Hi, Here's v7 of the DWARF modversions series. The main motivation is modversions support for Rust, which is important for distributions like Android that are about to ship Rust kernel modules. Per Luis' request [1], v2 dropped the Rust specific bits from the series and instead added the feature as an option for the entire kernel to make it easier to evaluate the benefits of this approach, and to get better test coverage. Matt is addressing Rust modversion_info compatibility issues in a separate patch set [2] that depends on this series, and actually allows modversions to be enabled with Rust. Short background: Unlike C, Rust source code doesn't have sufficient information about the final ABI, as the compiler has considerable freedom in adjusting structure layout, for example, which makes using a source code parser like genksyms a non-starter. Based on earlier feedback, this series uses DWARF debugging information for computing versions. DWARF is an established and a relatively stable format, which includes all the necessary ABI details, and adding a CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO dependency for Rust symbol versioning seems like a reasonable trade-off as most distributions already enable it. The first 15 patches add gendwarfksyms, a tool for computing symbol versions from DWARF. When passed a list of exported symbols and object files, the tool generates an expanded type string for each symbol and computes symbol versions. gendwarfksyms is written in C, uses libdw to process DWARF, and zlib for CRC32. Patch 16 ensures that debugging information is present where we need it, patch 17 adds gendwarfksyms as an alternative to genksyms, and the last patch adds documentation. v7 is based on 6.13-rc3, and for your convenience, the series is also available here: https://github.com/samitolvanen/linux/commits/gendwarfksyms-v7 If you also want to test the series with actual Rust modules, this branch adds Matt's latest modversion_info series: https://github.com/samitolvanen/linux/commits/rustmodversions-v7 Sami [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZnIZEtkkQWEIGf9n@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-modules/20241123-extended-modversions-v10-0-0fa754ffdee3@xxxxxxxxxx/ --- v7: - Added a Kconfig description to actually allow build testing each patch. (Patch 1) - Added a MAINTAINERS entry for gendwarfksyms. (Patch 1) - Cleaned up includes and fixed a build issue with asprintf not always being present without _GNU_SOURCE. (Patches 1, 11, and 13) - Adjusted hash table sizes for lower overhead as we're not right now concerned with processing vmlinux.o, and thus need to deal with a smaller number of symbols. (Patches 1, 4, 9, 11, and 13) - Added error handling for gelf_getsymshndx failures. (Patch 2) - Renamed the is_declaration function to is_kabi_definition for clarity and reversed the logic per Petr's suggestion. (Patch 9) - Dropped the redundant default Kconfig tag. (Patch 17) - Fixed a documentation typo. (Patch 18) v6: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241121204220.2378181-20-samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx/ - Dropped pointer expansion limits as this affects version stability when exported symbols are removed. (Patch 9) - Changed local type definitions (in .c files) that are opaque to external users to be treated as declarations even if a definition is available. (Patch 9) - Switched to zlib's CRC32 implementation per Masahiro's suggestion. (Patch 12) - Renamed struct_declonly kABI rule to simply declonly, as it applies also to unions and enums, added a new rule for overriding enumerator values, and refactored the examples. (Patch 13) - Added --stable support for renamed structure members and also added examples. (Patch 14) - Rebased on linux-kbuild/for-next for Masahiro's symtypes build rule clean-ups. (Patch 17) - Updated the documentation reflect --stable changes. (Patch 18) v5: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241030170106.1501763-21-samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx/ - Rebased on v6.12-rc5. - Fixed an issue with limiting structure expansion, and applied Petr's clean-up. (Patch 10) - Dropped an unnecessary return statement in error path. (Patch 12) - Addressed several other smaller issues Petr brought up. (Patches 13, 14, and 15) - Added a KBUILD_GENDWARFKSYMS_STABLE flag to enable --stable for the entire kernel build. (Patch 18) - Updated documentation to include KBUILD flags. (Patch 19) - Picked up Reviewed-by tags from v4. v4: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241008183823.36676-21-samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx/ - Rebased on v6.12-rc2, which now includes all the prerequisites. - Dropped unnecessary name_only parameter for symbols.c::for_each and cleaned up error handling. (Patch 3) - Fixed anonymous scope handling to ensure unnamed DIEs don't get names. (Patch 4) - Added non-variant children to variant_type output, and included DW_AT_discr_value attributes for variants. (Patch 9) - Added another symbol pointer test case. (Patch 16) - Picked up (Acked|Reviewed)-by tags from v3. v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240923181846.549877-22-samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx/ - Updated SPX license headers. - Squashed the first two patches in v2 and tried to reduce churn as much as reasonable. - Dropped patch 18 from v2 ("x86/asm-prototypes: Include <asm/ptrace.h>") as it's addressed by a separate patch. - Changed the error handling code to immediately terminate instead of propagating the errors back to main, which cleaned up the code quite a bit. - Switched to the list and hashtable implementations in scripts and dropped the remaining tools/include dependencies. Added a couple missing list macros. (patch 1) - Moved the genksyms CRC32 implementation to scripts/include and dropped the duplicate code. (patches 2 and 14) - Switched from ad-hoc command line parsing to getopt_long (patch 3). - Added structure member and function parameter names to the DIE output to match genksyms behavior, and tweaked the symtypes format to be more parser-friendly in general based on Petr's suggestions. - Replaced the declaration-only struct annotations with more generic kABI stability rules that allow source code annotations to be used where #ifndef __GENKSYMS__ was previously used. Added support for rules that can be used to exclude enumerators from versioning. (patch 16) - Per Miroslav's suggestion, added an option to hide structure members from versioning when they're added to existing alignment holes, for example. (patch 16) - Per Greg's request, added documentation and example macros for the --stable features, and a couple of test cases. (patches 15, 16, and 20) - Fixed making symtypes files, which need to depend on .o files with gendwarfksyms. (patch 19) - Addressed several other smaller issues that Petr and Masahiro kindly pointed out during the v2 review. v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240815173903.4172139-21-samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx/ - Per Luis' request, dropped Rust-specific patches and added gendwarfksyms as an alternative to genksyms for the entire kernel. - Added support for missing DWARF features needed to handle also non-Rust code. - Changed symbol address matching to use the symbol table information instead of relying on addresses in DWARF. - Added __gendwarfksyms_ptr patches to ensure the compiler emits the necessary type information in DWARF even for symbols that are defined in other TUs. - Refactored debugging output and moved the more verbose output behind --dump* flags. - Added a --symtypes flag for generating a genksyms-style symtypes output based on Petr's feedback, and refactored symbol version calculations to be based on symtypes instead of raw --dump-dies output. - Based on feedback from Greg and Petr, added --stable flag and support for reserved data structure fields and declaration-onl structures. Also added examples for using these features. - Added a GENDWARFKSYMS option and hooked up kbuild support for both C and assembly code. Note that with gendwarfksyms, we have to actually build a temporary .o file for calculating assembly modversions. v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240617175818.58219-17-samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx/ --- Sami Tolvanen (18): tools: Add gendwarfksyms gendwarfksyms: Add address matching gendwarfksyms: Expand base_type gendwarfksyms: Add a cache for processed DIEs gendwarfksyms: Expand type modifiers and typedefs gendwarfksyms: Expand subroutine_type gendwarfksyms: Expand array_type gendwarfksyms: Expand structure types gendwarfksyms: Limit structure expansion gendwarfksyms: Add die_map debugging gendwarfksyms: Add symtypes output gendwarfksyms: Add symbol versioning gendwarfksyms: Add support for kABI rules gendwarfksyms: Add support for reserved and ignored fields gendwarfksyms: Add support for symbol type pointers export: Add __gendwarfksyms_ptr_ references to exported symbols kbuild: Add gendwarfksyms as an alternative to genksyms Documentation/kbuild: Add DWARF module versioning Documentation/kbuild/gendwarfksyms.rst | 308 ++++++ Documentation/kbuild/index.rst | 1 + MAINTAINERS | 7 + include/linux/export.h | 15 + kernel/module/Kconfig | 30 + scripts/Makefile | 3 +- scripts/Makefile.build | 35 +- scripts/gendwarfksyms/.gitignore | 2 + scripts/gendwarfksyms/Makefile | 12 + scripts/gendwarfksyms/cache.c | 51 + scripts/gendwarfksyms/die.c | 166 +++ scripts/gendwarfksyms/dwarf.c | 1159 ++++++++++++++++++++ scripts/gendwarfksyms/examples/kabi.h | 157 +++ scripts/gendwarfksyms/examples/kabi_ex.c | 30 + scripts/gendwarfksyms/examples/kabi_ex.h | 263 +++++ scripts/gendwarfksyms/examples/symbolptr.c | 33 + scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.c | 185 ++++ scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h | 296 +++++ scripts/gendwarfksyms/kabi.c | 336 ++++++ scripts/gendwarfksyms/symbols.c | 341 ++++++ scripts/gendwarfksyms/types.c | 481 ++++++++ 21 files changed, 3904 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/kbuild/gendwarfksyms.rst create mode 100644 scripts/gendwarfksyms/.gitignore create mode 100644 scripts/gendwarfksyms/Makefile create mode 100644 scripts/gendwarfksyms/cache.c create mode 100644 scripts/gendwarfksyms/die.c create mode 100644 scripts/gendwarfksyms/dwarf.c create mode 100644 scripts/gendwarfksyms/examples/kabi.h create mode 100644 scripts/gendwarfksyms/examples/kabi_ex.c create mode 100644 scripts/gendwarfksyms/examples/kabi_ex.h create mode 100644 scripts/gendwarfksyms/examples/symbolptr.c create mode 100644 scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.c create mode 100644 scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h create mode 100644 scripts/gendwarfksyms/kabi.c create mode 100644 scripts/gendwarfksyms/symbols.c create mode 100644 scripts/gendwarfksyms/types.c base-commit: 78d4f34e2115b517bcbfe7ec0d018bbbb6f9b0b8 -- 2.47.1.613.gc27f4b7a9f-goog
