Re: [PATCH 1/8] scripts/sorttable: Handle RISC-V patchable ftrace entries

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 27 May 2026 20:35:23 +0800
Wang Han <wanghan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Wang Han <wanghan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/sorttable.c | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/sorttable.c b/scripts/sorttable.c
> index e8ed11c680c6..b4061c2c03e1 100644
> --- a/scripts/sorttable.c
> +++ b/scripts/sorttable.c
> @@ -901,11 +901,17 @@ static int do_file(char const *const fname, void *addr)
>  		/* fallthrough */
>  	case EM_386:
>  	case EM_LOONGARCH:
> -	case EM_RISCV:
>  	case EM_S390:
>  	case EM_X86_64:
>  		custom_sort = sort_relative_table_with_data;
>  		break;
> +	case EM_RISCV:
> +#ifdef MCOUNT_SORT_ENABLED
> +		/* RISC-V uses patchable function entries before function entry. */
> +		before_func = 8;
> +#endif
> +		custom_sort = sort_relative_table_with_data;
> +		break;
>  	case EM_PARISC:
>  	case EM_PPC:
>  	case EM_PPC64:

So basically RISCV has the same problem as ARM64 with patchable
entries. As this may happen for other archs in the future, I would like
to group them together like this:

diff --git a/scripts/sorttable.c b/scripts/sorttable.c
index e8ed11c680c6..b3d9073d9fbc 100644
--- a/scripts/sorttable.c
+++ b/scripts/sorttable.c
@@ -891,17 +891,23 @@ static int do_file(char const *const fname, void *addr)
 	table_sort_t custom_sort = NULL;
 
 	switch (elf_map_machine(ehdr)) {
-	case EM_AARCH64:
 #ifdef MCOUNT_SORT_ENABLED
+	case EM_AARCH64:
 		sort_reloc = true;
 		rela_type = 0x403;
-		/* arm64 uses patchable function entry placing before function */
+		/*
+		 * arm64 and RISCV use patchable function entry placing
+		 * before function
+		 */
+	case RISCV:
 		before_func = 8;
+#else
+	case EM_AARCH64:
+	case RISCV:
 #endif
 		/* fallthrough */
 	case EM_386:
 	case EM_LOONGARCH:
-	case EM_RISCV:
 	case EM_S390:
 	case EM_X86_64:
 		custom_sort = sort_relative_table_with_data;

does the above work for you? (Although I didn't even compile test it).

-- Steve