[PATCH 1/2] initramfs: fix clang build failure

[PATCH 1/2] initramfs: fix clang build failure

[Arnd Bergmann]

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

There is only one function in init/initramfs.c that is in the .text
section, and it is marked __weak. When building with clang-12 and
the integrated assembler, this leads to a bug with recordmcount:

./scripts/recordmcount  "init/initramfs.o"
Cannot find symbol for section 2: .text.
init/initramfs.o: failed

I'm not quite sure what exactly goes wrong, but I notice that this
function is only ever called from an __init function, and normally
inlined. Marking it __init as well is clearly correct and it
leads to recordmcount no longer complaining.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
 init/initramfs.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c
index 1f97c0328a7a..55b74d7e5260 100644
--- a/init/initramfs.c
+++ b/init/initramfs.c
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ extern unsigned long __initramfs_size;
 #include <linux/initrd.h>
 #include <linux/kexec.h>
 
-void __weak free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+void __weak __init free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK
 	unsigned long aligned_start = ALIGN_DOWN(start, PAGE_SIZE);
-- 
2.27.0

[PATCH 2/2] elfcore: fix building with clang

[Arnd Bergmann]

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

kernel/elfcore.c only contains weak symbols, which triggers
a bug with clang in combination with recordmcount:

Cannot find symbol for section 2: .text.
kernel/elfcore.o: failed

Move the empty stubs into linux/elfcore.h as inline functions.
As only two architectures use these, just use the architecture
specific Kconfig symbols to key off the declaration.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
 include/linux/elfcore.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/Makefile         |  1 -
 kernel/elfcore.c        | 26 --------------------------
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 kernel/elfcore.c

diff --git a/include/linux/elfcore.h b/include/linux/elfcore.h
index 46c3d691f677..de51c1bef27d 100644
--- a/include/linux/elfcore.h
+++ b/include/linux/elfcore.h
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ static inline int elf_core_copy_task_fpregs(struct task_struct *t, struct pt_reg
 #endif
 }
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_UM) || defined(CONFIG_IA64)
 /*
  * These functions parameterize elf_core_dump in fs/binfmt_elf.c to write out
  * extra segments containing the gate DSO contents.  Dumping its
@@ -118,5 +119,26 @@ elf_core_write_extra_phdrs(struct coredump_params *cprm, loff_t offset);
 extern int
 elf_core_write_extra_data(struct coredump_params *cprm);
 extern size_t elf_core_extra_data_size(void);
+#else
+static inline Elf_Half elf_core_extra_phdrs(void)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static inline int elf_core_write_extra_phdrs(struct coredump_params *cprm, loff_t offset)
+{
+	return 1;
+}
+
+static inline int elf_core_write_extra_data(struct coredump_params *cprm)
+{
+	return 1;
+}
+
+static inline size_t elf_core_extra_data_size(void)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_ELFCORE_H */
diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
index aac15aeb9d69..dddf51266719 100644
--- a/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/Makefile
@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT) += delayacct.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TASKSTATS) += taskstats.o tsacct.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS) += tracepoint.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_LATENCYTOP) += latencytop.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_ELFCORE) += elfcore.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER) += trace/
 obj-$(CONFIG_TRACING) += trace/
 obj-$(CONFIG_TRACE_CLOCK) += trace/
diff --git a/kernel/elfcore.c b/kernel/elfcore.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 57fb4dcff434..000000000000
--- a/kernel/elfcore.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-#include <linux/elf.h>
-#include <linux/fs.h>
-#include <linux/mm.h>
-#include <linux/binfmts.h>
-#include <linux/elfcore.h>
-
-Elf_Half __weak elf_core_extra_phdrs(void)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-
-int __weak elf_core_write_extra_phdrs(struct coredump_params *cprm, loff_t offset)
-{
-	return 1;
-}
-
-int __weak elf_core_write_extra_data(struct coredump_params *cprm)
-{
-	return 1;
-}
-
-size_t __weak elf_core_extra_data_size(void)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-- 
2.27.0

Re: [PATCH 1/2] initramfs: fix clang build failure

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri,  4 Dec 2020 17:57:33 +0100 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:

> There is only one function in init/initramfs.c that is in the .text
> section, and it is marked __weak. When building with clang-12 and
> the integrated assembler, this leads to a bug with recordmcount:
> 
> ./scripts/recordmcount  "init/initramfs.o"
> Cannot find symbol for section 2: .text.
> init/initramfs.o: failed

That looks like recordmcount is being silly?

> I'm not quite sure what exactly goes wrong, but I notice that this
> function is only ever called from an __init function, and normally
> inlined. Marking it __init as well is clearly correct and it
> leads to recordmcount no longer complaining.

That works, too.