Re: [PATCH v1 4/6] objtool/LoongArch: Enable orc to be built

[Tiezhu Yang]

On 07/25/2023 07:56 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 04:15:08PM +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
>
> > +void arch_write_orc(struct elf *elf, struct orc_entry *orc)
> > +{
> > +	orc->ra_offset = bswap_if_needed(elf, orc->ra_offset);
> > +}
>
> This hardly 'writes' anything, all it does is a bswap.
>
> > diff --git a/tools/objtool/orc_gen.c b/tools/objtool/orc_gen.c
> > index 1eff7e0a..6975056 100644
> > --- a/tools/objtool/orc_gen.c
> > +++ b/tools/objtool/orc_gen.c
> > @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
> >  #include <objtool/warn.h>
> >  #include <objtool/endianness.h>
> >
> > +void __weak arch_write_orc(struct elf *elf, struct orc_entry *orc) {}
>
> And for that you need a weak function? What's wrong with an inline if
> anything?
>
> >  static int write_orc_entry(struct elf *elf, struct section *orc_sec,
> >  			   struct section *ip_sec, unsigned int idx,
> >  			   struct section *insn_sec, unsigned long insn_off,
> > @@ -26,6 +28,7 @@ static int write_orc_entry(struct elf *elf, struct section *orc_sec,
> >  	memcpy(orc, o, sizeof(*orc));
> >  	orc->sp_offset = bswap_if_needed(elf, orc->sp_offset);
> >  	orc->bp_offset = bswap_if_needed(elf, orc->bp_offset);
> > +	arch_write_orc(elf, orc);
>
> Why can't this simply be:
>
> 	orc->ra_offset = bswap_if_needed(elf, orc->ra_offset);
>
> AFAICT this won't actually do anything for x86 and I don't think Power
> got around to doing ORC yet.
>
> >  	/* populate reloc for ip */
> >  	if (!elf_init_reloc_text_sym(elf, ip_sec, idx * sizeof(int), idx,
>
> Again, not much explaination for why you did things

The initial aim is to keep consistent with the above two lines,
but for now, I think there is no need to call bswap_if_needed()
for LoongArch, the related changes are not necessary, I will
drop them too.

LoongArch is little-endian, the __BYTE_ORDER is defined as
__LITTLE_ENDIAN, and elf->ehdr.e_ident[EI_DATA] is 1 which
is equal with ELFDATA2LSB, so need_bswap() returns false.

static inline bool need_bswap(struct elf *elf)
{
	return (__BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN) ^
	       (elf->ehdr.e_ident[EI_DATA] == ELFDATA2LSB);
}

Thank you very much for your review, sorry for that.

Thanks,
Tiezhu