Thread (16 messages) 16 messages, 2 authors, 2021-07-29

Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] kallsyms: Rename is_kernel() and is_kernel_text()

From: Kefeng Wang <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-29 11:06:14
Also in: bpf, linux-arch, lkml

On 2021/7/29 12:05, Steven Rostedt wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 10:00:51 +0800
Kefeng Wang [off-list ref] wrote:
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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()
OK, thanks for your advise,  there's already a __is_kernel_text() in 
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c,

I will change it to is_x32_kernel_text() to avoid conflict on x86_32.
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
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