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<title>Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2026-04-03T15:47:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-03T15:47:13+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 fix from Will Deacon:

 - Implement a basic static call trampoline to fix CFI failures with the
   generic implementation

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: Use static call trampolines when kCFI is enabled
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Pull arm64 fix from Will Deacon:

 - Implement a basic static call trampoline to fix CFI failures with the
   generic implementation

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: Use static call trampolines when kCFI is enabled
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Use static call trampolines when kCFI is enabled</title>
<updated>2026-04-01T14:29:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-31T11:04:23+00:00</published>
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Implement arm64 support for the 'unoptimized' static call variety, which
routes all calls through a trampoline that performs a tail call to the
chosen function, and wire it up for use when kCFI is enabled. This works
around an issue with kCFI and generic static calls, where the prototypes
of default handlers such as __static_call_nop() and __static_call_ret0()
don't match the expected prototype of the call site, resulting in kCFI
false positives [0].

Since static call targets may be located in modules loaded out of direct
branching range, this needs an ADRP/LDR pair to load the branch target
into R16 and a branch-to-register (BR) instruction to perform an
indirect call.

Unlike on x86, there is no pressing need on arm64 to avoid indirect
calls at all cost, but hiding it from the compiler as is done here does
have some benefits:
- the literal is located in .rodata, which gives us the same robustness
  advantage that code patching does;
- no D-cache pollution from fetching hash values from .text sections.

From an execution speed PoV, this is unlikely to make any difference at
all.

Cc: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Will McVicker &lt;willmcvicker@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Carlos Llamas &lt;cmllamas@google.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260311225822.1565895-1-cmllamas@google.com/ [0]
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Implement arm64 support for the 'unoptimized' static call variety, which
routes all calls through a trampoline that performs a tail call to the
chosen function, and wire it up for use when kCFI is enabled. This works
around an issue with kCFI and generic static calls, where the prototypes
of default handlers such as __static_call_nop() and __static_call_ret0()
don't match the expected prototype of the call site, resulting in kCFI
false positives [0].

Since static call targets may be located in modules loaded out of direct
branching range, this needs an ADRP/LDR pair to load the branch target
into R16 and a branch-to-register (BR) instruction to perform an
indirect call.

Unlike on x86, there is no pressing need on arm64 to avoid indirect
calls at all cost, but hiding it from the compiler as is done here does
have some benefits:
- the literal is located in .rodata, which gives us the same robustness
  advantage that code patching does;
- no D-cache pollution from fetching hash values from .text sections.

From an execution speed PoV, this is unlikely to make any difference at
all.

Cc: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Will McVicker &lt;willmcvicker@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Carlos Llamas &lt;cmllamas@google.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260311225822.1565895-1-cmllamas@google.com/ [0]
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS</title>
<updated>2026-02-26T18:50:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-25T22:02:51+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt; # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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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 &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt; # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2025-05-29T15:10:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-29T15:10:01+00:00</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "As far as x86 goes this pull request "only" includes TDX host support.

  Quotes are appropriate because (at 6k lines and 100+ commits) it is
  much bigger than the rest, which will come later this week and
  consists mostly of bugfixes and selftests. s390 changes will also come
  in the second batch.

  ARM:

   - Add large stage-2 mapping (THP) support for non-protected guests
     when pKVM is enabled, clawing back some performance.

   - Enable nested virtualisation support on systems that support it,
     though it is disabled by default.

   - Add UBSAN support to the standalone EL2 object used in nVHE/hVHE
     and protected modes.

   - Large rework of the way KVM tracks architecture features and links
     them with the effects of control bits. While this has no functional
     impact, it ensures correctness of emulation (the data is
     automatically extracted from the published JSON files), and helps
     dealing with the evolution of the architecture.

   - Significant changes to the way pKVM tracks ownership of pages,
     avoiding page table walks by storing the state in the hypervisor's
     vmemmap. This in turn enables the THP support described above.

   - New selftest checking the pKVM ownership transition rules

   - Fixes for FEAT_MTE_ASYNC being accidentally advertised to guests
     even if the host didn't have it.

   - Fixes for the address translation emulation, which happened to be
     rather buggy in some specific contexts.

   - Fixes for the PMU emulation in NV contexts, decoupling PMCR_EL0.N
     from the number of counters exposed to a guest and addressing a
     number of issues in the process.

   - Add a new selftest for the SVE host state being corrupted by a
     guest.

   - Keep HCR_EL2.xMO set at all times for systems running with the
     kernel at EL2, ensuring that the window for interrupts is slightly
     bigger, and avoiding a pretty bad erratum on the AmpereOne HW.

   - Add workaround for AmpereOne's erratum AC04_CPU_23, which suffers
     from a pretty bad case of TLB corruption unless accesses to HCR_EL2
     are heavily synchronised.

   - Add a per-VM, per-ITS debugfs entry to dump the state of the ITS
     tables in a human-friendly fashion.

   - and the usual random cleanups.

  LoongArch:

   - Don't flush tlb if the host supports hardware page table walks.

   - Add KVM selftests support.

  RISC-V:

   - Add vector registers to get-reg-list selftest

   - VCPU reset related improvements

   - Remove scounteren initialization from VCPU reset

   - Support VCPU reset from userspace using set_mpstate() ioctl

  x86:

   - Initial support for TDX in KVM.

     This finally makes it possible to use the TDX module to run
     confidential guests on Intel processors. This is quite a large
     series, including support for private page tables (managed by the
     TDX module and mirrored in KVM for efficiency), forwarding some
     TDVMCALLs to userspace, and handling several special VM exits from
     the TDX module.

     This has been in the works for literally years and it's not really
     possible to describe everything here, so I'll defer to the various
     merge commits up to and including commit 7bcf7246c42a ('Merge
     branch 'kvm-tdx-finish-initial' into HEAD')"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (248 commits)
  x86/tdx: mark tdh_vp_enter() as __flatten
  Documentation: virt/kvm: remove unreferenced footnote
  RISC-V: KVM: lock the correct mp_state during reset
  KVM: arm64: Fix documentation for vgic_its_iter_next()
  KVM: arm64: np-guest CMOs with PMD_SIZE fixmap
  KVM: arm64: Stage-2 huge mappings for np-guests
  KVM: arm64: Add a range to pkvm_mappings
  KVM: arm64: Convert pkvm_mappings to interval tree
  KVM: arm64: Add a range to __pkvm_host_test_clear_young_guest()
  KVM: arm64: Add a range to __pkvm_host_wrprotect_guest()
  KVM: arm64: Add a range to __pkvm_host_unshare_guest()
  KVM: arm64: Add a range to __pkvm_host_share_guest()
  KVM: arm64: Introduce for_each_hyp_page
  KVM: arm64: Handle huge mappings for np-guest CMOs
  KVM: arm64: nv: Release faulted-in VNCR page from mmu_lock critical section
  KVM: arm64: nv: Handle TLBI S1E2 for VNCR invalidation with mmu_lock held
  KVM: arm64: nv: Hold mmu_lock when invalidating VNCR SW-TLB before translating
  RISC-V: KVM: add KVM_CAP_RISCV_MP_STATE_RESET
  RISC-V: KVM: Remove scounteren initialization
  KVM: RISC-V: remove unnecessary SBI reset state
  ...
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "As far as x86 goes this pull request "only" includes TDX host support.

  Quotes are appropriate because (at 6k lines and 100+ commits) it is
  much bigger than the rest, which will come later this week and
  consists mostly of bugfixes and selftests. s390 changes will also come
  in the second batch.

  ARM:

   - Add large stage-2 mapping (THP) support for non-protected guests
     when pKVM is enabled, clawing back some performance.

   - Enable nested virtualisation support on systems that support it,
     though it is disabled by default.

   - Add UBSAN support to the standalone EL2 object used in nVHE/hVHE
     and protected modes.

   - Large rework of the way KVM tracks architecture features and links
     them with the effects of control bits. While this has no functional
     impact, it ensures correctness of emulation (the data is
     automatically extracted from the published JSON files), and helps
     dealing with the evolution of the architecture.

   - Significant changes to the way pKVM tracks ownership of pages,
     avoiding page table walks by storing the state in the hypervisor's
     vmemmap. This in turn enables the THP support described above.

   - New selftest checking the pKVM ownership transition rules

   - Fixes for FEAT_MTE_ASYNC being accidentally advertised to guests
     even if the host didn't have it.

   - Fixes for the address translation emulation, which happened to be
     rather buggy in some specific contexts.

   - Fixes for the PMU emulation in NV contexts, decoupling PMCR_EL0.N
     from the number of counters exposed to a guest and addressing a
     number of issues in the process.

   - Add a new selftest for the SVE host state being corrupted by a
     guest.

   - Keep HCR_EL2.xMO set at all times for systems running with the
     kernel at EL2, ensuring that the window for interrupts is slightly
     bigger, and avoiding a pretty bad erratum on the AmpereOne HW.

   - Add workaround for AmpereOne's erratum AC04_CPU_23, which suffers
     from a pretty bad case of TLB corruption unless accesses to HCR_EL2
     are heavily synchronised.

   - Add a per-VM, per-ITS debugfs entry to dump the state of the ITS
     tables in a human-friendly fashion.

   - and the usual random cleanups.

  LoongArch:

   - Don't flush tlb if the host supports hardware page table walks.

   - Add KVM selftests support.

  RISC-V:

   - Add vector registers to get-reg-list selftest

   - VCPU reset related improvements

   - Remove scounteren initialization from VCPU reset

   - Support VCPU reset from userspace using set_mpstate() ioctl

  x86:

   - Initial support for TDX in KVM.

     This finally makes it possible to use the TDX module to run
     confidential guests on Intel processors. This is quite a large
     series, including support for private page tables (managed by the
     TDX module and mirrored in KVM for efficiency), forwarding some
     TDVMCALLs to userspace, and handling several special VM exits from
     the TDX module.

     This has been in the works for literally years and it's not really
     possible to describe everything here, so I'll defer to the various
     merge commits up to and including commit 7bcf7246c42a ('Merge
     branch 'kvm-tdx-finish-initial' into HEAD')"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (248 commits)
  x86/tdx: mark tdh_vp_enter() as __flatten
  Documentation: virt/kvm: remove unreferenced footnote
  RISC-V: KVM: lock the correct mp_state during reset
  KVM: arm64: Fix documentation for vgic_its_iter_next()
  KVM: arm64: np-guest CMOs with PMD_SIZE fixmap
  KVM: arm64: Stage-2 huge mappings for np-guests
  KVM: arm64: Add a range to pkvm_mappings
  KVM: arm64: Convert pkvm_mappings to interval tree
  KVM: arm64: Add a range to __pkvm_host_test_clear_young_guest()
  KVM: arm64: Add a range to __pkvm_host_wrprotect_guest()
  KVM: arm64: Add a range to __pkvm_host_unshare_guest()
  KVM: arm64: Add a range to __pkvm_host_share_guest()
  KVM: arm64: Introduce for_each_hyp_page
  KVM: arm64: Handle huge mappings for np-guest CMOs
  KVM: arm64: nv: Release faulted-in VNCR page from mmu_lock critical section
  KVM: arm64: nv: Handle TLBI S1E2 for VNCR invalidation with mmu_lock held
  KVM: arm64: nv: Hold mmu_lock when invalidating VNCR SW-TLB before translating
  RISC-V: KVM: add KVM_CAP_RISCV_MP_STATE_RESET
  RISC-V: KVM: Remove scounteren initialization
  KVM: RISC-V: remove unnecessary SBI reset state
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arm64/boot: Disallow BSS exports to startup code</title>
<updated>2025-05-16T15:08:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-08T11:43:32+00:00</published>
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BSS might be uninitialized when entering the startup code, so forbid the
use by the startup code of any variables that live after __bss_start in
the linker map.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250508114328.2460610-8-ardb+git@google.com
[will: Drop export of 'memstart_offset_seed', as this has been removed]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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BSS might be uninitialized when entering the startup code, so forbid the
use by the startup code of any variables that live after __bss_start in
the linker map.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250508114328.2460610-8-ardb+git@google.com
[will: Drop export of 'memstart_offset_seed', as this has been removed]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/boot: Move init_pgdir[] and init_idmap_pgdir[] into __pi_ namespace</title>
<updated>2025-05-16T15:05:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-08T11:43:30+00:00</published>
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init_pgdir[] is only referenced from the startup code, but lives after
BSS in the linker map. Before tightening the rules about accessing BSS
from startup code, move init_pgdir[] into the __pi_ namespace, so it
does not need to be exported explicitly.

For symmetry, do the same with init_idmap_pgdir[], although it lives
before BSS.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250508114328.2460610-6-ardb+git@google.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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init_pgdir[] is only referenced from the startup code, but lives after
BSS in the linker map. Before tightening the rules about accessing BSS
from startup code, move init_pgdir[] into the __pi_ namespace, so it
does not need to be exported explicitly.

For symmetry, do the same with init_idmap_pgdir[], although it lives
before BSS.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250508114328.2460610-6-ardb+git@google.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm64: Add .hyp.data section</title>
<updated>2025-05-06T08:56:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Brazdil</name>
<email>dbrazdil@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-16T16:08:57+00:00</published>
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The hypervisor has not needed its own .data section because all globals
were either .rodata or .bss. To avoid having to initialize future
data-structures at run-time, let's introduce add a .data section to the
hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: David Brazdil &lt;dbrazdil@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret &lt;qperret@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250416160900.3078417-2-qperret@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
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The hypervisor has not needed its own .data section because all globals
were either .rodata or .bss. To avoid having to initialize future
data-structures at run-time, let's introduce add a .data section to the
hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: David Brazdil &lt;dbrazdil@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret &lt;qperret@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250416160900.3078417-2-qperret@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>arm64: Handle .ARM.attributes section in linker scripts</title>
<updated>2025-02-07T09:56:57+00:00</updated>
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<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2025-02-06T17:21:38+00:00</published>
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A recent LLVM commit [1] started generating an .ARM.attributes section
similar to the one that exists for 32-bit, which results in orphan
section warnings (or errors if CONFIG_WERROR is enabled) from the linker
because it is not handled in the arm64 linker scripts.

  ld.lld: error: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday.o:(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes'
  ld.lld: error: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgetrandom.o:(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes'

  ld.lld: error: vmlinux.a(lib/vsprintf.o):(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes'
  ld.lld: error: vmlinux.a(lib/win_minmax.o):(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes'
  ld.lld: error: vmlinux.a(lib/xarray.o):(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes'

Discard the new sections in the necessary linker scripts to resolve the
warnings, as the kernel and vDSO do not need to retain it, similar to
the .note.gnu.property section.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b3e5d80d0c48 ("arm64/build: Warn on orphan section placement")
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/ee99c4d4845db66c4daa2373352133f4b237c942 [1]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250206-arm64-handle-arm-attributes-in-linker-script-v3-1-d53d169913eb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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A recent LLVM commit [1] started generating an .ARM.attributes section
similar to the one that exists for 32-bit, which results in orphan
section warnings (or errors if CONFIG_WERROR is enabled) from the linker
because it is not handled in the arm64 linker scripts.

  ld.lld: error: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday.o:(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes'
  ld.lld: error: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgetrandom.o:(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes'

  ld.lld: error: vmlinux.a(lib/vsprintf.o):(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes'
  ld.lld: error: vmlinux.a(lib/win_minmax.o):(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes'
  ld.lld: error: vmlinux.a(lib/xarray.o):(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes'

Discard the new sections in the necessary linker scripts to resolve the
warnings, as the kernel and vDSO do not need to retain it, similar to
the .note.gnu.property section.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b3e5d80d0c48 ("arm64/build: Warn on orphan section placement")
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/ee99c4d4845db66c4daa2373352133f4b237c942 [1]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250206-arm64-handle-arm-attributes-in-linker-script-v3-1-d53d169913eb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>arm64: fix .data.rel.ro size assertion when CONFIG_LTO_CLANG</title>
<updated>2024-11-07T11:33:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-06T16:18:42+00:00</published>
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Commit be2881824ae9 ("arm64/build: Assert for unwanted sections")
introduced an assertion to ensure that the .data.rel.ro section does
not exist.

However, this check does not work when CONFIG_LTO_CLANG is enabled,
because .data.rel.ro matches the .data.[0-9a-zA-Z_]* pattern in the
DATA_MAIN macro.

Move the ASSERT() above the RW_DATA() line.

Fixes: be2881824ae9 ("arm64/build: Assert for unwanted sections")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241106161843.189927-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Commit be2881824ae9 ("arm64/build: Assert for unwanted sections")
introduced an assertion to ensure that the .data.rel.ro section does
not exist.

However, this check does not work when CONFIG_LTO_CLANG is enabled,
because .data.rel.ro matches the .data.[0-9a-zA-Z_]* pattern in the
DATA_MAIN macro.

Move the ASSERT() above the RW_DATA() line.

Fixes: be2881824ae9 ("arm64/build: Assert for unwanted sections")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241106161843.189927-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>runtime constants: move list of constants to vmlinux.lds.h</title>
<updated>2024-08-19T07:48:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-30T20:15:16+00:00</published>
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Refactor the list of constant variables into a macro.
This should make it easier to add more constants in the future.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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Refactor the list of constant variables into a macro.
This should make it easier to add more constants in the future.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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