linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/kvm: Move kvm_fastop

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Date:   Wed,  4 Oct 2017 09:43:06 -0500
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     x86@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/kvm: Move kvm_fastop_exception to .fixup section

When compiling the kernel with the '-frecord-gcc-switches' flag, objtool
complains:

  arch/x86/kvm/emulate.o: warning: objtool: .GCC.command.line+0x0: special: can't find new instruction

And also the kernel fails to link.

The problem is that the 'kvm_fastop_exception' code gets placed into the
throwaway '.GCC.command.line' section instead of '.text'.

Exception fixup code is conventionally placed in the '.fixup' section,
so put it there where it belongs.

Reported-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
index a36254cbf776..d90cdc77e077 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -425,8 +425,10 @@ static int fastop(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt, void (*fop)(struct fastop *));
 	#op " %al \n\t" \
 	FOP_RET
 
-asm(".global kvm_fastop_exception \n"
-    "kvm_fastop_exception: xor %esi, %esi; ret");
+asm(".pushsection .fixup, \"ax\"\n"
+    ".global kvm_fastop_exception \n"
+    "kvm_fastop_exception: xor %esi, %esi; ret\n"
+    ".popsection");
 
 FOP_START(setcc)
 FOP_SETCC(seto)
-- 
2.13.6