They are currently unused, and I don't think that anyone was
ever particularly happy with them. They had the unfortunate
property that they made it easy to CFI-annotate things without
thinking about them -- when pushing, do you want to just update
the CFA offset, or do you also want to update the saved location
of the register being pushed?
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447bfbd10bb268b4593b32534ecefa1f4df287e.1444696194.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
For the vDSO, user code wants runtime unwind info. Make sure
that, if we use .cfi directives, we generate it.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/16e29ad8855e6508197000d8c41f56adb00d7580.1444091584.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Commit:
131484c8da ("x86/debug: Remove perpetually broken, unmaintainable dwarf annotations")
removed all the manual DWARF annotations outside the vDSO. It also removed
the macros we used for the manual annotations.
Re-add these macros so that we can clean up the vDSO annotations.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4c70bb98a8b773c8ccfaabf6745e569ff43e7f65.1444091584.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
So the dwarf2 annotations in low level assembly code have
become an increasing hindrance: unreadable, messy macros
mixed into some of the most security sensitive code paths
of the Linux kernel.
These debug info annotations don't even buy the upstream
kernel anything: dwarf driven stack unwinding has caused
problems in the past so it's out of tree, and the upstream
kernel only uses the much more robust framepointers based
stack unwinding method.
In addition to that there's a steady, slow bitrot going
on with these annotations, requiring frequent fixups.
There's no tooling and no functionality upstream that
keeps it correct.
So burn down the sick forest, allowing new, healthier growth:
27 files changed, 350 insertions(+), 1101 deletions(-)
Someone who has the willingness and time to do this
properly can attempt to reintroduce dwarf debuginfo in x86
assembly code plus dwarf unwinding from first principles,
with the following conditions:
- it should be maximally readable, and maximally low-key to
'ordinary' code reading and maintenance.
- find a build time method to insert dwarf annotations
automatically in the most common cases, for pop/push
instructions that manipulate the stack pointer. This could
be done for example via a preprocessing step that just
looks for common patterns - plus special annotations for
the few cases where we want to depart from the default.
We have hundreds of CFI annotations, so automating most of
that makes sense.
- it should come with build tooling checks that ensure that
CFI annotations are sensible. We've seen such efforts from
the framepointer side, and there's no reason it couldn't be
done on the dwarf side.
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The patch titled "x86: Don't use frame pointer to save old stack
on irq entry" did not properly adjust CFI directives, so this
patch is a follow-up to that one.
With the old stack pointer no longer stored in a callee-saved
register (plus some offset), we now have to use a CFA expression
to describe the memory location where it is being found. This
requires the use of .cfi_escape (allowing arbitrary byte streams
to be emitted into .eh_frame), as there is no
.cfi_def_cfa_expression (which also cannot reasonably be
expected, as it would require a full expression parser).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E8360200200007800058467@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
... plus additionally introduce {push,pop}f{l,q}_cfi. All in the
hope that the code becomes better readable this way (it gets
quite a bit smaller in any case).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
LKML-Reference: <4C7FBDA40200007800013FAF@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The newer assemblers support the .cfi_sections directive so we can put
the CFI from .S files into the .debug_frame section that is preserved
in unstripped vmlinux and in separate debuginfo, rather than the
.eh_frame section that is now discarded by vmlinux.lds.S.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100514044303.A6FE7400BE@magilla.sf.frob.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Add 32-bit versions of the combined CFI macros, equivalent to the
64-bit ones except, obviously, operating on 32-bit stack words.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: cleanup
Move recently introduced dwarf2 macros to dwarf2.h file.
It allow us to not duplicate them in assembly files.
Active usage of _cfi macros don't make assembly files
more obvious to understand but we already have a lot of
macros there which requires to search the definitions
of them *anyway*. But at least it make every cfi usage
one line shorter.
Also some code alignment is done.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
