Switch to the generic extable search and sort routines which were introduced
with commit a272858 from Ard Biesheuvel. This saves quite some memory in the
vmlinux binary with the 64bit kernel.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
(cherry picked from commit 0de798584bdedfdad19db21e3c7aec84f252f4f3)
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Instead of using absolute addresses for both the exception location
and the fixup, use offsets relative to the exception table entry values.
Not only does this cut the size of the exception table in half, it is
also a prerequisite for KASLR, since absolute exception table entries
are subject to dynamic relocation, which is incompatible with the sorting
of the exception table that occurs at build time.
This patch also introduces the _ASM_EXTABLE preprocessor macro (which
exists on x86 as well) and its _asm_extable assembly counterpart, as
shorthands to emit exception table entries.
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
(cherry picked from commit 6c94f27ac847ff8ef15b3da5b200574923bd6287)
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Add support to scripts/sortextable for handling relocatable (PIE)
executables, whose ELF type is ET_DYN, not ET_EXEC. Other than adding
support for the new type, no changes are needed.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
(cherry picked from commit 7b957b6e603623ef8b2e8222fa94b976df613fa2)
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Sort the exception table at build-time rather than during boot.
Microblaze is the same case as AARCH64 that's why EM_MICROBLAZE
conditional check was added to allow cross-compilation on machines which
are not running the latest libc-dev.
Inspired by AARCH64 commit adace89562 ("arm64: extable: sort the
exception table at build time").
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Building with a large config and -ffunction-sections results in a large
number of sections and sortextable needs to be able to handle that.
Implement support for > 64K sections as modpost does.
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@oracle.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As is done for other architectures, sort the exception table at
build-time rather than during boot.
Since sortextable appears to be a standalone C program relying on the
host elf.h to provide EM_AARCH64, I've had to add a conditional check in
order to allow cross-compilation on machines that aren't running a
bleeding-edge libc-dev.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Add the ARM machine identifier to sortextable and select the
config option so that we can sort the exception table at compile
time. sortextable relies on a section named __ex_table existing
in the vmlinux, but ARM's linker script places the exception
table in the data section. Give the exception table its own
section so that sortextable can find it.
This allows us to skip the sorting step during boot.
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This is the s390 port of 70627654 "x86, extable: Switch to relative
exception table entries".
Reduces the size of our exception tables by 50% on 64 bit builds.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Follow x86 and MIPS and sort the main exception table at build time.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
x86 is now using relative rather than absolute addresses in its
exception table, so we add a sorter for these. If there are
relocations on the __ex_table section, they are redundant and probably
incorrect after the sort, so they are zeroed out leaving them valid
and consistent.
Also use the unaligned safe accessors from tools/{be,le}_byteshift.h
Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335291795-26693-2-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
