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Message-ID: <Y9VQmprEF6Jg7A7S@xhacker>
Date:   Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:43:06 +0800
From:   Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>
Cc:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>,
        Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>,
        Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 09/13] riscv: switch to relative alternative entries

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 08:09:30AM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 07:34:18PM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 11:49:49PM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> > ...
> > >  #define ALT_ENTRY(oldptr, newptr, vendor_id, errata_id, newlen)		\
> > > -	RISCV_PTR " " oldptr "\n"					\
> > > -	RISCV_PTR " " newptr "\n"					\
> > > -	REG_ASM " " vendor_id "\n"					\
> > > -	REG_ASM " " newlen "\n"						\
> > > -	".word " errata_id "\n"
> > > +	".4byte	((" oldptr ") - .) \n"					\
> > > +	".4byte	((" newptr ") - .) \n"					\
> > > +	".2byte	" vendor_id "\n"					\
> > > +	".2byte " newlen "\n"						\
> > > +	".4byte	" errata_id "\n"
> > >
> > 
> > Hi Jisheng,
> > 
> > This patch breaks loading the KVM module for me. I got "kvm: Unknown
> > relocation type 34". My guess is that these 2 byte fields are inspiring
> > the compiler to emit 16-bit relocation types. The patch below fixes
> > things for me. If you agree with fixing it this way, rather than
> > changing something in alternatives, like not using 2 byte fields,
> > then please pick the below patch up in your series.
> 
> Hi Jisheng,
> 
> I'm poking again on this as I see this series is now working its way
> to be merged into for-next. I'd rather avoid the bisection breakage
> which will be present if we fix this issue afterwards by having a
> v5 merged which addresses the issue in the correct patch order.

Hi Andrew,

Sorry for being late. I was on holiday in the past few days. I'm
cooking v5 and will send out it soon.

Thanks so much

> 
> Thanks,
> drew
> 
> > 
> > From 4d203697aa745a0cd3a9217d547a9fb7fa2a87c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>
> > Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 19:05:44 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] riscv: module: Add ADD16 and SUB16 rela types
> > Content-type: text/plain
> > 
> > To prepare for 16-bit relocation types to be emitted in alternatives
> > add support for ADD16 and SUB16.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/module.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/module.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/module.c
> > index 76f4b9c2ec5b..7c651d55fcbd 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/module.c
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/module.c
> > @@ -268,6 +268,13 @@ static int apply_r_riscv_align_rela(struct module *me, u32 *location,
> >  	return -EINVAL;
> >  }
> >  
> > +static int apply_r_riscv_add16_rela(struct module *me, u32 *location,
> > +				    Elf_Addr v)
> > +{
> > +	*(u16 *)location += (u16)v;
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> >  static int apply_r_riscv_add32_rela(struct module *me, u32 *location,
> >  				    Elf_Addr v)
> >  {
> > @@ -282,6 +289,13 @@ static int apply_r_riscv_add64_rela(struct module *me, u32 *location,
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> >  
> > +static int apply_r_riscv_sub16_rela(struct module *me, u32 *location,
> > +				    Elf_Addr v)
> > +{
> > +	*(u16 *)location -= (u16)v;
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> >  static int apply_r_riscv_sub32_rela(struct module *me, u32 *location,
> >  				    Elf_Addr v)
> >  {
> > @@ -315,8 +329,10 @@ static int (*reloc_handlers_rela[]) (struct module *me, u32 *location,
> >  	[R_RISCV_CALL]			= apply_r_riscv_call_rela,
> >  	[R_RISCV_RELAX]			= apply_r_riscv_relax_rela,
> >  	[R_RISCV_ALIGN]			= apply_r_riscv_align_rela,
> > +	[R_RISCV_ADD16]			= apply_r_riscv_add16_rela,
> >  	[R_RISCV_ADD32]			= apply_r_riscv_add32_rela,
> >  	[R_RISCV_ADD64]			= apply_r_riscv_add64_rela,
> > +	[R_RISCV_SUB16]			= apply_r_riscv_sub16_rela,
> >  	[R_RISCV_SUB32]			= apply_r_riscv_sub32_rela,
> >  	[R_RISCV_SUB64]			= apply_r_riscv_sub64_rela,
> >  };
> > -- 
> > 2.39.0
> >