Re: [PATCH v4 06/15] ftrace: Use an opaque type for functions not callable from C

[Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 09:02:49AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 20:29:45 -0700
> Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for Cc'ing me, as I should have been Cc'd on the original patch.
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 11:05:22AM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> > > With CONFIG_CFI_CLANG, the compiler changes function references to point
> > > to the CFI jump table. As ftrace_call, ftrace_regs_call, and mcount_call
> > > are not called from C, use DECLARE_ASM_FUNC_SYMBOL to declare them.
> 
> "not called from C" is a bit confusing.
> 
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
> > > ---
> > >  include/linux/ftrace.h | 7 ++++---
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h
> > > index 832e65f06754..67de28464aeb 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
> > > @@ -578,9 +578,10 @@ extern void ftrace_replace_code(int enable);
> > >  extern int ftrace_update_ftrace_func(ftrace_func_t func);
> > >  extern void ftrace_caller(void);
> > >  extern void ftrace_regs_caller(void);
> > > -extern void ftrace_call(void);
> > > -extern void ftrace_regs_call(void);
> > > -extern void mcount_call(void);
> > > +
> > > +DECLARE_ASM_FUNC_SYMBOL(ftrace_call);
> > > +DECLARE_ASM_FUNC_SYMBOL(ftrace_regs_call);
> > > +DECLARE_ASM_FUNC_SYMBOL(mcount_call);  
> > 
> > I'm thinking DECLARE_ASM_FUNC_SYMBOL needs a better name. It's not clear
> > from reading it why some asm symbols need the macro and others don't.
> > 
> > I guess it means "an asm text symbol which isn't callable from C code
> > (not including alternatives)"?
> > 
> > DECLARE_UNCALLED_SYMBOL() maybe?
> > 
> 
> That's even worse ;-) Because "called" is an assembler command in x86, and
> it is "called" from assembly (when you look at an objdump, it is most
> definitely "called").
> 
> Perhaps DECLARE_ASM_INTERNAL_SYMBOL() ?
> 
> Or call it "DECLARE_ASM_MCOUNT_SYMBOL()" as "mcount" is the original name
> of what a compiler does when passed the -pg option, and that's exactly what
> those functions are.

But this macro is used in other places as well:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930180531.1190642-10-samitolvanen@google.com

And many of them aren't internal to a function like the above symbols,
they're actual functions that are called in other ways.

DECLARE_UNCALLED_FROM_C() ?

-- 
Josh