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<title>riscv: add VMAP_STACK overflow detection</title>
<updated>2021-07-06T19:11:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tong Tiangen</name>
<email>tongtiangen@huawei.com</email>
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<published>2021-06-21T03:28:55+00:00</published>
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This patch adds stack overflow detection to riscv, usable when
CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y.

Overflow is detected in kernel exception entry(kernel/entry.S), if the
kernel stack is overflow and been detected, the overflow handler is
invoked on a per-cpu overflow stack. This approach preserves GPRs and
the original exception information.

The overflow detect is performed before any attempt is made to access
the stack and the principle of stack overflow detection: kernel stacks
are aligned to double their size, enabling overflow to be detected with
a single bit test. For example, a 16K stack is aligned to 32K, ensuring
that bit 14 of the SP must be zero. On an overflow (or underflow), this
bit is flipped. Thus, overflow (of less than the size of the stack) can
be detected by testing whether this bit is set.

This gives us a useful error message on stack overflow, as can be
trigger with the LKDTM overflow test:

[  388.053267] lkdtm: Performing direct entry EXHAUST_STACK
[  388.053663] lkdtm: Calling function with 1024 frame size to depth 32 ...
[  388.054016] lkdtm: loop 32/32 ...
[  388.054186] lkdtm: loop 31/32 ...
[  388.054491] lkdtm: loop 30/32 ...
[  388.054672] lkdtm: loop 29/32 ...
[  388.054859] lkdtm: loop 28/32 ...
[  388.055010] lkdtm: loop 27/32 ...
[  388.055163] lkdtm: loop 26/32 ...
[  388.055309] lkdtm: loop 25/32 ...
[  388.055481] lkdtm: loop 24/32 ...
[  388.055653] lkdtm: loop 23/32 ...
[  388.055837] lkdtm: loop 22/32 ...
[  388.056015] lkdtm: loop 21/32 ...
[  388.056188] lkdtm: loop 20/32 ...
[  388.058145] Insufficient stack space to handle exception!
[  388.058153] Task stack:     [0xffffffd014260000..0xffffffd014264000]
[  388.058160] Overflow stack: [0xffffffe1f8d2c220..0xffffffe1f8d2d220]
[  388.058168] CPU: 0 PID: 89 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.12.0-rc8-dirty #90
[  388.058175] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[  388.058187] epc : number+0x32/0x2c0
[  388.058247]  ra : vsnprintf+0x2ae/0x3f0
[  388.058255] epc : ffffffe0002d38f6 ra : ffffffe0002d814e sp : ffffffd01425ffc0
[  388.058263]  gp : ffffffe0012e4010 tp : ffffffe08014da00 t0 : ffffffd0142606e8
[  388.058271]  t1 : 0000000000000000 t2 : 0000000000000000 s0 : ffffffd014260070
[  388.058303]  s1 : ffffffd014260158 a0 : ffffffd01426015e a1 : ffffffd014260158
[  388.058311]  a2 : 0000000000000013 a3 : ffff0a01ffffff10 a4 : ffffffe000c398e0
[  388.058319]  a5 : 511b02ec65f3e300 a6 : 0000000000a1749a a7 : 0000000000000000
[  388.058327]  s2 : ffffffff000000ff s3 : 00000000ffff0a01 s4 : ffffffe0012e50a8
[  388.058335]  s5 : 0000000000ffff0a s6 : ffffffe0012e50a8 s7 : ffffffe000da1cc0
[  388.058343]  s8 : ffffffffffffffff s9 : ffffffd0142602b0 s10: ffffffd0142602a8
[  388.058351]  s11: ffffffd01426015e t3 : 00000000000f0000 t4 : ffffffffffffffff
[  388.058359]  t5 : 000000000000002f t6 : ffffffd014260158
[  388.058366] status: 0000000000000100 badaddr: ffffffd01425fff8 cause: 000000000000000f
[  388.058374] Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel stack overflow
[  388.058381] CPU: 0 PID: 89 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.12.0-rc8-dirty #90
[  388.058387] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[  388.058393] Call Trace:
[  388.058400] [&lt;ffffffe000004944&gt;] walk_stackframe+0x0/0xce
[  388.058406] [&lt;ffffffe0006f0b28&gt;] dump_backtrace+0x38/0x46
[  388.058412] [&lt;ffffffe0006f0b46&gt;] show_stack+0x10/0x18
[  388.058418] [&lt;ffffffe0006f3690&gt;] dump_stack+0x74/0x8e
[  388.058424] [&lt;ffffffe0006f0d52&gt;] panic+0xfc/0x2b2
[  388.058430] [&lt;ffffffe0006f0acc&gt;] print_trace_address+0x0/0x24
[  388.058436] [&lt;ffffffe0002d814e&gt;] vsnprintf+0x2ae/0x3f0
[  388.058956] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs

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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This patch adds stack overflow detection to riscv, usable when
CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y.

Overflow is detected in kernel exception entry(kernel/entry.S), if the
kernel stack is overflow and been detected, the overflow handler is
invoked on a per-cpu overflow stack. This approach preserves GPRs and
the original exception information.

The overflow detect is performed before any attempt is made to access
the stack and the principle of stack overflow detection: kernel stacks
are aligned to double their size, enabling overflow to be detected with
a single bit test. For example, a 16K stack is aligned to 32K, ensuring
that bit 14 of the SP must be zero. On an overflow (or underflow), this
bit is flipped. Thus, overflow (of less than the size of the stack) can
be detected by testing whether this bit is set.

This gives us a useful error message on stack overflow, as can be
trigger with the LKDTM overflow test:

[  388.053267] lkdtm: Performing direct entry EXHAUST_STACK
[  388.053663] lkdtm: Calling function with 1024 frame size to depth 32 ...
[  388.054016] lkdtm: loop 32/32 ...
[  388.054186] lkdtm: loop 31/32 ...
[  388.054491] lkdtm: loop 30/32 ...
[  388.054672] lkdtm: loop 29/32 ...
[  388.054859] lkdtm: loop 28/32 ...
[  388.055010] lkdtm: loop 27/32 ...
[  388.055163] lkdtm: loop 26/32 ...
[  388.055309] lkdtm: loop 25/32 ...
[  388.055481] lkdtm: loop 24/32 ...
[  388.055653] lkdtm: loop 23/32 ...
[  388.055837] lkdtm: loop 22/32 ...
[  388.056015] lkdtm: loop 21/32 ...
[  388.056188] lkdtm: loop 20/32 ...
[  388.058145] Insufficient stack space to handle exception!
[  388.058153] Task stack:     [0xffffffd014260000..0xffffffd014264000]
[  388.058160] Overflow stack: [0xffffffe1f8d2c220..0xffffffe1f8d2d220]
[  388.058168] CPU: 0 PID: 89 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.12.0-rc8-dirty #90
[  388.058175] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[  388.058187] epc : number+0x32/0x2c0
[  388.058247]  ra : vsnprintf+0x2ae/0x3f0
[  388.058255] epc : ffffffe0002d38f6 ra : ffffffe0002d814e sp : ffffffd01425ffc0
[  388.058263]  gp : ffffffe0012e4010 tp : ffffffe08014da00 t0 : ffffffd0142606e8
[  388.058271]  t1 : 0000000000000000 t2 : 0000000000000000 s0 : ffffffd014260070
[  388.058303]  s1 : ffffffd014260158 a0 : ffffffd01426015e a1 : ffffffd014260158
[  388.058311]  a2 : 0000000000000013 a3 : ffff0a01ffffff10 a4 : ffffffe000c398e0
[  388.058319]  a5 : 511b02ec65f3e300 a6 : 0000000000a1749a a7 : 0000000000000000
[  388.058327]  s2 : ffffffff000000ff s3 : 00000000ffff0a01 s4 : ffffffe0012e50a8
[  388.058335]  s5 : 0000000000ffff0a s6 : ffffffe0012e50a8 s7 : ffffffe000da1cc0
[  388.058343]  s8 : ffffffffffffffff s9 : ffffffd0142602b0 s10: ffffffd0142602a8
[  388.058351]  s11: ffffffd01426015e t3 : 00000000000f0000 t4 : ffffffffffffffff
[  388.058359]  t5 : 000000000000002f t6 : ffffffd014260158
[  388.058366] status: 0000000000000100 badaddr: ffffffd01425fff8 cause: 000000000000000f
[  388.058374] Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel stack overflow
[  388.058381] CPU: 0 PID: 89 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.12.0-rc8-dirty #90
[  388.058387] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[  388.058393] Call Trace:
[  388.058400] [&lt;ffffffe000004944&gt;] walk_stackframe+0x0/0xce
[  388.058406] [&lt;ffffffe0006f0b28&gt;] dump_backtrace+0x38/0x46
[  388.058412] [&lt;ffffffe0006f0b46&gt;] show_stack+0x10/0x18
[  388.058418] [&lt;ffffffe0006f3690&gt;] dump_stack+0x74/0x8e
[  388.058424] [&lt;ffffffe0006f0d52&gt;] panic+0xfc/0x2b2
[  388.058430] [&lt;ffffffe0006f0acc&gt;] print_trace_address+0x0/0x24
[  388.058436] [&lt;ffffffe0002d814e&gt;] vsnprintf+0x2ae/0x3f0
[  388.058956] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs

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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<entry>
<title>RISC-V: enable XIP</title>
<updated>2021-04-26T15:31:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Wool</name>
<email>vitaly.wool@konsulko.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-13T06:35:14+00:00</published>
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Introduce XIP (eXecute In Place) support for RISC-V platforms.
It allows code to be executed directly from non-volatile storage
directly addressable by the CPU, such as QSPI NOR flash which can
be found on many RISC-V platforms. This makes way for significant
optimization of RAM footprint. The XIP kernel is not compressed
since it has to run directly from flash, so it will occupy more
space on the non-volatile storage. The physical flash address used
to link the kernel object files and for storing it has to be known
at compile time and is represented by a Kconfig option.

XIP on RISC-V will for the time being only work on MMU-enabled
kernels.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool &lt;vitaly.wool@konsulko.com&gt;
[Alex: Rebase on top of "Move kernel mapping outside the linear mapping" ]
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
[Palmer: disable XIP for allyesconfig]
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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Introduce XIP (eXecute In Place) support for RISC-V platforms.
It allows code to be executed directly from non-volatile storage
directly addressable by the CPU, such as QSPI NOR flash which can
be found on many RISC-V platforms. This makes way for significant
optimization of RAM footprint. The XIP kernel is not compressed
since it has to run directly from flash, so it will occupy more
space on the non-volatile storage. The physical flash address used
to link the kernel object files and for storing it has to be known
at compile time and is represented by a Kconfig option.

XIP on RISC-V will for the time being only work on MMU-enabled
kernels.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool &lt;vitaly.wool@konsulko.com&gt;
[Alex: Rebase on top of "Move kernel mapping outside the linear mapping" ]
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
[Palmer: disable XIP for allyesconfig]
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>riscv: Move kernel mapping outside of linear mapping</title>
<updated>2021-04-26T15:25:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandre Ghiti</name>
<email>alex@ghiti.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-11T16:41:44+00:00</published>
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This is a preparatory patch for relocatable kernel and sv48 support.

The kernel used to be linked at PAGE_OFFSET address therefore we could use
the linear mapping for the kernel mapping. But the relocated kernel base
address will be different from PAGE_OFFSET and since in the linear mapping,
two different virtual addresses cannot point to the same physical address,
the kernel mapping needs to lie outside the linear mapping so that we don't
have to copy it at the same physical offset.

The kernel mapping is moved to the last 2GB of the address space, BPF
is now always after the kernel and modules use the 2GB memory range right
before the kernel, so BPF and modules regions do not overlap. KASLR
implementation will simply have to move the kernel in the last 2GB range
and just take care of leaving enough space for BPF.

In addition, by moving the kernel to the end of the address space, both
sv39 and sv48 kernels will be exactly the same without needing to be
relocated at runtime.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
[Palmer: Squash the STRICT_RWX fix, and a !MMU fix]
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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This is a preparatory patch for relocatable kernel and sv48 support.

The kernel used to be linked at PAGE_OFFSET address therefore we could use
the linear mapping for the kernel mapping. But the relocated kernel base
address will be different from PAGE_OFFSET and since in the linear mapping,
two different virtual addresses cannot point to the same physical address,
the kernel mapping needs to lie outside the linear mapping so that we don't
have to copy it at the same physical offset.

The kernel mapping is moved to the last 2GB of the address space, BPF
is now always after the kernel and modules use the 2GB memory range right
before the kernel, so BPF and modules regions do not overlap. KASLR
implementation will simply have to move the kernel in the last 2GB range
and just take care of leaving enough space for BPF.

In addition, by moving the kernel to the end of the address space, both
sv39 and sv48 kernels will be exactly the same without needing to be
relocated at runtime.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
[Palmer: Squash the STRICT_RWX fix, and a !MMU fix]
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>riscv: Introduce alternative mechanism to apply errata solution</title>
<updated>2021-04-26T15:24:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincent Chen</name>
<email>vincent.chen@sifive.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-22T14:26:03+00:00</published>
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Introduce the "alternative" mechanism from ARM64 and x86 to apply the CPU
vendors' errata solution at runtime. The main purpose of this patch is
to provide a framework. Therefore, the implementation is quite basic for
now so that some scenarios could not use this schemei, such as patching
code to a module, relocating the patching code and heterogeneous CPU
topology.

Users could use the macro ALTERNATIVE to apply an errata to the existing
code flow. In the macro ALTERNATIVE, users need to specify the manufacturer
information(vendorid, archid, and impid) for this errata. Therefore, kernel
will know this errata is suitable for which CPU core. During the booting
procedure, kernel will select the errata required by the CPU core and then
patch it. It means that the kernel only applies the errata to the specified
CPU core. In this case, the vendor's errata does not affect each other at
runtime. The above patching procedure only occurs during the booting phase,
so we only take the overhead of the "alternative" mechanism once.

This "alternative" mechanism is enabled by default to ensure that all
required errata will be applied. However, users can disable this feature by
the Kconfig "CONFIG_RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE".

Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen &lt;vincent.chen@sifive.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel &lt;anup@brainfault.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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Introduce the "alternative" mechanism from ARM64 and x86 to apply the CPU
vendors' errata solution at runtime. The main purpose of this patch is
to provide a framework. Therefore, the implementation is quite basic for
now so that some scenarios could not use this schemei, such as patching
code to a module, relocating the patching code and heterogeneous CPU
topology.

Users could use the macro ALTERNATIVE to apply an errata to the existing
code flow. In the macro ALTERNATIVE, users need to specify the manufacturer
information(vendorid, archid, and impid) for this errata. Therefore, kernel
will know this errata is suitable for which CPU core. During the booting
procedure, kernel will select the errata required by the CPU core and then
patch it. It means that the kernel only applies the errata to the specified
CPU core. In this case, the vendor's errata does not affect each other at
runtime. The above patching procedure only occurs during the booting phase,
so we only take the overhead of the "alternative" mechanism once.

This "alternative" mechanism is enabled by default to ensure that all
required errata will be applied. However, users can disable this feature by
the Kconfig "CONFIG_RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE".

Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen &lt;vincent.chen@sifive.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel &lt;anup@brainfault.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>RISC-V: Move dynamic relocation section under __init</title>
<updated>2020-11-26T00:05:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Atish Patra</name>
<email>atish.patra@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-05T00:04:39+00:00</published>
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Dynamic relocation section are only required during boot. Those sections
can be freed after init. Thus, it can be moved to __init section.

Signed-off-by: Atish Patra &lt;atish.patra@wdc.com&gt;
Tested-by: Greentime Hu &lt;greentime.hu@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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Dynamic relocation section are only required during boot. Those sections
can be freed after init. Thus, it can be moved to __init section.

Signed-off-by: Atish Patra &lt;atish.patra@wdc.com&gt;
Tested-by: Greentime Hu &lt;greentime.hu@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>RISC-V: Protect all kernel sections including init early</title>
<updated>2020-11-26T00:05:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Atish Patra</name>
<email>atish.patra@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-05T00:04:38+00:00</published>
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Currently, .init.text &amp; .init.data are intermixed which makes it impossible
apply different permissions to them. .init.data shouldn't need exec
permissions while .init.text shouldn't have write permission. Moreover,
the strict permission are only enforced /init starts. This leaves the
kernel vulnerable from possible buggy built-in modules.

Keep .init.text &amp; .data in separate sections so that different permissions
are applied to each section. Apply permissions to individual sections as
early as possible. This improves the kernel protection under
CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX. We also need to restore the permissions for the
entire _init section after it is freed so that those pages can be used
for other purpose.

Signed-off-by: Atish Patra &lt;atish.patra@wdc.com&gt;
Tested-by: Greentime Hu &lt;greentime.hu@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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Currently, .init.text &amp; .init.data are intermixed which makes it impossible
apply different permissions to them. .init.data shouldn't need exec
permissions while .init.text shouldn't have write permission. Moreover,
the strict permission are only enforced /init starts. This leaves the
kernel vulnerable from possible buggy built-in modules.

Keep .init.text &amp; .data in separate sections so that different permissions
are applied to each section. Apply permissions to individual sections as
early as possible. This improves the kernel protection under
CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX. We also need to restore the permissions for the
entire _init section after it is freed so that those pages can be used
for other purpose.

Signed-off-by: Atish Patra &lt;atish.patra@wdc.com&gt;
Tested-by: Greentime Hu &lt;greentime.hu@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>RISC-V: Align the .init.text section</title>
<updated>2020-11-26T00:05:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Atish Patra</name>
<email>atish.patra@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-05T00:04:37+00:00</published>
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In order to improve kernel text protection, we need separate .init.text/
.init.data/.text in separate sections. However, RISC-V linker relaxation
code is not aware of any alignment between sections. As a result, it may
relax any RISCV_CALL relocations between sections to JAL without realizing
that an inter section alignment may move the address farther. That may
lead to a relocation truncated fit error. However, linker relaxation code
is aware of the individual section alignments.

The detailed discussion on this issue can be found here.
https://github.com/riscv/riscv-gnu-toolchain/issues/738

Keep the .init.text section aligned so that linker relaxation will take
that as a hint while relaxing inter section calls.
Here are the code size changes for each section because of this change.

section         change in size (in bytes)
  .head.text      +4
  .text           +40
  .init.text      +6530
  .exit.text      +84

The only significant increase in size happened for .init.text because
all intra relocations also use 2MB alignment.

Suggested-by: Jim Wilson &lt;jimw@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra &lt;atish.patra@wdc.com&gt;
Tested-by: Greentime Hu &lt;greentime.hu@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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In order to improve kernel text protection, we need separate .init.text/
.init.data/.text in separate sections. However, RISC-V linker relaxation
code is not aware of any alignment between sections. As a result, it may
relax any RISCV_CALL relocations between sections to JAL without realizing
that an inter section alignment may move the address farther. That may
lead to a relocation truncated fit error. However, linker relaxation code
is aware of the individual section alignments.

The detailed discussion on this issue can be found here.
https://github.com/riscv/riscv-gnu-toolchain/issues/738

Keep the .init.text section aligned so that linker relaxation will take
that as a hint while relaxing inter section calls.
Here are the code size changes for each section because of this change.

section         change in size (in bytes)
  .head.text      +4
  .text           +40
  .init.text      +6530
  .exit.text      +84

The only significant increase in size happened for .init.text because
all intra relocations also use 2MB alignment.

Suggested-by: Jim Wilson &lt;jimw@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra &lt;atish.patra@wdc.com&gt;
Tested-by: Greentime Hu &lt;greentime.hu@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.10-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux</title>
<updated>2020-10-20T01:18:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-20T01:18:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=270315b8235e3d10c2e360cff56c2f9e0915a252'/>
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Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:
 "A handful of cleanups and new features:

   - A handful of cleanups for our page fault handling

   - Improvements to how we fill out cacheinfo

   - Support for EFI-based systems"

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.10-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (22 commits)
  RISC-V: Add page table dump support for uefi
  RISC-V: Add EFI runtime services
  RISC-V: Add EFI stub support.
  RISC-V: Add PE/COFF header for EFI stub
  RISC-V: Implement late mapping page table allocation functions
  RISC-V: Add early ioremap support
  RISC-V: Move DT mapping outof fixmap
  RISC-V: Fix duplicate included thread_info.h
  riscv/mm/fault: Set FAULT_FLAG_INSTRUCTION flag in do_page_fault()
  riscv/mm/fault: Fix inline placement in vmalloc_fault() declaration
  riscv: Add cache information in AUX vector
  riscv: Define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH for ARCH_DLINFO
  riscv: Set more data to cacheinfo
  riscv/mm/fault: Move access error check to function
  riscv/mm/fault: Move FAULT_FLAG_WRITE handling in do_page_fault()
  riscv/mm/fault: Simplify mm_fault_error()
  riscv/mm/fault: Move fault error handling to mm_fault_error()
  riscv/mm/fault: Simplify fault error handling
  riscv/mm/fault: Move vmalloc fault handling to vmalloc_fault()
  riscv/mm/fault: Move bad area handling to bad_area()
  ...
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Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:
 "A handful of cleanups and new features:

   - A handful of cleanups for our page fault handling

   - Improvements to how we fill out cacheinfo

   - Support for EFI-based systems"

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.10-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (22 commits)
  RISC-V: Add page table dump support for uefi
  RISC-V: Add EFI runtime services
  RISC-V: Add EFI stub support.
  RISC-V: Add PE/COFF header for EFI stub
  RISC-V: Implement late mapping page table allocation functions
  RISC-V: Add early ioremap support
  RISC-V: Move DT mapping outof fixmap
  RISC-V: Fix duplicate included thread_info.h
  riscv/mm/fault: Set FAULT_FLAG_INSTRUCTION flag in do_page_fault()
  riscv/mm/fault: Fix inline placement in vmalloc_fault() declaration
  riscv: Add cache information in AUX vector
  riscv: Define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH for ARCH_DLINFO
  riscv: Set more data to cacheinfo
  riscv/mm/fault: Move access error check to function
  riscv/mm/fault: Move FAULT_FLAG_WRITE handling in do_page_fault()
  riscv/mm/fault: Simplify mm_fault_error()
  riscv/mm/fault: Move fault error handling to mm_fault_error()
  riscv/mm/fault: Simplify fault error handling
  riscv/mm/fault: Move vmalloc fault handling to vmalloc_fault()
  riscv/mm/fault: Move bad area handling to bad_area()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'core-build-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-10-12T20:39:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-12T20:39:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=34eb62d868d729e9a252aa497277081fb652eeed'/>
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Pull orphan section checking from Ingo Molnar:
 "Orphan link sections were a long-standing source of obscure bugs,
  because the heuristics that various linkers &amp; compilers use to handle
  them (include these bits into the output image vs discarding them
  silently) are both highly idiosyncratic and also version dependent.

  Instead of this historically problematic mess, this tree by Kees Cook
  (et al) adds build time asserts and build time warnings if there's any
  orphan section in the kernel or if a section is not sized as expected.

  And because we relied on so many silent assumptions in this area, fix
  a metric ton of dependencies and some outright bugs related to this,
  before we can finally enable the checks on the x86, ARM and ARM64
  platforms"

* tag 'core-build-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  x86/boot/compressed: Warn on orphan section placement
  x86/build: Warn on orphan section placement
  arm/boot: Warn on orphan section placement
  arm/build: Warn on orphan section placement
  arm64/build: Warn on orphan section placement
  x86/boot/compressed: Add missing debugging sections to output
  x86/boot/compressed: Remove, discard, or assert for unwanted sections
  x86/boot/compressed: Reorganize zero-size section asserts
  x86/build: Add asserts for unwanted sections
  x86/build: Enforce an empty .got.plt section
  x86/asm: Avoid generating unused kprobe sections
  arm/boot: Handle all sections explicitly
  arm/build: Assert for unwanted sections
  arm/build: Add missing sections
  arm/build: Explicitly keep .ARM.attributes sections
  arm/build: Refactor linker script headers
  arm64/build: Assert for unwanted sections
  arm64/build: Add missing DWARF sections
  arm64/build: Use common DISCARDS in linker script
  arm64/build: Remove .eh_frame* sections due to unwind tables
  ...
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Pull orphan section checking from Ingo Molnar:
 "Orphan link sections were a long-standing source of obscure bugs,
  because the heuristics that various linkers &amp; compilers use to handle
  them (include these bits into the output image vs discarding them
  silently) are both highly idiosyncratic and also version dependent.

  Instead of this historically problematic mess, this tree by Kees Cook
  (et al) adds build time asserts and build time warnings if there's any
  orphan section in the kernel or if a section is not sized as expected.

  And because we relied on so many silent assumptions in this area, fix
  a metric ton of dependencies and some outright bugs related to this,
  before we can finally enable the checks on the x86, ARM and ARM64
  platforms"

* tag 'core-build-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  x86/boot/compressed: Warn on orphan section placement
  x86/build: Warn on orphan section placement
  arm/boot: Warn on orphan section placement
  arm/build: Warn on orphan section placement
  arm64/build: Warn on orphan section placement
  x86/boot/compressed: Add missing debugging sections to output
  x86/boot/compressed: Remove, discard, or assert for unwanted sections
  x86/boot/compressed: Reorganize zero-size section asserts
  x86/build: Add asserts for unwanted sections
  x86/build: Enforce an empty .got.plt section
  x86/asm: Avoid generating unused kprobe sections
  arm/boot: Handle all sections explicitly
  arm/build: Assert for unwanted sections
  arm/build: Add missing sections
  arm/build: Explicitly keep .ARM.attributes sections
  arm/build: Refactor linker script headers
  arm64/build: Assert for unwanted sections
  arm64/build: Add missing DWARF sections
  arm64/build: Use common DISCARDS in linker script
  arm64/build: Remove .eh_frame* sections due to unwind tables
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>riscv: Fixup bootup failure with HARDENED_USERCOPY</title>
<updated>2020-10-07T01:34:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guo Ren</name>
<email>guoren@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-06T16:49:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=84814460eef9af0fb56a4698341c9cb7996a6312'/>
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6184358da000 ("riscv: Fixup static_obj() fail") attempted to elide a lockdep
failure by rearranging our kernel image to place all initdata within [_stext,
_end], thus triggering lockdep to treat these as static objects.  These objects
are released and eventually reallocated, causing check_kernel_text_object() to
trigger a BUG().

This backs out the change to make [_stext, _end] all-encompassing, instead just
moving initdata.  This results in initdata being outside of [__init_begin,
__init_end], which means initdata can't be freed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/1593266228-61125-1-git-send-email-guoren@kernel.org/T/#t
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reported-by: Aurelien Jarno &lt;aurelien@aurel32.net&gt;
Tested-by: Aurelien Jarno &lt;aurelien@aurel32.net&gt;
[Palmer: Clean up commit text]
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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6184358da000 ("riscv: Fixup static_obj() fail") attempted to elide a lockdep
failure by rearranging our kernel image to place all initdata within [_stext,
_end], thus triggering lockdep to treat these as static objects.  These objects
are released and eventually reallocated, causing check_kernel_text_object() to
trigger a BUG().

This backs out the change to make [_stext, _end] all-encompassing, instead just
moving initdata.  This results in initdata being outside of [__init_begin,
__init_end], which means initdata can't be freed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/1593266228-61125-1-git-send-email-guoren@kernel.org/T/#t
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reported-by: Aurelien Jarno &lt;aurelien@aurel32.net&gt;
Tested-by: Aurelien Jarno &lt;aurelien@aurel32.net&gt;
[Palmer: Clean up commit text]
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
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