Re: [PATCH v6 3/7] Adjust symbol ordering in text output section

Klara Modin
2024-11-09T15:39:08Z

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Hi,

On 2024-10-26 07:14, Rong Xu wrote:
> When the -ffunction-sections compiler option is enabled, each function
> is placed in a separate section named .text.function_name rather than
> putting all functions in a single .text section.
>
> However, using -function-sections can cause problems with the
> linker script. The comments included in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> note these issues.:
> “TEXT_MAIN here will match .text.fixup and .text.unlikely if dead
> code elimination is enabled, so these sections should be converted
> to use ".." first.”
>
> It is unclear whether there is a straightforward method for converting
> a suffix to "..".
>
> This patch modifies the order of subsections within the text output
> section. Specifically, it repositions sections with certain fixed patterns
> (for example .text.unlikely) before TEXT_MAIN, ensuring that they are
> grouped and matched together. It also places .text.hot section at the
> beginning of a page to help the TLB performance.
>
> Note that the limitation arises because the linker script employs glob
> patterns instead of regular expressions for string matching. While there
> is a method to maintain the current order using complex patterns, this
> significantly complicates the pattern and increases the likelihood of
> errors.
>
> This patch also changes vmlinux.lds.S for the sparc64 architecture to
> accommodate specific symbol placement requirements.

With this patch (622240ea8d71a75055399fd4b3cc2b190e44d2e2 in
next-20241108) my Edgerouter 6P hangs on boot (Cavium Octeon III,
mips64, running in big endian). It's using device tree passed from the
vendored u-boot (attached in case it's relevant).

Disabling dead code elimination does not fix the issue.

Please let me know if there's anything else you need.

Regards,
Klara Modin

>
> Co-developed-by: Han Shen <shenhan@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Han Shen <shenhan@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rong Xu <xur@google.com>
> Suggested-by: Sriraman Tallam <tmsriram@google.com>
> Suggested-by: Krzysztof Pszeniczny <kpszeniczny@google.com>
> Tested-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
> Tested-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc@google.com>
> Change-Id: I5202d40bc7e24f93c2bfb2f0d987e9dc57dec1b1
> ---
> arch/sparc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 +++++
> include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 19 ++++++++++++-------
> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/sparc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> index d317a843f7ea9..f1b86eb303404 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ SECTIONS
> {
> _text = .;
> HEAD_TEXT
> + ALIGN_FUNCTION();
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARC64
> + /* Match text section symbols in head_64.S first */
> + *head_64.o(.text)
> +#endif
> TEXT_TEXT
> SCHED_TEXT
> LOCK_TEXT
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> index eeadbaeccf88b..fd901951549c0 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> @@ -553,19 +553,24 @@
> * .text section. Map to function alignment to avoid address changes
> * during second ld run in second ld pass when generating System.map
> *
> - * TEXT_MAIN here will match .text.fixup and .text.unlikely if dead
> - * code elimination is enabled, so these sections should be converted
> - * to use ".." first.
> + * TEXT_MAIN here will match symbols with a fixed pattern (for example,
> + * .text.hot or .text.unlikely) if dead code elimination or
> + * function-section is enabled. Match these symbols first before
> + * TEXT_MAIN to ensure they are grouped together.
> + *
> + * Also placing .text.hot section at the beginning of a page, this
> + * would help the TLB performance.
> */
> #define TEXT_TEXT \
> ALIGN_FUNCTION(); \
> + *(.text.asan.* .text.tsan.*) \
> + *(.text.unknown .text.unknown.*) \
> + *(.text.unlikely .text.unlikely.*) \
> + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \
> *(.text.hot .text.hot.*) \
> *(TEXT_MAIN .text.fixup) \
> - *(.text.unlikely .text.unlikely.*) \
> - *(.text.unknown .text.unknown.*) \
> NOINSTR_TEXT \
> - *(.ref.text) \
> - *(.text.asan.* .text.tsan.*)
> + *(.ref.text)
>
>
> /* sched.text is aling to function alignment to secure we have same

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