On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 10:00:51 +0800
Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2021/7/28 23:28, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:13:18 +0800
> > Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> 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
