linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 4/6] init: allow initcall tables to be emitted using relative references

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Message-ID: <20180627142053.GB477@tigerII.localdomain>
Date:   Wed, 27 Jun 2018 23:20:53 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 4/6] init: allow initcall tables to be emitted using
 relative references

On (06/26/18 20:27), Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>  /*
> diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> index 247808333ba4..688a27b0888c 100644
> --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
> +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> @@ -2772,7 +2772,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_console);
>  void __init console_init(void)
>  {
>  	int ret;
> -	initcall_t *call;
> +	initcall_t call;
> +	initcall_entry_t *ce;
>  
>  	/* Setup the default TTY line discipline. */
>  	n_tty_init();
> @@ -2781,13 +2782,14 @@ void __init console_init(void)
>  	 * set up the console device so that later boot sequences can
>  	 * inform about problems etc..
>  	 */
> -	call = __con_initcall_start;
> +	ce = __con_initcall_start;
>  	trace_initcall_level("console");
> -	while (call < __con_initcall_end) {
> -		trace_initcall_start((*call));
> -		ret = (*call)();
> -		trace_initcall_finish((*call), ret);
> -		call++;
> +	while (ce < __con_initcall_end) {
> +		call = initcall_from_entry(ce);
> +		trace_initcall_start(call);
> +		ret = call();
> +		trace_initcall_finish(call, ret);
> +		ce++;
>  	}
>  }

printk bits look OK to me.
The patch set works fine on my x86_64 and does reduce the size of vmlinux.

Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>

	-ss