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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Tamas Zsoldos <tamas.zsoldos@arm.com>
Subject: Re: arm64 vdso might miss .eh_frame
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 08:34:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200428073435.GC4049@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200415092336.GK987@arm.com>

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:23:36AM +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> On aarch64 linux gcc uses -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -funwind-tables
> by default since gcc-8, so now the de facto platform ABI is to allow
> unwinding from async signal handlers.
> 
> However on bare metal targets (aarch64-none-elf), and on old gcc,
> async and sync unwind tables are not enabled by default to avoid
> runtime memory costs.
> 
> This means if linux is built with a baremetal toolchain the vdso.so
> may not have unwind tables which breaks our (undocumented) platform
> ABI guarantee in userspace. So adding -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
> explicitly to the vgettimeofday.o cflags would be nice (the other
> objects in the vdso seem to be asm).
> 
> There was also a report that android clang built linux vdso.so lacks
> .eh_frame completely, that may be a missing --eh-frame-hdr or different
> platform ABI on android, Tamas on cc may be able to verify this.

Vincenzo? Looks like this is a regression caused by the move to C -- please
can you take a look?

Will

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-28  7:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-15  9:23 arm64 vdso might miss .eh_frame Szabolcs Nagy
2020-04-28  7:34 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2020-04-28 10:54   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2020-04-28 11:11     ` Mark Rutland
2020-04-28 11:15       ` Vincenzo Frascino
2020-04-28 11:58         ` Will Deacon
2020-04-28 13:40           ` Vincenzo Frascino

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