Re: [2/2] powerpc/module: Handle R_PPC64_ENTRY relocations

[Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>]

On Tue, 2016-12-01 at 12:14:23 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> From: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com>
> 
> GCC 6 will include changes to generated code with -mcmodel=large,
> which is used to build kernel modules on powerpc64le.  This was
> necessary because the large model is supposed to allow arbitrary
> sizes and locations of the code and data sections, but the ELFv2
> global entry point prolog still made the unconditional assumption
> that the TOC associated with any particular function can be found
> within 2 GB of the function entry point:
> 
> func:
> 	addis r2,r12,(.TOC.-func)@ha
> 	addi  r2,r2,(.TOC.-func)@l
> 	.localentry func, .-func
> 
> To remove this assumption, GCC will now generate instead this global
> entry point prolog sequence when using -mcmodel=large:
> 
> 	.quad .TOC.-func
> func:
> 	.reloc ., R_PPC64_ENTRY
> 	ld    r2, -8(r12)
> 	add   r2, r2, r12
> 	.localentry func, .-func
> 
> The new .reloc triggers an optimization in the linker that will
> replace this new prolog with the original code (see above) if the
> linker determines that the distance between .TOC. and func is in
> range after all.
> 
> Since this new relocation is now present in module object files,
> the kernel module loader is required to handle them too.  This
> patch adds support for the new relocation and implements the
> same optimization done by the GNU linker.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

Applied to powerpc next.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/a61674bdfc7c2bf909c4010699

cheers