[PATCH v7 00/10] add support for relative references in special sections
Ard Biesheuvel
ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Tue Jan 2 12:05:39 PST 2018
This adds support for emitting special sections such as initcall arrays,
PCI fixups and tracepoints as relative references rather than absolute
references. This reduces the size by 50% on 64-bit architectures, but
more importantly, it removes the need for carrying relocation metadata
for these sections in relocatables kernels (e.g., for KASLR) that need
to fix up these absolute references at boot time. On arm64, this reduces
the vmlinux footprint of such a reference by 8x (8 byte absolute reference
+ 24 byte RELA entry vs 4 byte relative reference)
Patch #3 was sent out before as a single patch. This series supersedes
the previous submission. This version makes relative ksymtab entries
dependent on the new Kconfig symbol HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS rather
than trying to infer from kbuild test robot replies for which architectures
it should be blacklisted.
Patch #1 introduces the new Kconfig symbol HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS,
and sets it for the main architectures that are expected to benefit the
most from this feature, i.e., 64-bit architectures or ones that use
runtime relocations.
Patches #4 - #6 implement relative references for initcalls, PCI fixups
and tracepoints, respectively, all of which produce sections with order
~1000 entries on an arm64 defconfig kernel with tracing enabled. This
means we save about 28 KB of vmlinux space for each of these patches.
Patches #7 - #10 have been added in v5, and implement relative references
in jump tables for arm64 and x86. On arm64, this results in significant
space savings (650+ KB on a typical distro kernel). On x86, the savings
are not as impressive, but still worthwhile. (Note that these patches
do not rely on CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS, given that the
inline asm that is emitted is already per-arch)
For the arm64 kernel, all patches combined reduce the memory footprint of
vmlinux by about 1.3 MB (using a config copied from Ubuntu that has KASLR
enabled), of which ~1 MB is the size reduction of the RELA section in .init,
and the remaining 300 KB is reduction of .text/.data.
Branch:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git relative-special-sections-v7
Changes since v6:
- drop S390 from patch #1 introducing HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS: kbuild
robot threw me some s390 curveballs, and given that s390 does not define
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE in the first place, it does not benefit as much from
relative references as arm64, x86 and power do
- add patch to allow symbol exports to be disabled at compilation unit
granularity (#2)
- get rid of arm64 vmlinux.lds.S hunk to ensure code generated by __ADDRESSABLE
gets discarded from the EFI stub - it is no longer needed after adding #2 (#1)
- change _ADDRESSABLE() to emit a data reference, not a code reference - this
is another simplification made possible by patch #2 (#3)
- add Steven's ack to #6
- split x86 jump_label patch into two (#9, #10)
Changes since v5:
- add missing jump_label prototypes to s390 jump_label.h (#6)
- fix inverted condition in call to jump_entry_is_module_init() (#6)
Changes since v4:
- add patches to convert x86 and arm64 to use relative references for jump
tables (#6 - #8)
- rename PCI patch and add Bjorn's ack (#4)
- rebase onto v4.15-rc5
Changes since v3:
- fix module unload issue in patch #5 reported by Jessica, by reusing the
updated routine for_each_tracepoint_range() for the quiescent check at
module unload time; this requires this routine to be moved before
tracepoint_module_going() in kernel/tracepoint.c
- add Jessica's ack to #2
- rebase onto v4.14-rc1
Changes since v2:
- Revert my slightly misguided attempt to appease checkpatch, which resulted
in needless churn and worse code. This v3 is based on v1 with a few tweaks
that were actually reasonable checkpatch warnings: unnecessary braces (as
pointed out by Ingo) and other minor whitespace misdemeanors.
Changes since v1:
- Remove checkpatch errors to the extent feasible: in some cases, this
involves moving extern declarations into C files, and switching to
struct definitions rather than typedefs. Some errors are impossible
to fix: please find the remaining ones after the diffstat.
- Used 'int' instead if 'signed int' for the various offset fields: there
is no ambiguity between architectures regarding its signedness (unlike
'char')
- Refactor the different patches to be more uniform in the way they define
the section entry type and accessors in the .h file, and avoid the need to
add #ifdefs to the C code.
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf at linux-mips.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens at de.ibm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie at google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge at hallyn.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris at oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky at de.ibm.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky at gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu at kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips at linux-mips.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390 at vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux at vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86 at kernel.org
Ard Biesheuvel (10):
arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, power and x86
module: allow symbol exports to be disabled
module: use relative references for __ksymtab entries
init: allow initcall tables to be emitted using relative references
PCI: Add support for relative addressing in quirk tables
kernel: tracepoints: add support for relative references
kernel/jump_label: abstract jump_entry member accessors
arm64/kernel: jump_label: use relative references
x86: jump_label: switch to jump_entry accessors
x86/kernel: jump_table: use relative references
arch/Kconfig | 10 ++++
arch/arm/include/asm/jump_label.h | 27 +++++++++
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/jump_label.h | 48 +++++++++++++---
arch/arm64/kernel/jump_label.c | 22 +++++++-
arch/mips/include/asm/jump_label.h | 27 +++++++++
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/powerpc/include/asm/jump_label.h | 27 +++++++++
arch/s390/include/asm/jump_label.h | 27 +++++++++
arch/sparc/include/asm/jump_label.h | 27 +++++++++
arch/tile/include/asm/jump_label.h | 27 +++++++++
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c | 5 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
arch/x86/include/asm/export.h | 5 --
arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h | 56 +++++++++++++++----
arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c | 59 ++++++++++++++------
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 3 +-
drivers/pci/quirks.c | 13 ++++-
include/asm-generic/export.h | 12 +++-
include/linux/compiler.h | 10 ++++
include/linux/export.h | 55 ++++++++++++++----
include/linux/init.h | 44 +++++++++++----
include/linux/pci.h | 20 +++++++
include/linux/tracepoint.h | 19 +++++--
init/main.c | 32 +++++------
kernel/jump_label.c | 38 ++++++-------
kernel/module.c | 33 +++++++++--
kernel/printk/printk.c | 4 +-
kernel/tracepoint.c | 50 +++++++++--------
security/security.c | 4 +-
tools/objtool/special.c | 4 +-
32 files changed, 560 insertions(+), 152 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/export.h
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