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Date:   Tue, 22 Mar 2022 22:51:18 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, ast@...nel.org, hjl.tools@...il.com,
        rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com, rppt@...nel.org,
        linux-toolchains@...r.kernel.org, Andrew.Cooper3@...rix.com,
        ndesaulniers@...gle.com
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warnings after merge of the tip tree

On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 13:15:58 +0000
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 02:31:36PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:48:54 +0100
> > Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 02:04:05PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 01:55:49PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 02:03:27PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > After merging the tip tree, today's linux-next build (x864 allmodconfig)
> > > > > > produced these new warnings:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: arch_rethook_prepare()+0x55: relocation to !ENDBR: arch_rethook_trampoline+0x0
> > > > > > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: arch_rethook_trampoline_callback()+0x3e: relocation to !ENDBR: arch_rethook_trampoline+0x0
> > > > > > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: unwind_next_frame()+0x93e: relocation to !ENDBR: arch_rethook_trampoline+0x0
> > > > > > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: unwind_next_frame()+0x5f2: relocation to !ENDBR: arch_rethook_trampoline+0x0
> > > > > > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: unwind_next_frame()+0x4a7: relocation to !ENDBR: arch_rethook_trampoline+0x0
> > > > > > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __rethook_find_ret_addr()+0x81: relocation to !ENDBR: arch_rethook_trampoline+0x0
> > > > > > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __rethook_find_ret_addr()+0x90: relocation to !ENDBR: arch_rethook_trampoline+0x0
> > > > > > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: rethook_trampoline_handler()+0x8c: relocation to !ENDBR: arch_rethook_trampoline+0x0
> > > > > > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: rethook_trampoline_handler()+0x9b: relocation to !ENDBR: arch_rethook_trampoline+0x0
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hurmph, lemme go figure out where that code comes from, I've not seen
> > > > > those.
> > > > 
> > > > Ahh, something tracing. I'll go do some patches on top of it.
> > > 
> > > The below gets rid of the objtool warnings.
> > 
> > Yes, I confirmed that.
> > 
> > > But I still think it's fairly terrible to get a (flawed) carbon copy of
> > > the kretprobe code.
> > 
> > Indeed. I would like to replace the trampoline code of kretprobe with
> > rethook, eventually. There is no reason why we keep the clone.
> > (But I need more arch maintainers help for that, there are too many
> >  archs implemented kretprobes)
> 
> FWIW, I'm more than happy to help on the arm64 side if you could Cc me for
> that; I'm aware of other things in this area I'd like to clean up for
> backtracing, too.

Thank you for your warm help. OK, let me update and submit the rethook
for arm64 :-)

Thanks.

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>