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Message-ID: <20231012160801.blc2t37gfqhlah5h@treble>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:08:01 -0700
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 -tip] x86/percpu: Use C for arch_raw_cpu_ptr()
On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 08:19:14AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> > Though, another problem is that .text has a crazy amount of padding
> > which makes it always the same size, due to the SRSO alias mitigation
> > alignment linker magic. We should fix that somehow.
>
> We could emit a non-aligned end-of-text symbol (we might have it already),
> and have a script or small .c program in scripts/ or tools/ that looks
> at vmlinux and displays a user-friendly and accurate list of text and
> data sizes in the kernel?
>
> And since objtool is technically an 'object files tool', and it already
> looks at sections & symbols, it could also grow a:
>
> objtool size <objfile>
>
> command that does the sane thing ... I'd definitely start using that, instead of 'size'.
>
> /me runs :-)
Yeah, that's actually not a bad idea.
I had been thinking a "simple" script would be fine, but I'm realizing
the scope of this thing could grow over time. In which case a script is
less than ideal. And objtool already has the ability to do this pretty
easily.
--
Josh
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