linux-kernel - Re: klp: remove superfluous errors in asm/livepatch.h

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1603091136430.3656@cbobk.fhfr.pm>
Date:	Wed, 9 Mar 2016 11:39:05 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:	Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>
cc:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
	Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>, sjenning@...hat.com,
	vojtech@...e.com, pmladek@...e.cz, mpe@...erman.id.au,
	live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: klp: remove superfluous errors in asm/livepatch.h

On Tue, 8 Mar 2016, Jessica Yu wrote:

> Hm, I should've caught this earlier, but the notifier cleanup patch
> that removes the livepatch module notifier had kernel/module.c include
> livepatch.h for the klp_module_{coming,going} function stubs in the
> !CONFIG_LIVEPATCH case. See here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/8/1182
> 
> Looking back, I now don't think it makes sense for module.c to include
> all those livepatch definitions in the first place, since all it
> needed was the klp_module_{coming,going} declarations. I guess my
> question is, since we've removed the #ifdef CONFIG_LIVEPATCH blocks
> from livepatch.h, where might be a better place for the
> klp_module_{coming,going} stubs? Perhaps they could go in module.h
> instead?

Well, once there actually are alternate stubs to be included through the 
header file (like in the proposed notifier removal), it indeed makes sense 
to reintroduce the #ifdef. And once it's there, it probably doesn't make 
too much sense to have it guard only portion of the file.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs