[PATCH] arm64: ftrace: fix building without CONFIG_MODULES

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Jun 9 04:38:50 PDT 2017


Hi Arnd,

On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 12:27:06PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> When CONFIG_MODULES is disabled, we cannot dereference a module pointer:
> 
> arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c: In function 'ftrace_make_call':
> arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c:107:36: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type 'struct module'
>    trampoline = (unsigned long *)mod->arch.ftrace_trampoline;
> 
> Also, the within_module() function is not defined:
> 
> arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c: In function 'ftrace_make_nop':
> arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c:171:8: error: implicit declaration of function 'within_module'; did you mean 'init_module'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> 
> This addresses both by adding the appropriate stubs.
> 
> Fixes: e71a4e1bebaf ("arm64: ftrace: add support for far branches to dynamic ftrace")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h | 6 ++++++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c      | 2 +-
>  include/linux/module.h          | 5 +++++
>  3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

I can't seem to reproduce this simply by disabling MODULES in defconfig.
Could you share your .config, please?

Will



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