linux.git/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh, branch v6.11-rc2

kallsyms: get rid of code for absolute kallsyms

2024-07-20T07:33:21+00:00

Commit cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture")
removed the last use of the absolute kallsyms.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240221202655.2423854-1-jannh@google.com/
[masahiroy@kernel.org: rebase the code and reword the commit description]
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: merge temporary vmlinux for BTF and kallsyms

2024-07-15T16:08:36+00:00

CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y requires one additional link step.
(.tmp_vmlinux.btf)

CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y requires two additional link steps.
(.tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1 and .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2)

Enabling both requires three additional link steps.

When CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y and CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y, the current build
process is as follows:

    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.S
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.o
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.btf             # temporary vmlinux for BTF
    BTF     .btf.vmlinux.bin.o
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1       # temporary vmlinux for kallsyms step 1
    NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.syms
    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.o
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2       # temporary vmlinux for kallsyms step 2
    NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.syms
    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.S
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.o
    LD      vmlinux                      # final vmlinux

This is redundant because the BTF generation and the kallsyms step 1 can
be performed against the same temporary vmlinux.

When both CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF and CONFIG_KALLSYMS are enabled, we can
reduce the number of link steps by one.

This commit changes the build process as follows:

    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux0.kallsyms.S
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux0.kallsyms.o
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux1                # temporary vmlinux for BTF and kallsyms step 1
    BTF     .tmp_vmlinux1.btf.o
    NM      .tmp_vmlinux1.syms
    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux1.kallsyms.S
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux1.kallsyms.o
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux2                # temporary vmlinux for kallsyms step 2
    NM      .tmp_vmlinux2.syms
    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux2.kallsyms.S
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux2.kallsyms.o
    LD      vmlinux                      # final vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko

kbuild: remove PROVIDE() for kallsyms symbols

2024-07-15T16:08:36+00:00

This reimplements commit 951bcae6c5a0 ("kallsyms: Avoid weak references
for kallsyms symbols") because I am not a big fan of PROVIDE().

As an alternative solution, this commit prepends one more kallsyms step.

    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.S          # added
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.o          # added
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.btf
    BTF     .btf.vmlinux.bin.o
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
    NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.syms
    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.o
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2
    NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.syms
    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.S
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.o
    LD      vmlinux

Step 0 takes /dev/null as input, and generates .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.o,
which has a valid kallsyms format with the empty symbol list, and can be
linked to vmlinux. Since it is really small, the added compile-time cost
is negligible.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier

kbuild: refactor variables in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh

2024-07-15T16:08:36+00:00

Clean up the variables in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh

 - Specify the extra objects directly in vmlinux_link()
 - Move the AS rule to kallsyms()
 - Set kallsymso and btf_vmlinux_bin_o where they are generated
 - Remove unneeded variable, kallsymso_prev
 - Introduce the btf_data variable
 - Introduce the strip_debug flag instead of checking the output name

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier

kbuild: explicitly run mksysmap as sed script from link-vmlinux.sh

2024-06-06T23:42:14+00:00

In commit b18b047002b7 ("kbuild: change scripts/mksysmap into sed
script"), the mksysmap script was transformed into a sed script,
made directly executable with "#!/bin/sed -f". Apparently, the path to
sed is different on NixOS.

The shebang can't use the env command, otherwise the "sed -f" command
would be treated as a single argument. This can be solved with the -S
flag, but that is a GNU extension. Explicitly use sed instead of relying
on the executable shebang to fix NixOS builds without breaking build
environments using Busybox.

Fixes: b18b047002b7 ("kbuild: change scripts/mksysmap into sed script")
Reported-by: Kent Overstreet 
Signed-off-by: Richard Acayan 
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Tested-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: remove a stale comment about cleaning in link-vmlinux.sh

2024-05-29T07:40:03+00:00

Remove the left-over of commit 51eb95e2da41 ("kbuild: Don't remove
link-vmlinux temporary files on exit/signal").

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: fix short log for AS in link-vmlinux.sh

2024-05-29T07:40:03+00:00

In convention, short logs print the output file, not the input file.

Let's change the suffix for 'AS' since it assembles *.S into *.o.

[Before]

  LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
  NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.syms
  KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S
  AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2
  NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.syms
  KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.S
  AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.S
  LD      vmlinux

[After]

  LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
  NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.syms
  KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S
  AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.o
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2
  NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.syms
  KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.S
  AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.o
  LD      vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: change scripts/mksysmap into sed script

2024-05-29T07:40:03+00:00

The previous commit removed the subshell execution from scripts/mksysmap,
which is now simple enough to become a sed script.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: avoid unneeded kallsyms step 3

2024-05-29T07:40:03+00:00

Since commit 951bcae6c5a0 ("kallsyms: Avoid weak references for kallsyms
symbols"), the kallsyms step 3 always occurs.

You can compare the build logs.

[Before 951bcae6c5a0]

  $ git checkout 951bcae6c5a0^
  $ make defconfig all
       [ snip ]
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
    NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.syms
    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2
    NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.syms
    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.S
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.S
    LD      vmlinux

[After 951bcae6c5a0]

  $ git checkout 951bcae6c5a0
  $ make defconfig all
       [ snip ]
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
    NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.syms
    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2
    NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.syms
    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.S
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.S
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms3             # should not happen
    NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms3.syms        # should not happen
    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms3.S           # should not happen
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms3.S           # should not happen
    LD      vmlinux

The resulting vmlinux is correct, but it always requires an additional
linking step.

The symbols produced by kallsyms are excluded from kallsyms itself
because they were previously missing in step 1. With those symbols
excluded, the symbol lists matched between step 1 and step 2,
eliminating the need for step 3. Now, this has a negative effect.

Since 951bcae6c5a0, the PROVIDE() directives provide the fallback
definitions, which are not trimmed from the sysbol list in step 1
because ${kallsymso_prev} is empty at this point.

In step 2, ${kallsymso_prev} is set, and the kallsyms_* symbols are
trimmed from the symbol list.

Due to the table size difference between step 1 and step 2 (the former
is larger due to the presence of kallsyms_*), step 3 is triggered.

Now that the kallsyms_* symbols are always linked, let's stop omitting
them from kallsyms. This avoids unnecessary step 3.

Fixes: 951bcae6c5a0 ("kallsyms: Avoid weak references for kallsyms symbols")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: Fix changing ELF file type for output of gen_btf for big endian

2024-02-14T21:56:40+00:00

Commit 90ceddcb4950 ("bpf: Support llvm-objcopy for vmlinux BTF")
changed the ELF type of .btf.vmlinux.bin.o to ET_REL via dd, which works
fine for little endian platforms:

   00000000  7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |.ELF............|
  -00000010  03 00 b7 00 01 00 00 00  00 00 00 80 00 80 ff ff  |................|
  +00000010  01 00 b7 00 01 00 00 00  00 00 00 80 00 80 ff ff  |................|

However, for big endian platforms, it changes the wrong byte, resulting
in an invalid ELF file type, which ld.lld rejects:

   00000000  7f 45 4c 46 02 02 01 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |.ELF............|
  -00000010  00 03 00 16 00 00 00 01  00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00  |................|
  +00000010  01 03 00 16 00 00 00 01  00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00  |................|

  Type:                              : 103

  ld.lld: error: .btf.vmlinux.bin.o: unknown file type

Fix this by updating the entire 16-bit e_type field rather than just a
single byte, so that everything works correctly for all platforms and
linkers.

   00000000  7f 45 4c 46 02 02 01 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |.ELF............|
  -00000010  00 03 00 16 00 00 00 01  00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00  |................|
  +00000010  00 01 00 16 00 00 00 01  00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00  |................|

  Type:                              REL (Relocatable file)

While in the area, update the comment to mention that binutils 2.35+
matches LLD's behavior of rejecting an ET_EXEC input, which occurred
after the comment was added.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 90ceddcb4950 ("bpf: Support llvm-objcopy for vmlinux BTF")
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/75643
Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song 
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier 
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook 
Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada