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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>,
	Zhigang Lu <zlu@ezchip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jump_label: align jump_entry table to at least 4-bytes
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 17:58:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170227175826.2ddceec2@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bd72716-feea-073f-741c-04212ebd0802@caviumnetworks.com>

On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:45:37 -0800
David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:

> On 02/27/2017 02:36 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:21:21 -0800
> > David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> See attached for mips.  It seems to do the right thing.
> >>
> >> I leave it as an exercise to the reader to fix the other architectures.
> >>
> >> Consult your own  binutils experts to verify that what I say is true.  
> >
> > It may still just be safer to do the pointers instead. That way we
> > don't need to worry about some strange arch or off by one binutils
> > messing it up.  
> 
> Obviously it is your choice, but this is bog standard ELF linking.  In 
> theory even the arrays of power-of-2 sized objects should also supply an 
> entity size.  Think __ex_table and its ilk.
> 
> 
> The benefit of supplying an entsize is that you don't have to change the 
> structure of the existing code and risk breaking something in the process.

I agree that this may be the better answer. The issue tracepoints had
is that they were defined in C with a "section" attribute. I'm not sure
you can pass various section attributes via a gcc section attribute.

-- Steve

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-27 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-27 18:49 [PATCH] jump_label: align jump_entry table to at least 4-bytes Jason Baron
2017-02-27 18:57 ` David Daney
2017-02-27 19:18   ` Jason Baron
2017-02-27 19:59     ` David Daney
2017-02-27 21:06       ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-27 21:41         ` David Daney
2017-02-27 22:09           ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-27 22:21             ` David Daney
2017-02-27 22:36               ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-27 22:45                 ` David Daney
2017-02-27 22:50                   ` Jason Baron
2017-02-27 23:34                     ` David Daney
2017-02-28  4:55                     ` Sachin Sant
2017-02-28 16:21                       ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-28 18:16                         ` David Daney
2017-02-28 18:39                           ` Jason Baron
2017-02-28 19:05                             ` David Daney
2017-02-28 19:22                               ` David Daney
2017-02-28 19:34                                 ` Jason Baron
2017-02-28 20:15                                   ` David Daney
2017-02-28 22:41                                     ` Jason Baron
2017-03-01  6:34                                       ` Michael Ellerman
2017-03-01 16:40                                         ` David Daney
2017-03-01 20:02                                           ` Jason Baron
2017-03-01 21:12                                             ` David Daney
2017-03-01  7:12                                       ` Sachin Sant
2017-02-27 22:58                   ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2017-03-06  2:16               ` [PATCH] MIPS: jump_lable: Give __jump_table elements an entsize kbuild test robot

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