linux-toradex.git/scripts/Makefile.build, branch v4.14-rc7

objtool: Skip unreachable warnings for GCC 4.4 and older

2017-09-28T05:23:02+00:00

The kbuild bot occasionally reports warnings like:

  drivers/scsi/pcmcia/aha152x_core.o: warning: objtool: seldo_run()+0x130: unreachable instruction

These warnings are always with GCC 4.4.  That version of GCC sometimes
places unreachable instructions after calls to noreturn functions.

The unreachable warnings aren't very important anyway.  Just ignore them
for old versions of GCC.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot 
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bc89b807d965b98ec18a0bb94f96a594bd58f2f2.1506551639.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2017-09-04T16:52:57+00:00

Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Introduce the ORC unwinder, which can be enabled via
   CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y.

   The ORC unwinder is a lightweight, Linux kernel specific debuginfo
   implementation, which aims to be DWARF done right for unwinding.
   Objtool is used to generate the ORC unwinder tables during build, so
   the data format is flexible and kernel internal: there's no
   dependency on debuginfo created by an external toolchain.

   The ORC unwinder is almost two orders of magnitude faster than the
   (out of tree) DWARF unwinder - which is important for perf call graph
   profiling. It is also significantly simpler and is coded defensively:
   there has not been a single ORC related kernel crash so far, even
   with early versions. (knock on wood!)

   But the main advantage is that enabling the ORC unwinder allows
   CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS to be turned off - which speeds up the kernel
   measurably:

   With frame pointers disabled, GCC does not have to add frame pointer
   instrumentation code to every function in the kernel. The kernel's
   .text size decreases by about 3.2%, resulting in better cache
   utilization and fewer instructions executed, resulting in a broad
   kernel-wide speedup. Average speedup of system calls should be
   roughly in the 1-3% range - measurements by Mel Gorman [1] have shown
   a speedup of 5-10% for some function execution intense workloads.

   The main cost of the unwinder is that the unwinder data has to be
   stored in RAM: the memory cost is 2-4MB of RAM, depending on kernel
   config - which is a modest cost on modern x86 systems.

   Given how young the ORC unwinder code is it's not enabled by default
   - but given the performance advantages the plan is to eventually make
   it the default unwinder on x86.

   See Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt for more details.

 - Remove lguest support: its intended role was that of a temporary
   proof of concept for virtualization, plus its removal will enable the
   reduction (removal) of the paravirt API as well, so Rusty agreed to
   its removal. (Juergen Gross)

 - Clean up and fix FSGS related functionality (Andy Lutomirski)

 - Clean up IO access APIs (Andy Shevchenko)

 - Enhance the symbol namespace (Jiri Slaby)

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  objtool: Handle GCC stack pointer adjustment bug
  x86/entry/64: Use ENTRY() instead of ALIGN+GLOBAL for stub32_clone()
  x86/fpu/math-emu: Add ENDPROC to functions
  x86/boot/64: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_64()
  x86/boot/32: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_32()
  x86/lguest: Remove lguest support
  x86/paravirt/xen: Remove xen_patch()
  objtool: Fix objtool fallthrough detection with function padding
  x86/xen/64: Fix the reported SS and CS in SYSCALL
  objtool: Track DRAP separately from callee-saved registers
  objtool: Fix validate_branch() return codes
  x86: Clarify/fix no-op barriers for text_poke_bp()
  x86/switch_to/64: Rewrite FS/GS switching yet again to fix AMD CPUs
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test selectors 1, 2, and 3
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Report FSBASE and GSBASE correctly in core dumps
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Fully initialize FS and GS state in start_thread_common
  x86/asm: Fix UNWIND_HINT_REGS macro for older binutils
  x86/asm/32: Fix regs_get_register() on segment registers
  x86/xen/64: Rearrange the SYSCALL entries
  x86/asm/32: Remove a bunch of '& 0xffff' from pt_regs segment reads
  ...

kbuild: trivial cleanups on the comments

2017-08-09T15:58:20+00:00

This is a bunch of trivial fixes and cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Cao jin 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

x86/unwind: Add the ORC unwinder

2017-07-26T11:18:20+00:00

Add the new ORC unwinder which is enabled by CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y.
It plugs into the existing x86 unwinder framework.

It relies on objtool to generate the needed .orc_unwind and
.orc_unwind_ip sections.

For more details on why ORC is used instead of DWARF, see
Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt - but the short version is
that it's a simplified, fundamentally more robust debugninfo
data structure, which also allows up to two orders of magnitude
faster lookups than the DWARF unwinder - which matters to
profiling workloads like perf.

Thanks to Andy Lutomirski for the performance improvement ideas:
splitting the ORC unwind table into two parallel arrays and creating a
fast lookup table to search a subset of the unwind table.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a6cbfb40f8da99b7a45a1a8302dc6aef16ec812.1500938583.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
[ Extended the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

objtool: Fix gcov check for older versions of GCC

2017-07-25T09:12:45+00:00

Objtool tries to silence 'unreachable instruction' warnings when it
detects gcov is enabled, because gcov produces a lot of unreachable
instructions and they don't really matter.

However, the 0-day bot is still reporting some unreachable instruction
warnings with CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=y on GCC 4.6.4.

As it turns out, objtool's gcov detection doesn't work with older
versions of GCC because they don't create a bunch of symbols with the
'gcov.' prefix like newer versions of GCC do.

Move the gcov check out of objtool and instead just create a new
'--no-unreachable' flag which can be passed in by the kernel Makefile
when CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL is defined.

Also rename the 'nofp' variable to 'no_fp' for consistency with the new
'no_unreachable' variable.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot 
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Fixes: 9cfffb116887 ("objtool: Skip all "unreachable instruction" warnings for gcov kernels")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c243dc78eb2ffdabb6e927844dea39b6033cd395.1500939244.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kbuild: thin archives use P option to ar

2017-06-30T00:03:03+00:00

The P option makes ar do full path name matching and can prevent ar
from discarding files with duplicate names in some cases of creating
thin archives from thin archives. The sh architecture in particular
loses some object files from its kernel/cpu/sh*/ directories without
this option.

This could be a bug in binutils ar, but the P option should not cause
any negative effects so it is safe to use to work around this with.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

objtool: make it visible in make V=1 output

2017-05-03T04:39:37+00:00

It is currently impossible to see what is going on with objtool when
building, so call echo-cmd to see the actions:
  gcc -Wp,-MD,arch/x86/entry/.entry_64.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem ...
  ./tools/objtool/objtool check "arch/x86/entry/entry_64.o";

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Michal Marek 
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files

2017-04-24T23:13:52+00:00

Add rules to kbuild in order to generate LLVM assembly files with the .ll
extension when using clang.

  # from c code
  make CC=clang kernel/pid.ll

Signed-off-by: Vinícius Tinti 
Signed-off-by: Behan Webster 
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: modversions: add infrastructure for emitting relative CRCs

2017-02-03T16:28:25+00:00

This add the kbuild infrastructure that will allow architectures to emit
vmlinux symbol CRCs as 32-bit offsets to another location in the kernel
where the actual value is stored. This works around problems with CRCs
being mistaken for relocatable symbols on kernels that self relocate at
runtime (i.e., powerpc with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y)

For the kbuild side of things, this comes down to the following:

 - introducing a Kconfig symbol MODULE_REL_CRCS

 - adding a -R switch to genksyms to instruct it to emit the CRC symbols
   as references into the .rodata section

 - making modpost distinguish such references from absolute CRC symbols
   by the section index (SHN_ABS)

 - making kallsyms disregard non-absolute symbols with a __crc_ prefix

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild

2016-12-18T00:24:13+00:00

Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - prototypes for x86 asm-exported symbols (Adam Borowski) and a warning
   about missing CRCs (Nick Piggin)

 - asm-exports fix for LTO (Nicolas Pitre)

 - thin archives improvements (Nick Piggin)

 - linker script fix for CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION (Nick
   Piggin)

 - genksyms support for __builtin_va_list keyword

 - misc minor fixes

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm
  kbuild: fix scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh* for the no modules case
  scripts/kallsyms: remove last remnants of --page-offset option
  make use of make variable CURDIR instead of calling pwd
  kbuild: cmd_export_list: tighten the sed script
  kbuild: minor improvement for thin archives build
  kbuild: modpost warn if export version crc is missing
  kbuild: keep data tables through dead code elimination
  kbuild: improve linker compatibility with lib-ksyms.o build
  genksyms: Regenerate parser
  kbuild/genksyms: handle va_list type
  kbuild: thin archives for multi-y targets
  kbuild: kallsyms allow 3-pass generation if symbols size has changed