This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/purgatory: Remove LTO flags
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-purgatory-remove-lto-flags.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 14761593cf20e4f3d1fb083a2f79c753fde8b78f
Author: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Sep 14 10:01:38 2023 -0700
x86/purgatory: Remove LTO flags
[ Upstream commit 75b2f7e4c9e0fd750a5a27ca9736d1daa7a3762a ]
-flto* implies -ffunction-sections. With LTO enabled, ld.lld generates
multiple .text sections for purgatory.ro:
$ readelf -S purgatory.ro | grep " .text"
[ 1] .text PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00000040
[ 7] .text.purgatory PROGBITS 0000000000000000 000020e0
[ 9] .text.warn PROGBITS 0000000000000000 000021c0
[13] .text.sha256_upda PROGBITS 0000000000000000 000022f0
[15] .text.sha224_upda PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00002be0
[17] .text.sha256_fina PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00002bf0
[19] .text.sha224_fina PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00002cc0
This causes WARNING from kexec_purgatory_setup_sechdrs():
WARNING: CPU: 26 PID: 110894 at kernel/kexec_file.c:919
kexec_load_purgatory+0x37f/0x390
Fix this by disabling LTO for purgatory.
[ AFAICT, x86 is the only arch that supports LTO and purgatory. ]
We could also fix this with an explicit linker script to rejoin .text.*
sections back into .text. However, given the benefit of LTOing purgatory
is small, simply disable the production of more .text.* sections for now.
Fixes: b33fff07e3e3 ("x86, build: allow LTO to be selected")
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230914170138.995606-1-song@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile b/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
index 42abd6af11984..d28e0987aa85b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ CFLAGS_sha256.o := -D__DISABLE_EXPORTS
# optimization flags.
KBUILD_CFLAGS := $(filter-out -fprofile-sample-use=% -fprofile-use=%,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS))
+# When LTO is enabled, llvm emits many text sections, which is not supported
+# by kexec. Remove -flto=* flags.
+KBUILD_CFLAGS := $(filter-out $(CC_FLAGS_LTO),$(KBUILD_CFLAGS))
+
# When linking purgatory.ro with -r unresolved symbols are not checked,
# also link a purgatory.chk binary without -r to check for unresolved symbols.
PURGATORY_LDFLAGS := -e purgatory_start -z nodefaultlib
