[PATCH v2] powerpc/32: Add support for out-of-line static calls

[Christophe Leroy]

Hi Peter,

Le 31/08/2021 à 16:00, Peter Zijlstra a écrit :
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 01:12:26PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> Yes, this should work nicely!
> 
> Since you have the two nop's at the end, you could frob in an
> optimization for __static_call_return0 without too much issue.
> 
> Replace the two nops with (excuse my ppc asm):
> 
> 	li r3, 0
> 	blr
> 
> and augment arch_static_call_transform() with something like:
> 
> 	if (func == &__static_call_return0)
> 		err = patch_branch(tramp, tramp+24, 0);

I just discovered that we likely have an issue with the implementation 
of that RET0 static call.

Looking at System.map I have:

	c0004fc0 t __static_call_return0
	c0011518 t __static_call_return0
	c00d8160 t __static_call_return0


So when we do:

	if (func == &__static_call_return0)

It is unlikely that we'll get the expected one.


I see __static_call_return0 is defined as 'static inline' in 
include/linux/static_call.h

Any reason for not having it as a single global symbol instead ?

Thanks
Christophe