tools/objtool/arch/x86/include/arch/special.h

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

tools/objtool/arch/x86/include/arch/special.h

Extension

.h

Size

497 bytes

Lines

22

Domain

Support Tooling And Documentation

Bucket

tools

Inferred role

Support Tooling And Documentation: implementation source

Status

source implementation candidate

Why This File Exists

Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

• Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

Dependency Surface

• No C-style include directives detected by the generator.

Detected Declarations

• No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.

Annotated Snippet

#ifndef _X86_ARCH_SPECIAL_H
#define _X86_ARCH_SPECIAL_H

#define EX_ENTRY_SIZE		12
#define EX_ORIG_OFFSET		0
#define EX_NEW_OFFSET		4

#define JUMP_ENTRY_SIZE		16
#define JUMP_ORIG_OFFSET	0
#define JUMP_NEW_OFFSET		4
#define JUMP_KEY_OFFSET		8

#define ALT_ENTRY_SIZE		14
#define ALT_ORIG_OFFSET		0
#define ALT_NEW_OFFSET		4
#define ALT_FEATURE_OFFSET	8
#define ALT_ORIG_LEN_OFFSET	12
#define ALT_NEW_LEN_OFFSET	13

#endif /* _X86_ARCH_SPECIAL_H */

Annotation

• Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / tools.
• Implementation status: source implementation candidate.

Implementation Notes

• This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
• Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
• Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.