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Nick Desaulniers 4c973f7507 x86/entry: Emit a symbol for register restoring thunk
commit 5e6dca82bcaa49348f9e5fcb48df4881f6d6c4ae upstream.

Arnd found a randconfig that produces the warning:

  arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.o: warning: objtool: missing symbol for insn at
  offset 0x3e

when building with LLVM_IAS=1 (Clang's integrated assembler). Josh
notes:

  With the LLVM assembler not generating section symbols, objtool has no
  way to reference this code when it generates ORC unwinder entries,
  because this code is outside of any ELF function.

  The limitation now being imposed by objtool is that all code must be
  contained in an ELF symbol.  And .L symbols don't create such symbols.

  So basically, you can use an .L symbol *inside* a function or a code
  segment, you just can't use the .L symbol to contain the code using a
  SYM_*_START/END annotation pair.

Fangrui notes that this optimization is helpful for reducing image size
when compiling with -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections. I have
observed on the order of tens of thousands of symbols for the kernel
images built with those flags.

A patch has been authored against GNU binutils to match this behavior
of not generating unused section symbols ([1]), so this will
also become a problem for users of GNU binutils once they upgrade to 2.36.

Omit the .L prefix on a label so that the assembler will emit an entry
into the symbol table for the label, with STB_LOCAL binding. This
enables objtool to generate proper unwind info here with LLVM_IAS=1 or
GNU binutils 2.36+.

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Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Suggested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210112194625.4181814-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1209
Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93783
Link: https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/Symbol-Names.html
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=d1bcae833b32f1408485ce69f844dcd7ded093a8 [1]
Cc: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-02-03 23:28:40 +01:00
arch x86/entry: Emit a symbol for register restoring thunk 2021-02-03 23:28:40 +01:00
block blk-mq-debugfs: Add decode for BLK_MQ_F_TAG_HCTX_SHARED 2021-01-19 18:27:29 +01:00
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drivers s390/vfio-ap: No need to disable IRQ after queue reset 2021-02-03 23:28:39 +01:00
fs io_uring: fix sleeping under spin in __io_clean_op 2021-01-30 13:55:19 +01:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.