linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 02/19] gendwarfksyms: Add symbol list handling

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Message-ID: <95db3178-a2ce-421e-8024-afd7fa3359a3@suse.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:35:29 +0200
From: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
 Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/19] gendwarfksyms: Add symbol list handling

On 8/15/24 19:39, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> diff --git a/scripts/gendwarfksyms/dwarf.c b/scripts/gendwarfksyms/dwarf.c
> index 65a29d0bd8f4..71cfab0553da 100644
> --- a/scripts/gendwarfksyms/dwarf.c
> +++ b/scripts/gendwarfksyms/dwarf.c
> @@ -5,6 +5,48 @@
> [...]
> +
> +static bool is_export_symbol(struct state *state, Dwarf_Die *die)
> +{
> +	Dwarf_Die *source = die;
> +	Dwarf_Die origin;
> +
> +	state->sym = NULL;
> +
> +	/* If the DIE has an abstract origin, use it for type information. */
> +	if (get_ref_die_attr(die, DW_AT_abstract_origin, &origin))
> +		source = &origin;
> +
> +	state->sym = symbol_get(get_name(die));
> +
> +	/* Look up using the origin name if there are no matches. */
> +	if (!state->sym && source != die)
> +		state->sym = symbol_get(get_name(source));
> +
> +	state->die = *source;
> +	return !!state->sym;
> +}

Sorry, I don't want to comment much on function names.. but I realized
the name of is_export_symbol() isn't really great. The "is_" prefix
strongly indicates that it is only a query function, yet it changes the
state. It makes its caller process_exported_symbols() hard to understand
on the first read.

-- 
Thanks
Petr