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From: Fangrui Song <i@maskray.me>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>,
	Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Charlie Jenkins <thecharlesjenkins@gmail.com>,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	llvm@lists.linux.dev, Fangrui Song <i@maskray.me>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] riscv/runtime-const: Disable linker relaxation for RUNTIME_MAGIC
Date: Sun,  2 Aug 2026 10:43:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260802174342.597092-1-i@maskray.me> (raw)

Commit ee10b1028129 ("riscv/runtime-const: Replace open-coded
placeholder with RUNTIME_MAGIC") switched the lui + addi[w] placeholder
from hand-encoded immediates to %hi()/%lo() of RUNTIME_MAGIC.

GNU Assembler folds %hi()/%lo() of an absolute expression at assembly
time. LLVM's integrated assembler since 21.1 defers it to the linker
instead, which range checks it: on riscv64 R_RISCV_HI20 must fit a
signed 20-bit field, and RUNTIME_MAGIC (0x89ABCDEF) is a positive 64-bit
value rather than a sign-extended 32-bit one, so it does not:

    ld.lld: error: relocation R_RISCV_HI20 out of range: 563901 is not in
    [-524288, 524287]

The sequence is patched at runtime and its instruction offsets are
recorded via ".long 1b - .", so the linker must not touch it in the
first place. Add ".option norelax", as is already done for
ALTERNATIVE() and static keys; the integrated assembler then resolves
%hi()/%lo() itself and emits no relocation, restoring the exact
encoding the open-coded placeholder produced.

Fixes: ee10b1028129 ("riscv/runtime-const: Replace open-coded placeholder with RUNTIME_MAGIC")
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2179
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <i@maskray.me>
---
Applies to tip/locking/core; the RISC-V tree (riscv/linux.git) does not
carry ee10b1028129.

 arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h
index a472ebbf0971..ce2008bb5227 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 	typeof(sym) __ret;						\
 	asm_inline(".option push\n\t"					\
 		".option norvc\n\t"					\
+		".option norelax\n\t"					\
 		"1:\t"							\
 		"lui	%[__ret], %%hi(" RUNTIME_MAGIC ")\n\t"		\
 		"addi	%[__ret],%[__ret], %%lo(" RUNTIME_MAGIC ")\n\t"	\
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@
 #define RISCV_RUNTIME_CONST_64_PREAMBLE				\
 	".option push\n\t"					\
 	".option norvc\n\t"					\
+	".option norelax\n\t"					\
 	"1:\t"							\
 	"lui	%[__ret], %%hi(" RUNTIME_MAGIC ")\n\t"		\
 	"lui	%[__tmp], %%hi(" RUNTIME_MAGIC ")\n\t"		\

base-commit: 5e601ab3615c86be7c4068ce992f94654693a032
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-02 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-02 17:43 Fangrui Song [this message]
2026-08-03  8:27 ` [PATCH] riscv/runtime-const: Disable linker relaxation for RUNTIME_MAGIC Peter Zijlstra
2026-08-03 16:12 ` Nathan Chancellor

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