linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h, branch v4.4.5

x86/asm: Remove the xyz_cfi macros from dwarf2.h

2015-10-14T14:56:28+00:00

They are currently unused, and I don't think that anyone was
ever particularly happy with them.  They had the unfortunate
property that they made it easy to CFI-annotate things without
thinking about them -- when pushing, do you want to just update
the CFA offset, or do you also want to update the saved location
of the register being pushed?

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447bfbd10bb268b4593b32534ecefa1f4df287e.1444696194.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/vdso: Define BUILD_VDSO while building and emit .eh_frame in asm

2015-10-09T07:41:05+00:00

For the vDSO, user code wants runtime unwind info.  Make sure
that, if we use .cfi directives, we generate it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/16e29ad8855e6508197000d8c41f56adb00d7580.1444091584.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/asm: Re-add parts of the manual CFI infrastructure

2015-10-09T07:41:05+00:00

Commit:

  131484c8da97 ("x86/debug: Remove perpetually broken, unmaintainable dwarf annotations")

removed all the manual DWARF annotations outside the vDSO.  It also removed
the macros we used for the manual annotations.

Re-add these macros so that we can clean up the vDSO annotations.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4c70bb98a8b773c8ccfaabf6745e569ff43e7f65.1444091584.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/debug: Remove perpetually broken, unmaintainable dwarf annotations

2015-06-02T05:57:48+00:00

So the dwarf2 annotations in low level assembly code have
become an increasing hindrance: unreadable, messy macros
mixed into some of the most security sensitive code paths
of the Linux kernel.

These debug info annotations don't even buy the upstream
kernel anything: dwarf driven stack unwinding has caused
problems in the past so it's out of tree, and the upstream
kernel only uses the much more robust framepointers based
stack unwinding method.

In addition to that there's a steady, slow bitrot going
on with these annotations, requiring frequent fixups.
There's no tooling and no functionality upstream that
keeps it correct.

So burn down the sick forest, allowing new, healthier growth:

   27 files changed, 350 insertions(+), 1101 deletions(-)

Someone who has the willingness and time to do this
properly can attempt to reintroduce dwarf debuginfo in x86
assembly code plus dwarf unwinding from first principles,
with the following conditions:

 - it should be maximally readable, and maximally low-key to
   'ordinary' code reading and maintenance.

 - find a build time method to insert dwarf annotations
   automatically in the most common cases, for pop/push
   instructions that manipulate the stack pointer. This could
   be done for example via a preprocessing step that just
   looks for common patterns - plus special annotations for
   the few cases where we want to depart from the default.
   We have hundreds of CFI annotations, so automating most of
   that makes sense.

 - it should come with build tooling checks that ensure that
   CFI annotations are sensible. We've seen such efforts from
   the framepointer side, and there's no reason it couldn't be
   done on the dwarf side.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker 
Cc: Jan Beulich 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/asm: Introduce push/pop macros which generate CFI_REL_OFFSET and CFI_RESTORE

2015-03-04T21:50:49+00:00

Sequences:

        pushl_cfi %reg
        CFI_REL_OFFSET reg, 0

and:

        popl_cfi %reg
        CFI_RESTORE reg

happen quite often. This patch adds macros which generate them.

No assembly changes (verified with objdump -dr vmlinux.o).

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko 
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Will Drewry 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421017655-25561-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2202eb90f175cf45d1b2d1c64dbb5676a8ad07ad.1424989793.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86-64: Fix CFI data for interrupt frames

2011-09-28T17:04:52+00:00

The patch titled "x86: Don't use frame pointer to save old stack
on irq entry" did not properly adjust CFI directives, so this
patch is a follow-up to that one.

With the old stack pointer no longer stored in a callee-saved
register (plus some offset), we now have to use a CFA expression
to describe the memory location where it is being found. This
requires the use of .cfi_escape (allowing arbitrary byte streams
to be emitted into .eh_frame), as there is no
.cfi_def_cfa_expression (which also cannot reasonably be
expected, as it would require a full expression parser).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E8360200200007800058467@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86: Use {push,pop}{l,q}_cfi in more places

2010-09-03T06:14:11+00:00

... plus additionally introduce {push,pop}f{l,q}_cfi. All in the
hope that the code becomes better readable this way (it gets
quite a bit smaller in any case).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich 
Acked-by: Alexander van Heukelum 
LKML-Reference: <4C7FBDA40200007800013FAF@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86: Use .cfi_sections for assembly code

2010-05-14T05:15:18+00:00

The newer assemblers support the .cfi_sections directive so we can put
the CFI from .S files into the .debug_frame section that is preserved
in unstripped vmlinux and in separate debuginfo, rather than the
.eh_frame section that is now discarded by vmlinux.lds.S.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath 
LKML-Reference: <20100514044303.A6FE7400BE@magilla.sf.frob.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86, asm: Add 32-bit versions of the combined CFI macros

2009-08-31T22:14:29+00:00

Add 32-bit versions of the combined CFI macros, equivalent to the
64-bit ones except, obviously, operating on 32-bit stack words.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86: move dwarf2 related macro to dwarf2.h

2008-11-23T12:20:52+00:00

Impact: cleanup

Move recently introduced dwarf2 macros to dwarf2.h file.
It allow us to not duplicate them in assembly files.

Active usage of _cfi macros don't make assembly files
more obvious to understand but we already have a lot of
macros there which requires to search the definitions
of them *anyway*. But at least it make every cfi usage
one line shorter.

Also some code alignment is done.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar