linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] ARM: xen: unexport HYPERVISOR_platform

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Date:   Tue, 1 Oct 2019 15:39:41 +0100
From:   Julien Grall <julien.grall@....com>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
        Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] ARM: xen: unexport HYPERVISOR_platform_op
 function


On 01/10/2019 15:33, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Hi Julien,

Hi Mark,

> 
> On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 11:05:45AM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>> On 9/6/19 6:20 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>> On 06/09/2019 17:00, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 5:55 PM Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 06/09/2019 16:39, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>>>> HYPERVISOR_platform_op() is an inline function and should not
>>>>>> be exported. Since commit 15bfc2348d54 ("modpost: check for
>>>>>> static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions"), this causes a warning:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> WARNING: "HYPERVISOR_platform_op" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Remove the extraneous export.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fixes: 15bfc2348d54 ("modpost: check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions")
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>>>>> Something is wonky.  That symbol is (/ really ought to be) in the
>>>>> hypercall page and most definitely not inline.
>>>>>
>>>>> Which tree is that changeset from?  I can't find the SHA.
>>>> This is from linux-next, I think from the kbuild tree.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Julien/Stefano: Why are any of these hypercalls out-of-line?  ARM
>>> doesn't use the hypercall page, and there is no argument translation
>>> (not even in arm32 as there are no 5-argument hypercalls declared).
>>
>> I am not sure how the hypercall page makes things different. You still have
>> to store the arguments in the correct register so...
>>
>>>
>>> They'd surely be easier to implement with a few static inlines and some
>>> common code, than to try and replicate the x86 side hypercall_page
>>> interface ?
>>
>> ... I don't think they will be easier to implement with a few static
>> inlines. The implementation will likely end up to be similar to
>> arch/x86/asm/xen/hypercall.h.
>>
>> Furthermore, one of the downside of per-arch static inline is it is more
>> difficult to ensure the prototype match for all the architectures. Although,
>> it might be possible to make them common by only requesting per-arch to
>> implement HYPERCALL_N(...).
>>
>> So I think the code is better as it is.
>>
>> While looking at the code, I also realized that the implementation of
>> HYPERCALL_dm_op might be incorrect for Arm32. Similarly do privcmd call, I
>> think dm_op call should enable user access as they will be used by
>> userspace.
>>
>> We don't use dm_op on Arm so far, hence why I think this was unnoticed. I
>> will see if I can reproduce it and send a patch.
> 
> I'm seeing this when building arm64 defconfig v5.4-rc1:
> 
> | [mark@...rids:~/src/linux]% usekorg 8.1.0  make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux- -j56 -s
> | arch/arm64/Makefile:62: CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT not defined or empty, the compat vDSO will not be built
> | WARNING: "HYPERVISOR_platform_op" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
> | WARNING: "HYPERVISOR_platform_op" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
> 
> I couldn't see a follow-up; do you have a patch for this?

The first e-mail of the thread should contain a patch to address the warning 
(see [1]). But it is still waiting on an Ack from Stefano so it can get merged.

Cheers,

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11135601/

-- 
Julien Grall