Re: [PATCH] mm/filemap: add static for function __add_to_page_cache_locked

From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
To: Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>,
	Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>,
	 Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	 Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	 Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/filemap: add static for function __add_to_page_cache_locked
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 14:44:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAADnVQK-EsdBohcVSaK+zaP9XuPZTBkGbQpkeYcrC9BzoPQUuw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFxkdApgQ4RCt-J43cK4_128pXr=Xn5jw+q0kOaP-TYufk_tPA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 10:36 AM Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 2:16 AM Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 08:18:57AM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > 在 2020/11/11 上午3:50, Andrew Morton 写道:
> > > > On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 08:39:24 +0530 Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 4:55 PM Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Otherwise it cause gcc warning:
> > > >>>           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > >>> ../mm/filemap.c:830:14: warning: no previous prototype for
> > > >>> ‘__add_to_page_cache_locked’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> > > >>>  noinline int __add_to_page_cache_locked(struct page *page,
> > > >>>               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > >>
> > > >> Is CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF enabled in your .config ?
> > > >
> > > > hm, yes.
> > >
> > > When the config enabled, compiling looks good untill pahole tool
> > > used to get BTF info, but I still failed on a right version pahole
> > > > 1.16. Sorry.
> > >
> > > >
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
> > > >>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > > >>> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> > > >>> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > > >>> ---
> > > >>>  mm/filemap.c | 2 +-
> > > >>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >>>
> > > >>> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
> > > >>> index d90614f501da..249cf489f5df 100644
> > > >>> --- a/mm/filemap.c
> > > >>> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> > > >>> @@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ int replace_page_cache_page(struct page *old, struct page *new, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> > > >>>  }
> > > >>>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(replace_page_cache_page);
> > > >>>
> > > >>> -noinline int __add_to_page_cache_locked(struct page *page,
> > > >>> +static noinline int __add_to_page_cache_locked(struct page *page,
> > > >>>                                         struct address_space *mapping,
> > > >>>                                         pgoff_t offset, gfp_t gfp,
> > > >>>                                         void **shadowp)
> > > >
> > > > It's unclear to me whether BTF_ID() requires that the target symbol be
> > > > non-static.  It doesn't actually reference the symbol:
> > > >
> > > > #define BTF_ID(prefix, name) \
> > > >         __BTF_ID(__ID(__BTF_ID__##prefix##__##name##__))
> > > >
> > >
> > > The above usage make me thought BTF don't require the symbol, though
> > > the symbol still exist in vmlinux with 'static'.
> > >
> > > So any comments of this, Alexei?

Sorry. I've completely missed this thread.
Now I have a hard time finding context in archives.
If I understood what's going on the removal of "static" cases issues?
Yes. That's expected.
noinline alone is not enough to work reliably.