linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/x86
Steven Rostedt 8329e818f1 ftrace/x86: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it
Matt Fleming reported seeing crashes when enabling and disabling
function profiling which uses function graph tracer. Later Namhyung Kim
hit a similar issue and he found that the issue was due to the jmp to
ftrace_stub in ftrace_graph_call was only two bytes, and when it was
changed to jump to the tracing code, it overwrote the ftrace_stub that
was after it.

Masami Hiramatsu bisected this down to a binutils change:

8dcea93252a9ea7dff57e85220a719e2a5e8ab41 is the first bad commit
commit 8dcea93252a9ea7dff57e85220a719e2a5e8ab41
Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri May 15 03:17:31 2015 -0700

    Add -mshared option to x86 ELF assembler

    This patch adds -mshared option to x86 ELF assembler.  By default,
    assembler will optimize out non-PLT relocations against defined non-weak
    global branch targets with default visibility.  The -mshared option tells
    the assembler to generate code which may go into a shared library
    where all non-weak global branch targets with default visibility can
    be preempted.  The resulting code is slightly bigger.  This option
    only affects the handling of branch instructions.

Declaring ftrace_stub as a weak call prevents gas from using two byte
jumps to it, which would be converted to a jump to the function graph
code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160516230035.1dbae571@gandalf.local.home

Reported-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Reported-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-05-20 13:28:40 -04:00
..
boot x86/build: Build compressed x86 kernels as PIE 2016-03-29 12:51:12 +02:00
configs Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2016-03-17 11:33:45 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'core-objtool-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-20 18:23:21 -07:00
entry Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-24 09:47:32 -07:00
events Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-04-03 07:22:12 -05:00
ia32 Merge branch 'x86-headers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-11-03 21:05:40 -08:00
include Power management and ACPI material for v4.6-rc3 2016-04-09 11:03:48 -07:00
kernel ftrace/x86: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it 2016-05-20 13:28:40 -04:00
kvm KVM: x86: mask CPUID(0xD,0x1).EAX against host value 2016-04-10 21:53:50 +02:00
lguest Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-14 17:58:53 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-24 09:47:32 -07:00
math-emu Merge branch 'x86-headers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-11-03 21:05:40 -08:00
mm mm/rmap: batched invalidations should use existing api 2016-04-01 17:03:37 -05:00
net x86/asm/bpf: Create stack frames in bpf_jit.S 2016-02-24 08:35:44 +01:00
oprofile Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-24 09:47:32 -07:00
pci PCI changes for the v4.6 merge window: 2016-03-16 14:45:55 -07:00
platform Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-24 09:47:32 -07:00
power x86/asm/power: Create stack frames in hibernate_asm_64.S 2016-02-24 08:35:43 +01:00
purgatory Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-24 09:47:32 -07:00
ras x86/topology: Fix AMD core count 2016-03-29 10:45:04 +02:00
realmode kernel: add kcov code coverage 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
tools
um Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2016-03-19 10:05:34 -07:00
video x86/video: Don't assume all FB devices are PCI devices 2016-03-15 11:08:26 +01:00
xen xen/x86: Call cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE) from xen_play_dead() 2016-03-29 09:34:10 -04:00
.gitignore
Kbuild perf/x86: Move perf_event.c ............... => x86/events/core.c 2016-02-09 10:23:49 +01:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-24 10:02:14 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu x86/Kconfig/cpus: Fix/complete CPU type help texts 2015-10-21 11:12:56 +02:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-15 09:32:27 -07:00
Makefile Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2015-11-04 09:11:12 -08:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um