Re: [PATCH stable 5.10 3/3] ARM: 9079/1: ftrace: Add MODULE_PLTS support

From: Alexander Sverdlin
Date: Wed Sep 22 2021 - 02:53:51 EST


Hello Florian,

On 22/09/2021 04:39, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> From: Alex Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit 79f32b221b18c15a98507b101ef4beb52444cc6f upstream
>
> Teach ftrace_make_call() and ftrace_make_nop() about PLTs.
> Teach PLT code about FTRACE and all its callbacks.

sorry for inconvenience, but I'd propose to add 6fa630bf473827ae
"ARM: 9098/1: ftrace: MODULE_PLT: Fix build problem without DYNAMIC_FTRACE"
to all series on this topic, because of the below chunk which might
lead to build issues on some exotic configurations.

Link: https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all@xxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/ZUVCQBHDMFVR7CCB7JPESLJEWERZDJ3T/

> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/module-plts.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/module-plts.c
> @@ -20,19 +21,52 @@
> (PLT_ENT_STRIDE - 8))
> #endif
>
> +static const u32 fixed_plts[] = {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
> + FTRACE_ADDR,
> + MCOUNT_ADDR,
> +#endif
> +};
> +
> static bool in_init(const struct module *mod, unsigned long loc)
> {
> return loc - (u32)mod->init_layout.base < mod->init_layout.size;

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Best regards,
Alexander Sverdlin.