<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh, branch v5.7</title>
<subtitle>Mirror of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
</subtitle>
<id>https://git.shady.money/linux/atom?h=v5.7</id>
<link rel='self' href='https://git.shady.money/linux/atom?h=v5.7'/>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.shady.money/linux/'/>
<updated>2020-03-19T11:32:38Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Support llvm-objcopy for vmlinux BTF</title>
<updated>2020-03-19T11:32:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Fangrui Song</name>
<email>maskray@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-18T22:27:46Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.shady.money/linux/commit/?id=90ceddcb495008ac8ba7a3dce297841efcd7d584'/>
<id>urn:sha1:90ceddcb495008ac8ba7a3dce297841efcd7d584</id>
<content type='text'>
Simplify gen_btf logic to make it work with llvm-objcopy. The existing
'file format' and 'architecture' parsing logic is brittle and does not
work with llvm-objcopy/llvm-objdump.

'file format' output of llvm-objdump&gt;=11 will match GNU objdump, but
'architecture' (bfdarch) may not.

.BTF in .tmp_vmlinux.btf is non-SHF_ALLOC. Add the SHF_ALLOC flag
because it is part of vmlinux image used for introspection. C code
can reference the section via linker script defined __start_BTF and
__stop_BTF. This fixes a small problem that previous .BTF had the
SHF_WRITE flag (objcopy -I binary -O elf* synthesized .data).

Additionally, `objcopy -I binary` synthesized symbols
_binary__btf_vmlinux_bin_start and _binary__btf_vmlinux_bin_stop (not
used elsewhere) are replaced with more commonplace __start_BTF and
__stop_BTF.

Add 2&gt;/dev/null because GNU objcopy (but not llvm-objcopy) warns
"empty loadable segment detected at vaddr=0xffffffff81000000, is this intentional?"

We use a dd command to change the e_type field in the ELF header from
ET_EXEC to ET_REL so that lld will accept .btf.vmlinux.bin.o.  Accepting
ET_EXEC as an input file is an extremely rare GNU ld feature that lld
does not intend to support, because this is error-prone.

The output section description .BTF in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
avoids potential subtle orphan section placement issues and suppresses
--orphan-handling=warn warnings.

Fixes: df786c9b9476 ("bpf: Force .BTF section start to zero when dumping from vmlinux")
Fixes: cb0cc635c7a9 ("powerpc: Include .BTF section")
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Tested-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/871
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200318222746.173648-1-maskray@google.com
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: Remove debug info from kallsyms linking</title>
<updated>2020-03-04T17:36:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-04T02:18:34Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.shady.money/linux/commit/?id=af73d78bd384aa9b8789aa6e7ddbb165f971276f'/>
<id>urn:sha1:af73d78bd384aa9b8789aa6e7ddbb165f971276f</id>
<content type='text'>
When CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is enabled, the two kallsyms linking steps spend
time collecting and writing the dwarf sections to the temporary output
files. kallsyms does not need this information, and leaving it off
halves their linking time. This is especially noticeable without
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED. The BTF linking stage, however, does still
need those details.

Refactor the BTF and kallsyms generation stages slightly for more
regularized temporary names. Skip debug during kallsyms links.
Additionally move "info BTF" to the correct place since commit
8959e39272d6 ("kbuild: Parameterize kallsyms generation and correct
reporting"), which added "info LD ..." to vmlinux_link calls.

For a full debug info build with BTF, my link time goes from 1m06s to
0m54s, saving about 12 seconds, or 18%.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/202003031814.4AEA3351@keescook
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: fix mismatch between .version and include/generated/compile.h</title>
<updated>2020-02-10T20:18:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-10T20:06:34Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.shady.money/linux/commit/?id=083bc0e1ce91e2a65a1aecdf8d2c5045e5d46c55'/>
<id>urn:sha1:083bc0e1ce91e2a65a1aecdf8d2c5045e5d46c55</id>
<content type='text'>
Since commit 56d589361572 ("kbuild: do not create orphan built-in.a or
obj-y objects"), scripts/link-vmlinux.sh does nothing when descending
into init/.

Once the version number becomes out of sync between .version and
include/generated/compile.h, it is not self-healing.

[How to reproduce]

 $ echo 100 &gt; .version
 $ make

You will see the number in the .version is always bigger than that in
compile.h by one. After this, every time you run 'make', the vmlinux is
re-linked even when none of source files is updated.

Fixes: 56d589361572 ("kbuild: do not create orphan built-in.a or obj-y objects")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2020-02-01T18:01:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-01T18:01:52Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.shady.money/linux/commit/?id=368d060bb497775e42e323b9f676c45e2011da27'/>
<id>urn:sha1:368d060bb497775e42e323b9f676c45e2011da27</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - detect missing include guard in UAPI headers

 - do not create orphan built-in.a or obj-y objects

 - generate modules.builtin more simply, and drop tristate.conf

 - simplify built-in initramfs creation

 - make linux-headers deb package thinner

 - optimize the deb package build script

 - misc cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits)
  builddeb: split libc headers deployment out into a function
  builddeb: split kernel headers deployment out into a function
  builddeb: remove redundant make for ARCH=um
  builddeb: avoid invoking sub-shells where possible
  builddeb: remove redundant $objtree/
  builddeb: match temporary directory name to the package name
  builddeb: remove unneeded files in hdrobjfiles for headers package
  kbuild: use -S instead of -E for precise cc-option test in Kconfig
  builddeb: allow selection of .deb compressor
  kbuild: remove 'Building modules, stage 2.' log
  kbuild: remove *.tmp file when filechk fails
  kbuild: remove PYTHON2 variable
  modpost: assume STT_SPARC_REGISTER is defined
  gen_initramfs.sh: remove intermediate cpio_list on errors
  initramfs: refactor the initramfs build rules
  gen_initramfs.sh: always output cpio even without -o option
  initramfs: add default_cpio_list, and delete -d option support
  initramfs: generate dependency list and cpio at the same time
  initramfs: specify $(src)/gen_initramfs.sh as a prerequisite in Makefile
  initramfs: make initramfs compression choice non-optional
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2020-01-29T00:02:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-29T00:02:33Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.shady.money/linux/commit/?id=bd2463ac7d7ec51d432f23bf0e893fb371a908cd'/>
<id>urn:sha1:bd2463ac7d7ec51d432f23bf0e893fb371a908cd</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Add WireGuard

 2) Add HE and TWT support to ath11k driver, from John Crispin.

 3) Add ESP in TCP encapsulation support, from Sabrina Dubroca.

 4) Add variable window congestion control to TIPC, from Jon Maloy.

 5) Add BCM84881 PHY driver, from Russell King.

 6) Start adding netlink support for ethtool operations, from Michal
    Kubecek.

 7) Add XDP drop and TX action support to ena driver, from Sameeh
    Jubran.

 8) Add new ipv4 route notifications so that mlxsw driver does not have
    to handle identical routes itself. From Ido Schimmel.

 9) Add BPF dynamic program extensions, from Alexei Starovoitov.

10) Support RX and TX timestamping in igc, from Vinicius Costa Gomes.

11) Add support for macsec HW offloading, from Antoine Tenart.

12) Add initial support for MPTCP protocol, from Christoph Paasch,
    Matthieu Baerts, Florian Westphal, Peter Krystad, and many others.

13) Add Octeontx2 PF support, from Sunil Goutham, Geetha sowjanya, Linu
    Cherian, and others.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1469 commits)
  net: phy: add default ARCH_BCM_IPROC for MDIO_BCM_IPROC
  udp: segment looped gso packets correctly
  netem: change mailing list
  qed: FW 8.42.2.0 debug features
  qed: rt init valid initialization changed
  qed: Debug feature: ilt and mdump
  qed: FW 8.42.2.0 Add fw overlay feature
  qed: FW 8.42.2.0 HSI changes
  qed: FW 8.42.2.0 iscsi/fcoe changes
  qed: Add abstraction for different hsi values per chip
  qed: FW 8.42.2.0 Additional ll2 type
  qed: Use dmae to write to widebus registers in fw_funcs
  qed: FW 8.42.2.0 Parser offsets modified
  qed: FW 8.42.2.0 Queue Manager changes
  qed: FW 8.42.2.0 Expose new registers and change windows
  qed: FW 8.42.2.0 Internal ram offsets modifications
  MAINTAINERS: Add entry for Marvell OcteonTX2 Physical Function driver
  Documentation: net: octeontx2: Add RVU HW and drivers overview
  octeontx2-pf: ethtool RSS config support
  octeontx2-pf: Add basic ethtool support
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf, btf: Always output invariant hit in pahole DWARF to BTF transform</title>
<updated>2020-01-22T16:52:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Down</name>
<email>chris@chrisdown.name</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-22T00:01:10Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.shady.money/linux/commit/?id=2a67a6ccb01f21b854715d86ff6432a18b97adb3'/>
<id>urn:sha1:2a67a6ccb01f21b854715d86ff6432a18b97adb3</id>
<content type='text'>
When trying to compile with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF enabled, I got this
error:

    % make -s
    Failed to generate BTF for vmlinux
    Try to disable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
    make[3]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

Compiling again without -s shows the true error (that pahole is
missing), but since this is fatal, we should show the error
unconditionally on stderr as well, not silence it using the `info`
function. With this patch:

    % make -s
    BTF: .tmp_vmlinux.btf: pahole (pahole) is not available
    Failed to generate BTF for vmlinux
    Try to disable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
    make[3]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Chris Down &lt;chris@chrisdown.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200122000110.GA310073@chrisdown.name
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: create modules.builtin without Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf</title>
<updated>2020-01-06T17:18:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-19T08:33:29Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.shady.money/linux/commit/?id=8b41fc4454e36fbfdbb23f940d023d4dece2de29'/>
<id>urn:sha1:8b41fc4454e36fbfdbb23f940d023d4dece2de29</id>
<content type='text'>
Commit bc081dd6e9f6 ("kbuild: generate modules.builtin") added
infrastructure to generate modules.builtin, the list of all
builtin modules.

Basically, it works like this:

  - Kconfig generates include/config/tristate.conf, the list of
    tristate CONFIG options with a value in a capital letter.

  - scripts/Makefile.modbuiltin makes Kbuild descend into
    directories to collect the information of builtin modules.

I am not a big fan of it because Kbuild ends up with traversing
the source tree twice.

I am not sure how perfectly it should work, but this approach cannot
avoid false positives; even if the relevant CONFIG option is tristate,
some Makefiles forces obj-m to obj-y.

Some examples are:

  arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/Makefile:
    obj-$(CONFIG_NVRAM:m=y)         += nvram.o

  net/ipv6/Makefile:
    obj-$(subst m,y,$(CONFIG_IPV6)) += inet6_hashtables.o

  net/netlabel/Makefile:
    obj-$(subst m,y,$(CONFIG_IPV6)) += netlabel_calipso.o

Nobody has complained about (or noticed) it, so it is probably fine to
have false positives in modules.builtin.

This commit simplifies the implementation. Let's exploit the fact
that every module has MODULE_LICENSE(). (modpost shows a warning if
MODULE_LICENSE is missing. If so, 0-day bot would already have blocked
such a module.)

I added MODULE_FILE to &lt;linux/module.h&gt;. When the code is being compiled
as builtin, it will be filled with the file path of the module, and
collected into modules.builtin.info. Then, scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
extracts the list of builtin modules out of it.

This new approach fixes the false-positives above, but adds another
type of false-positives; non-modular code may have MODULE_LICENSE()
by mistake. This is not a big deal, it is just the code is always
orphan. We can clean it up if we like. You can see cleanup examples by:

  $ git log --grep='make.* explicitly non-modular'

To sum up, this commits deletes lots of code, but still produces almost
equivalent results. Please note it does not increase the vmlinux size at
all. As you can see in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, the .modinfo
section is discarded in the link stage.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/unwind/orc: Remove boot-time ORC unwind tables sorting</title>
<updated>2019-12-13T09:47:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Shile Zhang</name>
<email>shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-04T00:46:33Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.shady.money/linux/commit/?id=f14bf6a350dfd6613dbf91be5b423bc7eab690da'/>
<id>urn:sha1:f14bf6a350dfd6613dbf91be5b423bc7eab690da</id>
<content type='text'>
Now that the orc_unwind and orc_unwind_ip tables are sorted at build time,
remove the boot time sorting pass.

No change in functionality.

[ mingo: Rewrote the changelog and code comments. ]

Signed-off-by: Shile Zhang &lt;shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191204004633.88660-8-shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scripts/sorttable: Rename 'sortextable' to 'sorttable'</title>
<updated>2019-12-13T09:47:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Shile Zhang</name>
<email>shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-04T00:46:31Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.shady.money/linux/commit/?id=1091670637be8bd34a39dd1ddcc0a10a7c88d4e2'/>
<id>urn:sha1:1091670637be8bd34a39dd1ddcc0a10a7c88d4e2</id>
<content type='text'>
Use a more generic name for additional table sorting usecases,
such as the upcoming ORC table sorting feature. This tool is
not tied to exception table sorting anymore.

No functional changes intended.

[ mingo: Rewrote the changelog. ]

Signed-off-by: Shile Zhang &lt;shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Marek &lt;michal.lkml@markovi.net&gt;
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191204004633.88660-6-shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Force .BTF section start to zero when dumping from vmlinux</title>
<updated>2019-11-29T09:18:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Stanislav Fomichev</name>
<email>sdf@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-27T22:57:59Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.shady.money/linux/commit/?id=df786c9b947639aedbc7bb44b5dae2a7824af360'/>
<id>urn:sha1:df786c9b947639aedbc7bb44b5dae2a7824af360</id>
<content type='text'>
While trying to figure out why fentry_fexit selftest doesn't pass for me
(old pahole, broken BTF), I found out that my latest patch can break vmlinux
.BTF generation. objcopy preserves section start when doing --only-section,
so there is a chance (depending on where pahole inserts .BTF section) to
have leading empty zeroes. Let's explicitly force section offset to zero.

Before:

$ objcopy --set-section-flags .BTF=alloc -O binary \
	--only-section=.BTF vmlinux .btf.vmlinux.bin
$ xxd .btf.vmlinux.bin | head -n1
00000000: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................

After:

$ objcopy --change-section-address .BTF=0 \
	--set-section-flags .BTF=alloc -O binary \
	--only-section=.BTF vmlinux .btf.vmlinux.bin
$ xxd .btf.vmlinux.bin | head -n1
00000000: 9feb 0100 1800 0000 0000 0000 80e1 1c00  ................
          ^BTF magic

As part of this change, I'm also dropping '2&gt;/dev/null' from objcopy
invocation to be able to catch possible other issues (objcopy doesn't
produce any warnings for me anymore, it did before with --dump-section).

Fixes: da5fb18225b4 ("bpf: Support pre-2.25-binutils objcopy for vmlinux BTF")
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191127225759.39923-1-sdf@google.com
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
