Date:   Wed, 24 Nov 2021 09:53:03 -0800
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To:     Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 23/23] objtool, kcsan: Remove memory barrier
 instrumentation from noinstr
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On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 12:29:39PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 12:31PM -0800, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 09:10:27AM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> [...]
> > > +	if (insn->sec->noinstr && sym->removable_instr) {
> [...]
> > I'd love to have a clearer name than 'removable_instr', though I'm
> > having trouble coming up with something.
> [...]
> 
> I now have the below as v3 of this patch. The naming isn't entirely
> obvious, but coming up with a short name for this is tricky, but
> hopefully the comments make it clear. We can of course still pick
> another name.
> 
> Does that look reasonable?
> 
> Note, I'd like this series to sit in -next for a while (probably from
> some time next week after sending v3 if there are no further
> complaints). By default everything will be picked up by the -rcu tree,
> and we're targeting Linux 5.18.
> 
> If you feel there might be objtool conflicts coming, this patch could be
> taken through another tree as there are no hard dependencies, as long as
> this patch reaches mainline before or with the rest.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- Marco

Looks good to me.  I don't know of any upcoming conflicts, feel free to
carry it with your series for now.

Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>

-- 
Josh