Re: [PATCH] selftests/ftrace: update kprobe syntax error test for ppc64le

[Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>]

On 06/11/24 1:22 am, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 06:17:51PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>> On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 02:20:18 -0600
>> Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 11:06:23PM +0530, Hari Bathini wrote:
>>>> Seems like a bit of misunderstanding there. Function entry here intends
>>>> to mean the actual start of function code (function prologue) - after
>>>> GEP and function profiling sequence (mflr r0; bl mcount).
>>>
>>> What you call "function entry" here simply does not exist.  The compiler
>>> can -- and ***WILL***, ***DOES*** -- mix up all of that.
>>
>> Here is the "function entry" means the function address.
> 
> "Function entry point".  "Function entry" can mean whatever nebulous
> thing done at the start of a function :-)
> 
> You're free to use your own terminology of course, but it help to use
> standard names for standard things!
> 
>> Not the prologue.
> 
> But that is literally what Hari said, so it confused me.

Sorry about that. I should have said.. maybe prologue or whatever
nebulous thing at the start of a function :-)

Basically, the address provided to test case can be any insn in the
function code expect what the kernel considers function entry address..

Thanks
Hari