linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ftrace: makes ops_references

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Date:   Mon, 22 Aug 2022 09:35:03 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Song Liu <song@...nel.org>
Cc:     Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftrace: makes ops_references_rec() inline

On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:28:58 -0700
Song Liu <song@...nel.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 7:31 PM Kuninori Morimoto
> <kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com> wrote:
> >
> > commit 53cd885bc5c3e ("ftrace: Allow IPMODIFY and DIRECT ops on the
> > same function") changed ops_references_rec() inline to function,
> > thus we will get below error if .config doesn't have CONFIG_MODULES.
> >
> >   CC      kernel/trace/ftrace.o
> > ${linux}/kernel/trace/ftrace.c:3149:1: error: 'ops_references_rec' \
> > defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
> >  3149 | ops_references_rec(struct ftrace_ops *ops, struct dyn_ftrace *rec)
> >       | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> > make[2]: *** [${linux}/scripts/Makefile.build:249: kernel/trace/ftrace.o] error 1
> > make[1]: *** [${linux}/scripts/Makefile.build:466: kernel/trace] error 2
> > make: *** [/opt/disk_cd/morimoto/linux/Makefile:1843: kernel] error 2
> >
> > This patch makes it to inline again, and fixes the issue.
> >
> > Fixes:  53cd885bc5c3e ("ftrace: Allow IPMODIFY and DIRECT ops on the same function")
> > CC: Song Liu <song@...nel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com>  
> 
> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@...nel.org>
> 
> Thanks for the fix!

Wrong fix.

The correct fix is here[1], and because the breakage went through the BPF
tree, I could not apply it. Now that both the BPF and my tree is in Linus's
tree, I can apply it and now will do so.

-- Steve

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801084745.1187987-1-wangjingjin1@huawei.com/