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<title>powerpc/ftrace: Ignore ftrace locations in exit text sections</title>
<updated>2024-02-14T03:24:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naveen N Rao</name>
<email>naveen@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-13T17:54:10+00:00</published>
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Michael reported that we are seeing an ftrace bug on bootup when KASAN
is enabled and we are using -fpatchable-function-entry:

  ftrace: allocating 47780 entries in 18 pages
  ftrace-powerpc: 0xc0000000020b3d5c: No module provided for non-kernel address
  ------------[ ftrace bug ]------------
  ftrace faulted on modifying
  [&lt;c0000000020b3d5c&gt;] 0xc0000000020b3d5c
  Initializing ftrace call sites
  ftrace record flags: 0
   (0)
   expected tramp: c00000000008cef4
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:2180 ftrace_bug+0x3c0/0x424
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3-00120-g0f71dcfb4aef #860
  Hardware name: IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu) POWER9 (raw) 0x4e1202 0xf000005 of:SLOF,HEAD hv:linux,kvm pSeries
  NIP:  c0000000003aa81c LR: c0000000003aa818 CTR: 0000000000000000
  REGS: c0000000033cfab0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (6.5.0-rc3-00120-g0f71dcfb4aef)
  MSR:  8000000002021033 &lt;SF,VEC,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE&gt;  CR: 28028240  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: c0000000002781a8 IRQMASK: 3
  ...
  NIP [c0000000003aa81c] ftrace_bug+0x3c0/0x424
  LR [c0000000003aa818] ftrace_bug+0x3bc/0x424
  Call Trace:
   ftrace_bug+0x3bc/0x424 (unreliable)
   ftrace_process_locs+0x5f4/0x8a0
   ftrace_init+0xc0/0x1d0
   start_kernel+0x1d8/0x484

With CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY=y and
CONFIG_KASAN=y, compiler emits nops in functions that it generates for
registering and unregistering global variables (unlike with -pg and
-mprofile-kernel where calls to _mcount() are not generated in those
functions). Those functions then end up in INIT_TEXT and EXIT_TEXT
respectively. We don't expect to see any profiled functions in
EXIT_TEXT, so ftrace_init_nop() assumes that all addresses that aren't
in the core kernel text belongs to a module. Since these functions do
not match that criteria, we see the above bug.

Address this by having ftrace ignore all locations in the text exit
sections of vmlinux.

Fixes: 0f71dcfb4aef ("powerpc/ftrace: Add support for -fpatchable-function-entry")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.6+
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao &lt;naveen@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Gray &lt;bgray@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20240213175410.1091313-1-naveen@kernel.org

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Michael reported that we are seeing an ftrace bug on bootup when KASAN
is enabled and we are using -fpatchable-function-entry:

  ftrace: allocating 47780 entries in 18 pages
  ftrace-powerpc: 0xc0000000020b3d5c: No module provided for non-kernel address
  ------------[ ftrace bug ]------------
  ftrace faulted on modifying
  [&lt;c0000000020b3d5c&gt;] 0xc0000000020b3d5c
  Initializing ftrace call sites
  ftrace record flags: 0
   (0)
   expected tramp: c00000000008cef4
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:2180 ftrace_bug+0x3c0/0x424
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3-00120-g0f71dcfb4aef #860
  Hardware name: IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu) POWER9 (raw) 0x4e1202 0xf000005 of:SLOF,HEAD hv:linux,kvm pSeries
  NIP:  c0000000003aa81c LR: c0000000003aa818 CTR: 0000000000000000
  REGS: c0000000033cfab0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (6.5.0-rc3-00120-g0f71dcfb4aef)
  MSR:  8000000002021033 &lt;SF,VEC,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE&gt;  CR: 28028240  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: c0000000002781a8 IRQMASK: 3
  ...
  NIP [c0000000003aa81c] ftrace_bug+0x3c0/0x424
  LR [c0000000003aa818] ftrace_bug+0x3bc/0x424
  Call Trace:
   ftrace_bug+0x3bc/0x424 (unreliable)
   ftrace_process_locs+0x5f4/0x8a0
   ftrace_init+0xc0/0x1d0
   start_kernel+0x1d8/0x484

With CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY=y and
CONFIG_KASAN=y, compiler emits nops in functions that it generates for
registering and unregistering global variables (unlike with -pg and
-mprofile-kernel where calls to _mcount() are not generated in those
functions). Those functions then end up in INIT_TEXT and EXIT_TEXT
respectively. We don't expect to see any profiled functions in
EXIT_TEXT, so ftrace_init_nop() assumes that all addresses that aren't
in the core kernel text belongs to a module. Since these functions do
not match that criteria, we see the above bug.

Address this by having ftrace ignore all locations in the text exit
sections of vmlinux.

Fixes: 0f71dcfb4aef ("powerpc/ftrace: Add support for -fpatchable-function-entry")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.6+
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao &lt;naveen@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Gray &lt;bgray@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20240213175410.1091313-1-naveen@kernel.org

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/ftrace: Extend ftrace support for large kernels to ppc32</title>
<updated>2023-08-21T14:09:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naveen N Rao</name>
<email>naveen@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-19T09:47:24+00:00</published>
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Commit 67361cf8071286 ("powerpc/ftrace: Handle large kernel configs")
added ftrace support for ppc64 kernel images with a text section larger
than 32MB. The approach itself isn't specific to ppc64, so extend the
same to also work on ppc32.

While at it, reduce the space reserved for the stub from 64 bytes to 32
bytes since the different stub variants are all less than 8
instructions.

To reduce use of #ifdef, a stub implementation is provided for
kernel_toc_address() and -SZ_2G is cast to 'long long' to prevent
errors on ppc32.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao &lt;naveen@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/9fa3258cbb9105cf8a0a8135214d44ffbc75fe84.1687166935.git.naveen@kernel.org

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Commit 67361cf8071286 ("powerpc/ftrace: Handle large kernel configs")
added ftrace support for ppc64 kernel images with a text section larger
than 32MB. The approach itself isn't specific to ppc64, so extend the
same to also work on ppc32.

While at it, reduce the space reserved for the stub from 64 bytes to 32
bytes since the different stub variants are all less than 8
instructions.

To reduce use of #ifdef, a stub implementation is provided for
kernel_toc_address() and -SZ_2G is cast to 'long long' to prevent
errors on ppc32.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao &lt;naveen@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/9fa3258cbb9105cf8a0a8135214d44ffbc75fe84.1687166935.git.naveen@kernel.org

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64: vmlinux support building with PCREL addresing</title>
<updated>2023-04-20T02:59:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-08T02:17:51+00:00</published>
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PC-Relative or PCREL addressing is an extension to the ELF ABI which
uses Power ISA v3.1 PC-relative instructions to calculate addresses,
rather than the traditional TOC scheme.

Add an option to build vmlinux using pcrel addressing. Modules continue
to use TOC addressing.

- TOC address helpers and r2 are poisoned with -1 when running vmlinux.
  r2 could be used for something useful once things are ironed out.

- Assembly must call C functions with @notoc annotation, or the linker
  complains aobut a missing nop after the call. This is done with the
  CFUNC macro introduced earlier.

- Boot: with the exception of prom_init, the execution branches to the
  kernel virtual address early in boot, before any addresses are
  generated, which ensures 34-bit pcrel addressing does not miss the
  high PAGE_OFFSET bits. TOC relative addressing has a similar
  requirement. prom_init does not go to the virtual address and its
  addresses should not carry over to the post-prom kernel.

- Ftrace trampolines are converted from TOC addressing to pcrel
  addressing, including module ftrace trampolines that currently use the
  kernel TOC to find ftrace target functions.

- BPF function prologue and function calling generation are converted
  from TOC to pcrel.

- copypage_64.S has an interesting problem, prefixed instructions have
  alignment restrictions so the linker can add padding, which makes the
  assembler treat the difference between two local labels as
  non-constant even if alignment is arranged so padding is not required.
  This may need toolchain help to solve nicely, for now move the prefix
  instruction out of the alternate patch section to work around it.

This reduces kernel text size by about 6%.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20230408021752.862660-6-npiggin@gmail.com
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PC-Relative or PCREL addressing is an extension to the ELF ABI which
uses Power ISA v3.1 PC-relative instructions to calculate addresses,
rather than the traditional TOC scheme.

Add an option to build vmlinux using pcrel addressing. Modules continue
to use TOC addressing.

- TOC address helpers and r2 are poisoned with -1 when running vmlinux.
  r2 could be used for something useful once things are ironed out.

- Assembly must call C functions with @notoc annotation, or the linker
  complains aobut a missing nop after the call. This is done with the
  CFUNC macro introduced earlier.

- Boot: with the exception of prom_init, the execution branches to the
  kernel virtual address early in boot, before any addresses are
  generated, which ensures 34-bit pcrel addressing does not miss the
  high PAGE_OFFSET bits. TOC relative addressing has a similar
  requirement. prom_init does not go to the virtual address and its
  addresses should not carry over to the post-prom kernel.

- Ftrace trampolines are converted from TOC addressing to pcrel
  addressing, including module ftrace trampolines that currently use the
  kernel TOC to find ftrace target functions.

- BPF function prologue and function calling generation are converted
  from TOC to pcrel.

- copypage_64.S has an interesting problem, prefixed instructions have
  alignment restrictions so the linker can add padding, which makes the
  assembler treat the difference between two local labels as
  non-constant even if alignment is arranged so padding is not required.
  This may need toolchain help to solve nicely, for now move the prefix
  instruction out of the alternate patch section to work around it.

This reduces kernel text size by about 6%.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20230408021752.862660-6-npiggin@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Add .text.asan/tsan sections</title>
<updated>2023-02-28T03:32:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-22T06:00:37+00:00</published>
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When KASAN/KCSAN are enabled clang generates .text.asan/tsan sections.
Because they are not mentioned in the linker script warnings are
generated, and when orphan handling is set to error that becomes a build
error, eg:

  ld.lld: error: vmlinux.a(init/main.o):(.text.tsan.module_ctor) is
  being placed in '.text.tsan.module_ctor' ld.lld: error:
  vmlinux.a(init/version.o):(.text.tsan.module_ctor) is being placed in
  '.text.tsan.module_ctor'

Fix it by adding the sections to our linker script, similar to the
generic change made in 848378812e40 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Handle clang's
module.{c,d}tor sections").

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230222060037.2897169-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au

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When KASAN/KCSAN are enabled clang generates .text.asan/tsan sections.
Because they are not mentioned in the linker script warnings are
generated, and when orphan handling is set to error that becomes a build
error, eg:

  ld.lld: error: vmlinux.a(init/main.o):(.text.tsan.module_ctor) is
  being placed in '.text.tsan.module_ctor' ld.lld: error:
  vmlinux.a(init/version.o):(.text.tsan.module_ctor) is being placed in
  '.text.tsan.module_ctor'

Fix it by adding the sections to our linker script, similar to the
generic change made in 848378812e40 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Handle clang's
module.{c,d}tor sections").

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230222060037.2897169-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v6.2-rc6' into sched/core, to pick up fixes</title>
<updated>2023-01-31T14:01:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-31T14:01:20+00:00</published>
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Pick up fixes before merging another batch of cpuidle updates.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Pick up fixes before merging another batch of cpuidle updates.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool/idle: Validate __cpuidle code as noinstr</title>
<updated>2023-01-13T10:48:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-12T19:43:31+00:00</published>
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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) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.373461409@infradead.org
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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) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.373461409@infradead.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Don't discard .comment</title>
<updated>2023-01-05T13:25:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-05T11:42:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=be5f95c8779e19779dd81927c8574fec5aaba36c'/>
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Although the powerpc linker script mentions .comment in the DISCARD
section, that has never actually caused it to be discarded, because the
earlier ELF_DETAILS macro (previously STABS_DEBUG) explicitly includes
.comment.

However commit 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and
riscv") introduced an earlier use of DISCARD as part of the RO_DATA
macro. With binutils &lt; 2.36 that causes the DISCARD directives later in
the script to be applied earlier, causing .comment to actually be
discarded.

It's confusing to explicitly include and discard .comment, and even more
so if the behaviour depends on the toolchain version. So don't discard
.comment in order to maintain the existing behaviour in all cases.

Fixes: 83a092cf95f2 ("powerpc: Link warning for orphan sections")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105132349.384666-3-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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Although the powerpc linker script mentions .comment in the DISCARD
section, that has never actually caused it to be discarded, because the
earlier ELF_DETAILS macro (previously STABS_DEBUG) explicitly includes
.comment.

However commit 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and
riscv") introduced an earlier use of DISCARD as part of the RO_DATA
macro. With binutils &lt; 2.36 that causes the DISCARD directives later in
the script to be applied earlier, causing .comment to actually be
discarded.

It's confusing to explicitly include and discard .comment, and even more
so if the behaviour depends on the toolchain version. So don't discard
.comment in order to maintain the existing behaviour in all cases.

Fixes: 83a092cf95f2 ("powerpc: Link warning for orphan sections")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105132349.384666-3-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Don't discard .rela* for relocatable builds</title>
<updated>2023-01-05T13:25:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-05T11:28:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=07b050f9290ee012a407a0f64151db902a1520f5'/>
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Relocatable kernels must not discard relocations, they need to be
processed at runtime. As such they are included for CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
builds in the powerpc linker script (line 340).

However they are also unconditionally discarded later in the
script (line 414). Previously that worked because the earlier inclusion
superseded the discard.

However commit 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and
riscv") introduced an earlier use of DISCARD as part of the RO_DATA
macro (line 137). With binutils &lt; 2.36 that causes the DISCARD
directives later in the script to be applied earlier, causing .rela* to
actually be discarded at link time, leading to build warnings and a
kernel that doesn't boot:

  ld: warning: discarding dynamic section .rela.init.rodata

Fix it by conditionally discarding .rela* only when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
is disabled.

Fixes: 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105132349.384666-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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Relocatable kernels must not discard relocations, they need to be
processed at runtime. As such they are included for CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
builds in the powerpc linker script (line 340).

However they are also unconditionally discarded later in the
script (line 414). Previously that worked because the earlier inclusion
superseded the discard.

However commit 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and
riscv") introduced an earlier use of DISCARD as part of the RO_DATA
macro (line 137). With binutils &lt; 2.36 that causes the DISCARD
directives later in the script to be applied earlier, causing .rela* to
actually be discarded at link time, leading to build warnings and a
kernel that doesn't boot:

  ld: warning: discarding dynamic section .rela.init.rodata

Fix it by conditionally discarding .rela* only when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
is disabled.

Fixes: 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105132349.384666-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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<title>powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT</title>
<updated>2023-01-05T13:24:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-05T11:05:04+00:00</published>
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The powerpc linker script explicitly includes .exit.text, because
otherwise the link fails due to references from __bug_table and
__ex_table. The code is freed (discarded) at runtime along with
.init.text and data.

That has worked in the past despite powerpc not defining
RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT because DISCARDS appears late in the powerpc linker
script (line 410), and the explicit inclusion of .exit.text
earlier (line 280) supersedes the discard.

However commit 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and
riscv") introduced an earlier use of DISCARD as part of the RO_DATA
macro (line 136). With binutils &lt; 2.36 that causes the DISCARD
directives later in the script to be applied earlier [1], causing
.exit.text to actually be discarded at link time, leading to build
errors:

  '.exit.text' referenced in section '__bug_table' of crypto/algboss.o: defined in
  discarded section '.exit.text' of crypto/algboss.o
  '.exit.text' referenced in section '__ex_table' of drivers/nvdimm/core.o: defined in
  discarded section '.exit.text' of drivers/nvdimm/core.o

Fix it by defining RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT, which causes the generic
DISCARDS macro to not include .exit.text at all.

1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87fscp2v7k.fsf@igel.home/

Fixes: 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105132349.384666-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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The powerpc linker script explicitly includes .exit.text, because
otherwise the link fails due to references from __bug_table and
__ex_table. The code is freed (discarded) at runtime along with
.init.text and data.

That has worked in the past despite powerpc not defining
RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT because DISCARDS appears late in the powerpc linker
script (line 410), and the explicit inclusion of .exit.text
earlier (line 280) supersedes the discard.

However commit 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and
riscv") introduced an earlier use of DISCARD as part of the RO_DATA
macro (line 136). With binutils &lt; 2.36 that causes the DISCARD
directives later in the script to be applied earlier [1], causing
.exit.text to actually be discarded at link time, leading to build
errors:

  '.exit.text' referenced in section '__bug_table' of crypto/algboss.o: defined in
  discarded section '.exit.text' of crypto/algboss.o
  '.exit.text' referenced in section '__ex_table' of drivers/nvdimm/core.o: defined in
  discarded section '.exit.text' of drivers/nvdimm/core.o

Fix it by defining RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT, which causes the generic
DISCARDS macro to not include .exit.text at all.

1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87fscp2v7k.fsf@igel.home/

Fixes: 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105132349.384666-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix writable sections being moved into the rodata region</title>
<updated>2022-11-16T10:37:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-16T04:39:53+00:00</published>
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.data.rel.ro*  catches .data.rel.root_cpuacct, and the kernel crashes on
a store in css_clear_dir. At least we know read-only data protection is
working...

Fixes: b6adc6d6d3272 ("powerpc/build: move .data.rel.ro, .sdata2 to read-only")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-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/20221116043954.3307852-1-npiggin@gmail.com

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.data.rel.ro*  catches .data.rel.root_cpuacct, and the kernel crashes on
a store in css_clear_dir. At least we know read-only data protection is
working...

Fixes: b6adc6d6d3272 ("powerpc/build: move .data.rel.ro, .sdata2 to read-only")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-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/20221116043954.3307852-1-npiggin@gmail.com

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