The quilt patch titled
Subject: compiler.h: specify correct attribute for .rodata..c_jump_table
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
compilerh-specify-correct-attribute-for-rodatac_jump_table.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: compiler.h: specify correct attribute for .rodata..c_jump_table
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:27:10 +0800
Currently, there is an assembler message when generating kernel/bpf/core.o
under CONFIG_OBJTOOL with LoongArch compiler toolchain:
Warning: setting incorrect section attributes for .rodata..c_jump_table
This is because the section ".rodata..c_jump_table" should be readonly,
but there is a "W" (writable) part of the flags:
$ readelf -S kernel/bpf/core.o | grep -A 1 "rodata..c"
[34] .rodata..c_j[...] PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0000d2e0
0000000000000800 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 8
There is no above issue on x86 due to the generated section flag is only
"A" (allocatable). In order to silence the warning on LoongArch, specify
the attribute like ".rodata..c_jump_table,\"a\",@progbits #" explicitly,
then the section attribute of ".rodata..c_jump_table" must be readonly
in the kernel/bpf/core.o file.
Before:
$ objdump -h kernel/bpf/core.o | grep -A 1 "rodata..c"
21 .rodata..c_jump_table 00000800 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000d2e0 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, DATA
After:
$ objdump -h kernel/bpf/core.o | grep -A 1 "rodata..c"
21 .rodata..c_jump_table 00000800 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000d2e0 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, DATA
By the way, AFAICT, maybe the root cause is related with the different
compiler behavior of various archs, so to some extent this change is a
workaround for LoongArch, and also there is no effect for x86 which is the
only port supported by objtool before LoongArch with this patch.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240924062710.1243-1-yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [6.9+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/compiler.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h~compilerh-specify-correct-attribute-for-rodatac_jump_table
+++ a/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_
#define annotate_unreachable() __annotate_unreachable(__COUNTER__)
/* Annotate a C jump table to allow objtool to follow the code flow */
-#define __annotate_jump_table __section(".rodata..c_jump_table")
+#define __annotate_jump_table __section(".rodata..c_jump_table,\"a\",@progbits #")
#else /* !CONFIG_OBJTOOL */
#define annotate_reachable()
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx are
