linux.git/arch/nios2/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S, branch v7.1

kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS

2026-02-26T18:50:19+00:00

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 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W  # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

objtool/idle: Validate __cpuidle code as noinstr

2023-01-13T10:48:15+00:00

Idle code is very like entry code in that RCU isn't available. As
such, add a little validation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren 
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.373461409@infradead.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Split ELF_DETAILS from STABS_DEBUG

2020-09-01T07:50:35+00:00

The .comment section doesn't belong in STABS_DEBUG. Split it out into a
new macro named ELF_DETAILS. This will gain other non-debug sections
that need to be accounted for when linking with --orphan-handling=warn.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821194310.3089815-5-keescook@chromium.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RW_DATA_SECTION with RW_DATA

2019-11-04T14:57:41+00:00

Rename RW_DATA_SECTION to RW_DATA. (Calling this a "section" is a lie,
since it's multiple sections and section flags cannot be applied to
the macro.)

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # s390
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven  # m68k
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Rick Edgecombe 
Cc: Segher Boessenkool 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: x86-ml 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-14-keescook@chromium.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RO_DATA_SECTION with RO_DATA

2019-11-04T14:56:16+00:00

Finish renaming RO_DATA_SECTION to RO_DATA. (Calling this a "section"
is a lie, since it's multiple sections and section flags cannot be
applied to the macro.)

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # s390
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven  # m68k
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Rick Edgecombe 
Cc: Segher Boessenkool 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: x86-ml 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-13-keescook@chromium.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Move NOTES into RO_DATA

2019-11-04T14:34:41+00:00

The .notes section should be non-executable read-only data. As such,
move it to the RO_DATA macro instead of being per-architecture defined.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # s390
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Rick Edgecombe 
Cc: Segher Boessenkool 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: x86-ml 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-11-keescook@chromium.org

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 13

2019-05-21T09:28:45+00:00

Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not see http www gnu org licenses

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details [based]
  [from] [clk] [highbank] [c] you should have received a copy of the
  gnu general public license along with this program if not see http
  www gnu org licenses

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 355 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart 
Reviewed-by: Jilayne Lovejoy 
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow 
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal 
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190519154041.837383322@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus

2016-10-08T01:46:30+00:00

When doing an nmi backtrace of many cores, most of which are idle, the
output is a little overwhelming and very uninformative.  Suppress
messages for cpus that are idling when they are interrupted and just
emit one line, "NMI backtrace for N skipped: idling at pc 0xNNN".

We do this by grouping all the cpuidle code together into a new
.cpuidle.text section, and then checking the address of the interrupted
PC to see if it lies within that section.

This commit suitably tags x86 and tile idle routines, and only adds in
the minimal framework for other architectures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472487169-14923-5-git-send-email-cmetcalf@mellanox.com
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: Daniel Thompson  [arm]
Tested-by: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Aaron Tomlin 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections

2016-03-25T23:37:42+00:00

KASAN needs to know whether the allocation happens in an IRQ handler.
This lets us strip everything below the IRQ entry point to reduce the
number of unique stack traces needed to be stored.

Move the definition of __irq_entry to  so that the
users don't need to pull in .  Also introduce the
__softirq_entry macro which is similar to __irq_entry, but puts the
corresponding functions to the .softirqentry.text section.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Andrey Konovalov 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany 
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nios2: Build infrastructure

2014-12-08T04:56:06+00:00

This patch adds Makefile and Kconfig files required for building a
nios2 kernel.

Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan