Re: [PATCH 0/8] unwind, arm64: add sframe unwinder for kernel

[Song Liu]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [...]
> >>
> >> P.S. - The livepatch doesn't have copy_process() but only copy_signal(),
> >> yours had copy_process() somehow.
> >
> > In my build, copy_signal is inlined to copy_process, unless I add noinline.
> > If I do add noinline, the issue will not reproduce.
> >
> > I tried more combinations. The issue doesn't reproduce if I either
> > 1) add noinline to copy_signal, so we are not patching the whole
> >    copy_process function;
> > or
> > 2) Switch compiler from gcc 14.2.1 to gcc 11.5.0.
> >
> > So it appears something in gcc 14.2.1 is causing live patch to fail
> > for copy_process().
>
> So, can you test your RFC set (without SFRAME) with gcc 14.2.1, so we
> can be sure that it is not a sframe problem?

My RFC set is the same. No issue with gcc 11.5.0; but hits the same
WARNING with gcc 14.2.1. My previous tests are all with clang. I didn't
see a similar issue there.

> And about having the .sframe section in the livepatch module, I realised
> that this set doesn't include support for reading/using sframe data from
> any module(livepatches included), so the patch I added for generating
> .sframe in kpatch is irrelevant because it is a no-op with the current setup.

Agreed, this issue should be irrelevant to the .sframe section in the .ko file.

Thanks,
Song