From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ed1-x544.google.com (mail-ed1-x544.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::544]) (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 41LDt25HTMzF1Sn for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2018 18:38:50 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-ed1-x544.google.com with SMTP id g12-v6so3452860edi.9 for ; Wed, 04 Jul 2018 01:38:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Ard Biesheuvel To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ard Biesheuvel , Arnd Bergmann , Kees Cook , Will Deacon , Michael Ellerman , Thomas Garnier , Thomas Gleixner , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Bjorn Helgaas , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Russell King , Paul Mackerras , Catalin Marinas , Petr Mladek , Ingo Molnar , James Morris , Andrew Morton , Nicolas Pitre , Josh Poimboeuf , Steven Rostedt , Sergey Senozhatsky , Linus Torvalds , Jessica Yu , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, x86@kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v10 1/6] arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, power and x86 Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 10:36:46 +0200 Message-Id: <20180704083651.24360-2-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <20180704083651.24360-1-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> References: <20180704083651.24360-1-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. Acked-by: Michael Ellerman Reviewed-by: Will Deacon Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 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 1aa59063f1fd..2b8b70820002 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -971,4 +971,14 @@ 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 42c090cf0292..1940c6405d04 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ 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_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index 9f2b75fe2c2d..e4fe19789b8b 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 HAVE_CBPF_JIT if !PPC64 diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index f1dbb4ee19d7..e10a3542db7e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ 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_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK -- 2.17.1