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<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2022-05-28T18:27:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2022-05-28T18:27:17+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Convert to the generic mmap support (ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT)

 - Add support for outline-only KASAN with 64-bit Radix MMU (P9 or later)

 - Increase SIGSTKSZ and MINSIGSTKSZ and add support for AT_MINSIGSTKSZ

 - Enable the DAWR (Data Address Watchpoint) on POWER9 DD2.3 or later

 - Drop support for system call instruction emulation

 - Many other small features and fixes

Thanks to Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andy Shevchenko, Bagas
Sanjaya, Bjorn Helgaas, Bo Liu, Chen Huang, Christophe Leroy, Colin Ian
King, Daniel Axtens, Dwaipayan Ray, Fabiano Rosas, Finn Thain, Frank
Rowand, Fuqian Huang, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Hangyu Hua, Haowen Bai,
Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, He Ying, Jason Wang, Jiapeng Chong, Jing
Yangyang, Joel Stanley, Julia Lawall, Kajol Jain, Kevin Hao, Krzysztof
Kozlowski, Laurent Dufour, Lv Ruyi, Madhavan Srinivasan, Magali Lemes,
Miaoqian Lin, Minghao Chi, Nathan Chancellor, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas
Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Oscar Salvador, Pali Rohár, Paul Mackerras,
Peng Wu, Qing Wang, Randy Dunlap, Reza Arbab, Russell Currey, Sohaib
Mohamed, Vaibhav Jain, Vasant Hegde, Wang Qing, Wang Wensheng, Xiang
wangx, Xiaomeng Tong, Xu Wang, Yang Guang, Yang Li, Ye Bin, YueHaibing,
Yu Kuai, Zheng Bin, Zou Wei, and Zucheng Zheng.

* tag 'powerpc-5.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (200 commits)
  powerpc/64: Include cache.h directly in paca.h
  powerpc/64s: Only set HAVE_ARCH_UNMAPPED_AREA when CONFIG_PPC_64S_HASH_MMU is set
  powerpc/xics: Include missing header
  powerpc/powernv/pci: Drop VF MPS fixup
  powerpc/fsl_book3e: Don't set rodata RO too early
  powerpc/microwatt: Add mmu bits to device tree
  powerpc/powernv/flash: Check OPAL flash calls exist before using
  powerpc/powermac: constify device_node in of_irq_parse_oldworld()
  powerpc/powermac: add missing g5_phy_disable_cpu1() declaration
  selftests/powerpc/pmu: fix spelling mistake "mis-match" -&gt; "mismatch"
  powerpc: Enable the DAWR on POWER9 DD2.3 and above
  powerpc/64s: Add CPU_FTRS_POWER10 to ALWAYS mask
  powerpc/64s: Add CPU_FTRS_POWER9_DD2_2 to CPU_FTRS_ALWAYS mask
  powerpc: Fix all occurences of "the the"
  selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb: remove fixed_instruction.S
  powerpc/platforms/83xx: Use of_device_get_match_data()
  powerpc/eeh: Drop redundant spinlock initialization
  powerpc/iommu: Add missing of_node_put in iommu_init_early_dart
  powerpc/pseries/vas: Call misc_deregister if sysfs init fails
  powerpc/papr_scm: Fix leaking nvdimm_events_map elements
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Convert to the generic mmap support (ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT)

 - Add support for outline-only KASAN with 64-bit Radix MMU (P9 or later)

 - Increase SIGSTKSZ and MINSIGSTKSZ and add support for AT_MINSIGSTKSZ

 - Enable the DAWR (Data Address Watchpoint) on POWER9 DD2.3 or later

 - Drop support for system call instruction emulation

 - Many other small features and fixes

Thanks to Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andy Shevchenko, Bagas
Sanjaya, Bjorn Helgaas, Bo Liu, Chen Huang, Christophe Leroy, Colin Ian
King, Daniel Axtens, Dwaipayan Ray, Fabiano Rosas, Finn Thain, Frank
Rowand, Fuqian Huang, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Hangyu Hua, Haowen Bai,
Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, He Ying, Jason Wang, Jiapeng Chong, Jing
Yangyang, Joel Stanley, Julia Lawall, Kajol Jain, Kevin Hao, Krzysztof
Kozlowski, Laurent Dufour, Lv Ruyi, Madhavan Srinivasan, Magali Lemes,
Miaoqian Lin, Minghao Chi, Nathan Chancellor, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas
Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Oscar Salvador, Pali Rohár, Paul Mackerras,
Peng Wu, Qing Wang, Randy Dunlap, Reza Arbab, Russell Currey, Sohaib
Mohamed, Vaibhav Jain, Vasant Hegde, Wang Qing, Wang Wensheng, Xiang
wangx, Xiaomeng Tong, Xu Wang, Yang Guang, Yang Li, Ye Bin, YueHaibing,
Yu Kuai, Zheng Bin, Zou Wei, and Zucheng Zheng.

* tag 'powerpc-5.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (200 commits)
  powerpc/64: Include cache.h directly in paca.h
  powerpc/64s: Only set HAVE_ARCH_UNMAPPED_AREA when CONFIG_PPC_64S_HASH_MMU is set
  powerpc/xics: Include missing header
  powerpc/powernv/pci: Drop VF MPS fixup
  powerpc/fsl_book3e: Don't set rodata RO too early
  powerpc/microwatt: Add mmu bits to device tree
  powerpc/powernv/flash: Check OPAL flash calls exist before using
  powerpc/powermac: constify device_node in of_irq_parse_oldworld()
  powerpc/powermac: add missing g5_phy_disable_cpu1() declaration
  selftests/powerpc/pmu: fix spelling mistake "mis-match" -&gt; "mismatch"
  powerpc: Enable the DAWR on POWER9 DD2.3 and above
  powerpc/64s: Add CPU_FTRS_POWER10 to ALWAYS mask
  powerpc/64s: Add CPU_FTRS_POWER9_DD2_2 to CPU_FTRS_ALWAYS mask
  powerpc: Fix all occurences of "the the"
  selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb: remove fixed_instruction.S
  powerpc/platforms/83xx: Use of_device_get_match_data()
  powerpc/eeh: Drop redundant spinlock initialization
  powerpc/iommu: Add missing of_node_put in iommu_init_early_dart
  powerpc/pseries/vas: Call misc_deregister if sysfs init fails
  powerpc/papr_scm: Fix leaking nvdimm_events_map elements
  ...
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<title>powerpc: Finalise cleanup around ABI use</title>
<updated>2022-05-19T13:11:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-09T05:36:08+00:00</published>
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Now that we have CONFIG_PPC64_ELF_ABI_V1 and CONFIG_PPC64_ELF_ABI_V2,
get rid of all indirect detection of ABI version.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/709d9d69523c14c8a9fba4486395dca0f2d675b1.1652074503.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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Now that we have CONFIG_PPC64_ELF_ABI_V1 and CONFIG_PPC64_ELF_ABI_V2,
get rid of all indirect detection of ABI version.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/709d9d69523c14c8a9fba4486395dca0f2d675b1.1652074503.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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<title>powerpc: Add CONFIG_PPC64_ELF_ABI_V1 and CONFIG_PPC64_ELF_ABI_V2</title>
<updated>2022-05-19T13:11:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-09T05:36:06+00:00</published>
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At the time being, we use CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN and
CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN to pass -mabi=elfv1 or elfv2 to
compiler, then define a PPC64_ELF_ABI_v1 or PPC64_ELF_ABI_v2
macro in asm/types.h based on _CALL_ELF define set by the compiler.

Make it more straight forward with a CONFIG option that
is directly usable.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1eca1addbc550167da9841c7340a010d0c4b2200.1652074503.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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At the time being, we use CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN and
CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN to pass -mabi=elfv1 or elfv2 to
compiler, then define a PPC64_ELF_ABI_v1 or PPC64_ELF_ABI_v2
macro in asm/types.h based on _CALL_ELF define set by the compiler.

Make it more straight forward with a CONFIG option that
is directly usable.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1eca1addbc550167da9841c7340a010d0c4b2200.1652074503.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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<entry>
<title>kbuild: factor out the common installation code into scripts/install.sh</title>
<updated>2022-05-11T12:45:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-03T02:47:16+00:00</published>
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Many architectures have similar install.sh scripts.

The first half is really generic; it verifies that the kernel image
and System.map exist, then executes ~/bin/${INSTALLKERNEL} or
/sbin/${INSTALLKERNEL} if available.

The second half is kind of arch-specific; it copies the kernel image
and System.map to the destination, but the code is slightly different.

Factor out the generic part into scripts/install.sh.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;n.schier@avm.de&gt;
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Many architectures have similar install.sh scripts.

The first half is really generic; it verifies that the kernel image
and System.map exist, then executes ~/bin/${INSTALLKERNEL} or
/sbin/${INSTALLKERNEL} if available.

The second half is kind of arch-specific; it copies the kernel image
and System.map to the destination, but the code is slightly different.

Factor out the generic part into scripts/install.sh.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;n.schier@avm.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'topic/func-desc-lkdtm' into next</title>
<updated>2022-03-07T12:34:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-07T12:34:32+00:00</published>
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Merge a topic branch we are maintaining with some cross-architecture
changes to function descriptor handling and their use in LKDTM.

From Christophe's cover letter:

Fix LKDTM for PPC64/IA64/PARISC

PPC64/IA64/PARISC have function descriptors. LKDTM doesn't work on those
three architectures because LKDTM messes up function descriptors with
functions.

This series does some cleanup in the three architectures and refactors
function descriptors so that it can then easily use it in a generic way
in LKDTM.
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Merge a topic branch we are maintaining with some cross-architecture
changes to function descriptor handling and their use in LKDTM.

From Christophe's cover letter:

Fix LKDTM for PPC64/IA64/PARISC

PPC64/IA64/PARISC have function descriptors. LKDTM doesn't work on those
three architectures because LKDTM messes up function descriptors with
functions.

This series does some cleanup in the three architectures and refactors
function descriptors so that it can then easily use it in a generic way
in LKDTM.
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<title>powerpc/Makefile: Don't pass -mcpu=powerpc64 when building 32-bit</title>
<updated>2022-03-01T12:51:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-15T11:28:58+00:00</published>
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When CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU=y (true for all our defconfigs) we pass
-mcpu=powerpc64 to the compiler, even when we're building a 32-bit
kernel.

This happens because we have an ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64/else block in
the Makefile that was written before 32-bit supported GENERIC_CPU. Prior
to that the else block only applied to 64-bit Book3E.

The GCC man page says -mcpu=powerpc64 "[specifies] a pure ... 64-bit big
endian PowerPC ... architecture machine [type], with an appropriate,
generic processor model assumed for scheduling purposes."

It's unclear how that interacts with -m32, which we are also passing,
although obviously -m32 is taking precedence in some sense, as the
32-bit kernel only contains 32-bit instructions.

This was noticed by inspection, not via any bug reports, but it does
affect code generation. Comparing before/after code generation, there
are some changes to instruction scheduling, and the after case (with
-mcpu=powerpc64 removed) the compiler seems more keen to use r8.

Fix it by making the else case only apply to Book3E 64, which excludes
32-bit.

Fixes: 0e00a8c9fd92 ("powerpc: Allow CPU selection also on PPC32")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220215112858.304779-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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When CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU=y (true for all our defconfigs) we pass
-mcpu=powerpc64 to the compiler, even when we're building a 32-bit
kernel.

This happens because we have an ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64/else block in
the Makefile that was written before 32-bit supported GENERIC_CPU. Prior
to that the else block only applied to 64-bit Book3E.

The GCC man page says -mcpu=powerpc64 "[specifies] a pure ... 64-bit big
endian PowerPC ... architecture machine [type], with an appropriate,
generic processor model assumed for scheduling purposes."

It's unclear how that interacts with -m32, which we are also passing,
although obviously -m32 is taking precedence in some sense, as the
32-bit kernel only contains 32-bit instructions.

This was noticed by inspection, not via any bug reports, but it does
affect code generation. Comparing before/after code generation, there
are some changes to instruction scheduling, and the after case (with
-mcpu=powerpc64 removed) the compiler seems more keen to use r8.

Fix it by making the else case only apply to Book3E 64, which excludes
32-bit.

Fixes: 0e00a8c9fd92 ("powerpc: Allow CPU selection also on PPC32")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220215112858.304779-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix 'sparse' checking on PPC64le</title>
<updated>2022-02-16T12:25:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-15T12:40:56+00:00</published>
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'sparse' is architecture agnostic and knows nothing about ELF ABI
version.

Just like it gets arch and powerpc type and endian from Makefile,
it also need to get _CALL_ELF from there, otherwise it won't set
PPC64_ELF_ABI_v2 macro for PPC64le and won't check the correct code.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ac1312f2451aa558bb2a8806b4d0aa2020f0c176.1644928018.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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'sparse' is architecture agnostic and knows nothing about ELF ABI
version.

Just like it gets arch and powerpc type and endian from Makefile,
it also need to get _CALL_ELF from there, otherwise it won't set
PPC64_ELF_ABI_v2 macro for PPC64le and won't check the correct code.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ac1312f2451aa558bb2a8806b4d0aa2020f0c176.1644928018.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/vdso: Merge vdso64 and vdso32 into a single directory</title>
<updated>2022-02-12T11:47:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-21T16:30:27+00:00</published>
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merge vdso64 into vdso32 and rename it vdso.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4dbe05cc130f6a0858d09ac72e436c373cb08b70.1642782130.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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merge vdso64 into vdso32 and rename it vdso.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4dbe05cc130f6a0858d09ac72e436c373cb08b70.1642782130.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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<entry>
<title>powerpc: check for support for -Wa,-m{power4,any}</title>
<updated>2021-12-23T11:35:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Axtens</name>
<email>dja@axtens.net</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-21T05:59:00+00:00</published>
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LLVM's integrated assembler does not like either -Wa,-mpower4
or -Wa,-many. So just don't pass them if they're not supported.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211221055904.555763-3-aik@ozlabs.ru

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LLVM's integrated assembler does not like either -Wa,-mpower4
or -Wa,-many. So just don't pass them if they're not supported.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211221055904.555763-3-aik@ozlabs.ru

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/toc: Future proof kernel toc</title>
<updated>2021-12-23T11:35:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Modra</name>
<email>amodra@au1.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-21T05:58:59+00:00</published>
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This patch future-proofs the kernel against linker changes that might
put the toc pointer at some location other than .got+0x8000, by
replacing __toc_start+0x8000 with .TOC. throughout.  If the kernel's
idea of the toc pointer doesn't agree with the linker, bad things
happen.

prom_init.c code relocating its toc is also changed so that a symbolic
__prom_init_toc_start toc-pointer relative address is calculated
rather than assuming that it is always at toc-pointer - 0x8000.  The
length calculations loading values from the toc are also avoided.
It's a little incestuous to do that with unreloc_toc picking up
adjusted values (which is fine in practice, they both adjust by the
same amount if all goes well).

I've also changed the way .got is aligned in vmlinux.lds and
zImage.lds, mostly so that dumping out section info by objdump or
readelf plainly shows the alignment is 256.  This linker script
feature was added 2005-09-27, available in FSF binutils releases from
2.17 onwards.  Should be safe to use in the kernel, I think.

Finally, put *(.got) before the prom_init.o entry which only needs
*(.toc), so that the GOT header goes in the correct place.  I don't
believe this makes any difference for the kernel as it would for
dynamic objects being loaded by ld.so.  That change is just to stop
lusers who blindly copy kernel scripts being led astray.  Of course,
this change needs the prom_init.c changes.

Some notes on .toc and .got.

.toc is a compiler generated section of addresses.  .got is a linker
generated section of addresses, generally built when the linker sees
R_*_*GOT* relocations.  In the case of powerpc64 ld.bfd, there are
multiple generated .got sections, one per input object file.  So you
can somewhat reasonably write in a linker script an input section
statement like *prom_init.o(.got .toc) to mean "the .got and .toc
section for files matching *prom_init.o".  On other architectures that
doesn't make sense, because the linker generally has just one .got
section.  Even on powerpc64, note well that the GOT entries for
prom_init.o may be merged with GOT entries from other objects.  That
means that if prom_init.o references, say, _end via some GOT
relocation, and some other object also references _end via a GOT
relocation, the GOT entry for _end may be in the range
__prom_init_toc_start to __prom_init_toc_end and if the kernel does
something special to GOT/TOC entries in that range then the value of
_end as seen by objects other than prom_init.o will be affected.  On
the other hand the GOT entry for _end may not be in the range
__prom_init_toc_start to __prom_init_toc_end.  Which way it turns out
is deterministic but a detail of linker operation that should not be
relied on.

A feature of ld.bfd is that input .toc (and .got) sections matching
one linker input section statement may be sorted, to put entries used
by small-model code first, near the toc base.  This is why scripts for
powerpc64 normally use *(.got .toc) rather than *(.got) *(.toc), since
the first form allows more freedom to sort.

Another feature of ld.bfd is that indirect addressing sequences using
the GOT/TOC may be edited by the linker to relative addressing.  In
many cases relative addressing would be emitted by gcc for
-mcmodel=medium if you appropriately decorate variable declarations
with non-default visibility.

The original patch is here:
https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/20210310034813.GM6042@bubble.grove.modra.org/

Signed-off-by: Alan Modra &lt;amodra@au1.ibm.com&gt;
[aik: removed non-relocatable which is gone in 24d33ac5b8ffb]
[aik: added &lt;=2.24 check]
[aik: because of llvm-as, kernel_toc_addr() uses "mr" instead of global register variable]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211221055904.555763-2-aik@ozlabs.ru
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This patch future-proofs the kernel against linker changes that might
put the toc pointer at some location other than .got+0x8000, by
replacing __toc_start+0x8000 with .TOC. throughout.  If the kernel's
idea of the toc pointer doesn't agree with the linker, bad things
happen.

prom_init.c code relocating its toc is also changed so that a symbolic
__prom_init_toc_start toc-pointer relative address is calculated
rather than assuming that it is always at toc-pointer - 0x8000.  The
length calculations loading values from the toc are also avoided.
It's a little incestuous to do that with unreloc_toc picking up
adjusted values (which is fine in practice, they both adjust by the
same amount if all goes well).

I've also changed the way .got is aligned in vmlinux.lds and
zImage.lds, mostly so that dumping out section info by objdump or
readelf plainly shows the alignment is 256.  This linker script
feature was added 2005-09-27, available in FSF binutils releases from
2.17 onwards.  Should be safe to use in the kernel, I think.

Finally, put *(.got) before the prom_init.o entry which only needs
*(.toc), so that the GOT header goes in the correct place.  I don't
believe this makes any difference for the kernel as it would for
dynamic objects being loaded by ld.so.  That change is just to stop
lusers who blindly copy kernel scripts being led astray.  Of course,
this change needs the prom_init.c changes.

Some notes on .toc and .got.

.toc is a compiler generated section of addresses.  .got is a linker
generated section of addresses, generally built when the linker sees
R_*_*GOT* relocations.  In the case of powerpc64 ld.bfd, there are
multiple generated .got sections, one per input object file.  So you
can somewhat reasonably write in a linker script an input section
statement like *prom_init.o(.got .toc) to mean "the .got and .toc
section for files matching *prom_init.o".  On other architectures that
doesn't make sense, because the linker generally has just one .got
section.  Even on powerpc64, note well that the GOT entries for
prom_init.o may be merged with GOT entries from other objects.  That
means that if prom_init.o references, say, _end via some GOT
relocation, and some other object also references _end via a GOT
relocation, the GOT entry for _end may be in the range
__prom_init_toc_start to __prom_init_toc_end and if the kernel does
something special to GOT/TOC entries in that range then the value of
_end as seen by objects other than prom_init.o will be affected.  On
the other hand the GOT entry for _end may not be in the range
__prom_init_toc_start to __prom_init_toc_end.  Which way it turns out
is deterministic but a detail of linker operation that should not be
relied on.

A feature of ld.bfd is that input .toc (and .got) sections matching
one linker input section statement may be sorted, to put entries used
by small-model code first, near the toc base.  This is why scripts for
powerpc64 normally use *(.got .toc) rather than *(.got) *(.toc), since
the first form allows more freedom to sort.

Another feature of ld.bfd is that indirect addressing sequences using
the GOT/TOC may be edited by the linker to relative addressing.  In
many cases relative addressing would be emitted by gcc for
-mcmodel=medium if you appropriately decorate variable declarations
with non-default visibility.

The original patch is here:
https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/20210310034813.GM6042@bubble.grove.modra.org/

Signed-off-by: Alan Modra &lt;amodra@au1.ibm.com&gt;
[aik: removed non-relocatable which is gone in 24d33ac5b8ffb]
[aik: added &lt;=2.24 check]
[aik: because of llvm-as, kernel_toc_addr() uses "mr" instead of global register variable]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy &lt;aik@ozlabs.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211221055904.555763-2-aik@ozlabs.ru
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