-		.doc  = "Generate BTF for functions with optimization-related suffixes (.isra, .constprop).  BTF will only be generated if a function does not optimize out parameters."
+		.doc  = "Generate BTF for functions with optimization-related suffixes (.isra, .constprop)."
 	},
 	{
 		.name = "skip_encoding_btf_inconsistent_proto",
 		.key = ARGP_skip_encoding_btf_inconsistent_proto,
-		.doc = "Skip functions that have multiple inconsistent function prototypes sharing the same name, or have optimized-out parameters."
+		.doc = "Skip functions that have multiple inconsistent function prototypes sharing the same name, or that use unexpected registers for parameter values."
 	},
 	{
 		.name = NULL,