Re: [PATCH v7 3/6] powerpc/perf: consolidate read_user_stack_32

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Mon Sep 02 2019 - 00:01:23 EST


Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@xxxxxxx> writes:
...
>> @@ -295,6 +279,12 @@ static inline int current_is_64bit(void)
>> }
>>
>> #else /* CONFIG_PPC64 */
>> +static int read_user_stack_slow(void __user *ptr, void *buf, int nb)
>> +{
>> + return 0;
>> +}
>> +#endif /* CONFIG_PPC64 */
>
> Ending the PPC64 else case here, and then restarting it below with an
> ifndef means we end up with two parts of the file that define 32-bit
> code, with a common chunk in the middle, which I dislike.
>
> I'd rather you add the empty read_user_stack_slow() in the existing
> #else section and then move read_user_stack_32() below the whole ifdef
> PPC64/else/endif section.
>
> Is there some reason that doesn't work?

Gah, I missed that you split the whole file later in the series. Any
reason you did it in two steps rather than moving patch 6 earlier in the
series?

cheers