Contemporary versions of GCC (e.g. GCC 12.2.0) drop the alignment specified by '-falign-functions=N' for functions marked with the __cold__ attribute, and potentially for callees of __cold__ functions as these may be implicitly marked as __cold__ by the compiler. LLVM appears to respect '-falign-functions=N' in such cases. This has been reported to GCC in bug 88345: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88345 ... which also covers alignment being dropped when '-Os' is used, which will be addressed in a separate patch. Currently, use of '-falign-functions=N' is limited to CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT, which is largely used for performance and/or analysis reasons (e.g. with CONFIG_DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B), but isn't necessary for correct functionality. However, this dropped alignment isn't great for the performance and/or analysis cases. Subsequent patches will use CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT as part of arm64's ftrace implementation, which will require all instrumented functions to be aligned to at least 8-bytes. This patch works around the dropped alignment by avoiding the use of the __cold__ attribute when CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT is non-zero, and by specifically aligning abort(), which GCC implicitly marks as __cold__. As the __cold macro is now dependent upon config options (which is against the policy described at the top of compiler_attributes.h), it is moved into compiler_types.h. I've tested this by building and booting a kernel configured with defconfig + CONFIG_EXPERT=y + CONFIG_DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B=y, and looking for misaligned text symbols in /proc/kallsyms: * arm64: Before: # uname -rm 6.2.0-rc3 aarch64 # grep ' [Tt] ' /proc/kallsyms | grep -iv '[048c]0 [Tt] ' | wc -l 5009 After: # uname -rm 6.2.0-rc3-00001-g2a2bedf8bfa9 aarch64 # grep ' [Tt] ' /proc/kallsyms | grep -iv '[048c]0 [Tt] ' | wc -l 919 * x86_64: Before: # uname -rm 6.2.0-rc3 x86_64 # grep ' [Tt] ' /proc/kallsyms | grep -iv '[048c]0 [Tt] ' | wc -l 11537 After: # uname -rm 6.2.0-rc3-00001-g2a2bedf8bfa9 x86_64 # grep ' [Tt] ' /proc/kallsyms | grep -iv '[048c]0 [Tt] ' | wc -l 2805 There's clearly a substantial reduction in the number of misaligned symbols. From manual inspection, the remaining unaligned text labels are a combination of ACPICA functions (due to the use of '-Os'), static call trampolines, and non-function labels in assembly, which will be dealt with in subsequent patches. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Cc: Florent Revest <revest@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/compiler_attributes.h | 6 ------ include/linux/compiler_types.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/exit.c | 9 ++++++++- 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h b/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h index 898b3458b24a..b83126452c65 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h @@ -75,12 +75,6 @@ # define __assume_aligned(a, ...) #endif -/* - * gcc: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Function-Attributes.html#index-cold-function-attribute - * gcc: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Label-Attributes.html#index-cold-label-attribute - */ -#define __cold __attribute__((__cold__)) - /* * Note the long name. * diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_types.h b/include/linux/compiler_types.h index 7c1afe0f4129..aab34e30128e 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler_types.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler_types.h @@ -79,6 +79,33 @@ static inline void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *ptr) { } /* Attributes */ #include <linux/compiler_attributes.h> +#if CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT > 0 +#define __function_aligned __aligned(CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT) +#else +#define __function_aligned +#endif + +/* + * gcc: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Function-Attributes.html#index-cold-function-attribute + * gcc: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Label-Attributes.html#index-cold-label-attribute + * + * When -falign-functions=N is in use, we must avoid the cold attribute as + * contemporary versions of GCC drop the alignment for cold functions. Worse, + * GCC can implicitly mark callees of cold functions as cold themselves, so + * it's not sufficient to add __function_aligned here as that will not ensure + * that callees are correctly aligned. + * + * See: + * + * https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y77%2FqVgvaJidFpYt@FVFF77S0Q05N + * https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88345#c9 + */ +#if !defined(CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC) || (CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT == 0) +#define __cold __attribute__((__cold__)) +#else +#define __cold +#endif + /* Builtins */ /* diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 15dc2ec80c46..c8e0375705f4 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -1898,7 +1898,14 @@ bool thread_group_exited(struct pid *pid) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(thread_group_exited); -__weak void abort(void) +/* + * This needs to be __function_aligned as GCC implicitly makes any + * implementation of abort() cold and drops alignment specified by + * -falign-functions=N. + * + * See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88345#c11 + */ +__weak __function_aligned void abort(void) { BUG(); -- 2.30.2
