linux-stable.git/arch/loongarch/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S, branch linux-rolling-stable Linux kernel stable tree LoongArch: Adjust build infrastructure for 32BIT/64BIT 2026-04-22T07:44:26+00:00 Huacai Chen chenhuacai@loongson.cn 2026-04-22T07:44:26+00:00 3d9aba6618d115750729bba2d1f8af180bd7d3bd Adjust build infrastructure (Kconfig, Makefile and ld scripts) to let us enable both 32BIT/64BIT kernel build. Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn> 
Adjust build infrastructure (Kconfig, Makefile and ld scripts) to let
us enable both 32BIT/64BIT kernel build.

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS 2026-02-26T18:50:19+00:00 Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org 2026-02-25T22:02:51+00:00 8678591b47469fe16357234efef9b260317b8be4 Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390 and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader failing to load the compressed kernel [1]. Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition. Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has never been necessary in those uses. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped") Reported-by: Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1] Tested-by: Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com> # x86_64 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> 
Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it
from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and
ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker
scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and
COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390
and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo
section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader
failing to load the compressed kernel [1].

Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with
SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but
the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo
in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with
commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot
Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes
lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its
MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition.

Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in
all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was
previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has
never been necessary in those uses.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Reported-by: Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com> # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
LoongArch: Add support for relocating the kernel with RELR relocation 2024-07-20T14:41:07+00:00 Xi Ruoyao xry111@xry111.site 2024-07-20T14:41:07+00:00 e05d4cd9b895c503dcf19c0ed9ebb8d393b220ec RELR as a relocation packing format for relative relocations for reducing the size of relative relocation records. In a position independent executable there are often many relative relocation records, and our vmlinux is a PIE. The LLD linker (since 17.0.0) and the BFD linker (since 2.43) supports packing the relocations in the RELR format for LoongArch, with the flag -z pack-relative-relocs. Commits 5cf896fb6be3eff ("arm64: Add support for relocating the kernel with RELR relocations") and ccb2d173b983984bfa ("Makefile: use -z pack-relative-relocs") have already added the framework to use RELR. We just need to wire it up and process the RELR relocation records in relocate_relative() in addition to the RELA relocation records. A ".p2align 3" directive is added to la_abs macro or the BFD linker cannot pack the relocation records against the .la_abs section (the ". = ALIGN(8);" directive in vmlinux.lds.S is too late in the linking process). With defconfig and CONFIG_RELR vmlinux.efi is 2.1 MiB (6%) smaller, and vmlinuz.efi (using gzip compression) is 384 KiB (2.8%) smaller. Link: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/generic-abi/bX460iggiKg Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D138135#4531389 Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=d89ecf33ab6d Signed-off-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn> 
RELR as a relocation packing format for relative relocations for
reducing the size of relative relocation records.  In a position
independent executable there are often many relative relocation
records, and our vmlinux is a PIE.

The LLD linker (since 17.0.0) and the BFD linker (since 2.43) supports
packing the relocations in the RELR format for LoongArch, with the flag
-z pack-relative-relocs.

Commits 5cf896fb6be3eff ("arm64: Add support for relocating the kernel
with RELR relocations") and ccb2d173b983984bfa ("Makefile: use -z
pack-relative-relocs") have already added the framework to use RELR.
We just need to wire it up and process the RELR relocation records in
relocate_relative() in addition to the RELA relocation records.

A ".p2align 3" directive is added to la_abs macro or the BFD linker
cannot pack the relocation records against the .la_abs section (the
". = ALIGN(8);" directive in vmlinux.lds.S is too late in the linking
process).

With defconfig and CONFIG_RELR vmlinux.efi is 2.1 MiB (6%) smaller, and
vmlinuz.efi (using gzip compression) is 384 KiB (2.8%) smaller.

Link: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/generic-abi/bX460iggiKg
Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D138135#4531389
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=d89ecf33ab6d
Signed-off-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
LoongArch: Fix entry point in kernel image header 2024-06-03T07:45:53+00:00 Jiaxun Yang jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com 2024-06-03T07:45:53+00:00 beb2800074c15362cf9f6c7301120910046d6556 Currently kernel entry in head.S is in DMW address range, firmware is instructed to jump to this address after loading the kernel image. However kernel should not make any assumption on firmware's DMW setting, thus the entry point should be a physical address falls into direct translation region. Fix by converting entry address to physical and amend entry calculation logic in libstub accordingly. BTW, use ABSOLUTE() to calculate variables to make Clang/LLVM happy. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn> 
Currently kernel entry in head.S is in DMW address range, firmware is
instructed to jump to this address after loading the kernel image.

However kernel should not make any assumption on firmware's DMW
setting, thus the entry point should be a physical address falls into
direct translation region.

Fix by converting entry address to physical and amend entry calculation
logic in libstub accordingly.

BTW, use ABSOLUTE() to calculate variables to make Clang/LLVM happy.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
LoongArch: Add ORC stack unwinder support 2024-03-11T14:23:47+00:00 Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu@loongson.cn 2024-03-11T14:23:47+00:00 cb8a2ef0848ca80d67d6d56e2df757cfdf6b3355 The kernel CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC option enables the ORC unwinder, which is similar in concept to a DWARF unwinder. The difference is that the format of the ORC data is much simpler than DWARF, which in turn allows the ORC unwinder to be much simpler and faster. The ORC data consists of unwind tables which are generated by objtool. After analyzing all the code paths of a .o file, it determines information about the stack state at each instruction address in the file and outputs that information to the .orc_unwind and .orc_unwind_ip sections. The per-object ORC sections are combined at link time and are sorted and post-processed at boot time. The unwinder uses the resulting data to correlate instruction addresses with their stack states at run time. Most of the logic are similar with x86, in order to get ra info before ra is saved into stack, add ra_reg and ra_offset into orc_entry. At the same time, modify some arch-specific code to silence the objtool warnings. Co-developed-by: Jinyang He <hejinyang@loongson.cn> Signed-off-by: Jinyang He <hejinyang@loongson.cn> Co-developed-by: Youling Tang <tangyouling@loongson.cn> Signed-off-by: Youling Tang <tangyouling@loongson.cn> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn> 
The kernel CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC option enables the ORC unwinder, which is
similar in concept to a DWARF unwinder. The difference is that the format
of the ORC data is much simpler than DWARF, which in turn allows the ORC
unwinder to be much simpler and faster.

The ORC data consists of unwind tables which are generated by objtool.
After analyzing all the code paths of a .o file, it determines information
about the stack state at each instruction address in the file and outputs
that information to the .orc_unwind and .orc_unwind_ip sections.

The per-object ORC sections are combined at link time and are sorted and
post-processed at boot time. The unwinder uses the resulting data to
correlate instruction addresses with their stack states at run time.

Most of the logic are similar with x86, in order to get ra info before ra
is saved into stack, add ra_reg and ra_offset into orc_entry. At the same
time, modify some arch-specific code to silence the objtool warnings.

Co-developed-by: Jinyang He <hejinyang@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jinyang He <hejinyang@loongson.cn>
Co-developed-by: Youling Tang <tangyouling@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Youling Tang <tangyouling@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
efi/loongarch: Directly position the loaded image file 2023-12-19T10:16:37+00:00 Wang Yao wangyao@lemote.com 2023-12-19T09:14:05+00:00 174a0c565cea74a7811ff79fbee1b70247570ade The use of the 'kernel_offset' variable to position the image file that has been loaded by UEFI or GRUB is unnecessary, because we can directly position the loaded image file through using the image_base field of the efi_loaded_image struct provided by UEFI. Replace kernel_offset with image_base to position the image file that has been loaded by UEFI or GRUB. Signed-off-by: Wang Yao <wangyao@lemote.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> 
The use of the 'kernel_offset' variable to position the image file that
has been loaded by UEFI or GRUB is unnecessary, because we can directly
position the loaded image file through using the image_base field of the
efi_loaded_image struct provided by UEFI.

Replace kernel_offset with image_base to position the image file that has
been loaded by UEFI or GRUB.

Signed-off-by: Wang Yao <wangyao@lemote.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
LoongArch: Fix lockdep static memory detection 2023-09-20T06:26:28+00:00 Helge Deller deller@gmx.de 2023-09-20T06:26:28+00:00 68ffa230daa0d35b7cce476098433d763d5fd42f Since commit 0a6b58c5cd0d ("lockdep: fix static memory detection even more") the lockdep code uses is_kernel_core_data(), is_kernel_rodata() and init_section_contains() to verify if a lock is located inside a kernel static data section. This change triggers a failure on LoongArch, for which the vmlinux.lds.S script misses to put the locks (as part of in the .data.rel symbols) into the Linux data section. This patch fixes the lockdep problem by moving *(.data.rel*) symbols into the kernel data section (from _sdata to _edata). Additionally, move other wrongly assigned symbols too: - altinstructions into the _initdata section, - PLT symbols behind the read-only section, and - *(.la_abs) into the data section. Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> # v6.4+ Fixes: 0a6b58c5cd0d ("lockdep: fix static memory detection even more") Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn> 
Since commit 0a6b58c5cd0d ("lockdep: fix static memory detection even
more") the lockdep code uses is_kernel_core_data(), is_kernel_rodata()
and init_section_contains() to verify if a lock is located inside a
kernel static data section.

This change triggers a failure on LoongArch, for which the vmlinux.lds.S
script misses to put the locks (as part of in the .data.rel symbols)
into the Linux data section.

This patch fixes the lockdep problem by moving *(.data.rel*) symbols
into the kernel data section (from _sdata to _edata).

Additionally, move other wrongly assigned symbols too:
- altinstructions into the _initdata section,
- PLT symbols behind the read-only section, and
- *(.la_abs) into the data section.

Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> # v6.4+
Fixes: 0a6b58c5cd0d ("lockdep: fix static memory detection even more")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
LoongArch: Calculate various sizes in the linker script 2023-06-29T12:58:42+00:00 WANG Rui wangrui@loongson.cn 2023-06-29T12:58:42+00:00 414cefc798a30895d61e9d5b010fcf350af782d6 Taking the address delta between symbols in different sections is not supported by the LLVM IAS. Instead, do this in the linker script, so the same data can be properly referenced in assembly. Signed-off-by: WANG Rui <wangrui@loongson.cn> Signed-off-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name> [chenhuacai: Fix build with !CONFIG_EFI_STUB] Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn> 
Taking the address delta between symbols in different sections is not
supported by the LLVM IAS. Instead, do this in the linker script, so
the same data can be properly referenced in assembly.

Signed-off-by: WANG Rui <wangrui@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>
[chenhuacai: Fix build with !CONFIG_EFI_STUB]
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
Merge tag 'loongarch-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson 2023-03-01T17:27:00+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2023-03-01T17:27:00+00:00 a8356cdb5bd5abc74f814d76bd37900997fad35d Pull LoongArch updates from Huacai Chen: - Make -mstrict-align configurable - Add kernel relocation and KASLR support - Add single kernel image implementation for kdump - Add hardware breakpoints/watchpoints support - Add kprobes/kretprobes/kprobes_on_ftrace support - Add LoongArch support for some selftests. * tag 'loongarch-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson: (23 commits) selftests/ftrace: Add LoongArch kprobe args string tests support selftests/seccomp: Add LoongArch selftesting support tools: Add LoongArch build infrastructure samples/kprobes: Add LoongArch support LoongArch: Mark some assembler symbols as non-kprobe-able LoongArch: Add kprobes on ftrace support LoongArch: Add kretprobes support LoongArch: Add kprobes support LoongArch: Simulate branch and PC* instructions LoongArch: ptrace: Add hardware single step support LoongArch: ptrace: Add function argument access API LoongArch: ptrace: Expose hardware breakpoints to debuggers LoongArch: Add hardware breakpoints/watchpoints support LoongArch: kdump: Add crashkernel=YM handling LoongArch: kdump: Add single kernel image implementation LoongArch: Add support for kernel address space layout randomization (KASLR) LoongArch: Add support for kernel relocation LoongArch: Add la_abs macro implementation LoongArch: Add JUMP_VIRT_ADDR macro implementation to avoid using la.abs LoongArch: Use la.pcrel instead of la.abs when it's trivially possible ... 
Pull LoongArch updates from Huacai Chen:

 - Make -mstrict-align configurable

 - Add kernel relocation and KASLR support

 - Add single kernel image implementation for kdump

 - Add hardware breakpoints/watchpoints support

 - Add kprobes/kretprobes/kprobes_on_ftrace support

 - Add LoongArch support for some selftests.

* tag 'loongarch-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson: (23 commits)
  selftests/ftrace: Add LoongArch kprobe args string tests support
  selftests/seccomp: Add LoongArch selftesting support
  tools: Add LoongArch build infrastructure
  samples/kprobes: Add LoongArch support
  LoongArch: Mark some assembler symbols as non-kprobe-able
  LoongArch: Add kprobes on ftrace support
  LoongArch: Add kretprobes support
  LoongArch: Add kprobes support
  LoongArch: Simulate branch and PC* instructions
  LoongArch: ptrace: Add hardware single step support
  LoongArch: ptrace: Add function argument access API
  LoongArch: ptrace: Expose hardware breakpoints to debuggers
  LoongArch: Add hardware breakpoints/watchpoints support
  LoongArch: kdump: Add crashkernel=YM handling
  LoongArch: kdump: Add single kernel image implementation
  LoongArch: Add support for kernel address space layout randomization (KASLR)
  LoongArch: Add support for kernel relocation
  LoongArch: Add la_abs macro implementation
  LoongArch: Add JUMP_VIRT_ADDR macro implementation to avoid using la.abs
  LoongArch: Use la.pcrel instead of la.abs when it's trivially possible
  ...
LoongArch: Add support for kernel relocation 2023-02-25T14:12:16+00:00 Youling Tang tangyouling@loongson.cn 2023-02-25T07:52:56+00:00 d8da19fbdedd5852592fbba18a7348e3f09500e6 This config allows to compile kernel as PIE and to relocate it at any virtual address at runtime: this paves the way to KASLR. Runtime relocation is possible since relocation metadata are embedded into the kernel. Signed-off-by: Youling Tang <tangyouling@loongson.cn> Signed-off-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site> # Use arch_initcall Signed-off-by: Jinyang He <hejinyang@loongson.cn> # Provide la_abs relocation code Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn> 
This config allows to compile kernel as PIE and to relocate it at any
virtual address at runtime: this paves the way to KASLR.

Runtime relocation is possible since relocation metadata are embedded
into the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Youling Tang <tangyouling@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site> # Use arch_initcall
Signed-off-by: Jinyang He <hejinyang@loongson.cn> # Provide la_abs relocation code
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>