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linker script: throw away .discard section x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do. Also, .discard is not thrown away while linking modules. Make every arch and module linking throw it away. This will be used to define dummy variables for percpu declarations and definitions. This patch is based on Ivan Kokshaysky's alpha percpu patch. [ Impact: always throw away everything in .discard ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24 15:13:38 +09:00
arm64: unwind: add asynchronous unwind tables to kernel and modules Enable asynchronous unwind table generation for both the core kernel as well as modules, and emit the resulting .eh_frame sections as init code so we can use the unwind directives for code patching at boot or module load time. This will be used by dynamic shadow call stack support, which will rely on code patching rather than compiler codegen to emit the shadow call stack push and pop instructions. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Tested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221027155908.1940624-2-ardb@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2022-10-27 17:59:06 +02:00
lib: add allocation tagging support for memory allocation profiling Introduce CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING which provides definitions to easily instrument memory allocators. It registers an "alloc_tags" codetag type with /proc/allocinfo interface to output allocation tag information when the feature is enabled. CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG is provided for debugging the memory allocation profiling instrumentation. Memory allocation profiling can be enabled or disabled at runtime using /proc/sys/vm/mem_profiling sysctl when CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG=n. CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT enables memory allocation profiling by default. [surenb@google.com: Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst: fix allocinfo title] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326073813.727090-1-surenb@google.com [surenb@google.com: do limited memory accounting for modules with ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240402180933.1663992-2-surenb@google.com [klarasmodin@gmail.com: explicitly include irqflags.h in alloc_tag.h] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240407133252.173636-1-klarasmodin@gmail.com [surenb@google.com: fix alloc_tag_init() to prevent passing NULL to PTR_ERR()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240417003349.2520094-1-surenb@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240321163705.3067592-14-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Co-developed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com> Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Cc: "Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-03-21 09:36:35 -07:00
linker script: throw away .discard section x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do. Also, .discard is not thrown away while linking modules. Make every arch and module linking throw it away. This will be used to define dummy variables for percpu declarations and definitions. This patch is based on Ivan Kokshaysky's alpha percpu patch. [ Impact: always throw away everything in .discard ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24 15:13:38 +09:00
objtool, modules: Discard objtool annotation sections for modules The '__unreachable' and '__func_stack_frame_non_standard' sections are only used at compile time. They're discarded for vmlinux but they should also be discarded for modules. Since this is a recurring pattern, prefix the section names with ".discard.". It's a nice convention and vmlinux.lds.h already discards such sections. Also remove the 'a' (allocatable) flag from the __unreachable section since it doesn't make sense for a discarded section. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: d1091c7fa3d5 ("objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301180444.lhd53c5tibc4ns77@treble Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-01 12:04:44 -06:00
modules: Drop the .export_symbol section from the final modules Commit ddb5cdbafaaa ("kbuild: generate KSYMTAB entries by modpost") forget drop the .export_symbol section from the final modules. Fixes: ddb5cdbafaaa ("kbuild: generate KSYMTAB entries by modpost") Signed-off-by: Wang Yao <wangyao@lemote.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2024-04-17 13:35:30 +08:00
kbuild: keep symbols for symbol_get() even with CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS Linus observed that the symbol_request(utf8_data_table) call fails when CONFIG_UNICODE=y and CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS=y. symbol_get() relies on the symbol data being present in the ksymtab for symbol lookups. However, EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(utf8_data_table) is dropped due to CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS, as no module references it in this case. Probably, this has been broken since commit dbacb0ef670d ("kconfig option for TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS"). This commit addresses the issue by leveraging modpost. Symbol names passed to symbol_get() are recorded in the special .no_trim_symbol section, which is then parsed by modpost to forcibly keep such symbols. The .no_trim_symbol section is discarded by the linker scripts, so there is no impact on the size of the final vmlinux or modules. This commit cannot resolve the issue for direct calls to __symbol_get() because the symbol name is not known at compile-time. Although symbol_get() may eventually be deprecated, this workaround should be good enough meanwhile. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2025-02-02 03:51:41 +09:00
objtool, modules: Discard objtool annotation sections for modules The '__unreachable' and '__func_stack_frame_non_standard' sections are only used at compile time. They're discarded for vmlinux but they should also be discarded for modules. Since this is a recurring pattern, prefix the section names with ".discard.". It's a nice convention and vmlinux.lds.h already discards such sections. Also remove the 'a' (allocatable) flag from the __unreachable section since it doesn't make sense for a discarded section. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: d1091c7fa3d5 ("objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301180444.lhd53c5tibc4ns77@treble Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-01 12:04:44 -06:00
module: Sort exported symbols This patch places every exported symbol in its own section (i.e. "___ksymtab+printk"). Thus the linker will use its SORT() directive to sort and finally merge all symbol in the right and final section (i.e. "__ksymtab"). The symbol prefixed archs use an underscore as prefix for symbols. To avoid collision we use a different character to create the temporary section names. This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum. Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (folded in '+' fixup) Tested-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>
2011-04-14 14:59:39 +02:00
modules: Ensure 64-bit alignment on __ksymtab_* sections On 64-bit architectures without CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS (e.g. ppc64, ppc64le, parisc, s390x,...) the __KSYM_REF() macro stores 64-bit pointers into the __ksymtab* sections. Make sure that those sections will be correctly aligned at module link time, otherwise unaligned memory accesses may happen at runtime. As per unaligned-memory-access [0] "unaligned memory accesses [...] will not work correctly on certain platforms and will cause performance problems on others", so fix this. The __kcrctab* sections store 32-bit entities, so use ALIGN(4) for those. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> [mcgrof: added unaligned-memory-access justification] Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst # [0] Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
2023-11-22 23:18:12 +01:00
module: add kflagstab section to vmlinux and modules This patch introduces a __kflagstab section to store symbol flags in a dedicated data structure, similar to how CRCs are handled in the __kcrctab. The flags for a given symbol in __kflagstab will be located at the same index as the symbol's entry in __ksymtab and its CRC in __kcrctab. This design decouples the flags from the symbol table itself, allowing us to maintain a single, sorted __ksymtab. As a result, the symbol search remains an efficient, single lookup, regardless of the number of flags we add in the future. The motivation for this change comes from the Android kernel, which uses an additional symbol flag to restrict the use of certain exported symbols by unsigned modules, thereby enhancing kernel security. This __kflagstab can be implemented as a bitmap to efficiently manage which symbols are available for general use versus those restricted to signed modules only. This section will contain read-only data for values of kernel symbol flags in the form of an 8-bit bitsets for each kernel symbol. Each bit in the bitset represents a flag value defined by ksym_flags enumeration. Petr Pavlu ran a small test to get a better understanding of the different section sizes resulting from this patch series. He used v6.17-rc6 together with the openSUSE x86_64 config [1], which is fairly large. The resulting vmlinux.bin (no debuginfo) had an on-disk size of 58 MiB, and included 5937 + 6589 (GPL-only) exported symbols. The following table summarizes his measurements and calculations regarding the sizes of all sections related to exported symbols: | HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS | !HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS Section | Base [B] | Ext. [B] | Sep. [B] | Base [B] | Ext. [B] | Sep. [B] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- __ksymtab | 71244 | 200416 | 150312 | 142488 | 400832 | 300624 __ksymtab_gpl | 79068 | NA | NA | 158136 | NA | NA __kcrctab | 23748 | 50104 | 50104 | 23748 | 50104 | 50104 __kcrctab_gpl | 26356 | NA | NA | 26356 | NA | NA __ksymtab_strings | 253628 | 253628 | 253628 | 253628 | 253628 | 253628 __kflagstab | NA | NA | 12526 | NA | NA | 12526 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total | 454044 | 504148 | 466570 | 604356 | 704564 | 616882 Increase to base [%] | NA | 11.0 | 2.8 | NA | 16.6 | 2.1 The column "HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS -> Base" contains the measured numbers. The rest of the values are calculated. The "Ext." column represents an alternative approach of extending __ksymtab to include a bitset of symbol flags, and the "Sep." column represents the approach of having a separate __kflagstab. With HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS, each kernel_symbol is 12 B in size and is extended to 16 B. With !HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS, it is 24 B, extended to 32 B. Note that this does not include the metadata needed to relocate __ksymtab*, which is freed after the initial processing. Adding __kflagstab as a separate section has a negligible impact, as expected. When extending __ksymtab (kernel_symbol) instead, the worst case with !HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS increases the export data size by 16.6%. Note that the larger increase in size for the latter approach is due to 4-byte alignment of kernel_symbol data structure, instead of 1-byte alignment for the flags bitset in __kflagstab in the former approach. Based on the above, it was concluded that introducing __kflagstab makes sense, as the added complexity is minimal over extending kernel_symbol, and there is overall simplification of symbol finding logic in the module loader. Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> [Sami: Updated commit message to include details from the cover letter.] Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
2026-03-26 21:25:03 +00:00
kernel: add support for .init_array.* constructors KASan uses constructors for initializing redzones for global variables. Globals instrumentation in GCC 4.9.2 produces constructors with priority (.init_array.00099) Currently kernel ignores such constructors. Only constructors with default priority supported (.init_array) This patch adds support for constructors with priorities. For kernel image we put pointers to constructors between __ctors_start/__ctors_end and do_ctors() will call them on start up. For modules we merge .init_array.* sections into resulting .init_array. Module code properly handles constructors in .init_array section. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com> Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-13 14:40:10 -08:00
module: combine constructors in module linker script The constructor code for modules must be aware of init code inside different sections. Newer GCC compilers write constructors in more than one section, e.g. ".ctors.65435". These must be combined into a single ".ctors" section. In the module loader, only the ".ctors" section is searched and the constructors therein are initialized, when CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS=y is set. Other constructors are ignored. This change combines all ".ctors.*" and the ".ctors" section, if any, in <module>.ko into a single ."ctors" section. For code coverage in GCC, this is necessary to show the code coverage for modules, since code coverage uses such constructors when initializing a module in newer version of GCC. Signed-off-by: Reiner Huober <reiner.huober@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
2021-07-06 15:02:52 +02:00
module: set .init_array alignment to 8 The proper idiom for aligning linker sections in modules is different than for built-in sections. ". = ALIGN();" followed by a forced output address of 0 does nothing, as forcing the address changes the value of ".". Use output section alignment specifier instead. Fixes: 9ddf82521c86 ("kernel: add support for .init_array.* constructors") Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
2017-03-07 17:31:08 -08:00
module: set __jump_table alignment to 8 For powerpc the __jump_table section in modules is not aligned, this causes a WARN_ON() splat when loading a module containing a __jump_table. Strict alignment became necessary with commit 3821fd35b58d ("jump_label: Reduce the size of struct static_key"), currently in linux-next, which uses the two least significant bits of pointers to __jump_table elements. Fix by forcing __jump_table to 8, which is the same alignment used for this section in the kernel proper. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301220453.4756-1-david.daney@cavium.com Reviewed-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc) Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-03-01 14:04:53 -08:00
modules: Ensure natural alignment for .altinstructions and __bug_table sections In the kernel image vmlinux.lds.S linker scripts the .altinstructions and __bug_table sections are 4- or 8-byte aligned because they hold 32- and/or 64-bit values. Most architectures use altinstructions and BUG() or WARN() in modules as well, but in the module linker script (module.lds.S) those sections are currently missing. As consequence the linker will store their content byte-aligned by default, which then can lead to unnecessary unaligned memory accesses by the CPU when those tables are processed at runtime. Usually unaligned memory accesses are unnoticed, because either the hardware (as on x86 CPUs) or in-kernel exception handlers (e.g. on parisc or sparc) emulate and fix them up at runtime. Nevertheless, such unaligned accesses introduce a performance penalty and can even crash the kernel if there is a bug in the unalignment exception handlers (which happened once to me on the parisc architecture and which is why I noticed that issue at all). This patch fixes a non-critical issue and might be backported at any time. It's trivial and shouldn't introduce any regression because it simply tells the linker to use a different (8-byte alignment) for those sections by default. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Yr8%2Fgr8e8I7tVX4d@p100/ Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
2022-07-08 11:44:54 +02:00
module: set __jump_table alignment to 8 For powerpc the __jump_table section in modules is not aligned, this causes a WARN_ON() splat when loading a module containing a __jump_table. Strict alignment became necessary with commit 3821fd35b58d ("jump_label: Reduce the size of struct static_key"), currently in linux-next, which uses the two least significant bits of pointers to __jump_table elements. Fix by forcing __jump_table to 8, which is the same alignment used for this section in the kernel proper. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301220453.4756-1-david.daney@cavium.com Reviewed-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc) Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-03-01 14:04:53 -08:00
modules: Add missing entry for __ex_table The entry for __ex_table was missing, which may make __ex_table become 1- or 2-byte aligned in modules. Add the entry to ensure it gets 32-bit aligned. As per unaligned-memory-access [0] "unaligned memory accesses [...] will not work correctly on certain platforms and will cause performance problems on others", so fix this. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> [mcgrof: added unaligned-memory-access justification] Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst # [0] Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
2023-11-22 23:18:14 +01:00
kbuild: lto: merge module sections LLD always splits sections with LTO, which increases module sizes. This change adds linker script rules to merge the split sections in the final module. Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201211184633.3213045-6-samitolvanen@google.com
2020-12-11 10:46:22 -08:00
module.lds,codetag: force 0 sh_addr for sections Commit 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros") added .text and made .data, .bss, and .rodata sections unconditional in the module linker script, but without an explicit address like the other sections in the same file. When linking modules with ld.bfd -r, sections defined without an address inherit the location counter, resulting in non-zero sh_addr values in the .ko. Relocatable objects are expected to have sh_addr=0 for these sections and these non-zero addresses confuse elfutils and have been reported to cause segmentation faults in SystemTap [1]. Add the 0 address specifier to all sections in module.lds, including the .codetag.* sections via MOD_SEPARATE_CODETAG_SECTIONS macro. Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33958 Fixes: 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros") Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
2026-03-04 20:52:37 -05:00
kbuild: lto: merge module sections LLD always splits sections with LTO, which increases module sizes. This change adds linker script rules to merge the split sections in the final module. Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201211184633.3213045-6-samitolvanen@google.com
2020-12-11 10:46:22 -08:00
livepatch: Free klp_{object,func}_ext data after initialization The klp_object_ext and klp_func_ext data, which are stored in the __klp_objects and __klp_funcs sections, respectively, are not needed after they are used to create the actual klp_object and klp_func instances. This operation is implemented by the init function in scripts/livepatch/init.c. Prefix the two sections with ".init" so they are freed after the module is initializated. Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123102825.3521961-3-petr.pavlu@suse.com Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2026-01-23 11:26:57 +01:00
objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files Add a new klp diff subcommand which performs a binary diff between two object files and extracts changed functions into a new object which can then be linked into a livepatch module. This builds on concepts from the longstanding out-of-tree kpatch [1] project which began in 2012 and has been used for many years to generate livepatch modules for production kernels. However, this is a complete rewrite which incorporates hard-earned lessons from 12+ years of maintaining kpatch. Key improvements compared to kpatch-build: - Integrated with objtool: Leverages objtool's existing control-flow graph analysis to help detect changed functions. - Works on vmlinux.o: Supports late-linked objects, making it compatible with LTO, IBT, and similar. - Simplified code base: ~3k fewer lines of code. - Upstream: No more out-of-tree #ifdef hacks, far less cruft. - Cleaner internals: Vastly simplified logic for symbol/section/reloc inclusion and special section extraction. - Robust __LINE__ macro handling: Avoids false positive binary diffs caused by the __LINE__ macro by introducing a fix-patch-lines script (coming in a later patch) which injects #line directives into the source .patch to preserve the original line numbers at compile time. Note the end result of this subcommand is not yet functionally complete. Livepatch needs some ELF magic which linkers don't like: - Two relocation sections (.rela*, .klp.rela*) for the same text section. - Use of SHN_LIVEPATCH to mark livepatch symbols. Unfortunately linkers tend to mangle such things. To work around that, klp diff generates a linker-compliant intermediate binary which encodes the relevant KLP section/reloc/symbol metadata. After module linking, a klp post-link step (coming soon) will clean up the mess and convert the linked .ko into a fully compliant livepatch module. Note this subcommand requires the diffed binaries to have been compiled with -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections, and processed with 'objtool --checksum'. Those constraints will be handled by a klp-build script introduced in a later patch. Without '-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections', reliable object diffing would be infeasible due to toolchain limitations: - For intra-file+intra-section references, the compiler might occasionally generated hard-coded instruction offsets instead of relocations. - Section-symbol-based references can be ambiguous: - Overlapping or zero-length symbols create ambiguity as to which symbol is being referenced. - A reference to the end of a symbol (e.g., checking array bounds) can be misinterpreted as a reference to the next symbol, or vice versa. A potential future alternative to '-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections' would be to introduce a toolchain option that forces symbol-based (non-section) relocations. Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-09-17 09:03:59 -07:00
cfi: Switch to -fsanitize=kcfi Switch from Clang's original forward-edge control-flow integrity implementation to -fsanitize=kcfi, which is better suited for the kernel, as it doesn't require LTO, doesn't use a jump table that requires altering function references, and won't break cross-module function address equality. Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220908215504.3686827-6-samitolvanen@google.com
2022-09-08 14:54:47 -07:00
module.lds,codetag: force 0 sh_addr for sections Commit 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros") added .text and made .data, .bss, and .rodata sections unconditional in the module linker script, but without an explicit address like the other sections in the same file. When linking modules with ld.bfd -r, sections defined without an address inherit the location counter, resulting in non-zero sh_addr values in the .ko. Relocatable objects are expected to have sh_addr=0 for these sections and these non-zero addresses confuse elfutils and have been reported to cause segmentation faults in SystemTap [1]. Add the 0 address specifier to all sections in module.lds, including the .codetag.* sections via MOD_SEPARATE_CODETAG_SECTIONS macro. Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33958 Fixes: 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros") Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
2026-03-04 20:52:37 -05:00
cfi: Switch to -fsanitize=kcfi Switch from Clang's original forward-edge control-flow integrity implementation to -fsanitize=kcfi, which is better suited for the kernel, as it doesn't require LTO, doesn't use a jump table that requires altering function references, and won't break cross-module function address equality. Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220908215504.3686827-6-samitolvanen@google.com
2022-09-08 14:54:47 -07:00
module.lds.S: Fix modules on 32-bit parisc architecture On the 32-bit parisc architecture, we always used the -ffunction-sections compiler option to tell the compiler to put the functions into seperate text sections. This is necessary, otherwise "big" kernel modules like ext4 or ipv6 fail to load because some branches won't be able to reach their stubs. Commit 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros") broke this for parisc because all text sections will get unconditionally merged now. Introduce the ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_TEXT_SECTIONS config option which avoids the text section merge for modules, and fix this issue by enabling this option by default for 32-bit parisc. Fixes: 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros") Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+ Suggested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
2026-04-07 22:07:22 +02:00
module.lds,codetag: force 0 sh_addr for sections Commit 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros") added .text and made .data, .bss, and .rodata sections unconditional in the module linker script, but without an explicit address like the other sections in the same file. When linking modules with ld.bfd -r, sections defined without an address inherit the location counter, resulting in non-zero sh_addr values in the .ko. Relocatable objects are expected to have sh_addr=0 for these sections and these non-zero addresses confuse elfutils and have been reported to cause segmentation faults in SystemTap [1]. Add the 0 address specifier to all sections in module.lds, including the .codetag.* sections via MOD_SEPARATE_CODETAG_SECTIONS macro. Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33958 Fixes: 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros") Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
2026-03-04 20:52:37 -05:00
vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN and friends are defined differently depending on whether certain config options enable -ffunction-sections and/or -fdata-sections. There's no technical reason for that beyond voodoo coding. Keeping the separate implementations adds unnecessary complexity, fragments the logic, and increases the risk of subtle bugs. Unify the macros by using the same input section patterns across all configs. This is a prerequisite for the upcoming livepatch klp-build tooling which will manually enable -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections via KCFLAGS. Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-09-17 09:03:10 -07:00
module.lds.S: Fix modules on 32-bit parisc architecture On the 32-bit parisc architecture, we always used the -ffunction-sections compiler option to tell the compiler to put the functions into seperate text sections. This is necessary, otherwise "big" kernel modules like ext4 or ipv6 fail to load because some branches won't be able to reach their stubs. Commit 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros") broke this for parisc because all text sections will get unconditionally merged now. Introduce the ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_TEXT_SECTIONS config option which avoids the text section merge for modules, and fix this issue by enabling this option by default for 32-bit parisc. Fixes: 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros") Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+ Suggested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
2026-04-07 22:07:22 +02:00
vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN and friends are defined differently depending on whether certain config options enable -ffunction-sections and/or -fdata-sections. There's no technical reason for that beyond voodoo coding. Keeping the separate implementations adds unnecessary complexity, fragments the logic, and increases the risk of subtle bugs. Unify the macros by using the same input section patterns across all configs. This is a prerequisite for the upcoming livepatch klp-build tooling which will manually enable -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections via KCFLAGS. Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-09-17 09:03:10 -07:00
module.lds,codetag: force 0 sh_addr for sections Commit 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros") added .text and made .data, .bss, and .rodata sections unconditional in the module linker script, but without an explicit address like the other sections in the same file. When linking modules with ld.bfd -r, sections defined without an address inherit the location counter, resulting in non-zero sh_addr values in the .ko. Relocatable objects are expected to have sh_addr=0 for these sections and these non-zero addresses confuse elfutils and have been reported to cause segmentation faults in SystemTap [1]. Add the 0 address specifier to all sections in module.lds, including the .codetag.* sections via MOD_SEPARATE_CODETAG_SECTIONS macro. Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33958 Fixes: 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros") Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
2026-03-04 20:52:37 -05:00
kbuild: lto: merge module sections LLD always splits sections with LTO, which increases module sizes. This change adds linker script rules to merge the split sections in the final module. Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201211184633.3213045-6-samitolvanen@google.com
2020-12-11 10:46:22 -08:00
module.lds,codetag: force 0 sh_addr for sections Commit 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros") added .text and made .data, .bss, and .rodata sections unconditional in the module linker script, but without an explicit address like the other sections in the same file. When linking modules with ld.bfd -r, sections defined without an address inherit the location counter, resulting in non-zero sh_addr values in the .ko. Relocatable objects are expected to have sh_addr=0 for these sections and these non-zero addresses confuse elfutils and have been reported to cause segmentation faults in SystemTap [1]. Add the 0 address specifier to all sections in module.lds, including the .codetag.* sections via MOD_SEPARATE_CODETAG_SECTIONS macro. Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33958 Fixes: 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros") Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
2026-03-04 20:52:37 -05:00
kbuild: lto: merge module sections LLD always splits sections with LTO, which increases module sizes. This change adds linker script rules to merge the split sections in the final module. Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201211184633.3213045-6-samitolvanen@google.com
2020-12-11 10:46:22 -08:00
module.lds,codetag: force 0 sh_addr for sections Commit 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros") added .text and made .data, .bss, and .rodata sections unconditional in the module linker script, but without an explicit address like the other sections in the same file. When linking modules with ld.bfd -r, sections defined without an address inherit the location counter, resulting in non-zero sh_addr values in the .ko. Relocatable objects are expected to have sh_addr=0 for these sections and these non-zero addresses confuse elfutils and have been reported to cause segmentation faults in SystemTap [1]. Add the 0 address specifier to all sections in module.lds, including the .codetag.* sections via MOD_SEPARATE_CODETAG_SECTIONS macro. Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33958 Fixes: 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros") Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
2026-03-04 20:52:37 -05:00
kbuild: lto: merge module sections LLD always splits sections with LTO, which increases module sizes. This change adds linker script rules to merge the split sections in the final module. Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201211184633.3213045-6-samitolvanen@google.com
2020-12-11 10:46:22 -08:00
vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN and friends are defined differently depending on whether certain config options enable -ffunction-sections and/or -fdata-sections. There's no technical reason for that beyond voodoo coding. Keeping the separate implementations adds unnecessary complexity, fragments the logic, and increases the risk of subtle bugs. Unify the macros by using the same input section patterns across all configs. This is a prerequisite for the upcoming livepatch klp-build tooling which will manually enable -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections via KCFLAGS. Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-09-17 09:03:10 -07:00
alloc_tag: load module tags into separate contiguous memory When a module gets unloaded there is a possibility that some of the allocations it made are still used and therefore the allocation tags corresponding to these allocations are still referenced. As such, the memory for these tags can't be freed. This is currently handled as an abnormal situation and module's data section is not being unloaded. To handle this situation without keeping module's data in memory, allow codetags with longer lifespan than the module to be loaded into their own separate memory. The in-use memory areas and gaps after module unloading in this separate memory are tracked using maple trees. Allocation tags arrange their separate memory so that it is virtually contiguous and that will allow simple allocation tag indexing later on in this patchset. The size of this virtually contiguous memory is set to store up to 100000 allocation tags. [surenb@google.com: fix empty codetag module section handling] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241101000017.3856204-1-surenb@google.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update comment, per Dan] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241023170759.999909-4-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@windriver.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-10-23 10:07:56 -07:00
linker script: throw away .discard section x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do. Also, .discard is not thrown away while linking modules. Make every arch and module linking throw it away. This will be used to define dummy variables for percpu declarations and definitions. This patch is based on Ivan Kokshaysky's alpha percpu patch. [ Impact: always throw away everything in .discard ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24 15:13:38 +09:00
kbuild: preprocess module linker script There was a request to preprocess the module linker script like we do for the vmlinux one. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/21/512) The difference between vmlinux.lds and module.lds is that the latter is needed for external module builds, thus must be cleaned up by 'make mrproper' instead of 'make clean'. Also, it must be created by 'make modules_prepare'. You cannot put it in arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/, which is cleaned up by 'make clean'. I moved arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/module.lds to arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/asm/module.lds.h, which is included from scripts/module.lds.S. scripts/module.lds is fine because 'make clean' keeps all the build artifacts under scripts/. You can add arch-specific sections in <asm/module.lds.h>. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Tested-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
2020-09-08 13:27:08 +09:00