This is unneeded since commit a621438500 ("vmlinux.lds.h: remove
no-op macro VMLINUX_SYMBOL()").
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
KEEP more tables, and add the function/data section wildcard to more
section selections.
This is a little ad-hoc at the moment, but kernel code should be moved
to consistently use .text..x (note: double dots) for explicit sections
and all references to it in the linker script can be made with
TEXT_MAIN, and similarly for other sections.
For now, let's see if major architectures move to enabling this option
then we can do some refactoring passes. Otherwise if it remains unused
or superseded by LTO, this may not be required.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Commit 99492c39f3 ("earlycon: Fix __earlycon_table stride") tried to fix
__earlycon_table stride by forcing the earlycon_id struct alignment to 32
and asking the linker to 32-byte align the __earlycon_table symbol. This
fix was based on commit 07fca0e57f ("tracing: Properly align linker
defined symbols") which tried a similar fix for the tracing subsystem.
However, this fix doesn't quite work because there is no guarantee that
gcc will place structures packed into an array format. In fact, gcc 4.9
chooses to 64-byte align these structs by inserting additional padding
between the entries because it has no clue that they are supposed to be in
an array. If we are unlucky, the linker will assign symbol
"__earlycon_table" to a 32-byte aligned address which does not correspond
to the 64-byte aligned contents of section "__earlycon_table".
To address this same problem, the fix to the tracing system was
subsequently re-implemented using a more robust table of pointers approach
by commits:
3d56e331b6 ("tracing: Replace syscall_meta_data struct array with pointer array")
6549864629 ("tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer array")
e4a9ea5ee7 ("tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer array")
Let's use this same "array of pointers to structs" approach for
EARLYCON_TABLE.
Fixes: 99492c39f3 ("earlycon: Fix __earlycon_table stride")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
"Nothing particularly stands out here, probably because people were
tied up with spectre/meltdown stuff last time around. Still, the main
pieces are:
- Rework of our CPU features framework so that we can whitelist CPUs
that don't require kpti even in a heterogeneous system
- Support for the IDC/DIC architecture extensions, which allow us to
elide instruction and data cache maintenance when writing out
instructions
- Removal of the large memory model which resulted in suboptimal
codegen by the compiler and increased the use of literal pools,
which could potentially be used as ROP gadgets since they are
mapped as executable
- Rework of forced signal delivery so that the siginfo_t is
well-formed and handling of show_unhandled_signals is consolidated
and made consistent between different fault types
- More siginfo cleanup based on the initial patches from Eric
Biederman
- Workaround for Cortex-A55 erratum #1024718
- Some small ACPI IORT updates and cleanups from Lorenzo Pieralisi
- Misc cleanups and non-critical fixes"
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (70 commits)
arm64: uaccess: Fix omissions from usercopy whitelist
arm64: fpsimd: Split cpu field out from struct fpsimd_state
arm64: tlbflush: avoid writing RES0 bits
arm64: cmpxchg: Include linux/compiler.h in asm/cmpxchg.h
arm64: move percpu cmpxchg implementation from cmpxchg.h to percpu.h
arm64: cmpxchg: Include build_bug.h instead of bug.h for BUILD_BUG
arm64: lse: Include compiler_types.h and export.h for out-of-line LL/SC
arm64: fpsimd: include <linux/init.h> in fpsimd.h
drivers/perf: arm_pmu_platform: do not warn about affinity on uniprocessor
perf: arm_spe: include linux/vmalloc.h for vmap()
Revert "arm64: Revert L1_CACHE_SHIFT back to 6 (64-byte cache line size)"
arm64: cpufeature: Avoid warnings due to unused symbols
arm64: Add work around for Arm Cortex-A55 Erratum 1024718
arm64: Delay enabling hardware DBM feature
arm64: Add MIDR encoding for Arm Cortex-A55 and Cortex-A35
arm64: capabilities: Handle shared entries
arm64: capabilities: Add support for checks based on a list of MIDRs
arm64: Add helpers for checking CPU MIDR against a range
arm64: capabilities: Clean up midr range helpers
arm64: capabilities: Change scope of VHE to Boot CPU feature
...
Introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_RAW_TRACEPOINT bpf program type to access
kernel internal arguments of the tracepoints in their raw form.
>From bpf program point of view the access to the arguments look like:
struct bpf_raw_tracepoint_args {
__u64 args[0];
};
int bpf_prog(struct bpf_raw_tracepoint_args *ctx)
{
// program can read args[N] where N depends on tracepoint
// and statically verified at program load+attach time
}
kprobe+bpf infrastructure allows programs access function arguments.
This feature allows programs access raw tracepoint arguments.
Similar to proposed 'dynamic ftrace events' there are no abi guarantees
to what the tracepoints arguments are and what their meaning is.
The program needs to type cast args properly and use bpf_probe_read()
helper to access struct fields when argument is a pointer.
For every tracepoint __bpf_trace_##call function is prepared.
In assembler it looks like:
(gdb) disassemble __bpf_trace_xdp_exception
Dump of assembler code for function __bpf_trace_xdp_exception:
0xffffffff81132080 <+0>: mov %ecx,%ecx
0xffffffff81132082 <+2>: jmpq 0xffffffff811231f0 <bpf_trace_run3>
where
TRACE_EVENT(xdp_exception,
TP_PROTO(const struct net_device *dev,
const struct bpf_prog *xdp, u32 act),
The above assembler snippet is casting 32-bit 'act' field into 'u64'
to pass into bpf_trace_run3(), while 'dev' and 'xdp' args are passed as-is.
All of ~500 of __bpf_trace_*() functions are only 5-10 byte long
and in total this approach adds 7k bytes to .text.
This approach gives the lowest possible overhead
while calling trace_xdp_exception() from kernel C code and
transitioning into bpf land.
Since tracepoint+bpf are used at speeds of 1M+ events per second
this is valuable optimization.
The new BPF_RAW_TRACEPOINT_OPEN sys_bpf command is introduced
that returns anon_inode FD of 'bpf-raw-tracepoint' object.
The user space looks like:
// load bpf prog with BPF_PROG_TYPE_RAW_TRACEPOINT type
prog_fd = bpf_prog_load(...);
// receive anon_inode fd for given bpf_raw_tracepoint with prog attached
raw_tp_fd = bpf_raw_tracepoint_open("xdp_exception", prog_fd);
Ctrl-C of tracing daemon or cmdline tool that uses this feature
will automatically detach bpf program, unload it and
unregister tracepoint probe.
On the kernel side the __bpf_raw_tp_map section of pointers to
tracepoint definition and to __bpf_trace_*() probe function is used
to find a tracepoint with "xdp_exception" name and
corresponding __bpf_trace_xdp_exception() probe function
which are passed to tracepoint_probe_register() to connect probe
with tracepoint.
Addition of bpf_raw_tracepoint doesn't interfere with ftrace and perf
tracepoint mechanisms. perf_event_open() can be used in parallel
on the same tracepoint.
Multiple bpf_raw_tracepoint_open("xdp_exception", prog_fd) are permitted.
Each with its own bpf program. The kernel will execute
all tracepoint probes and all attached bpf programs.
In the future bpf_raw_tracepoints can be extended with
query/introspection logic.
__bpf_raw_tp_map section logic was contributed by Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
In commit 316ca8804e ("ACPI/IORT: Remove linker section for IORT entries
probing"), iort entries was removed in vmlinux.lds.h. But in
commit 2fcc112af3 ("clocksource/drivers: Rename clksrc table to timer"),
this line was back incorrectly.
It does no harm except for adding some useless symbols, so fix it.
Signed-off-by: Jia He <jia.he@hxt-semitech.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) Significantly shrink the core networking routing structures. Result
of http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/seoul2017_netdev_keynote.pdf
2) Add netdevsim driver for testing various offloads, from Jakub
Kicinski.
3) Support cross-chip FDB operations in DSA, from Vivien Didelot.
4) Add a 2nd listener hash table for TCP, similar to what was done for
UDP. From Martin KaFai Lau.
5) Add eBPF based queue selection to tun, from Jason Wang.
6) Lockless qdisc support, from John Fastabend.
7) SCTP stream interleave support, from Xin Long.
8) Smoother TCP receive autotuning, from Eric Dumazet.
9) Lots of erspan tunneling enhancements, from William Tu.
10) Add true function call support to BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.
11) Add explicit support for GRO HW offloading, from Michael Chan.
12) Support extack generation in more netlink subsystems. From Alexander
Aring, Quentin Monnet, and Jakub Kicinski.
13) Add 1000BaseX, flow control, and EEE support to mvneta driver. From
Russell King.
14) Add flow table abstraction to netfilter, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.
15) Many improvements and simplifications to the NFP driver bpf JIT,
from Jakub Kicinski.
16) Support for ipv6 non-equal cost multipath routing, from Ido
Schimmel.
17) Add resource abstration to devlink, from Arkadi Sharshevsky.
18) Packet scheduler classifier shared filter block support, from Jiri
Pirko.
19) Avoid locking in act_csum, from Davide Caratti.
20) devinet_ioctl() simplifications from Al viro.
21) More TCP bpf improvements from Lawrence Brakmo.
22) Add support for onlink ipv6 route flag, similar to ipv4, from David
Ahern.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1925 commits)
tls: Add support for encryption using async offload accelerator
ip6mr: fix stale iterator
net/sched: kconfig: Remove blank help texts
openvswitch: meter: Use 64-bit arithmetic instead of 32-bit
tcp_nv: fix potential integer overflow in tcpnv_acked
r8169: fix RTL8168EP take too long to complete driver initialization.
qmi_wwan: Add support for Quectel EP06
rtnetlink: enable IFLA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_NEWLINK
ipmr: Fix ptrdiff_t print formatting
ibmvnic: Wait for device response when changing MAC
qlcnic: fix deadlock bug
tcp: release sk_frag.page in tcp_disconnect
ipv4: Get the address of interface correctly.
net_sched: gen_estimator: fix lockdep splat
net: macb: Handle HRESP error
net/mlx5e: IPoIB, Fix copy-paste bug in flow steering refactoring
ipv6: addrconf: break critical section in addrconf_verify_rtnl()
ipv6: change route cache aging logic
i40e/i40evf: Update DESC_NEEDED value to reflect larger value
bnxt_en: cleanup DIM work on device shutdown
...
Add injectable error types for each error-injectable function.
One motivation of error injection test is to find software flaws,
mistakes or mis-handlings of expectable errors. If we find such
flaws by the test, that is a program bug, so we need to fix it.
But if the tester miss input the error (e.g. just return success
code without processing anything), it causes unexpected behavior
even if the caller is correctly programmed to handle any errors.
That is not what we want to test by error injection.
To clarify what type of errors the caller must expect for each
injectable function, this introduces injectable error types:
- EI_ETYPE_NULL : means the function will return NULL if it
fails. No ERR_PTR, just a NULL.
- EI_ETYPE_ERRNO : means the function will return -ERRNO
if it fails.
- EI_ETYPE_ERRNO_NULL : means the function will return -ERRNO
(ERR_PTR) or NULL.
ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() macro is expanded to get one of
NULL, ERRNO, ERRNO_NULL to record the error type for
each function. e.g.
ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION(open_ctree, ERRNO)
This error types are shown in debugfs as below.
====
/ # cat /sys/kernel/debug/error_injection/list
open_ctree [btrfs] ERRNO
io_ctl_init [btrfs] ERRNO
====
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Since error-injection framework is not limited to be used
by kprobes, nor bpf. Other kernel subsystems can use it
freely for checking safeness of error-injection, e.g.
livepatch, ftrace etc.
So this separate error-injection framework from kprobes.
Some differences has been made:
- "kprobe" word is removed from any APIs/structures.
- BPF_ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() is renamed to
ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() since it is not limited for BPF too.
- CONFIG_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION is the config item of this
feature. It is automatically enabled if the arch supports
error injection feature for kprobe or ftrace etc.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Construct the init thread stack in the linker script rather than doing it
by means of a union so that ia64's init_task.c can be got rid of.
The following symbols are then made available from INIT_TASK_DATA() linker
script macro:
init_thread_union
init_stack
INIT_TASK_DATA() also expands the region to THREAD_SIZE to accommodate the
size of the init stack. init_thread_union is given its own section so that
it can be placed into the stack space in the right order. I'm assuming
that the ia64 ordering is correct and that the task_struct is first and the
thread_info second.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> (arm64)
Tested-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Using BPF we can override kprob'ed functions and return arbitrary
values. Obviously this can be a bit unsafe, so make this feature opt-in
for functions. Simply tag a function with KPROBE_ERROR_INJECT_SYMBOL in
order to give BPF access to that function for error injection purposes.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
I like _ONCE warnings because it's guaranteed that they don't flood the
log.
During testing I find it useful to reset the state of the once warnings,
so that I can rerun tests and see if they trigger again, or can
guarantee that a test run always hits the same warnings.
This patch adds a debugfs interface to reset all the _ONCE warnings so
that they appear again:
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/clear_warn_once
This is implemented by putting all the warning booleans into a special
section, and clearing it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171017221455.6740-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull x86 core updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Note that in this cycle most of the x86 topics interacted at a level
that caused them to be merged into tip:x86/asm - but this should be a
temporary phenomenon, hopefully we'll back to the usual patterns in
the next merge window.
The main changes in this cycle were:
Hardware enablement:
- Add support for the Intel UMIP (User Mode Instruction Prevention)
CPU feature. This is a security feature that disables certain
instructions such as SGDT, SLDT, SIDT, SMSW and STR. (Ricardo Neri)
[ Note that this is disabled by default for now, there are some
smaller enhancements in the pipeline that I'll follow up with in
the next 1-2 days, which allows this to be enabled by default.]
- Add support for the AMD SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization) CPU
feature, on top of SME (Secure Memory Encryption) support that was
added in v4.14. (Tom Lendacky, Brijesh Singh)
- Enable new SSE/AVX/AVX512 CPU features: AVX512_VBMI2, GFNI, VAES,
VPCLMULQDQ, AVX512_VNNI, AVX512_BITALG. (Gayatri Kammela)
Other changes:
- A big series of entry code simplifications and enhancements (Andy
Lutomirski)
- Make the ORC unwinder default on x86 and various objtool
enhancements. (Josh Poimboeuf)
- 5-level paging enhancements (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Micro-optimize the entry code a bit (Borislav Petkov)
- Improve the handling of interdependent CPU features in the early
FPU init code (Andi Kleen)
- Build system enhancements (Changbin Du, Masahiro Yamada)
- ... plus misc enhancements, fixes and cleanups"
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (118 commits)
x86/build: Make the boot image generation less verbose
selftests/x86: Add tests for the STR and SLDT instructions
selftests/x86: Add tests for User-Mode Instruction Prevention
x86/traps: Fix up general protection faults caused by UMIP
x86/umip: Enable User-Mode Instruction Prevention at runtime
x86/umip: Force a page fault when unable to copy emulated result to user
x86/umip: Add emulation code for UMIP instructions
x86/cpufeature: Add User-Mode Instruction Prevention definitions
x86/insn-eval: Add support to resolve 16-bit address encodings
x86/insn-eval: Handle 32-bit address encodings in virtual-8086 mode
x86/insn-eval: Add wrapper function for 32 and 64-bit addresses
x86/insn-eval: Add support to resolve 32-bit address encodings
x86/insn-eval: Compute linear address in several utility functions
resource: Fix resource_size.cocci warnings
X86/KVM: Clear encryption attribute when SEV is active
X86/KVM: Decrypt shared per-cpu variables when SEV is active
percpu: Introduce DEFINE_PER_CPU_DECRYPTED
x86: Add support for changing memory encryption attribute in early boot
x86/io: Unroll string I/O when SEV is active
x86/boot: Add early boot support when running with SEV active
...
Using .text.unlikely for refcount exceptions isn't safe because gcc may
move entire functions into .text.unlikely (e.g. in6_dev_dev()), which
would cause any uses of a protected refcount_t function to stay inline
with the function, triggering the protection unconditionally:
.section .text.unlikely,"ax",@progbits
.type in6_dev_get, @function
in6_dev_getx:
.LFB4673:
.loc 2 4128 0
.cfi_startproc
...
lock; incl 480(%rbx)
js 111f
.pushsection .text.unlikely
111: lea 480(%rbx), %rcx
112: .byte 0x0f, 0xff
.popsection
113:
This creates a unique .text..refcount section and adds an additional
test to the exception handler to WARN in the case of having none of OF,
SF, nor ZF set so we can see things like this more easily in the future.
The double dot for the section name keeps it out of the TEXT_MAIN macro
namespace, to avoid collisions and so it can be put at the end with
text.unlikely to keep the cold code together.
See commit:
cb87481ee8 ("kbuild: linker script do not match C names unless LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION is configured")
... which matches C names: [a-zA-Z0-9_] but not ".".
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Elena <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 7a46ec0e2f ("locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504382986-49301-2-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull MTD updates from Boris Brezillon:
"General updates:
- Constify pci_device_id in various drivers
- Constify device_type
- Remove pad control code from the Gemini driver
- Use %pOF to print OF node full_name
- Various fixes in the physmap_of driver
- Remove unused vars in mtdswap
- Check devm_kzalloc() return value in the spear_smi driver
- Check clk_prepare_enable() return code in the st_spi_fsm driver
- Create per MTD device debugfs enties
NAND updates, from Boris Brezillon:
- Fix memory leaks in the core
- Remove unused NAND locking support
- Rename nand.h into rawnand.h (preparing support for spi NANDs)
- Use NAND_MAX_ID_LEN where appropriate
- Fix support for 20nm Hynix chips
- Fix support for Samsung and Hynix SLC NANDs
- Various cleanup, improvements and fixes in the qcom driver
- Fixes for bugs detected by various static code analysis tools
- Fix mxc ooblayout definition
- Add a new part_parsers to tmio and sharpsl platform data in order
to define a custom list of partition parsers
- Request the reset line in exclusive mode in the sunxi driver
- Fix a build error in the orion-nand driver when compiled for ARMv4
- Allow 64-bit mvebu platforms to select the PXA3XX driver
SPI NOR updates, from Cyrille Pitchen and Marek Vasut:
- add support to the JEDEC JESD216B specification (SFDP tables).
- add support to the Intel Denverton SPI flash controller.
- fix error recovery for Spansion/Cypress SPI NOR memories.
- fix 4-byte address management for the Aspeed SPI controller.
- add support to some Microchip SST26 memory parts
- remove unneeded pinctrl header Write a message for tag:"
* tag 'for-linus-20170904' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (74 commits)
mtd: nand: complain loudly when chip->bits_per_cell is not correctly initialized
mtd: nand: make Samsung SLC NAND usable again
mtd: nand: tmio: Register partitions using the parsers
mfd: tmio: Add partition parsers platform data
mtd: nand: sharpsl: Register partitions using the parsers
mtd: nand: sharpsl: Add partition parsers platform data
mtd: nand: qcom: Support for IPQ8074 QPIC NAND controller
mtd: nand: qcom: support for IPQ4019 QPIC NAND controller
dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: IPQ8074 QPIC NAND documentation
dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: IPQ4019 QPIC NAND documentation
dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: fix the ipq806x device tree example
mtd: nand: qcom: support for different DEV_CMD register offsets
mtd: nand: qcom: QPIC data descriptors handling
mtd: nand: qcom: enable BAM or ADM mode
mtd: nand: qcom: erased codeword detection configuration
mtd: nand: qcom: support for read location registers
mtd: nand: qcom: support for passing flags in DMA helper functions
mtd: nand: qcom: add BAM DMA descriptor handling
mtd: nand: qcom: allocate BAM transaction
mtd: nand: qcom: DMA mapping support for register read buffer
...
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Introduce the ORC unwinder, which can be enabled via
CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y.
The ORC unwinder is a lightweight, Linux kernel specific debuginfo
implementation, which aims to be DWARF done right for unwinding.
Objtool is used to generate the ORC unwinder tables during build, so
the data format is flexible and kernel internal: there's no
dependency on debuginfo created by an external toolchain.
The ORC unwinder is almost two orders of magnitude faster than the
(out of tree) DWARF unwinder - which is important for perf call graph
profiling. It is also significantly simpler and is coded defensively:
there has not been a single ORC related kernel crash so far, even
with early versions. (knock on wood!)
But the main advantage is that enabling the ORC unwinder allows
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS to be turned off - which speeds up the kernel
measurably:
With frame pointers disabled, GCC does not have to add frame pointer
instrumentation code to every function in the kernel. The kernel's
.text size decreases by about 3.2%, resulting in better cache
utilization and fewer instructions executed, resulting in a broad
kernel-wide speedup. Average speedup of system calls should be
roughly in the 1-3% range - measurements by Mel Gorman [1] have shown
a speedup of 5-10% for some function execution intense workloads.
The main cost of the unwinder is that the unwinder data has to be
stored in RAM: the memory cost is 2-4MB of RAM, depending on kernel
config - which is a modest cost on modern x86 systems.
Given how young the ORC unwinder code is it's not enabled by default
- but given the performance advantages the plan is to eventually make
it the default unwinder on x86.
See Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt for more details.
- Remove lguest support: its intended role was that of a temporary
proof of concept for virtualization, plus its removal will enable the
reduction (removal) of the paravirt API as well, so Rusty agreed to
its removal. (Juergen Gross)
- Clean up and fix FSGS related functionality (Andy Lutomirski)
- Clean up IO access APIs (Andy Shevchenko)
- Enhance the symbol namespace (Jiri Slaby)
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
objtool: Handle GCC stack pointer adjustment bug
x86/entry/64: Use ENTRY() instead of ALIGN+GLOBAL for stub32_clone()
x86/fpu/math-emu: Add ENDPROC to functions
x86/boot/64: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_64()
x86/boot/32: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_32()
x86/lguest: Remove lguest support
x86/paravirt/xen: Remove xen_patch()
objtool: Fix objtool fallthrough detection with function padding
x86/xen/64: Fix the reported SS and CS in SYSCALL
objtool: Track DRAP separately from callee-saved registers
objtool: Fix validate_branch() return codes
x86: Clarify/fix no-op barriers for text_poke_bp()
x86/switch_to/64: Rewrite FS/GS switching yet again to fix AMD CPUs
selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test selectors 1, 2, and 3
x86/fsgsbase/64: Report FSBASE and GSBASE correctly in core dumps
x86/fsgsbase/64: Fully initialize FS and GS state in start_thread_common
x86/asm: Fix UNWIND_HINT_REGS macro for older binutils
x86/asm/32: Fix regs_get_register() on segment registers
x86/xen/64: Rearrange the SYSCALL entries
x86/asm/32: Remove a bunch of '& 0xffff' from pt_regs segment reads
...
When XIP_KERNEL is enabled, some functions are defined in the .data
ELF section because we require them to be in RAM whenever we communicate
with the flash chip. However this causes problems when FTRACE is
enabled and gcc emits calls to __gnu_mcount_nc in the function
prolog:
drivers/built-in.o: In function `cfi_chip_setup':
:(.data+0x272fc): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `__gnu_mcount_nc' defined in .text section in arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o
drivers/built-in.o: In function `cfi_probe_chip':
:(.data+0x27de8): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `__gnu_mcount_nc' defined in .text section in arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o
/tmp/ccY172rP.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccY172rP.s:70: Warning: ignoring changed section attributes for .data
/tmp/ccY172rP.s: Error: 1 warning, treating warnings as errors
make[5]: *** [drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.o] Error 1
/tmp/ccK4rjeO.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccK4rjeO.s:421: Warning: ignoring changed section attributes for .data
/tmp/ccK4rjeO.s: Error: 1 warning, treating warnings as errors
make[5]: *** [drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_util.o] Error 1
/tmp/ccUvhCYR.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccUvhCYR.s:1895: Warning: ignoring changed section attributes for .data
/tmp/ccUvhCYR.s: Error: 1 warning, treating warnings as errors
Specifically, this does not work because the .data section is not
marked executable, which leads LD to not generate trampolines for
long calls.
This moves the __xipram functions into their own .xiptext section instead.
The section is still placed next to .data and located in RAM but is marked
executable, which avoids the build errors.
Also, we only need to place the XIP functions into a separate section
if both CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL and CONFIG_MTD_XIP are set: When only MTD_XIP
is used, the whole kernel is still in RAM and we do not need to worry
about pulling out the rug under it. When only XIP_KERNEL but not MTD_XIP
is set, the kernel is in some form of ROM, but we never write to it.
Note that MTD_XIP has been broken on ARM since around 2011 or 2012. I
have sent another patch[2] to fix compilation, which I plan to merge
through arm-soc unless there are objections. The obvious alternative
to that would be to completely rip out the MTD_XIP support from the
kernel, since obviously nobody has been using it in a long while.
Link: [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8109771/
Link: [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9855225/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
The .data and .bss sections were modified in the generic linker script to
pull in sections named .data.<C identifier>, which are generated by gcc with
-ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections options.
The problem with this pattern is it can also match section names that Linux
defines explicitly, e.g., .data.unlikely. This can cause Linux sections to
get moved into the wrong place.
The way to avoid this is to use ".." separators for explicit section names
(the dot character is valid in a section name but not a C identifier).
However currently there are sections which don't follow this rule, so for
now just disable the wild card by default.
Example: http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=150106824024221&w=2
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9
Fixes: b67067f117 ("kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
