The imperative paradigm used to build vmlinux, extract some info from it
or perform some checks on it, and subsequently modify it again goes
against the declarative paradigm that is usually employed for defining
make rules.
In particular, the Makefile.postlink files that consume their input via
an output rule result in some dodgy logic in the decompressor makefiles
for RISC-V and x86, given that the vmlinux.relocs input file needed to
generate the arch-specific relocation tables may not exist or be out of
date, but cannot be constructed using the ordinary Make dependency based
rules, because the info needs to be extracted while vmlinux is in its
ephemeral, non-stripped form.
So instead, for architectures that require the static relocations that
are emitted into vmlinux when passing --emit-relocs to the linker, and
are subsequently stripped out again, introduce an intermediate vmlinux
target called vmlinux.unstripped, and organize the reset of the build
logic accordingly:
- vmlinux.unstripped is created only once, and not updated again
- build rules under arch/*/boot can depend on vmlinux.unstripped without
running the risk of the data disappearing or being out of date
- the final vmlinux generated by the build is not bloated with static
relocations that are never needed again after the build completes.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Due to the fact that runtime const ELF sections are named without a
leading period or double underscore, the RSTRIP logic that removes the
static RELA sections from vmlinux fails to identify them. This results
in a situation like below, where some sections that were supposed to get
removed are left behind.
[Nr] Name Type Address Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al
[58] runtime_shift_d_hash_shift PROGBITS ffffffff83500f50 2900f50 000014 00 A 0 0 1
[59] .relaruntime_shift_d_hash_shift RELA 0000000000000000 55b6f00 000078 18 I 70 58 8
[60] runtime_ptr_dentry_hashtable PROGBITS ffffffff83500f68 2900f68 000014 00 A 0 0 1
[61] .relaruntime_ptr_dentry_hashtable RELA 0000000000000000 55b6f78 000078 18 I 70 60 8
[62] runtime_ptr_USER_PTR_MAX PROGBITS ffffffff83500f80 2900f80 000238 00 A 0 0 1
[63] .relaruntime_ptr_USER_PTR_MAX RELA 0000000000000000 55b6ff0 000d50 18 I 70 62 8
So tweak the match expression to strip all sections starting with .rel.
While at it, consolidate the logic used by RISC-V, s390 and x86 into a
single shared Makefile library command.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjk3ynjomNvFN8jf9A1k=qSc=JFF591W00uXj-qqNUxPQ@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Tested-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The '%.ko' rule in arch/*/Makefile.postlink does nothing but call the
'true' command.
Remove the unneeded code.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
To circumvent an issue where placing the relocations inside the init
sections produces empty relocations, use --emit-relocs. But to avoid
carrying those relocations in vmlinux, use an intermediate
vmlinux.relocs file which is a copy of vmlinux *before* stripping its
relocations.
Suggested-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230329045329.64565-7-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Relocating kernel at runtime is done very early in the boot process, so
it is not convenient to check for relocations there and react in case a
relocation was not expected.
There exists a script in scripts/ that extracts the relocations from
vmlinux that is then used at postlink to check the relocations.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230329045329.64565-6-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
