linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch
Matthias Maennich ed13fc33f7 export: explicitly align struct kernel_symbol
This change allows growing struct kernel_symbol without wasting bytes to
alignment. It also concretized the alignment of ksymtab entries if
relative references are used for ksymtab entries.

struct kernel_symbol was already implicitly being aligned to the word
size, except on x86_64 and m68k, where it is aligned to 16 and 2 bytes,
respectively.

As far as I can tell there is no requirement for aligning struct
kernel_symbol to 16 bytes on x86_64, but gcc aligns structs to their
size, and the linker aligns the custom __ksymtab sections to the largest
data type contained within, so setting KSYM_ALIGN to 16 was necessary to
stay consistent with the code generated for non-ASM EXPORT_SYMBOL(). Now
that non-ASM EXPORT_SYMBOL() explicitly aligns to word size (8),
KSYM_ALIGN is no longer necessary.

In case of relative references, the alignment has been changed
accordingly to not waste space when adding new struct members.

As for m68k, struct kernel_symbol is aligned to 2 bytes even though the
structure itself is 8 bytes; using a 4-byte alignment shouldn't hurt.

I manually verified the output of the __ksymtab sections didn't change
on x86, x86_64, arm, arm64 and m68k. As expected, the section contents
didn't change, and the ELF section alignment only changed on x86_64 and
m68k. Feedback from other archs more than welcome.

Co-developed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
2019-09-10 10:30:09 +02:00
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alpha Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-07-17 08:58:04 -07:00
arc Wimplicit-fallthrough patches for 5.3-rc7 2019-08-29 09:28:25 -07:00
arm Three fixes for ARM this time around: 2019-08-30 11:58:02 -07:00
arm64 ARM: SoC fixes 2019-08-30 10:53:12 -07:00
c6x Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu 2019-07-10 21:42:03 -07:00
csky treewide: add "WITH Linux-syscall-note" to SPDX tag of uapi headers 2019-07-25 11:05:10 +02:00
h8300 h8300 update for 5.3 2019-07-17 09:36:38 -07:00
hexagon hexagon: switch to generic version of pte allocation 2019-07-21 09:53:00 -07:00
ia64 Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-07-19 10:42:02 -07:00
m68k export: explicitly align struct kernel_symbol 2019-09-10 10:30:09 +02:00
microblaze clone3-v5.3 2019-07-11 10:09:44 -07:00
mips Wimplicit-fallthrough patches for 5.3-rc6 2019-08-22 11:26:10 -07:00
nds32 nds32: Mark expected switch fall-throughs 2019-08-29 11:06:56 -05:00
nios2 nios2 update for v5.3-rc1 2019-07-12 15:38:05 -07:00
openrisc dma-mapping updates for Linux 5.3 2019-07-12 15:13:55 -07:00
parisc parisc: fix compilation errrors 2019-08-24 19:48:42 -07:00
powerpc Merge tag 'kvm-ppc-fixes-5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2019-08-27 16:02:48 +02:00
riscv RISC-V: Fix FIXMAP area corruption on RV32 systems 2019-08-28 15:30:12 -07:00
s390 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2019-08-23 17:34:11 -07:00
sh sh: kernel: hw_breakpoint: Fix missing break in switch statement 2019-08-11 16:15:16 -05:00
sparc treewide: add "WITH Linux-syscall-note" to SPDX tag of uapi headers 2019-07-25 11:05:10 +02:00
um um: fix time travel mode 2019-08-23 00:39:53 +02:00
unicore32 Kconfig updates for v5.3 2019-07-12 16:06:27 -07:00
x86 Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-09-01 11:21:57 -07:00
xtensa xtensa: add missing isync to the cpu_reset TLB code 2019-08-12 15:05:48 -07:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-07-20 10:33:44 -07:00