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From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
To: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Cc: 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>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] ARM: ftrace: Add MODULE_PLTS support
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 10:04:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25056e99-dfd1-645b-39fc-14f47085a7fe@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210323222230.2d63hdcxq6strbug@e107158-lin>

Hi Qais,

On 23/03/2021 23:22, 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.

could you please check the negative limits? I have an opinion, my limits are
correct. I could add extra parameter to arm_gen_branch_link(), but for this
I first need to fix its negative limits, which, I believe, well... Approximate :)

-- 
Best regards,
Alexander Sverdlin.

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From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
To: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Cc: 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>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] ARM: ftrace: Add MODULE_PLTS support
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 10:04:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25056e99-dfd1-645b-39fc-14f47085a7fe@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210323222230.2d63hdcxq6strbug@e107158-lin>

Hi Qais,

On 23/03/2021 23:22, 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.

could you please check the negative limits? I have an opinion, my limits are
correct. I could add extra parameter to arm_gen_branch_link(), but for this
I first need to fix its negative limits, which, I believe, well... Approximate :)

-- 
Best regards,
Alexander Sverdlin.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-24  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ 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 ` 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 11:09   ` Alexander A Sverdlin
2021-01-27 20:25   ` Florian Fainelli
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 11:09   ` Alexander A Sverdlin
2021-01-27 19:36   ` Florian Fainelli
2021-01-27 19:36     ` Florian Fainelli
2021-03-07 17:26   ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-07 17:26     ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-08  7:58     ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-08  7:58       ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-09 17:42       ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-09 17:42         ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-10  7:23         ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-10  7:23           ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-10 16:14           ` Florian Fainelli
2021-03-10 16:14             ` Florian Fainelli
2021-03-10 17:17             ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-10 17:17               ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-12 17:24               ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-12 17:24                 ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-12 18:35                 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-03-12 18:35                   ` Florian Fainelli
2021-03-14 22:02                   ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-14 22:02                     ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-21 19:06                     ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-21 19:06                       ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-22 15:01                       ` Steven Rostedt
2021-03-22 15:01                         ` Steven Rostedt
2021-03-22 16:32                         ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-22 16:32                           ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-22 17:02                           ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-22 17:02                             ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-23 22:22                             ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-23 22:22                               ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-24  3:37                               ` Florian Fainelli
2021-03-24  3:37                                 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-03-24 16:10                                 ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-24 16:10                                   ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-24  9:04                               ` Alexander Sverdlin [this message]
2021-03-24  9:04                                 ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-24 15:57                                 ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-24 15:57                                   ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-24 16:33                                   ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-24 16:33                                     ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-24 16:46                                     ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-24 16:46                                       ` Qais Yousef
2021-03-15  9:19                   ` Alexander Sverdlin
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
2021-02-03 18:23   ` Florian Fainelli
2021-02-15 18:31   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-02-15 18:31     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-03-02  8:29     ` Linus Walleij
2021-03-02  8:29       ` Linus Walleij
2021-03-02 10:00       ` Alexander Sverdlin
2021-03-02 10:00         ` Alexander Sverdlin

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