From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: Re: Generic section maintainers Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 19:06:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20160804170610.GV3296@wotan.suse.de> References: <20160804042840.k355wibzjp5yikxb@treble> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160804042840.k355wibzjp5yikxb@treble> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Arnd Bergmann , Michael Ellerman , "H. Peter Anvin" , Borislav Petkov , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-arch , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Joe Perches List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 11:28:40PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 12:56:22PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > Arnd, Josh, > > > > In my linker table work [0], other than the linker table work and > > section ranges stuff, I'm adding: > > > > o include/linux/sections.h > > o include/asm-generic/section-core.h (not in RFC v3 but it is in my > > RFC v4 series not yet posted, splitting this up fixes compilation on > > powerpc which otherwise creates a header issue nightmare to resolve) > > > > I extend include/asm-generic/sections.h to then include > > , and furthermore provide the beginning of > > a central place to document in a central place all common sections. > > > > As per checkpatch complaints I'll be adding myself to MAINTAINERS for > > the linker table headers, section ranges, but noticed then we don't > > have anyone in particularly looking carefully after > > include/asm-generic/sections.h other than the default which is Arnd. > > Given this work on streamlining the section stuff, I'd like to help so > > am considering adding a specific entry on MAINTAINRERS for generic > > sections and adding myself to it along with Arnd. Wanted to check if > > this is OK. While at it, it occurred to me that you might be > > interested in this a swell Josh, given your work with objtool. Would > > anyone else like to help with active maintenance / review of these ? > > > > So is this OK to merge into my series into the patch "sections.h: add > > sections header to collect all section info". > > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > > index 49b354cb455a..9919277c66ae 100644 > > --- a/MAINTAINERS > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > > @@ -5190,6 +5190,18 @@ S: Supported > > F: drivers/base/power/domain*.c > > F: include/linux/pm_domain.h > > > > +GENERIC SECTIONS > > +M: "Luis R. Rodriguez" > > +M: Josh Poimboeuf > > +M: Arnd Bergmann > > +L: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org > > +L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > +S: Supported > > +F: include/asm-generic/section-core.h > > +F: include/asm-generic/sections.h > > +F: include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h > > +F: Documentation/DocBook/sections.tmpl > > Hi Luis, > > Thanks to my past work with objtool and kpatch, I know far more than I > ever wanted to know about all the kernel's custom ELF sections. So it's > fine with me if you want to add me as a maintainer for those files. OK thanks! I'll fold this into my changes. Luis From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:45038 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965162AbcHDRGP (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2016 13:06:15 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 19:06:10 +0200 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: Re: Generic section maintainers Message-ID: <20160804170610.GV3296@wotan.suse.de> References: <20160804042840.k355wibzjp5yikxb@treble> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160804042840.k355wibzjp5yikxb@treble> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Arnd Bergmann , Michael Ellerman , "H. Peter Anvin" , Borislav Petkov , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-arch , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Joe Perches Message-ID: <20160804170610.oLsCbmUjUFwlO-iY_CTkjkyrkykYmpElSjw4piNeb1k@z> On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 11:28:40PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 12:56:22PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > Arnd, Josh, > > > > In my linker table work [0], other than the linker table work and > > section ranges stuff, I'm adding: > > > > o include/linux/sections.h > > o include/asm-generic/section-core.h (not in RFC v3 but it is in my > > RFC v4 series not yet posted, splitting this up fixes compilation on > > powerpc which otherwise creates a header issue nightmare to resolve) > > > > I extend include/asm-generic/sections.h to then include > > , and furthermore provide the beginning of > > a central place to document in a central place all common sections. > > > > As per checkpatch complaints I'll be adding myself to MAINTAINERS for > > the linker table headers, section ranges, but noticed then we don't > > have anyone in particularly looking carefully after > > include/asm-generic/sections.h other than the default which is Arnd. > > Given this work on streamlining the section stuff, I'd like to help so > > am considering adding a specific entry on MAINTAINRERS for generic > > sections and adding myself to it along with Arnd. Wanted to check if > > this is OK. While at it, it occurred to me that you might be > > interested in this a swell Josh, given your work with objtool. Would > > anyone else like to help with active maintenance / review of these ? > > > > So is this OK to merge into my series into the patch "sections.h: add > > sections header to collect all section info". > > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > > index 49b354cb455a..9919277c66ae 100644 > > --- a/MAINTAINERS > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > > @@ -5190,6 +5190,18 @@ S: Supported > > F: drivers/base/power/domain*.c > > F: include/linux/pm_domain.h > > > > +GENERIC SECTIONS > > +M: "Luis R. Rodriguez" > > +M: Josh Poimboeuf > > +M: Arnd Bergmann > > +L: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org > > +L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > +S: Supported > > +F: include/asm-generic/section-core.h > > +F: include/asm-generic/sections.h > > +F: include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h > > +F: Documentation/DocBook/sections.tmpl > > Hi Luis, > > Thanks to my past work with objtool and kpatch, I know far more than I > ever wanted to know about all the kernel's custom ELF sections. So it's > fine with me if you want to add me as a maintainer for those files. OK thanks! I'll fold this into my changes. Luis