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<title>riscv module: remove (NOLOAD)</title>
<updated>2022-04-15T12:18:31+00:00</updated>
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<name>Fangrui Song</name>
<email>maskray@google.com</email>
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<published>2022-03-22T01:26:17+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 60210a3d86dc57ce4a76a366e7841dda746a33f7 ]

On ELF, (NOLOAD) sets the section type to SHT_NOBITS[1]. It is conceptually
inappropriate for .plt, .got, and .got.plt sections which are always
SHT_PROGBITS.

In GNU ld, if PLT entries are needed, .plt will be SHT_PROGBITS anyway
and (NOLOAD) will be essentially ignored. In ld.lld, since
https://reviews.llvm.org/D118840 ("[ELF] Support (TYPE=&lt;value&gt;) to
customize the output section type"), ld.lld will report a `section type
mismatch` error (later changed to a warning). Just remove (NOLOAD) to
fix the warning.

[1] https://lld.llvm.org/ELF/linker_script.html As of today, "The
section should be marked as not loadable" on
https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Output-Section-Type.html is
outdated for ELF.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1597
Fixes: ab1ef68e5401 ("RISC-V: Add sections of PLT and GOT for kernel module")
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 60210a3d86dc57ce4a76a366e7841dda746a33f7 ]

On ELF, (NOLOAD) sets the section type to SHT_NOBITS[1]. It is conceptually
inappropriate for .plt, .got, and .got.plt sections which are always
SHT_PROGBITS.

In GNU ld, if PLT entries are needed, .plt will be SHT_PROGBITS anyway
and (NOLOAD) will be essentially ignored. In ld.lld, since
https://reviews.llvm.org/D118840 ("[ELF] Support (TYPE=&lt;value&gt;) to
customize the output section type"), ld.lld will report a `section type
mismatch` error (later changed to a warning). Just remove (NOLOAD) to
fix the warning.

[1] https://lld.llvm.org/ELF/linker_script.html As of today, "The
section should be marked as not loadable" on
https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Output-Section-Type.html is
outdated for ELF.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1597
Fixes: ab1ef68e5401 ("RISC-V: Add sections of PLT and GOT for kernel module")
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>RISC-V: Add section of GOT.PLT for kernel module</title>
<updated>2018-04-03T03:00:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zong Li</name>
<email>zong@andestech.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-15T08:50:42+00:00</published>
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Separate the function symbol address from .plt to .got.plt section.

The original plt entry has trampoline code with symbol address,
there is a 32-bit padding bwtween jar instruction and symbol address.

Extract the symbol address to .got.plt to reduce the module size.

Signed-off-by: Zong Li &lt;zong@andestech.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
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Separate the function symbol address from .plt to .got.plt section.

The original plt entry has trampoline code with symbol address,
there is a 32-bit padding bwtween jar instruction and symbol address.

Extract the symbol address to .got.plt to reduce the module size.

Signed-off-by: Zong Li &lt;zong@andestech.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>RISC-V: Add sections of PLT and GOT for kernel module</title>
<updated>2018-04-03T03:00:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zong Li</name>
<email>zong@andestech.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-15T08:50:41+00:00</published>
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The address of external symbols will locate more than 32-bit offset
in 64-bit kernel with sv39 or sv48 virtual addressing.

Module loader emits the GOT and PLT entries for data symbols and
function symbols respectively.

The PLT entry is a trampoline code for jumping to the 64-bit
real address. The GOT entry is just the data symbol address.

Signed-off-by: Zong Li &lt;zong@andestech.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
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The address of external symbols will locate more than 32-bit offset
in 64-bit kernel with sv39 or sv48 virtual addressing.

Module loader emits the GOT and PLT entries for data symbols and
function symbols respectively.

The PLT entry is a trampoline code for jumping to the 64-bit
real address. The GOT entry is just the data symbol address.

Signed-off-by: Zong Li &lt;zong@andestech.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
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