From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wr0-x244.google.com (mail-wr0-x244.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c0c::244]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3zB4nm4457zF0PK for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2018 07:06:20 +1100 (AEDT) Received: by mail-wr0-x244.google.com with SMTP id 36so16288767wrh.1 for ; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 12:06:20 -0800 (PST) From: Ard Biesheuvel To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ard Biesheuvel , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ralf Baechle , Arnd Bergmann , Heiko Carstens , Kees Cook , Will Deacon , Michael Ellerman , Thomas Garnier , Thomas Gleixner , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Bjorn Helgaas , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Russell King , Paul Mackerras , Catalin Marinas , "David S. Miller" , Petr Mladek , Ingo Molnar , James Morris , Andrew Morton , Nicolas Pitre , Josh Poimboeuf , Steven Rostedt , Martin Schwidefsky , Sergey Senozhatsky , Linus Torvalds , Jessica Yu , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v7 01/10] arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, power and x86 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 20:05:40 +0000 Message-Id: <20180102200549.22984-2-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <20180102200549.22984-1-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> References: <20180102200549.22984-1-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Before updating certain subsystems to use place relative 32-bit relocations in special sections, to save space and reduce the number of absolute relocations that need to be processed at runtime by relocatable kernels, introduce the Kconfig symbol and define it for some architectures that should be able to support and benefit from it. Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: x86@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel --- arch/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++ arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 + arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 + arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 400b9e1b2f27..dbc036a7bd1b 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -959,4 +959,14 @@ config REFCOUNT_FULL against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in security flaw exploits. +config HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS + bool + help + May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative + 32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader, + in which case relative references can be used in special sections + for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit + architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable + kernels. + source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig index c9a7e9e1414f..66c7b9ab2a3d 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ config ARM64 select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS if COMPAT + select HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index c51e6ce42e7a..e172478e2ae7 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig @@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ config PPC select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS if COMPAT + select HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX if ((PPC_BOOK3S_64 || PPC32) && !RELOCATABLE && !HIBERNATION) diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index d4fc98c50378..9f2bb853aedb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ config X86 select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS if MMU select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS if MMU && COMPAT select HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES if MMU && COMPAT + select HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE -- 2.11.0