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From: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] ARM: ftrace: Add MODULE_PLTS support
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 16:10:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210324161054.pg5272lh45n364ko@e107158-lin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2404ff10-7acc-3946-6592-31508f257f33@gmail.com>

Hi Florian

On 03/23/21 20:37, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hi Qais,
> 
> On 3/23/2021 3:22 PM, Qais Yousef wrote:
> > Hi Alexander
> > 
> > On 03/22/21 18:02, Alexander Sverdlin wrote:
> >> Hi Qais,
> >>
> >> On 22/03/2021 17:32, Qais Yousef wrote:
> >>> Yes you're right. I was a bit optimistic on CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE will imply
> >>> CONFIG_ARM_MODULE_PLTS is enabled too.
> >>>
> >>> It only has an impact on reducing ifdefery when calling
> >>>
> >>> 	ftrace_call_replace_mod(rec->arch.mod, ...)
> >>>
> >>> Should be easy to wrap rec->arch.mod with its own accessor that will return
> >>> NULL if !CONFIG_ARM_MODULE_PLTS or just ifdef the functions.
> >>>
> >>> Up to Alexander to pick what he prefers :-)
> >>
> >> well, I of course prefer v7 as-is, because this review is running longer than two
> >> years and I actually hope these patches to be finally merged at some point.
> >> But you are welcome to optimize them with follow up patches :)
> > 
> > I appreciate that and thanks a lot for your effort. My attempt to review and
> > test here is to help in getting this merged.
> > 
> > FWIW my main concern is about duplicating the range check in
> > ftrace_call_replace() and using magic values that already exist in
> > __arm_gen_branch_{arm, thumb2}() and better remain encapsulated there.
> 
> Your patch in addition to Alexander's patch work for me as well, so feel
> free to add a:
> 
> Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> 
> FWIW, what is nice about Alexander's original patch is that it applies
> relatively cleanly to older kernels as well where this is equally

How old are we talking? Was the conflict that bad for the stable maintainers to
deal with it? ie: would it require sending the backport separately?

> needed. There is not currently any Fixes: tag being provided but maybe
> we should amend the second patch with one?

I'm not sure if this will be considered new feature or a bug fix. FWIW,
tagging it for stable sounds reasonable to me.

Thanks!

--
Qais Yosuef

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-24 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-27 11:09 [PATCH v7 0/2] ARM: Implement MODULE_PLT support in FTRACE Alexander A Sverdlin
2021-01-27 11:09 ` [PATCH v7 1/2] ARM: PLT: Move struct plt_entries definition to header Alexander A Sverdlin
2021-01-27 20:25   ` Florian Fainelli
2021-01-27 11:09 ` [PATCH v7 2/2] ARM: ftrace: Add MODULE_PLTS support Alexander A Sverdlin
2021-01-27 19:36   ` Florian Fainelli
2021-03-07 17:26   ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-08  7:58     ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-09 17:42       ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-10  7:23         ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-10 16:14           ` Florian Fainelli
2021-03-10 17:17             ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-12 17:24               ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-12 18:35                 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-03-14 22:02                   ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-21 19:06                     ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-22 15:01                       ` Steven Rostedt
2021-03-22 16:32                         ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-22 17:02                           ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-23 22:22                             ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-24  3:37                               ` Florian Fainelli
2021-03-24 16:10                                 ` Qais Yousef [this message]
2021-03-24  9:04                               ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-24 15:57                                 ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-24 16:33                                   ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-24 16:46                                     ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-15  9:19                   ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-02-03 18:23 ` [PATCH v7 0/2] ARM: Implement MODULE_PLT support in FTRACE Florian Fainelli
2021-02-15 18:31   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-03-02  8:29     ` Linus Walleij
2021-03-02 10:00       ` Alexander Sverdlin

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