From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, X86-ML <x86@kernel.org>,
Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, kprobes: Hide skip_singlestep forward declaration properly
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:40:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120920094017.GA4918@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <505AE3B5.6080401@hitachi.com>
* Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> wrote:
> (2012/09/20 18:25), Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> wrote:
> >
> >> (2012/09/19 22:46), Borislav Petkov wrote:
> >>> From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
> >>>
> >>> I get
> >>>
> >>> arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c:544:23: warning: ‘skip_singlestep’ declared ‘static’ but never defined [-Wunused-function]
> >>>
> >>> on tip/auto-latest.
> >>>
> >>> Hide the forward declaration in the KPROBES_CAN_USE_FTRACE as it
> >>> is done in its callsites.
> >>
> >> Thank you for reporting and fixing :)
> >
> > Why is a forward declation needed, why isn't the function in the
> > proper spot in the file to begin with?
>
> There is no reason, ftrace-related things can also be moved on top.
> Borislav, could you move it?
Could be moved into a separate file as well - we could have
arch/x86/kprobes/, with core.c, opt.c, ftrace.c and common.h in
it - possibly more in the future.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-20 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-19 13:46 [PATCH] x86, kprobes: Hide skip_singlestep forward declaration properly Borislav Petkov
2012-09-20 9:01 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-09-20 9:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-09-20 9:36 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-09-20 9:40 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2012-09-20 10:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-20 11:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-09-20 12:43 ` [PATCH -v2] x86, kprobes: Move skip_singlestep up Borislav Petkov
2012-09-20 14:15 ` [tip:perf/core] kprobes/x86: " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2012-09-24 10:28 ` [PATCH] x86, kprobes: Hide skip_singlestep forward declaration properly Masami Hiramatsu
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