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Message-ID: <b2ae9afe-b919-45a3-b6ae-37c651c57981@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 18:26:14 +0200
From: Matthias Klose <doko@...ian.org>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Nathan Chancellor
<nathan@...nel.org>,
Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@...ux.dev>,
Binutils <binutils@...rceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Don't create sframes during build
On 9/4/25 16:02, Matthias Klose wrote:
> [ CCing binutils@...rceware.org ]
>
> On 9/4/25 15:18, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> gcc in Debian, starting with 15.2.0-2, 14.3.0-6 enables sframe
>> generation. Unless options like -ffreestanding are passed. Since this
>> isn't done, there are a few warnings during compile
>
> If there are other options when sframe shouldn't be enabled, please tell.
>
> Gentoo chose another approach, enabling sframe unconditionally in gas,
> unless disabled by --gsframe=no.
>
>> | crypto/chacha.o: warning: objtool: .sframe+0x30: data relocation
>> to !ENDBR: chacha_stream_xor+0x0
>> | crypto/chacha.o: warning: objtool: .sframe+0x94: data relocation
>> to !ENDBR: crypto_xchacha_crypt+0x0
>>
>> followed by warnings at the end
>>
>> | AR vmlinux.a
>> | LD vmlinux.o
>> | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: .sframe+0x15c: data relocation to !
>> ENDBR: repair_env_string+0x0
>> | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: .sframe+0x1c0: data relocation to !
>> ENDBR: run_init_process+0x0
>> | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: .sframe+0x1d4: data relocation to !
>> ENDBR: try_to_run_init_process+0x0
>> | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: .sframe+0x1e8: data relocation to !
>> ENDBR: rcu_read_unlock+0x0
>> …
>> | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: .sframe+0x12765c: data relocation to !
>> ENDBR: get_eff_addr_reg+0x0
>> | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: .sframe+0x1276ac: data relocation to !
>> ENDBR: get_seg_base_limit+0x0
>> | OBJCOPY modules.builtin.modinfo
>>
>> followed by a boom
>> | LD .tmp_vmlinux1
>> | ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.sframe' from `vmlinux.o'
>>
>> We could drop the sframe during the final link but this does not get rid
>> of the objtool warnings so we would have to ignore them. But we don't
>> need it. So what about the following:
>>
>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> --- a/Makefile
>> +++ b/Makefile
>> @@ -886,6 +886,8 @@ ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC
>> KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,--param=allow-store-data-races=0)
>> KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-allow-store-data-races)
>> endif
>> +# No sframe generation for kernel if enabled by default
>> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Xassembler --gsframe=no)
>> ifdef CONFIG_READABLE_ASM
>> # Disable optimizations that make assembler listings hard to read.
> This is what I chose for package builds that need disablement of sframe.
Fyi, I will disable that again next week, until sframe v3 is ready.
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