This RFC v3 builds off the last RFC v2 series [0] for adding linker tables. The largest amount of work here was to take Russell King's feedback on using linker table for kprobes text not being appropriate -- and providing another lightweight API for simple section ranges: read-only stitched pieces of executable code. This required also generalizing common building blocks for both linker tables and section ranges, these building blocks are defined now in include/linux/sections.h and asm-generic/section.h. The other last thing decided was to not support sub-sections. In the hunt for this I could think of anything that really required this, and if it was needed it did not seem impossible to port over to avoid its use. Please let me know if there are valid uses cases for sub-sections. Other significant effort here was to provide a set of common assembly helpers which could be used across architectures, this starts off some of this work for generic helpers which carve out and define custom Linux sections. Lastly, this now also goes with two ports which required module support when using linker tables: jump labels, and dynamic debug support. A few extensions have been made to the original series in order to provide support for that. Since kprobes actually had both a linker table and a section range the patch that dealt with kprobes is now split off in two patches, one that deals with its linker table and another for its section ranges. More elaborate uses for linker tables are possible, I'll hold off on any of this type of work until at least the basic building blocks are fleshed out. To review how this work came about, and more elaborate uses being evaluated check out the userspace linker-tables mockup solution [1]. Hopefully most of the possible bikeshedding was already dealt with through that tree. Thanks to hpa for tons of feedback. Should you need it, the code here is also available on my linux-next 20160722-linker-table-v3-try2 branch on kernel.org [2]. Lastly, ranges and table development go under copyleft-next, Rusty recently asked for code to go in prior to the license tag being added denoting this license as GPL-compatible [3] -- I had noted in the patch submission which annotated copyleft-next's compatibility to GPLv2 that copyleft-next is the license of choice for ongoing kernel development on my end [4]. If this is objectionable I'm happy to change it to GPLv2 however I'd like a reason provided as I've gone through all possible channels to ensure this is kosher, including vetting by 3 attorneys now, 2 at SUSE. This all goes tested by 0-day... however since I found an issue with linker tables and blackfin this series remains as RFC -- I'll try to debug the issue with Steven Miao. The issue with blackfin is using a config that enables CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y and CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y [5] we end up with the following at final link time: LD init/built-in.o lib/built-in.o: In function `dynamic_debug_init': lib/dynamic_debug.c:(.init.text+0x156): undefined reference to `__verbose__end' lib/dynamic_debug.c:(.init.text+0x15a): undefined reference to `__verbose__end' lib/dynamic_debug.c:(.init.text+0x160): undefined reference to `__verbose' lib/dynamic_debug.c:(.init.text+0x164): undefined reference to `__verbose' lib/dynamic_debug.c:(.init.text+0x214): undefined reference to `__verbose__end' lib/dynamic_debug.c:(.init.text+0x218): undefined reference to `__verbose__end' lib/dynamic_debug.c:(.init.text+0x252): undefined reference to `__verbose__end' lib/dynamic_debug.c:(.init.text+0x258): undefined reference to `__verbose' lib/dynamic_debug.c:(.init.text+0x25c): undefined reference to `__verbose__end' lib/dynamic_debug.c:(.init.text+0x260): undefined reference to `__verbose' drivers/built-in.o: In function `release_firmware': (.text+0x22dc2): undefined reference to `builtin_fw' drivers/built-in.o: In function `release_firmware': (.text+0x22dc6): undefined reference to `builtin_fw__end' drivers/built-in.o: In function `release_firmware': (.text+0x22dca): undefined reference to `builtin_fw' drivers/built-in.o: In function `release_firmware': (.text+0x22dce): undefined reference to `builtin_fw__end' drivers/built-in.o: In function `fw_get_builtin_firmware': drivers/base/firmware_class.c:(.text+0x23008): undefined reference to `builtin_fw' drivers/base/firmware_class.c:(.text+0x2300c): undefined reference to `builtin_fw__end' drivers/base/firmware_class.c:(.text+0x23010): undefined reference to `builtin_fw' drivers/base/firmware_class.c:(.text+0x23014): undefined reference to `builtin_fw__end' Makefile:957: recipe for target 'vmlinux' failed make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 To reproduce then: wget https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/plain/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross wget http://drvbp1.linux-foundation.org/~mcgrof/2016/07/22/blackfin-fw-dyndbg.config -o .config make.cross ARCH=blackfin [0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455889559-9428-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linker-tables.git/ [2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux-next.git/log/?h=20160722-linker-table-v3-try2 [3] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87y44zhbiu.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [4] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467327207-14916-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx [5] http://drvbp1.linux-foundation.org/~mcgrof/2016/07/22/blackfin-fw-dyndbg.config Luis R. Rodriguez (13): x86: remove LTO_REFERENCE_INITCALL() dell-smo8800: include uaccess.h scripts/module-common.lds: enable generation sections.h: guard against asm and linker script sections.h: add sections header to collect all section info ranges.h: add helpers to build and identify Linux section ranges tables.h: add linker table support firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes firmware: port built-in section to linker table jump_label: port __jump_table to linker tables dynamic_debug: port to use linker tables kprobes: port .kprobes.text to section range kprobes: port blacklist kprobes to linker table .gitignore | 2 + Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 3 +- Documentation/DocBook/linker-tables.tmpl | 166 ++++++ Documentation/DocBook/sections.tmpl | 112 ++++ Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 19 + Makefile | 6 +- arch/alpha/include/asm/ranges.h | 6 + arch/alpha/include/asm/sections.h | 6 + arch/alpha/include/asm/tables.h | 6 + arch/arc/include/asm/ranges.h | 6 + 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arch/metag/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 - arch/microblaze/include/asm/ranges.h | 6 + arch/microblaze/include/asm/tables.h | 6 + arch/microblaze/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 - arch/mips/include/asm/jump_label.h | 6 +- arch/mips/include/asm/ranges.h | 6 + arch/mips/include/asm/sections.h | 6 + arch/mips/include/asm/tables.h | 6 + arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 - arch/mn10300/include/asm/ranges.h | 6 + arch/mn10300/include/asm/sections.h | 6 + arch/mn10300/include/asm/tables.h | 6 + arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 - arch/nios2/include/asm/ranges.h | 6 + arch/nios2/include/asm/sections.h | 6 + arch/nios2/include/asm/tables.h | 6 + arch/nios2/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 - arch/openrisc/include/asm/ranges.h | 6 + arch/openrisc/include/asm/sections.h | 6 + arch/openrisc/include/asm/tables.h | 6 + arch/openrisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 - arch/parisc/include/asm/ranges.h | 6 + arch/parisc/include/asm/tables.h | 6 + arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 - arch/powerpc/include/asm/jump_label.h | 8 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include/asm-generic/tables.h | 70 +++ include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 66 +-- include/linux/compiler.h | 2 +- include/linux/dynamic_debug.h | 5 +- include/linux/init.h | 20 +- include/linux/jump_label.h | 10 +- include/linux/kprobes.h | 8 +- include/linux/ranges.h | 54 ++ include/linux/sections.h | 123 +++++ include/linux/tables.h | 597 +++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/jump_label.c | 17 +- kernel/kprobes.c | 17 +- lib/dynamic_debug.c | 13 +- scripts/Makefile | 1 + scripts/Makefile.build | 4 +- scripts/Makefile.clean | 1 + scripts/Makefile.lib | 12 + scripts/Makefile.modpost | 2 +- scripts/mod/Makefile | 2 + scripts/mod/modpost.c | 8 +- scripts/{module-common.lds => module-common.lds.S} | 6 + scripts/recordmcount.c | 7 +- scripts/recordmcount.pl | 2 +- tools/include/linux/sections.h | 13 + tools/objtool/special.c | 8 +- 164 files changed, 2241 insertions(+), 205 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/DocBook/linker-tables.tmpl create mode 100644 Documentation/DocBook/sections.tmpl 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arch/xtensa/include/asm/sections.h create mode 100644 arch/xtensa/include/asm/tables.h create mode 100644 include/asm-generic/ranges.h create mode 100644 include/asm-generic/tables.h create mode 100644 include/linux/ranges.h create mode 100644 include/linux/sections.h create mode 100644 include/linux/tables.h rename scripts/{module-common.lds => module-common.lds.S} (80%) create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/sections.h -- 2.8.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
