From: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp.ru>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>, <linux-sh@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [for-next][PATCH 10/12] ftrace/sh: Add arch_ftrace_ops_list_func stub to have compressed image still link
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 11:58:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <95ac8344-ff8c-d66f-00c7-06c43a61fca3@omp.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211026162349.204017174@goodmis.org>
On 26.10.2021 19:23, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: "linux-sh@vger.kernel.org" <linux-sh@vger.kernel.org>
Collective author, really? :-)
> Using the linker script to fix an issue where some archs call the
> function tracer with just the ip (instruction pointer) and pip (parent
> instruction pointer) where as more up to date archs also pass in the
> associated ftrace_ops and the ftrace_regs pointer, the generic code
> will be called either with two parameters or four. To avoid any C
> undefined behavior of calling two parameters to four or four to two
> parameter function, two functions are created, where a preprocessor
> macro uses the one that matches the architecture. As the function
> pointers for them may be different, a typecast is used. But this
> triggers issues with newer compilers that will fail due to -Werror.
>
> A linker trick is now used to map the generic function to the function
> that is used (note the generic function is only used to set the default
> function callback). The linker trick defines ftrace_ops_list_func (the
> generic function) to arch_ftrace_ops_list_func (the arch defined one).
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200617165616.52241bde@oasis.local.home/
>
> But this fails sh arch because their linker script is included in their
> compressed image that does not define arch_ftrace_ops_list_func at all
>
> sh4-linux-ld:arch/sh/boot/compressed/../../kernel/vmlinux.lds:32: undefined symbol `arch_ftrace_ops_list_func' referenced in expression
>
> Included a stub by that name in the misc.c to allow the code to
> compile and link, even though it's not used.
>
> This is similar to what was done for ftrace_stub:
>
> b83b43ffc6e4b ("fgraph: Fix function type mismatches of
> ftrace_graph_return using ftrace_stub")
>
> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211021221627.5d7270de@rorschach.local.home
>
> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
> Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[...]
MBR, Sergey
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2021-10-26 16:23 ` [for-next][PATCH 10/12] ftrace/sh: Add arch_ftrace_ops_list_func stub to have compressed image still link Steven Rostedt
2021-10-27 8:58 ` Sergey Shtylyov [this message]
2021-10-27 12:01 ` Steven Rostedt
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