From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:41064 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2390410AbgFYHq2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2020 03:46:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:45:30 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/22] kbuild: lto: fix recordmcount Message-ID: <20200625074530.GW4817@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20200624203200.78870-1-samitolvanen@google.com> <20200624203200.78870-5-samitolvanen@google.com> <20200624212737.GV4817@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20200624214530.GA120457@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200624214530.GA120457@google.com> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Sami Tolvanen Cc: Steven Rostedt , Masahiro Yamada , Will Deacon , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Paul E. McKenney" , Kees Cook , Nick Desaulniers , clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 02:45:30PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:27:37PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 01:31:42PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote: > > > With LTO, LLVM bitcode won't be compiled into native code until > > > modpost_link. This change postpones calls to recordmcount until after > > > this step. > > > > > > In order to exclude specific functions from inspection, we add a new > > > code section .text..nomcount, which we tell recordmcount to ignore, and > > > a __nomcount attribute for moving functions to this section. > > > > I'm confused, you only add this to functions in ftrace itself, which is > > compiled with: > > > > KBUILD_CFLAGS = $(subst $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE),,$(ORIG_CFLAGS)) > > > > and so should not have mcount/fentry sites anyway. So what's the point > > of ignoring them further? > > > > This Changelog does not explain. > > Normally, recordmcount ignores each ftrace.o file, but since we are > running it on vmlinux.o, we need another way to stop it from looking > at references to mcount/fentry that are not calls. Here's a comment > from recordmcount.c: > > /* > * The file kernel/trace/ftrace.o references the mcount > * function but does not call it. Since ftrace.o should > * not be traced anyway, we just skip it. > */ > > But I agree, the commit message could use more defails. Also +Steven > for thoughts about this approach. Ah, is thi because recordmcount isn't smart enough to know the difference between "CALL $mcount" and any other RELA that has mcount? At least for x86_64 I can do a really quick take for a recordmcount pass in objtool, but I suppose you also need this for ARM64 ?