Re: [RFC v3 07/13] tables.h: add linker table support

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:30:14AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:24:41 -0700
> "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > +/**
> > + * LINKTABLE_RUN_ALL - iterate and run through all entries on a linker table
> > + *
> > + * @tbl: linker table
> > + * @func: structure name for the function name we want to call.
> > + * @args...: arguments to pass to func
> > + *
> > + * Example usage:
> > + *
> > + *   LINKTABLE_RUN_ALL(frobnicator_fns, some_run,);
> > + */
> > +#define LINKTABLE_RUN_ALL(tbl, func, args...)				\
> > +do {									\
> > +	size_t i;							\
> > +	for (i = 0; i < LINUX_SECTION_SIZE(tbl); i++)			\
> > +		(tbl[i]).func (args);					\
> > +} while (0);
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * LINKTABLE_RUN_ERR - run each linker table entry func and return error if any
> > + *
> > + * @tbl: linker table
> > + * @func: structure name for the function name we want to call.
> > + * @args...: arguments to pass to func
> > + *
> > + * Example usage:
> > + *
> > + *   unsigned int err = LINKTABLE_RUN_ERR(frobnicator_fns, some_run,);
> > + */
> > +#define LINKTABLE_RUN_ERR(tbl, func, args...)				\
> > +({									\
> > +	size_t i;							\
> > +	int err = 0;							\
> > +	for (i = 0; !err && i < LINUX_SECTION_SIZE(tbl); i++)		\
> > +		err = (tbl[i]).func (args);				\
> > +		err; \
> > +})
> 
> These iteration APIs are a bit dangerous, at least for these APIs we'd better change
> name like as FUNCTABLE_RUN etc. because LINKTABLE can contain not only function address
> but also some data (or address of data).

Sure will do, thanks for the review.

  Luis