Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Date | Tue, 5 Mar 2019 08:52:25 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/ftrace: avoid an unused-function warning |
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On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 10:43 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 21:07:39 +0100 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: ... > Also, it's basically identical to ftrace_call_replace(). I'm going to > combine the two and move the jmp replace and have it do this instead.
Sounds good.
> arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:669:23: error: 'ftrace_jmp_replace' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function] > > The ftrace_jmp_replace() function now only has a single user and should be > simply moved by that user. But looking at the code, it shows that > ftrace_jmp_replace() is similar to ftrace_call_replace() except that instead > of using the opcode of 0xe8 it uses 0xe9. It makes more sense to consolidate > that function into one implementation that both ftrace_jmp_replace() and > ftrace_call_replace() use by passing in the op code separate. > > The structure in ftrace_code_union is also modified to replace the "e8" > field with the more appropriate name "op". > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190304200748.1418790-1-arnd@arndb.de > Fixes: d2a68c4effd8 ("x86/ftrace: Do not call function graph from dynamic trampolines") > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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