Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] percpu/x86: Enable strict percpu checks via named AS qualifiers

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>]

On 27. 01. 25, 17:05, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> This patch declares percpu variables in __seg_gs/__seg_fs named AS
> and keeps them named AS qualified until they are dereferenced with
> percpu accessor. This approach enables various compiler check
> for cross-namespace variable assignments.

So this causes modpost to fail to version some symbols:

> WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "xen_vcpu_id" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
> Is "xen_vcpu_id" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
> WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "irq_stat" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
> Is "irq_stat" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
> WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "fred_rsp0" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
> Is "fred_rsp0" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
> WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "cpu_dr7" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
> Is "cpu_dr7" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
> WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "cpu_tss_rw" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
> Is "cpu_tss_rw" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
> WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "__tss_limit_invalid" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
> Is "__tss_limit_invalid" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
> WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "irq_fpu_usable" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
> Is "irq_fpu_usable" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
> WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "cpu_info" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
> Is "cpu_info" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
> WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "gdt_page" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
> Is "gdt_page" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
 > ...

That happens both with 6.15-rc1 and today's -next. Ideas?

Config:
https://github.com/SUSE/kernel-source/blob/master/config/x86_64/default

It is enough to:
   make CC='ccache gcc-14' O=../our -j160 vmlinux
to see the above.

> Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> ---
>   arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h | 15 ++++++++++++---
>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
> index 27f668660abe..474d648bca9a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
> @@ -95,9 +95,18 @@
>   
>   #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
>   
> -#define __my_cpu_type(var)	typeof(var) __percpu_seg_override
> -#define __my_cpu_ptr(ptr)	(__my_cpu_type(*(ptr))*)(__force uintptr_t)(ptr)
> -#define __my_cpu_var(var)	(*__my_cpu_ptr(&(var)))
> +#if defined(CONFIG_USE_X86_SEG_SUPPORT) && defined(USE_TYPEOF_UNQUAL)
> +# define __my_cpu_type(var)	typeof(var)
> +# define __my_cpu_ptr(ptr)	(ptr)
> +# define __my_cpu_var(var)	(var)
> +
> +# define __percpu_qual		__percpu_seg_override
> +#else
> +# define __my_cpu_type(var)	typeof(var) __percpu_seg_override
> +# define __my_cpu_ptr(ptr)	(__my_cpu_type(*(ptr))*)(__force uintptr_t)(ptr)
> +# define __my_cpu_var(var)	(*__my_cpu_ptr(&(var)))
> +#endif
> +
>   #define __percpu_arg(x)		__percpu_prefix "%" #x
>   #define __force_percpu_arg(x)	__force_percpu_prefix "%" #x

thanks,
-- 
js
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