Mathieu,
Le 07/12/2018 à 21:07, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit :
Michael,
I have been wondering for a while now, but I failed to make sense of
this function: pt_regs_check (commit 002af9391bfbe). What is this
function meant for ?
AFAICS this is a dummy function, its purpose is to break the build if
struct pt_regs and struct user_pt_regs don't match.
Background, it breaks my W=1 build with:
../arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c:3339:13: error: no previous prototype
for ‘pt_regs_check’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
What about adding a prototype for it on the line above ?
I failed to find a usage of it within the linux source tree... (git
grep pt_regs_check returns nothing).
This function has no functionnal purpose, and will get eliminated at
link time or after init depending on CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
Christophe
Thanks,
