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<title>linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S, branch v5.1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/kconfig: define CONFIG_DATA_SHIFT and CONFIG_ETEXT_SHIFT</title>
<updated>2019-02-23T10:04:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-21T19:08:47+00:00</published>
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CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX requires a special alignment
for DATA for some subarches. Today it is just defined
as an #ifdef in vmlinux.lds.S

In order to get more flexibility, this patch moves the
definition of this alignment in Kconfig

On some subarches, CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX will
require a special alignment of _etext.

This patch also adds a configuration item for it in Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX requires a special alignment
for DATA for some subarches. Today it is just defined
as an #ifdef in vmlinux.lds.S

In order to get more flexibility, this patch moves the
definition of this alignment in Kconfig

On some subarches, CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX will
require a special alignment of _etext.

This patch also adds a configuration item for it in Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/32: Include .branch_lt in data section</title>
<updated>2019-02-05T04:47:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Stanley</name>
<email>joel@jms.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-14T03:02:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=98ecc6768e8fdba95da1fc1efa0ef2d769e7fe1c'/>
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When building a 32 bit powerpc kernel with Binutils 2.31.1 this warning
is emitted:

 powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.branch_lt' from
 `arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.o' being placed in section `.branch_lt'

As of binutils commit 2d7ad24e8726 ("Support PLT16 relocs against local
symbols")[1], 32 bit targets can produce .branch_lt sections in their
output.

Include these symbols in the .data section as the ppc64 kernel does.

[1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=2d7ad24e8726ba4c45c9e67be08223a146a837ce
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alan Modra &lt;amodra@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<pre>
When building a 32 bit powerpc kernel with Binutils 2.31.1 this warning
is emitted:

 powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.branch_lt' from
 `arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.o' being placed in section `.branch_lt'

As of binutils commit 2d7ad24e8726 ("Support PLT16 relocs against local
symbols")[1], 32 bit targets can produce .branch_lt sections in their
output.

Include these symbols in the .data section as the ppc64 kernel does.

[1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=2d7ad24e8726ba4c45c9e67be08223a146a837ce
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alan Modra &lt;amodra@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Use ALIGN instead of BLOCK</title>
<updated>2019-01-15T00:12:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Stanley</name>
<email>joel@jms.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-11T23:50:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a652758ac1475f69d28d11b3528c4f489416c877'/>
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<content type='text'>
In the ld documentation under Builtin Functions:

  BLOCK(exp)

    This is a synonym for ALIGN, for compatibility with older linker scripts.

Clang's linker (lld) doesn't know about BLOCK so remove this use of
it.

Suggested-by: George Rimar &lt;grimar@accesssoftek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<pre>
In the ld documentation under Builtin Functions:

  BLOCK(exp)

    This is a synonym for ALIGN, for compatibility with older linker scripts.

Clang's linker (lld) doesn't know about BLOCK so remove this use of
it.

Suggested-by: George Rimar &lt;grimar@accesssoftek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/fsl: Add infrastructure to fixup branch predictor flush</title>
<updated>2018-12-20T11:53:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Diana Craciun</name>
<email>diana.craciun@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-12T14:03:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=76a5eaa38b15dda92cd6964248c39b5a6f3a4e9d'/>
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<content type='text'>
In order to protect against speculation attacks (Spectre
variant 2) on NXP PowerPC platforms, the branch predictor
should be flushed when the privillege level is changed.
This patch is adding the infrastructure to fixup at runtime
the code sections that are performing the branch predictor flush
depending on a boot arg parameter which is added later in a
separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun &lt;diana.craciun@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<pre>
In order to protect against speculation attacks (Spectre
variant 2) on NXP PowerPC platforms, the branch predictor
should be flushed when the privillege level is changed.
This patch is adding the infrastructure to fixup at runtime
the code sections that are performing the branch predictor flush
depending on a boot arg parameter which is added later in a
separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun &lt;diana.craciun@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: remove remaining bits from CONFIG_APUS</title>
<updated>2018-12-19T07:56:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-04T17:59:15+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
commit f21f49ea639a ("[POWERPC] Remove the dregs of APUS support from
arch/powerpc") removed CONFIG_APUS, but forgot to remove the logic
which adapts tophys() and tovirt() for it.

This patch removes the last stale pieces.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<pre>
commit f21f49ea639a ("[POWERPC] Remove the dregs of APUS support from
arch/powerpc") removed CONFIG_APUS, but forgot to remove the logic
which adapts tophys() and tovirt() for it.

This patch removes the last stale pieces.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/32: Add .data..Lubsan_data*/.data..Lubsan_type* sections explicitly</title>
<updated>2018-11-25T06:11:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathieu Malaterre</name>
<email>malat@debian.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-31T12:31:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=beba24ac59133cb36ecd03f9af9ccb11971ee20e'/>
<id>beba24ac59133cb36ecd03f9af9ccb11971ee20e</id>
<content type='text'>
When both `CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=y` and `CONFIG_UBSAN=y`
are set, link step typically produce numberous warnings about orphan
section:

  + powerpc-linux-gnu-ld -EB -m elf32ppc -Bstatic --orphan-handling=warn --build-id --gc-sections -X -o .tmp_vmlinux1 -T ./arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds --who
  le-archive built-in.a --no-whole-archive --start-group lib/lib.a --end-group
  powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data..Lubsan_data393' from `init/main.o' being placed in section `.data..Lubsan_data393'.
  powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data..Lubsan_data394' from `init/main.o' being placed in section `.data..Lubsan_data394'.
  ...
  powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data..Lubsan_type11' from `init/main.o' being placed in section `.data..Lubsan_type11'.
  powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data..Lubsan_type12' from `init/main.o' being placed in section `.data..Lubsan_type12'.
  ...

This commit remove those warnings produced at W=1.

Link: https://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org/msg135407.html
Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre &lt;malat@debian.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<pre>
When both `CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=y` and `CONFIG_UBSAN=y`
are set, link step typically produce numberous warnings about orphan
section:

  + powerpc-linux-gnu-ld -EB -m elf32ppc -Bstatic --orphan-handling=warn --build-id --gc-sections -X -o .tmp_vmlinux1 -T ./arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds --who
  le-archive built-in.a --no-whole-archive --start-group lib/lib.a --end-group
  powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data..Lubsan_data393' from `init/main.o' being placed in section `.data..Lubsan_data393'.
  powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data..Lubsan_data394' from `init/main.o' being placed in section `.data..Lubsan_data394'.
  ...
  powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data..Lubsan_type11' from `init/main.o' being placed in section `.data..Lubsan_type11'.
  powerpc-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section `.data..Lubsan_type12' from `init/main.o' being placed in section `.data..Lubsan_type12'.
  ...

This commit remove those warnings produced at W=1.

Link: https://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org/msg135407.html
Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre &lt;malat@debian.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2018-10-26T21:36:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-26T21:36:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=685f7e4f161425b137056abe35ba8ef7b669d83d'/>
<id>685f7e4f161425b137056abe35ba8ef7b669d83d</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - A large series to rewrite our SLB miss handling, replacing a lot of
     fairly complicated asm with much fewer lines of C.

   - Following on from that, we now maintain a cache of SLB entries for
     each process and preload them on context switch. Leading to a 27%
     speedup for our context switch benchmark on Power9.

   - Improvements to our handling of SLB multi-hit errors. We now print
     more debug information when they occur, and try to continue running
     by flushing the SLB and reloading, rather than treating them as
     fatal.

   - Enable THP migration on 64-bit Book3S machines (eg. Power7/8/9).

   - Add support for physical memory up to 2PB in the linear mapping on
     64-bit Book3S. We only support up to 512TB as regular system
     memory, otherwise the percpu allocator runs out of vmalloc space.

   - Add stack protector support for 32 and 64-bit, with a per-task
     canary.

   - Add support for PTRACE_SYSEMU and PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP.

   - Support recognising "big cores" on Power9, where two SMT4 cores are
     presented to us as a single SMT8 core.

   - A large series to cleanup some of our ioremap handling and PTE
     flags.

   - Add a driver for the PAPR SCM (storage class memory) interface,
     allowing guests to operate on SCM devices (acked by Dan).

   - Changes to our ftrace code to handle very large kernels, where we
     need to use a trampoline to get to ftrace_caller().

  And many other smaller enhancements and cleanups.

  Thanks to: Alan Modra, Alistair Popple, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anton
  Blanchard, Aravinda Prasad, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Benjamin
  Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy,
  Christophe Lombard, Dan Carpenter, Daniel Axtens, Finn Thain, Gautham
  R. Shenoy, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Jia Hongtao,
  Joel Stanley, John Allen, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh
  Salgaonkar, Mark Hairgrove, Masahiro Yamada, Michael Bringmann,
  Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan
  Fontenot, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver
  O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Petr Vorel, Rashmica Gupta, Reza Arbab,
  Rob Herring, Sam Bobroff, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas, Scott Wood, Stan
  Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Tyrel
  Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vasant Hegde, YueHaibing, zhong jiang"

* tag 'powerpc-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (221 commits)
  Revert "selftests/powerpc: Fix out-of-tree build errors"
  powerpc/msi: Fix compile error on mpc83xx
  powerpc: Fix stack protector crashes on CPU hotplug
  powerpc/traps: restore recoverability of machine_check interrupts
  powerpc/64/module: REL32 relocation range check
  powerpc/64s/radix: Fix radix__flush_tlb_collapsed_pmd double flushing pmd
  selftests/powerpc: Add a test of wild bctr
  powerpc/mm: Fix page table dump to work on Radix
  powerpc/mm/radix: Display if mappings are exec or not
  powerpc/mm/radix: Simplify split mapping logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Remove the retry in the split mapping logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix small page at boundary when splitting
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix overuse of small pages in splitting logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix off-by-one in split mapping logic
  powerpc/ftrace: Handle large kernel configs
  powerpc/mm: Fix WARN_ON with THP NUMA migration
  selftests/powerpc: Fix out-of-tree build errors
  powerpc/time: no steal_time when CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR is not selected
  powerpc/time: Only set CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME on PPC64
  powerpc/time: isolate scaled cputime accounting in dedicated functions.
  ...
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<pre>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - A large series to rewrite our SLB miss handling, replacing a lot of
     fairly complicated asm with much fewer lines of C.

   - Following on from that, we now maintain a cache of SLB entries for
     each process and preload them on context switch. Leading to a 27%
     speedup for our context switch benchmark on Power9.

   - Improvements to our handling of SLB multi-hit errors. We now print
     more debug information when they occur, and try to continue running
     by flushing the SLB and reloading, rather than treating them as
     fatal.

   - Enable THP migration on 64-bit Book3S machines (eg. Power7/8/9).

   - Add support for physical memory up to 2PB in the linear mapping on
     64-bit Book3S. We only support up to 512TB as regular system
     memory, otherwise the percpu allocator runs out of vmalloc space.

   - Add stack protector support for 32 and 64-bit, with a per-task
     canary.

   - Add support for PTRACE_SYSEMU and PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP.

   - Support recognising "big cores" on Power9, where two SMT4 cores are
     presented to us as a single SMT8 core.

   - A large series to cleanup some of our ioremap handling and PTE
     flags.

   - Add a driver for the PAPR SCM (storage class memory) interface,
     allowing guests to operate on SCM devices (acked by Dan).

   - Changes to our ftrace code to handle very large kernels, where we
     need to use a trampoline to get to ftrace_caller().

  And many other smaller enhancements and cleanups.

  Thanks to: Alan Modra, Alistair Popple, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anton
  Blanchard, Aravinda Prasad, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Benjamin
  Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy,
  Christophe Lombard, Dan Carpenter, Daniel Axtens, Finn Thain, Gautham
  R. Shenoy, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Jia Hongtao,
  Joel Stanley, John Allen, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh
  Salgaonkar, Mark Hairgrove, Masahiro Yamada, Michael Bringmann,
  Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan
  Fontenot, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver
  O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Petr Vorel, Rashmica Gupta, Reza Arbab,
  Rob Herring, Sam Bobroff, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas, Scott Wood, Stan
  Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Tyrel
  Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vasant Hegde, YueHaibing, zhong jiang"

* tag 'powerpc-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (221 commits)
  Revert "selftests/powerpc: Fix out-of-tree build errors"
  powerpc/msi: Fix compile error on mpc83xx
  powerpc: Fix stack protector crashes on CPU hotplug
  powerpc/traps: restore recoverability of machine_check interrupts
  powerpc/64/module: REL32 relocation range check
  powerpc/64s/radix: Fix radix__flush_tlb_collapsed_pmd double flushing pmd
  selftests/powerpc: Add a test of wild bctr
  powerpc/mm: Fix page table dump to work on Radix
  powerpc/mm/radix: Display if mappings are exec or not
  powerpc/mm/radix: Simplify split mapping logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Remove the retry in the split mapping logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix small page at boundary when splitting
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix overuse of small pages in splitting logic
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix off-by-one in split mapping logic
  powerpc/ftrace: Handle large kernel configs
  powerpc/mm: Fix WARN_ON with THP NUMA migration
  selftests/powerpc: Fix out-of-tree build errors
  powerpc/time: no steal_time when CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR is not selected
  powerpc/time: Only set CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME on PPC64
  powerpc/time: isolate scaled cputime accounting in dedicated functions.
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/ftrace: Handle large kernel configs</title>
<updated>2018-10-20T02:26:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naveen N. Rao</name>
<email>naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-16T20:25:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=67361cf80712867329a9cd3ff0e3171545cfc867'/>
<id>67361cf80712867329a9cd3ff0e3171545cfc867</id>
<content type='text'>
Currently, we expect to be able to reach ftrace_caller() from all
ftrace-enabled functions through a single relative branch. With large
kernel configs, we see functions outside of 32MB of ftrace_caller()
causing ftrace_init() to bail.

In such configurations, gcc/ld emits two types of trampolines for mcount():
1. A long_branch, which has a single branch to mcount() for functions that
   are one hop away from mcount():
	c0000000019e8544 &lt;00031b56.long_branch._mcount&gt;:
	c0000000019e8544:	4a 69 3f ac 	b       c00000000007c4f0 &lt;._mcount&gt;

2. A plt_branch, for functions that are farther away from mcount():
	c0000000051f33f8 &lt;0008ba04.plt_branch._mcount&gt;:
	c0000000051f33f8:	3d 82 ff a4 	addis   r12,r2,-92
	c0000000051f33fc:	e9 8c 04 20 	ld      r12,1056(r12)
	c0000000051f3400:	7d 89 03 a6 	mtctr   r12
	c0000000051f3404:	4e 80 04 20 	bctr

We can reuse those trampolines for ftrace if we can have those
trampolines go to ftrace_caller() instead. However, with ABIv2, we
cannot depend on r2 being valid. As such, we use only the long_branch
trampolines by patching those to instead branch to ftrace_caller or
ftrace_regs_caller.

In addition, we add additional trampolines around .text and .init.text
to catch locations that are covered by the plt branches. This allows
ftrace to work with most large kernel configurations.

For now, we always patch the trampolines to go to ftrace_regs_caller,
which is slightly inefficient. This can be optimized further at a later
point.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Currently, we expect to be able to reach ftrace_caller() from all
ftrace-enabled functions through a single relative branch. With large
kernel configs, we see functions outside of 32MB of ftrace_caller()
causing ftrace_init() to bail.

In such configurations, gcc/ld emits two types of trampolines for mcount():
1. A long_branch, which has a single branch to mcount() for functions that
   are one hop away from mcount():
	c0000000019e8544 &lt;00031b56.long_branch._mcount&gt;:
	c0000000019e8544:	4a 69 3f ac 	b       c00000000007c4f0 &lt;._mcount&gt;

2. A plt_branch, for functions that are farther away from mcount():
	c0000000051f33f8 &lt;0008ba04.plt_branch._mcount&gt;:
	c0000000051f33f8:	3d 82 ff a4 	addis   r12,r2,-92
	c0000000051f33fc:	e9 8c 04 20 	ld      r12,1056(r12)
	c0000000051f3400:	7d 89 03 a6 	mtctr   r12
	c0000000051f3404:	4e 80 04 20 	bctr

We can reuse those trampolines for ftrace if we can have those
trampolines go to ftrace_caller() instead. However, with ABIv2, we
cannot depend on r2 being valid. As such, we use only the long_branch
trampolines by patching those to instead branch to ftrace_caller or
ftrace_regs_caller.

In addition, we add additional trampolines around .text and .init.text
to catch locations that are covered by the plt branches. This allows
ftrace to work with most large kernel configurations.

For now, we always patch the trampolines to go to ftrace_regs_caller,
which is slightly inefficient. This can be optimized further at a later
point.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/prom_init: Move __prombss to it's own section and store it in .bss</title>
<updated>2018-10-18T13:56:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-15T02:49:58+00:00</published>
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This makes __prombss its own section, and for now store
it in .bss.

This will give us the ability later to store it elsewhere
and/or free it after boot (it's about 8KB).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This makes __prombss its own section, and for now store
it in .bss.

This will give us the ability later to store it elsewhere
and/or free it after boot (it's about 8KB).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: Move LSM_TABLE into INIT_DATA</title>
<updated>2018-10-11T03:40:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-11T00:18:22+00:00</published>
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Since the struct lsm_info table is not an initcall, we can just move it
into INIT_DATA like all the other tables.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;james.morris@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.morris@microsoft.com&gt;
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Since the struct lsm_info table is not an initcall, we can just move it
into INIT_DATA like all the other tables.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;james.morris@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.morris@microsoft.com&gt;
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