linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 05/15] x86: support asm function sections

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Message-ID: <20220211154524.GX23216@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:45:24 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 05/15] x86: support asm function sections

On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 07:57:42PM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> Address places which need special care and enable
> CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_ASM_FUNCTION_SECTIONS.
> 
> Notably:
>  - propagate `--sectname-subst` to KBUILD_AFLAGS in
>    x86/boot/Makefile and x86/boot/compressed/Makefile as both
>    override them;
>  - symbols starting with a dot (like ".Lrelocated") should be
>    handled manually with SYM_*_START_SECT(.Lrelocated, relocated)
>    as "two dots" is a special (and CPP doesn't want to concatenate
>    two dots in general);
>  - some symbols explicitly need to reside in one section (like
>    kexec control code, hibernation page etc.);
>  - macros creating aliases for functions (like __memcpy() for
>    memcpy() etc.) should go after the main declaration (as
>    aliases should be declared in the same section and they
>    don't have SYM_PUSH_SECTION() inside);
>  - things like ".org", ".align" should be manually pushed to
>    the same section the next symbol goes to;
>  - expand indirect_thunk wildcards in vmlinux.lds.S to catch
>    symbols back into the "main" section;
>  - inline ASM functions like __raw_callee*() should be pushed
>    manually as well.
> 
> With these changes and `-ffunction-sections` enabled, "plain"
> ".text" section is empty which means that everything works
> right as expected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/Kconfig                              |  1 +
>  arch/x86/boot/Makefile                        |  1 +
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile             |  1 +
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S            |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S            | 32 ++++++++++++-------
>  arch/x86/boot/pmjump.S                        |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_asm.S             |  4 +--
>  arch/x86/crypto/poly1305-x86_64-cryptogams.pl |  4 +++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h               |  2 ++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock_paravirt.h     |  2 ++
>  arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S                     |  4 +--
>  arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S                     |  4 +--
>  arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c                |  2 ++
>  arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c                         |  2 ++
>  arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_32.S          | 10 +++---
>  arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S          | 12 ++++---
>  arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S                 |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c                        |  7 +++-
>  arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S                   |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/lib/error-inject.c                   |  2 ++
>  arch/x86/lib/getuser.S                        |  5 ++-
>  arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S                      |  4 +--
>  arch/x86/lib/memmove_64.S                     |  5 ++-
>  arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S                      |  5 +--
>  arch/x86/lib/putuser.S                        |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/power/hibernate_asm_32.S             | 10 +++---
>  arch/x86/power/hibernate_asm_64.S             | 10 +++---
>  27 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

Urgh, how much of that can you avoid by (ab)using __DISABLE_EXPORTS
like:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git/commit/?h=x86/wip.ibt&id=ab74f54f2b1f6cfeaf2b3ba6999bde7cabada9ca