On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 10:00:51 +0800
Kefeng Wang [off-list ref] wrote:

On 2021/7/28 23:28, Steven Rostedt wrote:

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On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:13:18 +0800
Kefeng Wang [off-list ref] wrote:
 

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The is_kernel[_text]() function check the address whether or not
in kernel[_text] ranges, also they will check the address whether
or not in gate area, so use better name.  

Do you know what a gate area is?

Because I believe gate area is kernel text, so the rename just makes it
redundant and more confusing.  

Yes, the gate area(eg, vectors part on ARM32, similar on x86/ia64) is 
kernel text.

I want to keep the 'basic' section boundaries check, which only check 
the start/end

of sections, all in section.h,  could we use 'generic' or 'basic' or 
'core' in the naming?

  * is_kernel_generic_data()	--- come from core_kernel_data() in kernel.h
  * is_kernel_generic_text()

The old helper could remain unchanged, any suggestion, thanks.

Because it looks like the check of just being in the range of "_stext"
to "_end" is just an internal helper, why not do what we do all over
the kernel, and just prefix the function with a couple of underscores,
that denote that it's internal?

  __is_kernel_text()

Then you have:

 static inline int is_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
 {
	if (__is_kernel_text(addr))
 		return 1;
 	return in_gate_area_no_mm(addr);
 }

-- Steve