linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] [RFC] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate %pF/%pf printk specifiers

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Message-ID: <20170920004715.GA6298@jagdpanzerIV.localdomain>
Date:   Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:47:15 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@...isc-linux.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] [RFC] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate
 %pF/%pf printk specifiers

On (09/19/17 22:03), Helge Deller wrote:
[..]
> Your implementation of dereference_module_function_descriptor() in
> arch/parisc/kernel/module.c is faulty.
> mod->arch.fdesc_offset is relative to the base address of the module,
> so you need to add to mod->core_layout.base.

aha, got it. I should have figured that out.
many thanks!


> Here is the relevant patch to fix this issue (against mainline).
> Additionally I compare against mod->arch.fdesc_count instead of
> mod->arch.fdesc_max.

hmm, .fdesc_max looked relevant to me. it's count_fdescs() - the
number of R_PARISC_FPTR64 relocation entries.

but ok, will use .fdesc_count.


> Can you please fold it into your patch
> [PATCH 4/5] parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
> for the next round?

sure, will fold. + SoB.

I think I'll try to re-spin the series today (or tomorrow, I'm slightly
overloaded with another stuff right now). I've received enough bug reports
no need to wait for another week ;)

	-ss