The runtime constants linker script depended on documented linker behavior [1]: "If an output section’s name is the same as the input section’s name and is representable as a C identifier, then the linker will automatically PROVIDE two symbols: __start_SECNAME and __stop_SECNAME, where SECNAME is the name of the section. These indicate the start address and end address of the output section respectively" to just automatically define the symbol names for the bounds of the runtime constant arrays. It turns out that this isn't actually something we can rely on, with old linkers not generating these automatic symbols. It looks to have been introduced in binutils-2.29 back in 2017, and we still support building with versions all the way back to binutils-2.25 (from 2015). And yes, Oleg actually seems to be using such ancient versions of binutils. So instead of depending on the implicit symbols from "section names match and are representable C identifiers", just do this all manually. It's not like it causes us any extra pain, we already have to do that for all the other sections that we use that often have special characters in them. Reported-and-tested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Input-Section-Example.html [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240802114518.GA20924@redhat.com/ Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Remove tristate choice support from Kconfig - Stop using the PROVIDE() directive in the linker script - Reduce the number of links for the combination of CONFIG_KALLSYMS and CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF - Enable the warning for symbol reference to .exit.* sections by default - Fix warnings in RPM package builds - Improve scripts/make_fit.py to generate a FIT image with separate base DTB and overlays - Improve choice value calculation in Kconfig - Fix conditional prompt behavior in choice in Kconfig - Remove support for the uncommon EMAIL environment variable in Debian package builds - Remove support for the uncommon "name <email>" form for the DEBEMAIL environment variable - Raise the minimum supported GNU Make version to 4.0 - Remove stale code for the absolute kallsyms - Move header files commonly used for host programs to scripts/include/ - Introduce the pacman-pkg target to generate a pacman package used in Arch Linux - Clean up Kconfig * tag 'kbuild-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (65 commits) kbuild: doc: gcc to CC change kallsyms: change sym_entry::percpu_absolute to bool type kallsyms: unify seq and start_pos fields of struct sym_entry kallsyms: add more original symbol type/name in comment lines kallsyms: use \t instead of a tab in printf() kallsyms: avoid repeated calculation of array size for markers kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package modpost: use generic macros for hash table implementation kbuild: move some helper headers from scripts/kconfig/ to scripts/include/ Makefile: add comment to discourage tools/* addition for kernel builds kbuild: clean up scripts/remove-stale-files kconfig: recursive checks drop file/lineno kbuild: rpm-pkg: introduce a simple changelog section for kernel.spec kallsyms: get rid of code for absolute kallsyms kbuild: Create INSTALL_PATH directory if it does not exist kbuild: Abort make on install failures kconfig: remove 'e1' and 'e2' macros from expression deduplication kconfig: remove SYMBOL_CHOICEVAL flag kconfig: add const qualifiers to several function arguments kconfig: call expr_eliminate_yn() at least once in expr_eliminate_dups() ...
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - In the series "treewide: Refactor heap related implementation", Kuan-Wei Chiu has significantly reworked the min_heap library code and has taught bcachefs to use the new more generic implementation. - Yury Norov's series "Cleanup cpumask.h inclusion in core headers" reworks the cpumask and nodemask headers to make things generally more rational. - Kuan-Wei Chiu has sent along some maintenance work against our sorting library code in the series "lib/sort: Optimizations and cleanups". - More library maintainance work from Christophe Jaillet in the series "Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API". - Ryusuke Konishi continues with the nilfs2 fixes and clanups in the series "nilfs2: eliminate the call to inode_attach_wb()". - Kuan-Ying Lee has some fixes to the gdb scripts in the series "Fix GDB command error". - Plus the usual shower of singleton patches all over the place. Please see the relevant changelogs for details. * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-07-21-15-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (98 commits) ia64: scrub ia64 from poison.h watchdog/perf: properly initialize the turbo mode timestamp and rearm counter tsacct: replace strncpy() with strscpy() lib/bch.c: use swap() to improve code test_bpf: convert comma to semicolon init/modpost: conditionally check section mismatch to __meminit* init: remove unused __MEMINIT* macros nilfs2: Constify struct kobj_type nilfs2: avoid undefined behavior in nilfs_cnt32_ge macro math: rational: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro lib/zlib: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro fs: ufs: add MODULE_DESCRIPTION() lib/rbtree.c: fix the example typo ocfs2: add bounds checking to ocfs2_check_dir_entry() fs: add kernel-doc comments to ocfs2_prepare_orphan_dir() coredump: simplify zap_process() selftests/fpu: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro compiler.h: simplify data_race() macro build-id: require program headers to be right after ELF header resource: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() ...
Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann: "Most of this is part of my ongoing work to clean up the system call tables. In this bit, all of the newer architectures are converted to use the machine readable syscall.tbl format instead in place of complex macros in include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h. This follows an earlier series that fixed various API mismatches and in turn is used as the base for planned simplifications. The other two patches are dead code removal and a warning fix" * tag 'asm-generic-6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: vmlinux.lds.h: catch .bss..L* sections into BSS") fixmap: Remove unused set_fixmap_offset_io() riscv: convert to generic syscall table openrisc: convert to generic syscall table nios2: convert to generic syscall table loongarch: convert to generic syscall table hexagon: use new system call table csky: convert to generic syscall table arm64: rework compat syscall macros arm64: generate 64-bit syscall.tbl arm64: convert unistd_32.h to syscall.tbl format arc: convert to generic syscall table clone3: drop __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 macro kbuild: add syscall table generation to scripts/Makefile.asm-headers kbuild: verify asm-generic header list loongarch: avoid generating extra header files um: don't generate asm/bpf_perf_event.h csky: drop asm/gpio.h wrapper syscalls: add generic scripts/syscall.tbl
This reimplements commit 951bcae6c5a0 ("kallsyms: Avoid weak references
for kallsyms symbols") because I am not a big fan of PROVIDE().
As an alternative solution, this commit prepends one more kallsyms step.
KSYMS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.S # added
AS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.o # added
LD .tmp_vmlinux.btf
BTF .btf.vmlinux.bin.o
LD .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
NM .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.syms
KSYMS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S
AS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.o
LD .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2
NM .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.syms
KSYMS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.S
AS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.o
LD vmlinux
Step 0 takes /dev/null as input, and generates .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.o,
which has a valid kallsyms format with the empty symbol list, and can be
linked to vmlinux. Since it is really small, the added compile-time cost
is negligible.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
This reverts commit eb8f689046b8 ("Use separate sections for __dev/
_cpu/__mem code/data").
Check section mismatch to __meminit* only when CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=n.
With this change, the linker script and modpost become simpler, and we
can get rid of the __ref annotations from the memory hotplug code.
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: remove MEM_KEEP from arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240710093213.2aefb25f@canb.auug.org.au
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240706160511.2331061-2-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 9a427556fb8e ("vmlinux.lds.h: catch compound literals into
data and BSS") added catches for .data..L* and .rodata..L* but missed
.bss..L*
Since commit 5431fdd2c181 ("ptrace: Convert ptrace_attach() to use
lock guards") the following appears at build:
LD .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
powerpc64-linux-ld: warning: orphan section `.bss..Lubsan_data33' from `kernel/ptrace.o' being placed in section `.bss..Lubsan_data33'
NM .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.syms
KSYMS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S
AS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S
LD .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2
powerpc64-linux-ld: warning: orphan section `.bss..Lubsan_data33' from `kernel/ptrace.o' being placed in section `.bss..Lubsan_data33'
NM .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.syms
KSYMS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.S
AS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.S
LD vmlinux
powerpc64-linux-ld: warning: orphan section `.bss..Lubsan_data33' from `kernel/ptrace.o' being placed in section `.bss..Lubsan_data33'
Lets add .bss..L* to BSS_MAIN macro to catch those sections into BSS.
Fixes: 9a427556fb8e ("vmlinux.lds.h: catch compound literals into data and BSS")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202404031349.nmKhyuUG-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
This adds the initial dummy support for 'runtime constants' for when an architecture doesn't actually support an implementation of fixing up said runtime constants. This ends up being the fallback to just using the variables as regular __ro_after_init variables, and changes the dcache d_hash() function to use this model. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:
"The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM,
documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs.
Notable series include:
- Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping cleanup/consolidation/
maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide: Remove pXd_huge()
API".
- In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with
MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's
MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in
one test.
- In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and
Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via
/proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being
allocated: number of calls and amount of memory.
- Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM
patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in
largely similar code sites.
- In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene"
Johannes Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of
migratetype requests, with resulting improvements in compaction
efficiency.
- In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent"
Baolin Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should
improve hugetlb allocation reliability.
- Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a
memory-tight memcg. Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when
memory almost met memcg limit".
- In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting"
Kairui Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10%
performance improvement in one test.
- Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone
initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor
free_area_init_core()".
- Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series
"mm/init: minor clean up and improvement".
- MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove
follow_pfn".
- More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various
page->flags cleanups".
- Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the
series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring".
- More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series:
"Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio"
"khugepaged folio conversions"
"Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers"
"Use folio APIs in procfs"
"Clean up __folio_put()"
"Some cleanups for memory-failure"
"Remove page_mapping()"
"More folio compat code removal"
- David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert
hugetlb functions to work on folis".
- Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of
hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2".
- Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the
series "Cover a guard gap corner case".
- Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the
series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl".
- Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs.
This is a simple first-cut implementation for now. The series is
"support multi-size THP numa balancing".
- Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in
the series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address".
- Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series
"selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes".
- Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts
in the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting".
- Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's
permission page faults in the series
"arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess"
"mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS"
- GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call
it GUP-fast".
- hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault
path to use struct vm_fault".
- selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix
selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"".
- Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the
series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes".
Fixes the initialization code so that migration between different
memory types works as intended.
- David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant
driver in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn
follow_pte() fixes".
- David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his
series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups".
- Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to
folio in KSM".
- Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size
THP's in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout
counters".
- Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap
same-filled and limit checking cleanups".
- Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the
documentation to be lacking. The series is "Improve buffer head
documentation".
- Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang. His
series "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free"
optimizes the freeing of these things.
- Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback
instrumentation in the series "Improve visibility of writeback".
- Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series
"Fix and cleanups to page-writeback".
- Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in
the series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs". Intel's
test bot reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test.
- SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series
"mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck"
"selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test"
- Also some maintenance work in the series
"mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout"
"mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements"
- David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the
series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as
XFAIL".
- memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg:
reduce memory consumption by memcg stats".
- DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series
"dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking""
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (426 commits)
memcg, oom: cleanup unused memcg_oom_gfp_mask and memcg_oom_order
selftests/mm: hugetlb_madv_vs_map: avoid test skipping by querying hugepage size at runtime
mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_wp
mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_fault
selftests: cgroup: add tests to verify the zswap writeback path
mm: memcg: make alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() return bool
mm/damon/core: fix return value from damos_wmark_metric_value
mm: do not update memcg stats for NR_{FILE/SHMEM}_PMDMAPPED
selftests: cgroup: remove redundant enabling of memory controller
Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree
Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT
Docs/mm/damon/design: use a list for supported filters
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file
selftests/damon: classify tests for functionalities and regressions
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: use 'is' instead of '==' for 'None'
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: find sysfs mount point from /proc/mounts
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: check errors from nr_schemes file reads
mm/damon/core: initialize ->esz_bp from damos_quota_init_priv()
selftests/damon: add a test for DAMOS quota goal
...
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Avoid 'constexpr', which is a keyword in C23 - Allow 'dtbs_check' and 'dt_compatible_check' run independently of 'dt_binding_check' - Fix weak references to avoid GOT entries in position-independent code generation - Convert the last use of 'optional' property in arch/sh/Kconfig - Remove support for the 'optional' property in Kconfig - Remove support for Clang's ThinLTO caching, which does not work with the .incbin directive - Change the semantics of $(src) so it always points to the source directory, which fixes Makefile inconsistencies between upstream and downstream - Fix 'make tar-pkg' for RISC-V to produce a consistent package - Provide reasonable default coverage for objtool, sanitizers, and profilers - Remove redundant OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD, KASAN_SANITIZE, etc. - Remove the last use of tristate choice in drivers/rapidio/Kconfig - Various cleanups and fixes in Kconfig * tag 'kbuild-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (46 commits) kconfig: use sym_get_choice_menu() in sym_check_prop() rapidio: remove choice for enumeration kconfig: lxdialog: remove initialization with A_NORMAL kconfig: m/nconf: merge two item_add_str() calls kconfig: m/nconf: remove dead code to display value of bool choice kconfig: m/nconf: remove dead code to display children of choice members kconfig: gconf: show checkbox for choice correctly kbuild: use GCOV_PROFILE and KCSAN_SANITIZE in scripts/Makefile.modfinal Makefile: remove redundant tool coverage variables kbuild: provide reasonable defaults for tool coverage modules: Drop the .export_symbol section from the final modules kconfig: use menu_list_for_each_sym() in sym_check_choice_deps() kconfig: use sym_get_choice_menu() in conf_write_defconfig() kconfig: add sym_get_choice_menu() helper kconfig: turn defaults and additional prompt for choice members into error kconfig: turn missing prompt for choice members into error kconfig: turn conf_choice() into void function kconfig: use linked list in sym_set_changed() kconfig: gconf: use MENU_CHANGED instead of SYMBOL_CHANGED kconfig: gconf: remove debug code ...