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<title>objtool: Fix ".cold" section suffix check for newer versions of GCC</title>
<updated>2021-03-04T10:38:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2021-01-21T21:29:19+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 34ca59e109bdf69704c33b8eeffaa4c9f71076e5 ]

With my version of GCC 9.3.1 the ".cold" subfunctions no longer have a
numbered suffix, so the trailing period is no longer there.

Presumably this doesn't yet trigger a user-visible bug since most of the
subfunction detection logic is duplicated.   I only found it when
testing vmlinux.o validation.

Fixes: 54262aa28301 ("objtool: Fix sibling call detection")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ca0b5a57f08a2fbb48538dd915cc253b5edabb40.1611263461.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 34ca59e109bdf69704c33b8eeffaa4c9f71076e5 ]

With my version of GCC 9.3.1 the ".cold" subfunctions no longer have a
numbered suffix, so the trailing period is no longer there.

Presumably this doesn't yet trigger a user-visible bug since most of the
subfunction detection logic is duplicated.   I only found it when
testing vmlinux.o validation.

Fixes: 54262aa28301 ("objtool: Fix sibling call detection")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ca0b5a57f08a2fbb48538dd915cc253b5edabb40.1611263461.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>objtool: Fix retpoline detection in asm code</title>
<updated>2021-03-04T10:38:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-21T21:29:18+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1f9a1b74942485a0a29e7c4a9a9f2fe8aea17766 ]

The JMP_NOSPEC macro branches to __x86_retpoline_*() rather than the
__x86_indirect_thunk_*() wrappers used by C code.  Detect jumps to
__x86_retpoline_*() as retpoline dynamic jumps.

Presumably this doesn't trigger a user-visible bug.  I only found it
when testing vmlinux.o validation.

Fixes: 39b735332cb8 ("objtool: Detect jumps to retpoline thunks")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/31f5833e2e4f01e3d755889ac77e3661e906c09f.1611263461.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1f9a1b74942485a0a29e7c4a9a9f2fe8aea17766 ]

The JMP_NOSPEC macro branches to __x86_retpoline_*() rather than the
__x86_indirect_thunk_*() wrappers used by C code.  Detect jumps to
__x86_retpoline_*() as retpoline dynamic jumps.

Presumably this doesn't trigger a user-visible bug.  I only found it
when testing vmlinux.o validation.

Fixes: 39b735332cb8 ("objtool: Detect jumps to retpoline thunks")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/31f5833e2e4f01e3d755889ac77e3661e906c09f.1611263461.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>objtool: Fix error handling for STD/CLD warnings</title>
<updated>2021-03-04T10:38:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-21T21:29:17+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6f567c9300a5ebd7b18c26dda1c8d6ffbdd0debd ]

Actually return an error (and display a backtrace, if requested) for
directional bit warnings.

Fixes: 2f0f9e9ad7b3 ("objtool: Add Direction Flag validation")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dc70f2adbc72f09526f7cab5b6feb8bf7f6c5ad4.1611263461.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6f567c9300a5ebd7b18c26dda1c8d6ffbdd0debd ]

Actually return an error (and display a backtrace, if requested) for
directional bit warnings.

Fixes: 2f0f9e9ad7b3 ("objtool: Add Direction Flag validation")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dc70f2adbc72f09526f7cab5b6feb8bf7f6c5ad4.1611263461.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>objtool: Fix seg fault with Clang non-section symbols</title>
<updated>2021-02-17T10:02:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-14T22:04:20+00:00</published>
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commit 44f6a7c0755d8dd453c70557e11687bb080a6f21 upstream.

The Clang assembler likes to strip section symbols, which means objtool
can't reference some text code by its section.  This confuses objtool
greatly, causing it to seg fault.

The fix is similar to what was done before, for ORC reloc generation:

  e81e07244325 ("objtool: Support Clang non-section symbols in ORC generation")

Factor out that code into a common helper and use it for static call
reloc generation as well.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1207
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ba6b6c0f0dd5acbba66e403955a967d9fdd1726a.1607983452.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 44f6a7c0755d8dd453c70557e11687bb080a6f21 upstream.

The Clang assembler likes to strip section symbols, which means objtool
can't reference some text code by its section.  This confuses objtool
greatly, causing it to seg fault.

The fix is similar to what was done before, for ORC reloc generation:

  e81e07244325 ("objtool: Support Clang non-section symbols in ORC generation")

Factor out that code into a common helper and use it for static call
reloc generation as well.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1207
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ba6b6c0f0dd5acbba66e403955a967d9fdd1726a.1607983452.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>objtool: Don't fail the kernel build on fatal errors</title>
<updated>2021-02-07T14:37:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-14T22:32:42+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 655cf86548a3938538642a6df27dd359e13c86bd ]

This is basically a revert of commit 644592d32837 ("objtool: Fail the
kernel build on fatal errors").

That change turned out to be more trouble than it's worth.  Failing the
build is an extreme measure which sometimes gets too much attention and
blocks CI build testing.

These fatal-type warnings aren't yet as rare as we'd hope, due to the
ever-increasing matrix of supported toolchains/plugins and their
fast-changing nature as of late.

Also, there are more people (and bots) looking for objtool warnings than
ever before, so even non-fatal warnings aren't likely to be ignored for
long.

Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 655cf86548a3938538642a6df27dd359e13c86bd ]

This is basically a revert of commit 644592d32837 ("objtool: Fail the
kernel build on fatal errors").

That change turned out to be more trouble than it's worth.  Failing the
build is an extreme measure which sometimes gets too much attention and
blocks CI build testing.

These fatal-type warnings aren't yet as rare as we'd hope, due to the
ever-increasing matrix of supported toolchains/plugins and their
fast-changing nature as of late.

Also, there are more people (and bots) looking for objtool warnings than
ever before, so even non-fatal warnings aren't likely to be ignored for
long.

Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>objtool: Don't add empty symbols to the rbtree</title>
<updated>2021-02-07T14:37:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-06T00:04:20+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a2e38dffcd93541914aba52b30c6a52acca35201 ]

Building with the Clang assembler shows the following warning:

  arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_64.o: warning: objtool: missing symbol for insn at offset 0x16

The Clang assembler strips section symbols.  That ends up giving
objtool's find_func_containing() much more test coverage than normal.
Turns out, find_func_containing() doesn't work so well for overlapping
symbols:

     2: 000000000000000e     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT    2 fgraph_trace
     3: 000000000000000f     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT    2 trace
     4: 0000000000000000   165 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 __fentry__
     5: 000000000000000e     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 ftrace_stub

The zero-length NOTYPE symbols are inside __fentry__(), confusing the
rbtree search for any __fentry__() offset coming after a NOTYPE.

Try to avoid this problem by not adding zero-length symbols to the
rbtree.  They're rare and aren't needed in the rbtree anyway.

One caveat, this actually might not end up being the right fix.
Non-empty overlapping symbols, if they exist, could have the same
problem.  But that would need bigger changes, let's see if we can get
away with the easy fix for now.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a2e38dffcd93541914aba52b30c6a52acca35201 ]

Building with the Clang assembler shows the following warning:

  arch/x86/kernel/ftrace_64.o: warning: objtool: missing symbol for insn at offset 0x16

The Clang assembler strips section symbols.  That ends up giving
objtool's find_func_containing() much more test coverage than normal.
Turns out, find_func_containing() doesn't work so well for overlapping
symbols:

     2: 000000000000000e     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT    2 fgraph_trace
     3: 000000000000000f     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT    2 trace
     4: 0000000000000000   165 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 __fentry__
     5: 000000000000000e     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 ftrace_stub

The zero-length NOTYPE symbols are inside __fentry__(), confusing the
rbtree search for any __fentry__() offset coming after a NOTYPE.

Try to avoid this problem by not adding zero-length symbols to the
rbtree.  They're rare and aren't needed in the rbtree anyway.

One caveat, this actually might not end up being the right fix.
Non-empty overlapping symbols, if they exist, could have the same
problem.  But that would need bigger changes, let's see if we can get
away with the easy fix for now.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tools: Factor HOSTCC, HOSTLD, HOSTAR definitions</title>
<updated>2021-01-30T12:55:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jean-Philippe Brucker</name>
<email>jean-philippe@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-10T16:43:05+00:00</published>
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commit c8a950d0d3b926a02c7b2e713850d38217cec3d1 upstream.

Several Makefiles in tools/ need to define the host toolchain variables.
Move their definition to tools/scripts/Makefile.include

Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker &lt;jean-philippe@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201110164310.2600671-2-jean-philippe@linaro.org
Cc: Alistair Delva &lt;adelva@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c8a950d0d3b926a02c7b2e713850d38217cec3d1 upstream.

Several Makefiles in tools/ need to define the host toolchain variables.
Move their definition to tools/scripts/Makefile.include

Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker &lt;jean-philippe@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201110164310.2600671-2-jean-philippe@linaro.org
Cc: Alistair Delva &lt;adelva@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool: Don't fail on missing symbol table</title>
<updated>2021-01-30T12:55:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-14T22:14:01+00:00</published>
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commit 1d489151e9f9d1647110277ff77282fe4d96d09b upstream.

Thanks to a recent binutils change which doesn't generate unused
symbols, it's now possible for thunk_64.o be completely empty without
CONFIG_PREEMPTION: no text, no data, no symbols.

We could edit the Makefile to only build that file when
CONFIG_PREEMPTION is enabled, but that will likely create confusion
if/when the thunks end up getting used by some other code again.

Just ignore it and move on.

Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1254
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1d489151e9f9d1647110277ff77282fe4d96d09b upstream.

Thanks to a recent binutils change which doesn't generate unused
symbols, it's now possible for thunk_64.o be completely empty without
CONFIG_PREEMPTION: no text, no data, no symbols.

We could edit the Makefile to only build that file when
CONFIG_PREEMPTION is enabled, but that will likely create confusion
if/when the thunks end up getting used by some other code again.

Just ignore it and move on.

Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1254
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'objtool-core-2020-10-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T17:13:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-14T17:13:37+00:00</published>
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Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Most of the changes are cleanups and reorganization to make the
  objtool code more arch-agnostic. This is in preparation for non-x86
  support.

  Other changes:

   - KASAN fixes

   - Handle unreachable trap after call to noreturn functions better

   - Ignore unreachable fake jumps

   - Misc smaller fixes &amp; cleanups"

* tag 'objtool-core-2020-10-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  perf build: Allow nested externs to enable BUILD_BUG() usage
  objtool: Allow nested externs to enable BUILD_BUG()
  objtool: Permit __kasan_check_{read,write} under UACCESS
  objtool: Ignore unreachable trap after call to noreturn functions
  objtool: Handle calling non-function symbols in other sections
  objtool: Ignore unreachable fake jumps
  objtool: Remove useless tests before save_reg()
  objtool: Decode unwind hint register depending on architecture
  objtool: Make unwind hint definitions available to other architectures
  objtool: Only include valid definitions depending on source file type
  objtool: Rename frame.h -&gt; objtool.h
  objtool: Refactor jump table code to support other architectures
  objtool: Make relocation in alternative handling arch dependent
  objtool: Abstract alternative special case handling
  objtool: Move macros describing structures to arch-dependent code
  objtool: Make sync-check consider the target architecture
  objtool: Group headers to check in a single list
  objtool: Define 'struct orc_entry' only when needed
  objtool: Skip ORC entry creation for non-text sections
  objtool: Move ORC logic out of check()
  ...
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Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Most of the changes are cleanups and reorganization to make the
  objtool code more arch-agnostic. This is in preparation for non-x86
  support.

  Other changes:

   - KASAN fixes

   - Handle unreachable trap after call to noreturn functions better

   - Ignore unreachable fake jumps

   - Misc smaller fixes &amp; cleanups"

* tag 'objtool-core-2020-10-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  perf build: Allow nested externs to enable BUILD_BUG() usage
  objtool: Allow nested externs to enable BUILD_BUG()
  objtool: Permit __kasan_check_{read,write} under UACCESS
  objtool: Ignore unreachable trap after call to noreturn functions
  objtool: Handle calling non-function symbols in other sections
  objtool: Ignore unreachable fake jumps
  objtool: Remove useless tests before save_reg()
  objtool: Decode unwind hint register depending on architecture
  objtool: Make unwind hint definitions available to other architectures
  objtool: Only include valid definitions depending on source file type
  objtool: Rename frame.h -&gt; objtool.h
  objtool: Refactor jump table code to support other architectures
  objtool: Make relocation in alternative handling arch dependent
  objtool: Abstract alternative special case handling
  objtool: Move macros describing structures to arch-dependent code
  objtool: Make sync-check consider the target architecture
  objtool: Group headers to check in a single list
  objtool: Define 'struct orc_entry' only when needed
  objtool: Skip ORC entry creation for non-text sections
  objtool: Move ORC logic out of check()
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'core-static_call-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-10-12T20:58:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-12T20:58:15+00:00</published>
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Pull static call support from Ingo Molnar:
 "This introduces static_call(), which is the idea of static_branch()
  applied to indirect function calls. Remove a data load (indirection)
  by modifying the text.

  They give the flexibility of function pointers, but with better
  performance. (This is especially important for cases where retpolines
  would otherwise be used, as retpolines can be pretty slow.)

  API overview:

      DECLARE_STATIC_CALL(name, func);
      DEFINE_STATIC_CALL(name, func);
      DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_NULL(name, typename);

      static_call(name)(args...);
      static_call_cond(name)(args...);
      static_call_update(name, func);

  x86 is supported via text patching, otherwise basic indirect calls are
  used, with function pointers.

  There's a second variant using inline code patching, inspired by
  jump-labels, implemented on x86 as well.

  The new APIs are utilized in the x86 perf code, a heavy user of
  function pointers, where static calls speed up the PMU handler by
  4.2% (!).

  The generic implementation is not really excercised on other
  architectures, outside of the trivial test_static_call_init()
  self-test"

* tag 'core-static_call-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  static_call: Fix return type of static_call_init
  tracepoint: Fix out of sync data passing by static caller
  tracepoint: Fix overly long tracepoint names
  x86/perf, static_call: Optimize x86_pmu methods
  tracepoint: Optimize using static_call()
  static_call: Allow early init
  static_call: Add some validation
  static_call: Handle tail-calls
  static_call: Add static_call_cond()
  x86/alternatives: Teach text_poke_bp() to emulate RET
  static_call: Add simple self-test for static calls
  x86/static_call: Add inline static call implementation for x86-64
  x86/static_call: Add out-of-line static call implementation
  static_call: Avoid kprobes on inline static_call()s
  static_call: Add inline static call infrastructure
  static_call: Add basic static call infrastructure
  compiler.h: Make __ADDRESSABLE() symbol truly unique
  jump_label,module: Fix module lifetime for __jump_label_mod_text_reserved()
  module: Properly propagate MODULE_STATE_COMING failure
  module: Fix up module_notifier return values
  ...
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Pull static call support from Ingo Molnar:
 "This introduces static_call(), which is the idea of static_branch()
  applied to indirect function calls. Remove a data load (indirection)
  by modifying the text.

  They give the flexibility of function pointers, but with better
  performance. (This is especially important for cases where retpolines
  would otherwise be used, as retpolines can be pretty slow.)

  API overview:

      DECLARE_STATIC_CALL(name, func);
      DEFINE_STATIC_CALL(name, func);
      DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_NULL(name, typename);

      static_call(name)(args...);
      static_call_cond(name)(args...);
      static_call_update(name, func);

  x86 is supported via text patching, otherwise basic indirect calls are
  used, with function pointers.

  There's a second variant using inline code patching, inspired by
  jump-labels, implemented on x86 as well.

  The new APIs are utilized in the x86 perf code, a heavy user of
  function pointers, where static calls speed up the PMU handler by
  4.2% (!).

  The generic implementation is not really excercised on other
  architectures, outside of the trivial test_static_call_init()
  self-test"

* tag 'core-static_call-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  static_call: Fix return type of static_call_init
  tracepoint: Fix out of sync data passing by static caller
  tracepoint: Fix overly long tracepoint names
  x86/perf, static_call: Optimize x86_pmu methods
  tracepoint: Optimize using static_call()
  static_call: Allow early init
  static_call: Add some validation
  static_call: Handle tail-calls
  static_call: Add static_call_cond()
  x86/alternatives: Teach text_poke_bp() to emulate RET
  static_call: Add simple self-test for static calls
  x86/static_call: Add inline static call implementation for x86-64
  x86/static_call: Add out-of-line static call implementation
  static_call: Avoid kprobes on inline static_call()s
  static_call: Add inline static call infrastructure
  static_call: Add basic static call infrastructure
  compiler.h: Make __ADDRESSABLE() symbol truly unique
  jump_label,module: Fix module lifetime for __jump_label_mod_text_reserved()
  module: Properly propagate MODULE_STATE_COMING failure
  module: Fix up module_notifier return values
  ...
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