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Message-ID: <20181018111153.qcmvidttifi57u45@pathway.suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 13:11:53 +0200
From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>,
Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
Evgenii Shatokhin <eshatokhin@...tuozzo.com>,
live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 02/12] livepatch: Helper macros to define livepatch
structures
On Wed 2018-10-17 13:17:56, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 02:37:03PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > The definition of struct klp_func might be a bit confusing.
> > The original function is defined by name as a string.
> > The new function is defined by name as a function pointer
> > casted to unsigned long.
> >
> > This patch adds helper macros that hide the different types.
> > The functions are defined just by the name. For example:
>
> On one hand, these macros are kind of nice, because they do the function
> pointer casting for the user.
>
> On the other hand, they hide the field names, which hurts readability a
> bit. For example, it would be easy to accidentally assign the wrong
> callback function.
I am not a big fan of the macros either.
> Also, it's unfortunate that these macros are needed in the first place.
>
> What if we just change new_addr (and old_addr) to be 'void *'? Then the
> macros wouldn't be as useful, and we could just get rid of them.
Hmm, I wonder if any change make sense then. The above proposal might
just exchange one confusion with another one:
+ I would expect that a variable called addr is of the type
unsigned long
+ we would need casting when calling ftrace API
+ .new_addr = function_xxx looks a bit weird and it will
be used many times in all livepatch sources.
That said I could live with any solution. The livepatch code
is complicated from other reasons. This is only small detail
from my (today's ;-) point of view.
Best Regards,
Petr
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