This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
linux/init: remove __memexit* annotations
to the 6.6-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:
linux-init-remove-__memexit-annotations.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 6a4e59eeedc3018cb57722eecfcbb49431aeb05f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 02:06:05 +0900
Subject: linux/init: remove __memexit* annotations
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 6a4e59eeedc3018cb57722eecfcbb49431aeb05f upstream.
We have never used __memexit, __memexitdata, or __memexitconst.
These were unneeded.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 6 ------
include/linux/init.h | 3 ---
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 15 +++------------
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -356,7 +356,6 @@
*(.ref.data) \
*(.data..shared_aligned) /* percpu related */ \
MEM_KEEP(init.data*) \
- MEM_KEEP(exit.data*) \
*(.data.unlikely) \
__start_once = .; \
*(.data.once) \
@@ -521,7 +520,6 @@
__init_rodata : AT(ADDR(__init_rodata) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
*(.ref.rodata) \
MEM_KEEP(init.rodata) \
- MEM_KEEP(exit.rodata) \
} \
\
/* Built-in module parameters. */ \
@@ -574,7 +572,6 @@
*(.ref.text) \
*(.text.asan.* .text.tsan.*) \
MEM_KEEP(init.text*) \
- MEM_KEEP(exit.text*) \
/* sched.text is aling to function alignment to secure we have same
@@ -714,13 +711,10 @@
*(.exit.data .exit.data.*) \
*(.fini_array .fini_array.*) \
*(.dtors .dtors.*) \
- MEM_DISCARD(exit.data*) \
- MEM_DISCARD(exit.rodata*)
#define EXIT_TEXT \
*(.exit.text) \
*(.text.exit) \
- MEM_DISCARD(exit.text)
#define EXIT_CALL \
*(.exitcall.exit)
--- a/include/linux/init.h
+++ b/include/linux/init.h
@@ -89,9 +89,6 @@
__latent_entropy
#define __meminitdata __section(".meminit.data")
#define __meminitconst __section(".meminit.rodata")
-#define __memexit __section(".memexit.text") __exitused __cold notrace
-#define __memexitdata __section(".memexit.data")
-#define __memexitconst __section(".memexit.rodata")
/* For assembly routines */
#define __HEAD .section ".head.text","ax"
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ static void check_section(const char *mo
#define ALL_INIT_TEXT_SECTIONS \
".init.text", ".meminit.text"
#define ALL_EXIT_TEXT_SECTIONS \
- ".exit.text", ".memexit.text"
+ ".exit.text"
#define ALL_PCI_INIT_SECTIONS \
".pci_fixup_early", ".pci_fixup_header", ".pci_fixup_final", \
@@ -806,10 +806,9 @@ static void check_section(const char *mo
".pci_fixup_resume_early", ".pci_fixup_suspend"
#define ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS MEM_INIT_SECTIONS
-#define ALL_XXXEXIT_SECTIONS MEM_EXIT_SECTIONS
#define ALL_INIT_SECTIONS INIT_SECTIONS, ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS
-#define ALL_EXIT_SECTIONS EXIT_SECTIONS, ALL_XXXEXIT_SECTIONS
+#define ALL_EXIT_SECTIONS EXIT_SECTIONS
#define DATA_SECTIONS ".data", ".data.rel"
#define TEXT_SECTIONS ".text", ".text.*", ".sched.text", \
@@ -822,7 +821,6 @@ static void check_section(const char *mo
#define MEM_INIT_SECTIONS ".meminit.*"
#define EXIT_SECTIONS ".exit.*"
-#define MEM_EXIT_SECTIONS ".memexit.*"
#define ALL_TEXT_SECTIONS ALL_INIT_TEXT_SECTIONS, ALL_EXIT_TEXT_SECTIONS, \
TEXT_SECTIONS, OTHER_TEXT_SECTIONS
@@ -832,7 +830,6 @@ enum mismatch {
DATA_TO_ANY_INIT,
TEXTDATA_TO_ANY_EXIT,
XXXINIT_TO_SOME_INIT,
- XXXEXIT_TO_SOME_EXIT,
ANY_INIT_TO_ANY_EXIT,
ANY_EXIT_TO_ANY_INIT,
EXTABLE_TO_NON_TEXT,
@@ -883,12 +880,6 @@ static const struct sectioncheck section
.bad_tosec = { INIT_SECTIONS, NULL },
.mismatch = XXXINIT_TO_SOME_INIT,
},
-/* Do not reference exit code/data from memexit code/data */
-{
- .fromsec = { ALL_XXXEXIT_SECTIONS, NULL },
- .bad_tosec = { EXIT_SECTIONS, NULL },
- .mismatch = XXXEXIT_TO_SOME_EXIT,
-},
/* Do not use exit code/data from init code */
{
.fromsec = { ALL_INIT_SECTIONS, NULL },
@@ -1017,7 +1008,7 @@ static int secref_whitelist(const char *
/* symbols in data sections that may refer to meminit sections */
if (match(fromsec, PATTERNS(DATA_SECTIONS)) &&
- match(tosec, PATTERNS(ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS, ALL_XXXEXIT_SECTIONS)) &&
+ match(tosec, PATTERNS(ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS)) &&
match(fromsym, PATTERNS("*driver")))
return 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.6/kallsyms-ignore-armv4-thunks-along-with-others.patch
queue-6.6/modpost-trim-leading-spaces-when-processing-source-f.patch
queue-6.6/linux-init-remove-__memexit-annotations.patch
queue-6.6/modpost-add-.ltext-and-.ltext.-to-text_sections.patch
queue-6.6/um-fix-adding-no-pie-for-clang.patch
queue-6.6/kbuild-fix-changing-elf-file-type-for-output-of-gen_btf-for-big-endian.patch
