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The current arm32 architecture does not yet support the
HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION feature. arm32 is widely used in
embedded scenarios, and enabling this feature would be beneficial for
reducing the size of the kernel image.
In order to make this work, we keep the necessary tables by annotating
them with KEEP, also it requires further changes to linker script to KEEP
some tables and wildcard compiler generated sections into the right place.
When using ld.lld for linking, KEEP is not recognized within the OVERLAY
command, and Ard proposed a concise method to solve this problem.
It boots normally with defconfig, vexpress_defconfig and tinyconfig.
The size comparison of zImage is as follows:
defconfig vexpress_defconfig tinyconfig
5137712 5138024 424192 no dce
5032560 4997824 298384 dce
2.0% 2.7% 29.7% shrink
When using smaller config file, there is a significant reduction in the
size of the zImage.
We also tested this patch on a commercially available single-board
computer, and the comparison is as follows:
a15eb_config
2161384 no dce
2092240 dce
3.2% shrink
The zImage size has been reduced by approximately 3.2%, which is 70KB on
2.1M.
Signed-off-by: Yuntao Liu <liuyuntao12@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
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Idle code is very like entry code in that RCU isn't available. As
such, add a little validation.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.373461409@infradead.org
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ld.lld does not support the NOCROSSREFS directive at the moment, which
breaks the build after commit b9baf5c8c5c3 ("ARM: Spectre-BHB
workaround"):
ld.lld: error: ./arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds:34: AT expected, but got NOCROSSREFS
Support for this directive will eventually be implemented, at which
point a version check can be added. To avoid breaking the build in the
meantime, just define NOCROSSREFS to nothing when using ld.lld, with a
link to the issue for tracking.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b9baf5c8c5c3 ("ARM: Spectre-BHB workaround")
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1609
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Workaround the Spectre BHB issues for Cortex-A15, Cortex-A57,
Cortex-A72, Cortex-A73 and Cortex-A75. We also include Brahma B15 as
well to be safe, which is affected by Spectre V2 in the same ways as
Cortex-A15.
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
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Use the linker's LOADADDR() macro to get the load address of the
sections, and provide a macro to set the start and end symbols.
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
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In preparation for warning on orphan sections, enforce
expected-to-be-zero-sized sections (since discarding them might hide
problems with them suddenly gaining unexpected entries).
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821194310.3089815-19-keescook@chromium.org
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Add missing text stub sections .vfp11_veneer and .v4_bx, as well as
missing DWARF sections, when present in the build.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821194310.3089815-18-keescook@chromium.org
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In preparation for adding --orphan-handling=warn, explicitly keep the
.ARM.attributes section (at address 0[1]) by expanding the existing
ELF_DETAILS macro into ARM_DETAILS.
[1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D85867
Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKwvOdk-racgq5pxsoGS6Vtifbtrk5fmkmnoLxrQMaOvV0nPWw@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821194310.3089815-17-keescook@chromium.org
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In preparation for adding --orphan-handling=warn, refactor the linker
script header includes, and extract common macros.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821194310.3089815-16-keescook@chromium.org
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