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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: kvm: Annotate assembly using modern annoations
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 14:19:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8e8da7f1e02e9c2f8e67968697bdf85@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200214114027.GA4827@sirena.org.uk>

On 2020-02-14 11:40, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 09:36:56PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 2020-02-13 15:38, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>> > -ENTRY(__kvm_call_hyp)
>> > +SYM_FUNC_START(__kvm_call_hyp)
> 
>> I'm not convinced by this particular change. _kvm_call_hyp is called
>> directly from
>> C, and behaves almost like a normal function. What's the issue here?
> 
> I'm not sure I understand your comment here - this is annotated as
> SYM_FUNC_ which is the annotation for things that look like normal
> C functions.

You're right, apologies. I got confused between _FUNC_ and _CODE_.

> 
>> >  	.align	11
>> > -ENTRY(__bp_harden_hyp_vecs_start)
>> > +SYM_CODE_START_NOALIGN(__bp_harden_hyp_vecs)
>> > +SYM_INNER_LABEL(__bp_harden_hyp_vecs_start, SYM_L_GLOBAL)
> 
>> Why isn't SYM_CODE_START_NOALIGN enough? And what is the rational for
> 
> The _start and _end labels that were there before are explicitly
> referenced by code, removing them would break the build.

But if we're going to clean things up, I'd rather we actually do that.
The only time __bp_harden_hyp_vecs_end is used is when computing the
size of the vectors, and that'd better be BP_HARDEN_EL2_SLOTS * 2kB
(which can be statically asserted at compile time).

> 
>> the _NOALIGN, btw? I'd expect an alignment of 2kB to be more than 
>> enough.
> 
> So that the explicit .align above takes effect rather than anything the
> macro decides to do, I'm trying to err on the side of caution here.

I don't think we need this. The macros should do the right thing, and
be fixed if they don't.

         M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-13 15:38 [PATCH] arm64: kvm: Annotate assembly using modern annoations Mark Brown
2020-02-13 21:36 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-02-14 11:40   ` Mark Brown
2020-02-14 14:19     ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2020-02-14 14:52       ` Mark Brown
2020-02-14 15:04       ` Mark Brown

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