linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 7/8] dynamic_debug: add asm-generic implementation for DYNAMIC_DEBUG_RELATIVE

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Date:   Mon, 17 Jun 2019 15:35:55 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 7/8] dynamic_debug: add asm-generic implementation for DYNAMIC_DEBUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 3:20 PM Rasmus Villemoes
<linux@...musvillemoes.dk> wrote:
>
> A 64 bit architecture can allow reducing the size of the kernel image by
> selecting HAVE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS, but it must provide
> a proper DEFINE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_METADATA macro for emitting the struct
> _ddebug in assembly. However, since that does not involve any
> instructions, this generic implementation should be usable by most if
> not all.
>
> It relies on
>
> (1) standard assembly directives that should work on
> all architectures
> (2) the "i" constraint for an constant, and
> (3) %cN emitting the constant operand N without punctuation
>
> and of course the layout of _ddebug being what one expects.
>
> Now, clang before 9.0 doesn't satisfy (3) for non-x86 targets.

Thanks so much for resending with this case fixed, and sorry I did not
implement (3) sooner!  I appreciate your patience.
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>

I'm happy to help test this series, do you have a tree I could pull
these from quickly?  Anything I should test at runtime besides a boot
test?
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers