[PATCH stable 4.9 v2 0/4] ARM: ftrace MODULE_PLTS warning

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Fri Sep 24 09:11:18 PDT 2021


On 9/24/21 8:27 AM, Alexander Sverdlin wrote:
> Hi Sasha,
> 
> On 24/09/2021 13:52, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>>> This patch series is present in v5.14 and fixes warnings seen at insmod
>>>> with FTRACE and MODULE_PLTS enabled on ARM/Linux.
>>>
>>> All now queued up, thanks.
>>
>> Looks like 4.19 and older break the build:
>>
>> arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c: In function 'ftrace_update_ftrace_func':
>> arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c:157:9: error: too few arguments to function 'ftrace_call_replace'
>>   157 |   new = ftrace_call_replace(pc, (unsigned long)func);
>>       |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> in principle you can add ", true" as a third argument in all these ftrace_call_replace()
> call-sites which still have two args.

Sasha, what configuration failed to build? I build tested with
mutli_v7_defconfig which does enable FTRACE by default and then ensured
that CONFIG_ARM_MODULE_PLTS was enabled. From there I will re-submit,
sorry about that.

> 
>> arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c:99:22: note: declared here
>>    99 | static unsigned long ftrace_call_replace(unsigned long pc, unsigned long addr,
>>       |                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c: In function 'ftrace_make_nop':
>> arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c:240:9: error: too few arguments to function 'ftrace_call_replace'
>>   240 |   old = ftrace_call_replace(ip, adjust_address(rec, addr));
>>       |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c:99:22: note: declared here
>>    99 | static unsigned long ftrace_call_replace(unsigned long pc, unsigned long addr,
>>       |                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:303: arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.o] Error 1
>>
>> I've dropped them.
> 


-- 
Florian



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