From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>, Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] objtool: Fix ORC unwinding in non-JIT BPF generated code
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:17:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190614231717.xukbfpc2cy47s4xh@treble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAADnVQ+BCxsKEK=ZzYOZkgTJAg_7jz1_f+FCX+Ms0vTOuW8Mxw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 02:22:59PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 2:19 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > +#define JUMP_TABLE_SYM_PREFIX "jump_table."
> > > > >
> > > > > since external tool will be looking at it should it be named
> > > > > "bpf_jump_table." to avoid potential name conflicts?
> > > > > Or even more unique name?
> > > > > Like "bpf_interpreter_jump_table." ?
> > > >
> > > > No, the point is that it's a generic feature which can also be used any
> > > > non-BPF code which might also have a jump table.
> > >
> > > and you're proposing to name all such jump tables in the kernel
> > > as static foo jump_table[] ?
> >
> > That's the idea.
>
> Then it needs much wider discussion.
Why would it need wider discussion? It only has one user. If you
honestly believe that it will be controversial to require future users
to call a static jump table "jump_table" then we can have that
discussion when it comes up.
--
Josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-14 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-14 17:56 [PATCH v2 0/5] x86/bpf: unwinder fixes Josh Poimboeuf
2019-06-14 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] perf/x86: Always store regs->ip in perf_callchain_kernel() Josh Poimboeuf
2019-06-14 20:56 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-06-14 21:06 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-06-14 21:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-06-14 21:20 ` Song Liu
2019-06-14 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] objtool: Fix ORC unwinding in non-JIT BPF generated code Josh Poimboeuf
2019-06-14 20:58 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-06-14 21:07 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-06-14 21:09 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-06-14 21:19 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-06-14 21:22 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-06-14 23:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2019-06-14 23:30 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-06-15 0:02 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-06-15 0:06 ` abhja kaanlani
2019-06-15 0:07 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-06-17 14:57 ` David Laight
2019-06-14 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] x86/bpf: Move epilogue generation to a dedicated function Josh Poimboeuf
2019-06-14 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] x86/bpf: Fix 64-bit JIT frame pointer usage Josh Poimboeuf
2019-06-14 21:05 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-06-14 21:19 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-06-14 21:27 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-06-14 23:13 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-06-14 23:23 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-06-14 23:54 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-06-15 0:02 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-06-15 4:27 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-06-15 5:16 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-06-15 12:57 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-06-14 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] x86/unwind/orc: Fall back to using frame pointers for generated code Josh Poimboeuf
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