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Nadav Amit c06c4d8090 x86/objtool: Use asm macros to work around GCC inlining bugs
As described in:

  77b0bf55bc: ("kbuild/Makefile: Prepare for using macros in inline assembly code to work around asm() related GCC inlining bugs")

GCC's inlining heuristics are broken with common asm() patterns used in
kernel code, resulting in the effective disabling of inlining.

In the case of objtool the resulting borkage can be significant, since all the
annotations of objtool are discarded during linkage and never inlined,
yet GCC bogusly considers most functions affected by objtool annotations
as 'too large'.

The workaround is to set an assembly macro and call it from the inline
assembly block. As a result GCC considers the inline assembly block as
a single instruction. (Which it isn't, but that's the best we can get.)

This increases the kernel size slightly:

      text     data     bss      dec     hex filename
  18140829 10224724 2957312 31322865 1ddf2f1 ./vmlinux before
  18140970 10225412 2957312 31323694 1ddf62e ./vmlinux after (+829)

The number of static text symbols (i.e. non-inlined functions) is reduced:

  Before:  40321
  After:   40302 (-19)

[ mingo: Rewrote the changelog. ]

Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181003213100.189959-4-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-10-04 11:24:58 +02:00
arch x86/objtool: Use asm macros to work around GCC inlining bugs 2018-10-04 11:24:58 +02:00
block blk-mq: I/O and timer unplugs are inverted in blktrace 2018-09-27 13:12:44 -06:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto DMAengine updates for v4.19-rc1 2018-08-18 15:55:59 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2018-09-28 18:04:50 -07:00
drivers for-linus-20180929 2018-09-29 14:52:14 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs filesystem-dax for 4.19-rc6 2018-09-30 06:19:38 -07:00
include x86/objtool: Use asm macros to work around GCC inlining bugs 2018-10-04 11:24:58 +02:00
init Kbuild updates for v4.19 (2nd) 2018-08-25 13:40:38 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm: properly return EIDRM in shm_lock() 2018-09-04 16:45:02 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-09-29 11:32:03 -07:00
lib lib/Kconfig.debug: fix three typos in help text 2018-09-04 16:45:02 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm mm: slowly shrink slabs with a relatively small number of objects 2018-09-20 22:01:11 +02:00
net ip_tunnel: be careful when accessing the inner header 2018-09-24 12:27:04 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: all XDP samples should unload xdp/bpf prog on SIGTERM 2018-08-16 21:55:32 +02:00
scripts kbuild/Makefile: Prepare for using macros in inline assembly code to work around asm() related GCC inlining bugs 2018-10-04 10:57:09 +02:00
security Revert "uapi/linux/keyctl.h: don't use C++ reserved keyword as a struct member name" 2018-09-25 13:28:58 +02:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.19 2018-09-17 18:59:21 +02:00
tools powerpc fixes for 4.19 #3 2018-09-28 17:43:32 -07:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: Remove obsolete kvm_unmap_hva notifier backend 2018-09-07 15:06:02 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS A trivial fix for auxdisplay 2018-09-30 06:20:33 -07:00
Makefile kbuild/Makefile: Prepare for using macros in inline assembly code to work around asm() related GCC inlining bugs 2018-10-04 10:57:09 +02:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.