linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] arch/powerpc/kvm: kvmppc_hv

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Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2023 14:57:56 +0530
From:   Kautuk Consul <kconsul@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Fabiano Rosas <farosas@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sathvika Vasireddy <sv@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] arch/powerpc/kvm: kvmppc_hv_entry: remove .global
 scope

On 2023-03-27 19:19:37, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> On Thu Mar 16, 2023 at 3:10 PM AEST, Kautuk Consul wrote:
> > kvmppc_hv_entry isn't called from anywhere other than
> > book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S itself. Removing .global scope for
> > this function and annotating it with SYM_INNER_LABEL.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <kconsul@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S | 3 +--
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> > index acf80915f406..b81ba4ee0521 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> > @@ -502,8 +502,7 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
> >   *                                                                            *
> >   *****************************************************************************/
> >  
> > -.global kvmppc_hv_entry
> 
> I think this is okay.
> 
> > -kvmppc_hv_entry:
> > +SYM_INNER_LABEL(kvmppc_hv_entry, SYM_L_LOCAL)
> 
> The documentation for SYM_INNER_LABEL says it for labels inside a SYM
> function block, is that a problem? This is a function but doesn't have
> C calling convention, so asm annotation docs say that it should use
> SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL?
That is correct. Will create a v4 patch for this and send it.
> 
> BTW. why don't our _GLOBAL() macros use these SYM annotations? I haven't
> really looked into them.
Not sure. Was mostly just concentrating on the kvmppc_hv_entry code.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick