From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, "H.J. Lu" , Andy Shevchenko , Eric Biederman , "H. Peter Anvin" , Juergen Gross , Kees Cook , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Subject: [PATCH 4.4 36/43] x86/build/64: Force the linker to use 2MB page size Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:27:40 +0200 Message-Id: <20180327162718.436018102@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180327162716.407986916@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180327162716.407986916@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: H.J. Lu commit e3d03598e8ae7d195af5d3d049596dec336f569f upstream. Binutils 2.31 will enable -z separate-code by default for x86 to avoid mixing code pages with data to improve cache performance as well as security. To reduce x86-64 executable and shared object sizes, the maximum page size is reduced from 2MB to 4KB. But x86-64 kernel must be aligned to 2MB. Pass -z max-page-size=0x200000 to linker to force 2MB page size regardless of the default page size used by linker. Tested with Linux kernel 4.15.6 on x86-64. Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu Cc: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMe9rOp4_%3D_8twdpTyAP2DhONOCeaTOsniJLoppzhoNptL8xzA@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/Makefile | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile @@ -179,6 +179,15 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) LDFLAGS := -m elf_$(UTS_MACHINE) +# +# The 64-bit kernel must be aligned to 2MB. Pass -z max-page-size=0x200000 to +# the linker to force 2MB page size regardless of the default page size used +# by the linker. +# +ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 +LDFLAGS += $(call ld-option, -z max-page-size=0x200000) +endif + # Speed up the build KBUILD_CFLAGS += -pipe # Workaround for a gcc prelease that unfortunately was shipped in a suse release