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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>riscv/vdso: Add support for time namespaces</title>
<updated>2021-10-04T21:16:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tong Tiangen</name>
<email>tongtiangen@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-01T03:20:25+00:00</published>
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Implement generic vdso time namespace support which also enables time
namespaces for riscv. This is quite similar to what arm64 does.

selftest/timens test result:
  1..10
  ok 1 Passed for CLOCK_BOOTTIME (syscall)
  ok 2 Passed for CLOCK_BOOTTIME (vdso)
  ok 3 # SKIP CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM isn't supported
  ok 4 # SKIP CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM isn't supported
  ok 5 Passed for CLOCK_MONOTONIC (syscall)
  ok 6 Passed for CLOCK_MONOTONIC (vdso)
  ok 7 Passed for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE (syscall)
  ok 8 Passed for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE (vdso)
  ok 9 Passed for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW (syscall)
  ok 10 Passed for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW (vdso)
  # Totals: pass:8 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:2 error:0

Signed-off-by: Tong Tiangen &lt;tongtiangen@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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Implement generic vdso time namespace support which also enables time
namespaces for riscv. This is quite similar to what arm64 does.

selftest/timens test result:
  1..10
  ok 1 Passed for CLOCK_BOOTTIME (syscall)
  ok 2 Passed for CLOCK_BOOTTIME (vdso)
  ok 3 # SKIP CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM isn't supported
  ok 4 # SKIP CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM isn't supported
  ok 5 Passed for CLOCK_MONOTONIC (syscall)
  ok 6 Passed for CLOCK_MONOTONIC (vdso)
  ok 7 Passed for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE (syscall)
  ok 8 Passed for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE (vdso)
  ok 9 Passed for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW (syscall)
  ok 10 Passed for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW (vdso)
  # Totals: pass:8 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:2 error:0

Signed-off-by: Tong Tiangen &lt;tongtiangen@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>riscv/vdso: Move vdso data page up front</title>
<updated>2021-10-02T20:42:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tong Tiangen</name>
<email>tongtiangen@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-01T02:46:20+00:00</published>
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As commit 601255ae3c98 ("arm64: vdso: move data page before code pages"), the
same issue exists on riscv, testcase is shown below, make sure that vdso.so is
bigger than page size,

  struct timespec tp;
  clock_gettime(5, &amp;tp);
  printf("tv_sec: %ld, tv_nsec: %ld\n", tp.tv_sec, tp.tv_nsec);

without this patch, test result : tv_sec: 0, tv_nsec: 0
   with this patch, test result : tv_sec: 1629271537, tv_nsec: 748000000

Move the vdso data page in front of the VDSO area to fix the issue.

Fixes: ad5d1122b82fb ("riscv: use vDSO common flow to reduce the latency of the time-related functions")
Signed-off-by: Tong Tiangen &lt;tongtiangen@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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As commit 601255ae3c98 ("arm64: vdso: move data page before code pages"), the
same issue exists on riscv, testcase is shown below, make sure that vdso.so is
bigger than page size,

  struct timespec tp;
  clock_gettime(5, &amp;tp);
  printf("tv_sec: %ld, tv_nsec: %ld\n", tp.tv_sec, tp.tv_nsec);

without this patch, test result : tv_sec: 0, tv_nsec: 0
   with this patch, test result : tv_sec: 1629271537, tv_nsec: 748000000

Move the vdso data page in front of the VDSO area to fix the issue.

Fixes: ad5d1122b82fb ("riscv: use vDSO common flow to reduce the latency of the time-related functions")
Signed-off-by: Tong Tiangen &lt;tongtiangen@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>riscv: explicitly use symbol offsets for VDSO</title>
<updated>2021-08-25T04:45:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Saleem Abdulrasool</name>
<email>abdulras@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-04T17:32:14+00:00</published>
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The current implementation of the `__rt_sigaction` reference computed an
absolute offset relative to the mapped base of the VDSO.  While this can
be handled in the medlow model, the medany model cannot handle this as
it is meant to be position independent.  The current implementation
relied on the BFD linker relaxing the PC-relative relocation into an
absolute relocation as it was a near-zero address allowing it to be
referenced relative to `zero`.

We now extract the offsets and create a generated header allowing the
build with LLVM and lld to succeed as we no longer depend on the linker
rewriting address references near zero.  This change was largely
modelled after the ARM64 target which does something similar.

Signed-off-by: Saleem Abdulrasool &lt;abdulras@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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The current implementation of the `__rt_sigaction` reference computed an
absolute offset relative to the mapped base of the VDSO.  While this can
be handled in the medlow model, the medany model cannot handle this as
it is meant to be position independent.  The current implementation
relied on the BFD linker relaxing the PC-relative relocation into an
absolute relocation as it was a near-zero address allowing it to be
referenced relative to `zero`.

We now extract the offsets and create a generated header allowing the
build with LLVM and lld to succeed as we no longer depend on the linker
rewriting address references near zero.  This change was largely
modelled after the ARM64 target which does something similar.

Signed-off-by: Saleem Abdulrasool &lt;abdulras@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>riscv: Enable Undefined Behavior Sanitizer UBSAN</title>
<updated>2021-08-25T03:59:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jisheng Zhang</name>
<email>jszhang@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-04T16:30:59+00:00</published>
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Select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL in order to allow the user to
enable CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL and instrument the entire kernel for
ubsan checks.

VDSO is excluded because its build doesn't include the
__ubsan_handle_*() functions from lib/ubsan.c, and the VDSO has no
sane way to report errors even if it has definitions of these functions.

Passed lib/test_ubsan.c test.

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang &lt;jszhang@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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Select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL in order to allow the user to
enable CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL and instrument the entire kernel for
ubsan checks.

VDSO is excluded because its build doesn't include the
__ubsan_handle_*() functions from lib/ubsan.c, and the VDSO has no
sane way to report errors even if it has definitions of these functions.

Passed lib/test_ubsan.c test.

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang &lt;jszhang@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>riscv: vdso: fix and clean-up Makefile</title>
<updated>2021-04-26T15:25:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jisheng Zhang</name>
<email>jszhang@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-02T13:29:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=772d7891e8b3b0baae7bb88a294d61fd07ba6d15'/>
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Running "make" on an already compiled kernel tree will rebuild the
kernel even without any modifications:

  CALL    linux/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
  CALL    linux/scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
  CHK     include/generated/compile.h
  SO2S    arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vdso-syms.S
  AS      arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vdso-syms.o
  AR      arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/built-in.a
  AR      arch/riscv/kernel/built-in.a
  AR      arch/riscv/built-in.a
  GEN     .version
  CHK     include/generated/compile.h
  UPD     include/generated/compile.h
  CC      init/version.o
  AR      init/built-in.a
  LD      vmlinux.o

The reason is "Any target that utilizes if_changed must be listed in
$(targets), otherwise the command line check will fail, and the target
will always be built" as explained by Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst

Fix this build bug by adding vdso-syms.S to $(targets)

At the same time, there are two trivial clean up modifications:

- the vdso-dummy.o is not needed any more after so remove it.

- vdso.lds is a generated file, so it should be prefixed with
  $(obj)/ instead of $(src)/

Fixes: c2c81bb2f691 ("RISC-V: Fix the VDSO symbol generaton for binutils-2.35+")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang &lt;jszhang@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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Running "make" on an already compiled kernel tree will rebuild the
kernel even without any modifications:

  CALL    linux/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
  CALL    linux/scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
  CHK     include/generated/compile.h
  SO2S    arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vdso-syms.S
  AS      arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vdso-syms.o
  AR      arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/built-in.a
  AR      arch/riscv/kernel/built-in.a
  AR      arch/riscv/built-in.a
  GEN     .version
  CHK     include/generated/compile.h
  UPD     include/generated/compile.h
  CC      init/version.o
  AR      init/built-in.a
  LD      vmlinux.o

The reason is "Any target that utilizes if_changed must be listed in
$(targets), otherwise the command line check will fail, and the target
will always be built" as explained by Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst

Fix this build bug by adding vdso-syms.S to $(targets)

At the same time, there are two trivial clean up modifications:

- the vdso-dummy.o is not needed any more after so remove it.

- vdso.lds is a generated file, so it should be prefixed with
  $(obj)/ instead of $(src)/

Fixes: c2c81bb2f691 ("RISC-V: Fix the VDSO symbol generaton for binutils-2.35+")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang &lt;jszhang@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>riscv: Use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link vDSO</title>
<updated>2021-04-26T15:24:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-25T21:51:56+00:00</published>
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Currently, the VDSO is being linked through $(CC). This does not match
how the rest of the kernel links objects, which is through the $(LD)
variable.

When linking with clang, there are a couple of warnings about flags that
will not be used during the link:

clang-12: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-no-pie' [-Wunused-command-line-argument]
clang-12: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-pg' [-Wunused-command-line-argument]

'-no-pie' was added in commit 85602bea297f ("RISC-V: build vdso-dummy.o
with -no-pie") to override '-pie' getting added to the ld command from
distribution versions of GCC that enable PIE by default. It is
technically no longer needed after commit c2c81bb2f691 ("RISC-V: Fix the
VDSO symbol generaton for binutils-2.35+"), which removed vdso-dummy.o
in favor of generating vdso-syms.S from vdso.so with $(NM) but this also
resolves the issue in case it ever comes back due to having full control
over the $(LD) command. '-pg' is for function tracing, it is not used
during linking as clang states.

These flags could be removed/filtered to fix the warnings but it is
easier to just match the rest of the kernel and use $(LD) directly for
linking. See commits

  fe00e50b2db8 ("ARM: 8858/1: vdso: use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link VDSO")
  691efbedc60d ("arm64: vdso: use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link VDSO")
  2ff906994b6c ("MIPS: VDSO: Use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link VDSO")
  2b2a25845d53 ("s390/vdso: Use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link vDSO")

for more information.

The flags are converted to linker flags and '--eh-frame-hdr' is added to
match what is added by GCC implicitly, which can be seen by adding '-v'
to GCC's invocation.

Additionally, since this area is being modified, use the $(OBJCOPY)
variable instead of an open coded $(CROSS_COMPILE)objcopy so that the
user's choice of objcopy binary is respected.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/803
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/970
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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Currently, the VDSO is being linked through $(CC). This does not match
how the rest of the kernel links objects, which is through the $(LD)
variable.

When linking with clang, there are a couple of warnings about flags that
will not be used during the link:

clang-12: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-no-pie' [-Wunused-command-line-argument]
clang-12: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-pg' [-Wunused-command-line-argument]

'-no-pie' was added in commit 85602bea297f ("RISC-V: build vdso-dummy.o
with -no-pie") to override '-pie' getting added to the ld command from
distribution versions of GCC that enable PIE by default. It is
technically no longer needed after commit c2c81bb2f691 ("RISC-V: Fix the
VDSO symbol generaton for binutils-2.35+"), which removed vdso-dummy.o
in favor of generating vdso-syms.S from vdso.so with $(NM) but this also
resolves the issue in case it ever comes back due to having full control
over the $(LD) command. '-pg' is for function tracing, it is not used
during linking as clang states.

These flags could be removed/filtered to fix the warnings but it is
easier to just match the rest of the kernel and use $(LD) directly for
linking. See commits

  fe00e50b2db8 ("ARM: 8858/1: vdso: use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link VDSO")
  691efbedc60d ("arm64: vdso: use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link VDSO")
  2ff906994b6c ("MIPS: VDSO: Use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link VDSO")
  2b2a25845d53 ("s390/vdso: Use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link vDSO")

for more information.

The flags are converted to linker flags and '--eh-frame-hdr' is added to
match what is added by GCC implicitly, which can be seen by adding '-v'
to GCC's invocation.

Additionally, since this area is being modified, use the $(OBJCOPY)
variable instead of an open coded $(CROSS_COMPILE)objcopy so that the
user's choice of objcopy binary is respected.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/803
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/970
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>riscv: Disable KSAN_SANITIZE for vDSO</title>
<updated>2021-02-23T01:51:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tobias Klauser</name>
<email>tklauser@distanz.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-16T17:33:05+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
We use the generic C VDSO implementations of a handful of clock-related
functions.  When kasan is enabled this results in asan stub calls that
are unlikely to be resolved by userspace, this just disables KASAN
when building the VDSO.

Verified the fix on a kernel with KASAN enabled using vDSO selftests.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CACT4Y+ZNJBnkKHXUf=tm_yuowvZvHwN=0rmJ=7J+xFd+9r_6pQ@mail.gmail.com/
Tested-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
[Palmer: commit text]
Fixes: ad5d1122b82f ("riscv: use vDSO common flow to reduce the latency of the time-related functions")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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We use the generic C VDSO implementations of a handful of clock-related
functions.  When kasan is enabled this results in asan stub calls that
are unlikely to be resolved by userspace, this just disables KASAN
when building the VDSO.

Verified the fix on a kernel with KASAN enabled using vDSO selftests.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CACT4Y+ZNJBnkKHXUf=tm_yuowvZvHwN=0rmJ=7J+xFd+9r_6pQ@mail.gmail.com/
Tested-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
[Palmer: commit text]
Fixes: ad5d1122b82f ("riscv: use vDSO common flow to reduce the latency of the time-related functions")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>riscv: Explicitly specify the build id style in vDSO Makefile again</title>
<updated>2020-11-25T17:44:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>natechancellor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-08T20:37:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e553fdc8105ac2ef3f321739da3908bb6673f7de'/>
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<content type='text'>
Commit a96843372331 ("kbuild: explicitly specify the build id style")
explicitly set the build ID style to SHA1. Commit c2c81bb2f691 ("RISC-V:
Fix the VDSO symbol generaton for binutils-2.35+") undid this change,
likely unintentionally.

Restore it so that the build ID style stays consistent across the tree
regardless of linker.

Fixes: c2c81bb2f691 ("RISC-V: Fix the VDSO symbol generaton for binutils-2.35+")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bill Wendling &lt;morbo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Commit a96843372331 ("kbuild: explicitly specify the build id style")
explicitly set the build ID style to SHA1. Commit c2c81bb2f691 ("RISC-V:
Fix the VDSO symbol generaton for binutils-2.35+") undid this change,
likely unintentionally.

Restore it so that the build ID style stays consistent across the tree
regardless of linker.

Fixes: c2c81bb2f691 ("RISC-V: Fix the VDSO symbol generaton for binutils-2.35+")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bill Wendling &lt;morbo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>RISC-V: Fix the VDSO symbol generaton for binutils-2.35+</title>
<updated>2020-11-06T08:03:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Palmer Dabbelt</name>
<email>palmerdabbelt@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-24T04:50:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c2c81bb2f69138f902e1a58d3bef6ad97fb8a92c'/>
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We were relying on GNU ld's ability to re-link executable files in order
to extract our VDSO symbols.  This behavior was deemed a bug as of
binutils-2.35 (specifically the binutils-gdb commit a87e1817a4 ("Have
the linker fail if any attempt to link in an executable is made."), but
as that has been backported to at least Debian's binutils-2.34 in may
manifest in other places.

The previous version of this was a bit of a mess: we were linking a
static executable version of the VDSO, containing only a subset of the
input symbols, which we then linked into the kernel.  This worked, but
certainly wasn't a supported path through the toolchain.  Instead this
new version parses the textual output of nm to produce a symbol table.
Both rely on near-zero addresses being linkable, but as we rely on weak
undefined symbols being linkable elsewhere I don't view this as a major
issue.

Fixes: e2c0cdfba7f6 ("RISC-V: User-facing API")
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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We were relying on GNU ld's ability to re-link executable files in order
to extract our VDSO symbols.  This behavior was deemed a bug as of
binutils-2.35 (specifically the binutils-gdb commit a87e1817a4 ("Have
the linker fail if any attempt to link in an executable is made."), but
as that has been backported to at least Debian's binutils-2.34 in may
manifest in other places.

The previous version of this was a bit of a mess: we were linking a
static executable version of the VDSO, containing only a subset of the
input symbols, which we then linked into the kernel.  This worked, but
certainly wasn't a supported path through the toolchain.  Instead this
new version parses the textual output of nm to produce a symbol table.
Both rely on near-zero addresses being linkable, but as we rely on weak
undefined symbols being linkable elsewhere I don't view this as a major
issue.

Fixes: e2c0cdfba7f6 ("RISC-V: User-facing API")
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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<title>kbuild: explicitly specify the build id style</title>
<updated>2020-10-09T14:57:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bill Wendling</name>
<email>morbo@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-22T23:21:40+00:00</published>
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ld's --build-id defaults to "sha1" style, while lld defaults to "fast".
The build IDs are very different between the two, which may confuse
programs that reference them.

Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling &lt;morbo@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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ld's --build-id defaults to "sha1" style, while lld defaults to "fast".
The build IDs are very different between the two, which may confuse
programs that reference them.

Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling &lt;morbo@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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