Re: [PATCH] bpf: hide do_bpf_send_signal when unused

[Matt Mullins]

On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 19:09 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 08:26:29 -0700
> Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 5:59 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > When CONFIG_MODULES is disabled, this function is never called:
> > > 
> > > kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:581:13: error: 'do_bpf_send_signal' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]  
> > 
> > hmm. it should work just fine without modules.
> > the bug is somewhere else.
> 
> From what I see, the only use of do_bpf_send_signal is within a
> #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES, which means that you will get a warning about a
> static unused when CONFIG_MODULES is not defined.
> 
> In kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c we have:
> 
> static void do_bpf_send_signal(struct irq_work *entry)
> 
> [..]
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
> 
> [..]
> 
>         for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
>                 work = per_cpu_ptr(&send_signal_work, cpu);
>                 init_irq_work(&work->irq_work, do_bpf_send_signal);  <-- on use of do_bpf_send_signal
>         }
> [..]
> #endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */
> 
> The bug (really just a warning) reported is exactly here.

I don't think bpf_send_signal is tied to modules at all;
send_signal_irq_work_init and the corresponding initcall should be
moved outside that #ifdef.

> 
> -- Steve