Re: [PATCH/RFC] module: replace module_layout with module_memory

[Song Liu]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 11:40 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 10:50:55AM -0800, Song Liu wrote:
> > Hi Thomas and Luis,
> >
> > Could you please share your comments on this? Specifically, is this on
> > the right direction? And, what's your preference with Christophe's
> > suggestions?
> >
> > "I dislike how it looks with enums, things like
> > mod->mod_mem[MOD_MEM_TYPE_INIT
> > _TEXT] are odd and don't read nicely.
> > Could we have something nicer like mod->mod_mem_init_text ?
> > I know it will complicate your for_each_mod_mem_type() but it would look
> > nicer."
>
> FYI, I don't particularly like the array either.  But if it makes
> the code much simpler I can live with it.

How about we do something like this

struct module {
...
        /* rbtree is accessed frequently, so keep together. */
        union {
                struct module_memory mod_mem[MOD_MEM_NUM_TYPES]
__module_memory_align;
                struct {
                        /* keep the same order as enum mod_mem_type */
                        struct module_memory core_text;
                        struct module_memory core_data;
                        struct module_memory core_rodata;
                        struct module_memory core_ro_after_init;
                        struct module_memory init_text;
                        struct module_memory init_data;
                        struct module_memory init_rodata;
                };
        };
...
};

In this way we can use the array in the for loops, and use mod->core_text,
etc. when we only need to access one of them.

Thanks,
Song

PS: Do we need __no_randomize_layout somewhere?