objtool: Add ORC unwind table generation

Now that objtool knows the states of all registers on the stack for each
instruction, it's straightforward to generate debuginfo for an unwinder
to use.

Instead of generating DWARF, generate a new format called ORC, which is
more suitable for an in-kernel unwinder.  See
Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt for a more detailed description of
this new debuginfo format and why it's preferable to DWARF.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c9b9f01ba6c5ed2bdc9bb0957b78167fdbf9632e.1499786555.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 85 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/objtool/orc_types.h b/tools/objtool/orc_types.h
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+ * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _ORC_TYPES_H
+#define _ORC_TYPES_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+
+/*
+ * The ORC_REG_* registers are base registers which are used to find other
+ * registers on the stack.
+ *
+ * ORC_REG_PREV_SP, also known as DWARF Call Frame Address (CFA), is the
+ * address of the previous frame: the caller's SP before it called the current
+ * function.
+ *
+ * ORC_REG_UNDEFINED means the corresponding register's value didn't change in
+ * the current frame.
+ *
+ * The most commonly used base registers are SP and BP -- which the previous SP
+ * is usually based on -- and PREV_SP and UNDEFINED -- which the previous BP is
+ * usually based on.
+ *
+ * The rest of the base registers are needed for special cases like entry code
+ * and GCC realigned stacks.
+ */
+#define ORC_REG_UNDEFINED		0
+#define ORC_REG_PREV_SP			1
+#define ORC_REG_DX			2
+#define ORC_REG_DI			3
+#define ORC_REG_BP			4
+#define ORC_REG_SP			5
+#define ORC_REG_R10			6
+#define ORC_REG_R13			7
+#define ORC_REG_BP_INDIRECT		8
+#define ORC_REG_SP_INDIRECT		9
+#define ORC_REG_MAX			15
+
+/*
+ * ORC_TYPE_CALL: Indicates that sp_reg+sp_offset resolves to PREV_SP (the
+ * caller's SP right before it made the call).  Used for all callable
+ * functions, i.e. all C code and all callable asm functions.
+ *
+ * ORC_TYPE_REGS: Used in entry code to indicate that sp_reg+sp_offset points
+ * to a fully populated pt_regs from a syscall, interrupt, or exception.
+ *
+ * ORC_TYPE_REGS_IRET: Used in entry code to indicate that sp_reg+sp_offset
+ * points to the iret return frame.
+ */
+#define ORC_TYPE_CALL			0
+#define ORC_TYPE_REGS			1
+#define ORC_TYPE_REGS_IRET		2
+
+/*
+ * This struct is more or less a vastly simplified version of the DWARF Call
+ * Frame Information standard.  It contains only the necessary parts of DWARF
+ * CFI, simplified for ease of access by the in-kernel unwinder.  It tells the
+ * unwinder how to find the previous SP and BP (and sometimes entry regs) on
+ * the stack for a given code address.  Each instance of the struct corresponds
+ * to one or more code locations.
+ */
+struct orc_entry {
+	s16		sp_offset;
+	s16		bp_offset;
+	unsigned	sp_reg:4;
+	unsigned	bp_reg:4;
+	unsigned	type:2;
+} __packed;
+
+#endif /* _ORC_TYPES_H */