linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] RISC-V: Always compile mm/init.c with cmodel=medany

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Date:   Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:31:45 +0530
From:   Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Alan Kao <alankao@...estech.com>, Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@....com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@....com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        "linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] RISC-V: Always compile mm/init.c with cmodel=medany

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 12:18 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 01:25:50PM +0800, Alan Kao wrote:
> > Hi Anup,
> >
> > Sorry for being late to the party.  I think one more thing should
> > move together with setup_vm():
>
> Ah, I wonded about that yesterday but wasn't sure.  Maybe notrace
> is a little cleaner?  Either way we should probably document both
> the mcmodel and notrace assumptions in source comments for the next
> person touching this code.

The setup_vm() should be allowed to call other functions within mm/init.c
so let's go with file-level notrace (just like how it was done) for
kernel/setup.c

I certainly add comments for setup_vm() based on all our findings so far.

Regards,
Anup