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Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86/kexec: Annotate functions with ELF metadata


  • To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 11:54:05 +0100
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On 17.02.2023 18:48, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> @@ -90,7 +91,10 @@ ENTRY(kexec_reloc)
>          push    %rax
>          lretq
>  
> -relocate_pages:
> +        .type kexec_reloc, @function
> +        .size kexec_reloc, . - kexec_reloc
> +
> +ENTRY(relocate_pages)
>          /* %rdi - indirection page maddr */
>          pushq   %rbx
>  
> @@ -137,9 +141,12 @@ relocate_pages:
>          popq    %rbx
>          ret
>  
> +        .type relocate_pages, @function
> +        .size relocate_pages, . - relocate_pages
> +
>          .code32
>  
> -compatibility_mode:
> +ENTRY(compatibility_mode)

Do you really mean to make both labels global, thus potentially risking
a link-time name collision down the road? In C files we try to move the
other direction after all, making symbols static which can be.

> @@ -167,7 +174,14 @@ compatibility_mode:
>          call    *%ebp
>          ud2
>  
> -        .align 4
> +        .type compatibility_mode, @function
> +        .size compatibility_mode, . - compatibility_mode
> +
> +        /*
> +         * Ensure data is in a different cache line to code.
> +         */

Nit (style): Strictly speaking this is a single-line comment.

Jan

> +        .align SMP_CACHE_BYTES, 0
> +
>  compat_mode_gdt_desc:
>          .word .Lcompat_mode_gdt_end - compat_mode_gdt -1
>          .quad . - kexec_reloc        /* Relocated before use */




 


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