[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Don't use cbz/adr with external symbols

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Mon Mar 8 14:38:16 GMT 2021


On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 12:21:24PM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> allmodconfig + CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN=y fails to build due to following
> linker errors:
> 
>   ld.lld: error: irqbypass.c:(function __guest_enter: .text+0x21CC):
>   relocation R_AARCH64_CONDBR19 out of range: 2031220 is not in
>   [-1048576, 1048575]; references hyp_panic
>   >>> defined in vmlinux.o
> 
>   ld.lld: error: irqbypass.c:(function __guest_enter: .text+0x21E0):
>   relocation R_AARCH64_ADR_PREL_LO21 out of range: 2031200 is not in
>   [-1048576, 1048575]; references hyp_panic
>   >>> defined in vmlinux.o
> 
> This is because with LTO, the compiler ends up placing hyp_panic()
> more than 1MB away from __guest_enter(). Use an unconditional branch
> and adr_l instead to fix the issue.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1317
> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
> Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen at google.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>

Will



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