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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>2025-12-02 09:59:37 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2025-12-03 16:53:19 +0100
commitf387d0e1027f2d13cbfc1305b54198af701ede19 (patch)
tree17bf673bed85feffe78fd2ce92fc5ab044c17360 /arch/x86
parenta818f28f017b23cfe830dd82e89b5aa6b0fea8e5 (diff)
x86/asm: Remove ANNOTATE_DATA_SPECIAL usage
Instead of manually annotating each __ex_table entry, just make the section mergeable and store the entry size in the ELF section header. Either way works for objtool create_fake_symbols(), this way produces cleaner code generation. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/b858cb7891c1ba0080e22a9c32595e6c302435e2.1764694625.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h25
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c1
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/um/shared/sysdep/kernel-offsets.h2
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h
index bd62bd87a841..0e8c611bc9e2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h
@@ -126,18 +126,21 @@ static __always_inline __pure void *rip_rel_ptr(void *p)
#ifdef __KERNEL__
+#ifndef COMPILE_OFFSETS
+#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
+#endif
+
# include <asm/extable_fixup_types.h>
/* Exception table entry */
#ifdef __ASSEMBLER__
-# define _ASM_EXTABLE_TYPE(from, to, type) \
- .pushsection "__ex_table","a" ; \
- .balign 4 ; \
- ANNOTATE_DATA_SPECIAL ; \
- .long (from) - . ; \
- .long (to) - . ; \
- .long type ; \
+# define _ASM_EXTABLE_TYPE(from, to, type) \
+ .pushsection "__ex_table", "aM", @progbits, EXTABLE_SIZE ; \
+ .balign 4 ; \
+ .long (from) - . ; \
+ .long (to) - . ; \
+ .long type ; \
.popsection
# ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
@@ -180,18 +183,18 @@ static __always_inline __pure void *rip_rel_ptr(void *p)
".purgem extable_type_reg\n"
# define _ASM_EXTABLE_TYPE(from, to, type) \
- " .pushsection \"__ex_table\",\"a\"\n" \
+ " .pushsection __ex_table, \"aM\", @progbits, " \
+ __stringify(EXTABLE_SIZE) "\n" \
" .balign 4\n" \
- ANNOTATE_DATA_SPECIAL \
" .long (" #from ") - .\n" \
" .long (" #to ") - .\n" \
" .long " __stringify(type) " \n" \
" .popsection\n"
# define _ASM_EXTABLE_TYPE_REG(from, to, type, reg) \
- " .pushsection \"__ex_table\",\"a\"\n" \
+ " .pushsection __ex_table, \"aM\", @progbits, " \
+ __stringify(EXTABLE_SIZE) "\n" \
" .balign 4\n" \
- ANNOTATE_DATA_SPECIAL \
" .long (" #from ") - .\n" \
" .long (" #to ") - .\n" \
DEFINE_EXTABLE_TYPE_REG \
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c
index db3bb5143329..25fcde525c68 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c
@@ -126,4 +126,5 @@ static void __used common(void)
BLANK();
DEFINE(ALT_INSTR_SIZE, sizeof(struct alt_instr));
+ DEFINE(EXTABLE_SIZE, sizeof(struct exception_table_entry));
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/um/shared/sysdep/kernel-offsets.h b/arch/x86/um/shared/sysdep/kernel-offsets.h
index 6fd1ed400399..8215a0200ddd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/um/shared/sysdep/kernel-offsets.h
+++ b/arch/x86/um/shared/sysdep/kernel-offsets.h
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#define COMPILE_OFFSETS
#include <linux/stddef.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/elf.h>
@@ -7,6 +8,7 @@
#include <linux/audit.h>
#include <asm/mman.h>
#include <asm/seccomp.h>
+#include <asm/extable.h>
/* workaround for a warning with -Wmissing-prototypes */
void foo(void);