linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 4/8] arch, ftrace: For KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections

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Date:	Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:33:27 +0100
From:	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@...il.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
	kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 4/8] arch, ftrace: For KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries
 into separate sections

Agreed. Once I receive more comments I will make a new patch set and
include this change as well.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:25:09 +0100
> Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com> wrote:
>
>> --- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
>> @@ -762,6 +762,26 @@ struct ftrace_graph_ret {
>>  typedef void (*trace_func_graph_ret_t)(struct ftrace_graph_ret *); /* return */
>>  typedef int (*trace_func_graph_ent_t)(struct ftrace_graph_ent *); /* entry */
>>
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER) || defined(CONFIG_KASAN)
>> +/*
>> + * We want to know which function is an entrypoint of a hardirq.
>> + */
>> +#define __irq_entry           __attribute__((__section__(".irqentry.text")))
>> +#define __softirq_entry  \
>> +     __attribute__((__section__(".softirqentry.text")))
>> +
>> +/* Limits of hardirq entrypoints */
>> +extern char __irqentry_text_start[];
>> +extern char __irqentry_text_end[];
>> +/* Limits of softirq entrypoints */
>> +extern char __softirqentry_text_start[];
>> +extern char __softirqentry_text_end[];
>> +
>> +#else
>> +#define __irq_entry
>> +#define __softirq_entry
>> +#endif
>> +
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
>>
>>  /* for init task */
>
> Since this is no longer just used for function tracing, perhaps the
> code should be moved to include/linux/irq.h or something.
>
> -- Steve
>



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