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Ard Biesheuvel
2213e9a66b kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table
Similar to how relative extables are implemented, it is possible to emit
the kallsyms table in such a way that it contains offsets relative to
some anchor point in the kernel image rather than absolute addresses.

On 64-bit architectures, it cuts the size of the kallsyms address table
in half, since offsets between kernel symbols can typically be expressed
in 32 bits.  This saves several hundreds of kilobytes of permanent
.rodata on average.  In addition, the kallsyms address table is no
longer subject to dynamic relocation when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is in
effect, so the relocation work done after decompression now doesn't have
to do relocation updates for all these values.  This saves up to 24
bytes (i.e., the size of a ELF64 RELA relocation table entry) per value,
which easily adds up to a couple of megabytes of uncompressed __init
data on ppc64 or arm64.  Even if these relocation entries typically
compress well, the combined size reduction of 2.8 MB uncompressed for a
ppc64_defconfig build (of which 2.4 MB is __init data) results in a ~500
KB space saving in the compressed image.

Since it is useful for some architectures (like x86) to retain the
ability to emit absolute values as well, this patch also adds support
for capturing both absolute and relative values when
KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, by emitting absolute per-cpu
addresses as positive 32-bit values, and addresses relative to the
lowest encountered relative symbol as negative values, which are
subtracted from the runtime address of this base symbol to produce the
actual address.

Support for the above is enabled by default for all architectures except
IA-64 and Tile-GX, whose symbols are too far apart to capture in this
manner.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
Michal Marek
9231d9e02a Revert "namespace: add source file location exceptions"
This reverts commit 24a54f7974.

Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> writes:
> That patch should not be included. It causes more problems than it
> solves, since then there are duplicate file locations which causes
> false duplicate symbol reports.

Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-10-28 00:59:56 +02:00
Stephen Hemminger
24a54f7974 namespace: add source file location exceptions
Teach namespace checker about some special case files where the
source is in unusual location.  This fixes many of the source file
not found errors (more can be added), and also prevents false positives
for functions not being used.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-10-28 00:29:48 +02:00
Amerigo Wang
abb4385262 scripts/namespace.pl: improve to get more correct results
Exclude more symbols from arch/x86/vdso/ and arch/x86/boot/; add some more
linker-defined symbols into exception list; add other cond_syscalls
besides "sys_*".

Signed-off-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-10-28 00:07:46 +02:00
Amerigo Wang
e8cf981346 scripts/namespace.pl: some bug fixes
1. Teach namespace.pl to understand "V" and "v"
2. cond_syscalls are moved into kernel/sys_ni.c

Signed-off-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-10-28 00:07:46 +02:00
Stephen Hemminger
43f683c9e4 scripts/namespace.pl: update file exclusion list
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-10-28 00:07:45 +02:00
Amerigo Wang
c25f415751 scripts/namespace.pl: fix wrong source path
File::Find will do chdir automatically, so we need to get the absolute
patch with $File::Find::dir.

Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-10-28 00:07:45 +02:00
Stephen Hemminger
86d08e569f namespace: perlcritic warnings
Use local file handle not global.
Make loop and other variables local in scope.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-03-07 21:38:32 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
d2c75f2f4b x86: fixup the x86 namespace change in scripts/namespace.pl
Let namespace.pl look at the correct files.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-11 17:56:02 +02:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
71378be91f kbuild: fix mode of checkstack.pl and other files.
Make it executable like it should be. Do the same for other files intended to be
executed by the user - the ones called by the build process needn't be
executable as they already work (as argument to their interpreter).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-04-11 13:37:07 +02:00
Aaron Brooks
3a25f0b19f kbuild: make namespace.pl CROSS_COMPILE happy
Using the fixed path to /usr/bin/{nm,objdump} does not allow
CROSS_COMPILE environments to use namespace.pl. This patch causes
namespace.pl to use $NM and $OBJDUMP if defined or fall back to the nm
and objdump found in the path.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Brooks <aaron.brooks@sicortex.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-27 05:05:40 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00