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Message-ID: <20201207225351.2liywqaxxtuezzw3@lion.mk-sys.cz>
Date:   Mon, 7 Dec 2020 23:53:51 +0100
From:   Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:     Justin Forbes <jmforbes@...uxtx.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/filemap: add static for function
 __add_to_page_cache_locked

On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 02:44:22PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 10:36 AM Justin Forbes <jmforbes@...uxtx.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 2:16 AM Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 08:18:57AM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 在 2020/11/11 上午3:50, Andrew Morton 写道:
> > > > > On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 08:39:24 +0530 Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 4:55 PM Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Otherwise it cause gcc warning:
> > > > >>>           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > >>> ../mm/filemap.c:830:14: warning: no previous prototype for
> > > > >>> ‘__add_to_page_cache_locked’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> > > > >>>  noinline int __add_to_page_cache_locked(struct page *page,
> > > > >>>               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Is CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF enabled in your .config ?
> > > > >
> > > > > hm, yes.
> > > >
> > > > When the config enabled, compiling looks good untill pahole tool
> > > > used to get BTF info, but I still failed on a right version pahole
> > > > > 1.16. Sorry.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
> > > > >>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> > > > >>> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
> > > > >>> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> > > > >>> ---
> > > > >>>  mm/filemap.c | 2 +-
> > > > >>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
> > > > >>> index d90614f501da..249cf489f5df 100644
> > > > >>> --- a/mm/filemap.c
> > > > >>> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> > > > >>> @@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ int replace_page_cache_page(struct page *old, struct page *new, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> > > > >>>  }
> > > > >>>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(replace_page_cache_page);
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> -noinline int __add_to_page_cache_locked(struct page *page,
> > > > >>> +static noinline int __add_to_page_cache_locked(struct page *page,
> > > > >>>                                         struct address_space *mapping,
> > > > >>>                                         pgoff_t offset, gfp_t gfp,
> > > > >>>                                         void **shadowp)
> > > > >
> > > > > It's unclear to me whether BTF_ID() requires that the target symbol be
> > > > > non-static.  It doesn't actually reference the symbol:
> > > > >
> > > > > #define BTF_ID(prefix, name) \
> > > > >         __BTF_ID(__ID(__BTF_ID__##prefix##__##name##__))
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > The above usage make me thought BTF don't require the symbol, though
> > > > the symbol still exist in vmlinux with 'static'.
> > > >
> > > > So any comments of this, Alexei?
> 
> Sorry. I've completely missed this thread.
> Now I have a hard time finding context in archives.
> If I understood what's going on the removal of "static" cases issues?
> Yes. That's expected.
> noinline alone is not enough to work reliably.

Not removal, commit 3351b16af494 ("mm/filemap: add static for function
__add_to_page_cache_locked") made the function static which breaks the
build in btfids phase - but it seems to happen only on some
architectures. In our case, ppc64, ppc64le and riscv64 are broken,
x86_64, i586 and s390x succeed. (I made a mistake above, aarch64 did not
fail - but only because it was not built at all.)

The thread starts with
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1604661895-5495-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com

Michal