4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx> commit e3d03598e8ae7d195af5d3d049596dec336f569f upstream. Binutils 2.31 will enable -z separate-code by default for x86 to avoid mixing code pages with data to improve cache performance as well as security. To reduce x86-64 executable and shared object sizes, the maximum page size is reduced from 2MB to 4KB. But x86-64 kernel must be aligned to 2MB. Pass -z max-page-size=0x200000 to linker to force 2MB page size regardless of the default page size used by linker. Tested with Linux kernel 4.15.6 on x86-64. Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMe9rOp4_%3D_8twdpTyAP2DhONOCeaTOsniJLoppzhoNptL8xzA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/Makefile | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile @@ -223,6 +223,15 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) LDFLAGS := -m elf_$(UTS_MACHINE) +# +# The 64-bit kernel must be aligned to 2MB. Pass -z max-page-size=0x200000 to +# the linker to force 2MB page size regardless of the default page size used +# by the linker. +# +ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 +LDFLAGS += $(call ld-option, -z max-page-size=0x200000) +endif + # Speed up the build KBUILD_CFLAGS += -pipe # Workaround for a gcc prelease that unfortunately was shipped in a suse release