linux-kernel - Re: 784d5699eddc ("x86: move exports to actual definitions")

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Message-ID: <02ef0824-3208-7532-596c-043433a5f7c5@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2016 23:07:50 +0200
From:   Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...il.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, npiggin@...il.com
Subject: Re: 784d5699eddc ("x86: move exports to actual definitions")



On 19.10.2016 15:45, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 12:23:25 +0200
> Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 02:10:04AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
>>> Already being fixed, please take a look at the thread starting at
>>> 20161016002205.GA9686@...er; for your convenience I've put Nicholas Piggin's
>>> initial work, my lousy but works-for-me fix for x86, Arnd Bergmann's for arm
>>> at git@...hub.com:kilobyte/linux.git branch kbuild-exports.  
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> So you have three patches on that branch, I cherry-picked the first
>> two and it is almost fixed except the __fentry__ thing which is still
>> missing a CRC, see below.
>>
>> Adding Steve to CC too.
>>
>> WARNING: "__fentry__" [virt/lib/irqbypass.ko] has no CRC!
>> WARNING: "__fentry__" [sound/core/snd-hrtimer.ko] has no CRC!
>> WARNING: "__fentry__" [sound/core/seq/snd-seq.ko] has no CRC!
> 
> [ snip repeated failures of __fentry__ ]
> 
> Probably because of this:
> 
> #ifdef CC_USE_FENTRY
> # define function_hook __fentry__
> #else
> # define function_hook mcount
> #endif
> 
> [..]
> 
> Then you have this:
> 
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(function_hook)
> 
> which most likely exported the name "function_hook" and not
> "__fentry__".
> 
> Does this patch fix things for you? If it does, I can make it more
> generic (moving the MACRO_EXPORT_SYMBOL into the export.h header). And
> submit that.

kbuild-exports+your patch makes all my warning go away and *yay* that kernel
even boots to console .. ( X mode broken but this seems to be a different issue )


> -- Steve
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/mcount_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/mcount_64.S
> index efe73aacf966..9420cd6c6dba 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/mcount_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/mcount_64.S
> @@ -295,7 +295,8 @@ trace:
>  	jmp fgraph_trace
>  END(function_hook)
>  #endif /* CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE */
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(function_hook)
> +#define MACRO_EXPORT_SYMBOL(x) EXPORT_SYMBOL(x)
> +MACRO_EXPORT_SYMBOL(function_hook)
>  #endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER */
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
> 


Best Regards