linux-stable.git/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S, branch linux-4.4.y

s390: introduce execute-trampolines for branches

2018-04-29T05:50:03+00:00

[ Upstream commit f19fbd5ed642dc31c809596412dab1ed56f2f156 ]

Add CONFIG_EXPOLINE to enable the use of the new -mindirect-branch= and
-mfunction_return= compiler options to create a kernel fortified against
the specte v2 attack.

With CONFIG_EXPOLINE=y all indirect branches will be issued with an
execute type instruction. For z10 or newer the EXRL instruction will
be used, for older machines the EX instruction. The typical indirect
call

	basr	%r14,%r1

is replaced with a PC relative call to a new thunk

	brasl	%r14,__s390x_indirect_jump_r1

The thunk contains the EXRL/EX instruction to the indirect branch

__s390x_indirect_jump_r1:
	exrl	0,0f
	j	.
0:	br	%r1

The detour via the execute type instruction has a performance impact.
To get rid of the detour the new kernel parameter "nospectre_v2" and
"spectre_v2=[on,off,auto]" can be used. If the parameter is specified
the kernel and module code will be patched at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

s390: introduce CPU alternatives

2018-04-29T05:50:02+00:00

[ Upstream commit 686140a1a9c41d85a4212a1c26d671139b76404b ]

Implement CPU alternatives, which allows to optionally patch newer
instructions at runtime, based on CPU facilities availability.

A new kernel boot parameter "noaltinstr" disables patching.

Current implementation is derived from x86 alternatives. Although
ideal instructions padding (when altinstr is longer then oldinstr)
is added at compile time, and no oldinstr nops optimization has to be
done at runtime. Also couple of compile time sanity checks are done:
1. oldinstr and altinstr must be <= 254 bytes long,
2. oldinstr and altinstr must not have an odd length.

alternative(oldinstr, altinstr, facility);
alternative_2(oldinstr, altinstr1, facility1, altinstr2, facility2);

Both compile time and runtime padding consists of either 6/4/2 bytes nop
or a jump (brcl) + 2 bytes nop filler if padding is longer then 6 bytes.

.altinstructions and .altinstr_replacement sections are part of
__init_begin : __init_end region and are freed after initialization.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

s390: move _text symbol to address higher than zero

2018-04-13T17:50:03+00:00

[ Upstream commit d04a4c76f71dd5335f8e499b59617382d84e2b8d ]

The perf tool assumes that kernel symbols are never present at address
zero. In fact it assumes if functions that map symbols to addresses
return zero, that the symbol was not found.

Given that s390's _text symbol historically is located at address zero
this yields at least a couple of false errors and warnings in one of
perf's test cases about not present symbols ("perf test 1").

To fix this simply move the _text symbol to address 0x200, just behind
the initial psw and channel program located at the beginning of the
kernel image. This is now hard coded within the linker script.

I tried a nicer solution which moves the initial psw and channel
program into an own section. However that would move the symbols
within the "real" head.text section to different addresses, since the
".org" statements within head.S are relative to the head.text
section. If there is a new section in front, everything else will be
moved. Alternatively I could have adjusted all ".org" statements. But
this current solution seems to be the easiest one, since nobody really
cares where the _text symbol is actually located.

Reported-by: Zvonko Kosic 
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

s390: remove 31 bit support

2015-03-25T10:49:33+00:00

Remove the 31 bit support in order to reduce maintenance cost and
effectively remove dead code. Since a couple of years there is no
distribution left that comes with a 31 bit kernel.

The 31 bit kernel also has been broken since more than a year before
anybody noticed. In addition I added a removal warning to the kernel
shown at ipl for 5 minutes: a960062e5826 ("s390: add 31 bit warning
message") which let everybody know about the plan to remove 31 bit
code. We didn't get any response.

Given that the last 31 bit only machine was introduced in 1999 let's
remove the code.
Anybody with 31 bit user space code can still use the compat mode.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/linker skript: discard exit.data at runtime

2013-02-14T14:55:21+00:00

Discard exit.data section at run time, not link time, since exit.text
references exit.data and causes this build error:

`.exit.data' referenced in section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o:
 defined in discarded section `.exit.data' of drivers/built-in.o

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390: fix linker script for 31 bit builds

2012-10-18T15:50:10+00:00

Because of a change in the s390 arch backend of binutils (commit 23ecd77
"Pick the default arch depending on the target size" in binutils repo)
31 bit builds will fail since the linker would now try to create 64 bit
binary output.
Fix this by setting OUTPUT_ARCH to s390:31-bit instead of s390.
Thanks to Andreas Krebbel for figuring out the issue.

Fixes this build error:

  LD      init/built-in.o
s390x-4.7.2-ld: s390:31-bit architecture of input file
 `arch/s390/kernel/head.o' is incompatible with s390:64-bit output

Cc: Andreas Krebbel 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/linker script: use RO_DATA_SECTION

2012-07-26T08:07:25+00:00

Use RO_DATA_SECTION instead of RODATA like several other archs do already.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] cleanup entry point definition

2012-01-18T17:03:41+00:00

The vmlinux file for s390 contains a currently unused entry point,
which is specified in two different locations: the linker script
and the makefile. As it happens both definitions are different and
the linker file is broken (_start does not exist) and the makefile
specifies an entry point which makes no sense (the SALIPL loader
entry point).

So lets get rid of one definition (the makefile) and use the entry
point of all other ipl methods (0x10000 -> startup) to be consistent.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] incorrect note program header

2011-11-14T10:19:08+00:00

'readelf -n' on the s390 vmlinux file generates lots of warnings about
corrupt notes. The reason is that the 'NOTE' program header has incorrect
file and memory sizes. The problem is that the section following the
NOTES section do not switch to a different phdr and they get added to
the NOTE program section. Add a dummy entry to the linker script that
switches to the data phdr before the start of the RODATA section.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE

2011-03-24T17:50:09+00:00

Percpu allocator honors alignment request upto PAGE_SIZE and both the
percpu addresses in the percpu address space and the translated kernel
addresses should be aligned accordingly.  The calculation of the
former depends on the alignment of percpu output section in the kernel
image.

The linker script macros PERCPU_VADDR() and PERCPU() are used to
define this output section and the latter takes @align parameter.
Several architectures are using @align smaller than PAGE_SIZE breaking
percpu memory alignment.

This patch removes @align parameter from PERCPU(), renames it to
PERCPU_SECTION() and makes it always align to PAGE_SIZE.  While at it,
add PCPU_SETUP_BUG_ON() checks such that alignment problems are
reliably detected and remove percpu alignment comment recently added
in workqueue.c as the condition would trigger BUG way before reaching
there.

For um, this patch raises the alignment of percpu area.  As the area
is in .init, there shouldn't be any noticeable difference.

This problem was discovered by David Howells while debugging boot
failure on mn10300.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger 
Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net