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When building very large kernels, the logic that emits replacement sequences for alternatives fails when relative branches are present in the code that is emitted into the .altinstr_replacement section and patched in at the original site and fixed up. The reason is that the linker will insert veneers if relative branches go out of range, and due to the relative distance of the .altinstr_replacement from the .text section where its branch targets usually live, veneers may be emitted at the end of the .altinstr_replacement section, with the relative branches in the sequence pointed at the veneers instead of the actual target. The alternatives patching logic will attempt to fix up the branch to point to its original target, which will be the veneer in this case, but given that the patch site is likely to be far away as well, it will be out of range and so patching will fail. There are other cases where these veneers are problematic, e.g., when the target of the branch is in .text while the patch site is in .init.text, in which case putting the replacement sequence inside .text may not help either. So let's use subsections to emit the replacement code as closely as possible to the patch site, to ensure that veneers are only likely to be emitted if they are required at the patch site as well, in which case they will be in range for the replacement sequence both before and after it is transported to the patch site. This will prevent alternative sequences in non-init code from being released from memory after boot, but this is tolerable given that the entire section is only 512 KB on an allyesconfig build (which weighs in at 500+ MB for the entire Image). Also, note that modules today carry the replacement sequences in non-init sections as well, and any of those that target init code will be emitted into init sections after this change. This fixes an early crash when booting an allyesconfig kernel on a system where any of the alternatives sequences containing relative branches are activated at boot (e.g., ARM64_HAS_PAN on TX2) Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Cc: Dave P Martin <dave.martin@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200630081921.13443-1-ardb@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.