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Steven Rostedt (Google) 4ed308c445 ftrace: Have architectures opt-in for mcount build time sorting
First S390 complained that the sorting of the mcount sections at build
time caused the kernel to crash on their architecture. Now PowerPC is
complaining about it too. And also ARM64 appears to be having issues.

It may be necessary to also update the relocation table for the values
in the mcount table. Not only do we have to sort the table, but also
update the relocations that may be applied to the items in the table.

If the system is not relocatable, then it is fine to sort, but if it is,
some architectures may have issues (although x86 does not as it shifts all
addresses the same).

Add a HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT that an architecture can set to say it is
safe to do the sorting at build time.

Also update the config to compile in build time sorting in the sorttable
code in scripts/ to depend on CONFIG_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/944D10DA-8200-4BA9-8D0A-3BED9AA99F82@linux.ibm.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220127153821.3bc1ac6e@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Yinan Liu <yinan@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> [arm64]
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: 72b3942a17 ("scripts: ftrace - move the sort-processing in ftrace_init")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2022-01-27 19:15:44 -05:00
arch ftrace: Have architectures opt-in for mcount build time sorting 2022-01-27 19:15:44 -05:00
block bitmap patches for 5.17-rc1 2022-01-23 06:20:44 +02:00
certs certs: Fix build error when CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY is empty 2022-01-23 00:08:44 +09:00
crypto lib/crypto: add prompts back to crypto libraries 2022-01-18 13:03:55 +01:00
Documentation Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2022-01-22 11:28:23 +02:00
drivers bitmap patches for 5.17-rc1 2022-01-23 06:20:44 +02:00
fs bitmap patches for 5.17-rc1 2022-01-23 06:20:44 +02:00
include bitmap patches for 5.17-rc1 2022-01-23 06:20:44 +02:00
init lib/stackdepot: allow optional init and stack_table allocation by kvmalloc() 2022-01-22 08:33:37 +02:00
ipc proc: remove PDE_DATA() completely 2022-01-22 08:33:37 +02:00
kernel ftrace: Have architectures opt-in for mcount build time sorting 2022-01-27 19:15:44 -05:00
lib bitmap patches for 5.17-rc1 2022-01-23 06:20:44 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm bitmap patches for 5.17-rc1 2022-01-23 06:20:44 +02:00
net bitmap patches for 5.17-rc1 2022-01-23 06:20:44 +02:00
samples Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2022-01-20 10:41:01 +02:00
scripts ftrace: Have architectures opt-in for mcount build time sorting 2022-01-27 19:15:44 -05:00
security fs.idmapped.v5.17 2022-01-11 14:26:55 -08:00
sound proc: remove PDE_DATA() completely 2022-01-22 08:33:37 +02:00
tools perf tools changes for v5.17: 2nd batch 2022-01-23 08:14:21 +02:00
usr usr/include/Makefile: add linux/nfc.h to the compile-test coverage 2022-01-22 21:48:45 +09:00
virt Generic: 2022-01-22 09:40:01 +02:00
.clang-format genirq/msi: Make interrupt allocation less convoluted 2021-12-16 22:22:20 +01:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Removing Ohad from remoteproc/rpmsg maintenance 2021-12-08 10:09:40 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
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Makefile Linux 5.17-rc1 2022-01-23 10:12:53 +02:00
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.