Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: Make generic arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed() do what it says

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, 28 Sep 2021 09:15:35 +0200 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Commit 7a5da02de8d6 ("locking/lockdep: check for freed initmem in
> static_obj()") added arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed() which is supposed
> to report whether an object is part of already freed init memory.
> 
> For the time being, the generic version of arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed()
> always reports 'false', allthough free_initmem() is generically called
> on all architectures.
> 
> Therefore, change the generic version of arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed()
> to check whether free_initmem() has been called. If so, then check
> if a given address falls into init memory.
> 
> In order to use function init_section_contains(), the fonction is
> moved at the end of asm-generic/section.h

i386 allmodconfig:

In file included from arch/x86/platform/intel-quark/imr.c:28:
./include/asm-generic/sections.h: In function 'arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed':
./include/asm-generic/sections.h:171:6: error: 'system_state' undeclared (first use in this function)
  171 |  if (system_state < SYSTEM_FREEING_INITMEM)
      |      ^~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/asm-generic/sections.h:171:6: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
./include/asm-generic/sections.h:171:21: error: 'SYSTEM_FREEING_INITMEM' undeclared (first use in this function)
  171 |  if (system_state < SYSTEM_FREEING_INITMEM)
      |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


I don't think it would be a good idea to include kernel.h from
sections.h - it's unclear to me which is the "innermost" of those two. 
It would be better to uninline arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed().  Surely
there's no real reason for inlining it?

Anyway, I'll drop the series for now.




[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Development]     [Kernel Newbies]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite Info]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Samba]     [Linux Media]     [Device Mapper]

  Powered by Linux