From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: "Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
"Julien Grall" <julien@xen.org>,
"Stefano Stabellini" <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
"Anthony PERARD" <anthony.perard@vates.tech>,
"Michal Orzel" <michal.orzel@amd.com>,
"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC] symbols: check table sizes don't change between linking passes 2 and 3
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:46:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a8bbf67-90f6-4114-9951-099ee72d6021@suse.com> (raw)
While sizes (and possibly positions) of the symbol table related symbols
(and as a result other ones) are expected to change from linking pass 1
to pass 2, no such change should happen anymore from pass 2 to pass 3, or
else the internally recorded symbol table wouldn't represent the ELF or
PE/COFF ones.
For comparing to be actually useful, i.e. most notably also covering the
last of the arrays emitted, symbol sizes need establishing. Make use of
the xen/linkage.h machinery to achieve that.
Suggested-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
---
Likely other ports also want to add such checking. Really it would be nice
if we could properly abstract out shared parts of the linking steps.
RFC: Aiui this can't go in as is right now, or we would break building Xen
with lld. Further changes are first needed to help the situation
there.
RFC: I'm all ears towards improvement suggestions in the temporary helper
file handling of compare-symbol-tables. Or ideally some approach to
avoid the use of a helper file altogether.
--- a/xen/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ $(TARGET)-syms: $(objtree)/prelink.o $(o
| $(objtree)/tools/symbols $(all_symbols) --sysv --sort $(syms-warn-dup-y) \
> $(dot-target).1.S
$(MAKE) $(build)=$(@D) $(dot-target).1.o
+ $(call compare-symbol-tables, $(dot-target).0.o, $(dot-target).1.o)
$(LD) $(XEN_LDFLAGS) -T $(obj)/xen.lds $< $(build_id_linker) \
$(orphan-handling-y) $(dot-target).1.o -o $@
$(NM) -pa --format=sysv $@ \
@@ -226,6 +227,8 @@ endif
| $(objtree)/tools/symbols $(all_symbols) --sysv --sort \
> $(dot-target).1s.S
$(MAKE) $(build)=$(@D) .$(@F).1r.o .$(@F).1s.o
+ $(call compare-symbol-tables, $(dot-target).0r.o, $(dot-target).1r.o)
+ $(call compare-symbol-tables, $(dot-target).0s.o, $(dot-target).1s.o)
$(LD) $(call EFI_LDFLAGS,$(VIRT_BASE)) -T $(obj)/efi.lds $< \
$(dot-target).1r.o $(dot-target).1s.o $(orphan-handling-y) \
$(note_file_option) -o $@
--- a/xen/scripts/Kbuild.include
+++ b/xen/scripts/Kbuild.include
@@ -56,6 +56,19 @@ define filechk
fi
endef
+###
+# Compare the symbol tables of two object files. As diff's -I option isn't
+# standardized, the name difference of the two object files needs abstracting
+# out.
+define compare-symbol-tables
+ ln -f $(1) $(@D)/.cst.$$$$; \
+ $(OBJDUMP) -t $(@D)/.cst.$$$$ > $(1).sym; \
+ ln -f $(1) $(@D)/.cst.$$$$; \
+ $(OBJDUMP) -t $(@D)/.cst.$$$$ > $(2).sym; \
+ rm -f $(@D)/.cst.$$$$
+ diff -u $(1).sym $(2).sym
+endef
+
# as-insn: Check whether assembler supports an instruction.
# Usage: cflags-y += $(call as-insn,CC FLAGS,"insn",option-yes,option-no)
as-insn = $(if $(shell echo 'void _(void) { asm volatile ( $(2) ); }' \
--- a/xen/tools/symbols.c
+++ b/xen/tools/symbols.c
@@ -253,17 +253,26 @@ static void read_map(FILE *in)
}
}
-static void output_label(char *label)
+static void output_label(const char *label, bool keep)
{
- if (symbol_prefix_char)
- printf(".globl %c%s\n", symbol_prefix_char, label);
- else
- printf(".globl %s\n", label);
- printf("\tALGN\n");
- if (symbol_prefix_char)
- printf("%c%s:\n", symbol_prefix_char, label);
- else
- printf("%s:\n", label);
+ static bool pending;
+
+ if (pending && !keep) {
+ printf("END(CURRENT)\n");
+ printf("#undef CURRENT\n\n");
+ }
+
+ pending = label;
+ if (!label)
+ return;
+
+ if (symbol_prefix_char) {
+ printf("DATA(%c%s, ALGN)\n", symbol_prefix_char, label);
+ printf("#define CURRENT %c%s\n", symbol_prefix_char, label);
+ } else {
+ printf("DATA(%s, ALGN)\n", label);
+ printf("#define CURRENT %s\n", label);
+ }
}
/* uncompress a compressed symbol. When this function is called, the best table
@@ -331,22 +340,22 @@ static void write_src(void)
return;
}
- printf("#include <xen/config.h>\n");
+ printf("#include <xen/linkage.h>\n");
printf("#if BITS_PER_LONG == 64 && !defined(SYMBOLS_ORIGIN)\n");
printf("#define PTR .quad\n");
- printf("#define ALGN .balign 8\n");
+ printf("#define ALGN 8\n");
printf("#else\n");
printf("#define PTR .long\n");
- printf("#define ALGN .balign 4\n");
+ printf("#define ALGN 4\n");
printf("#endif\n");
printf("\t.section .rodata, \"a\"\n");
printf("#ifndef SYMBOLS_ORIGIN\n");
printf("#define SYMBOLS_ORIGIN 0\n");
- output_label("symbols_addresses");
+ output_label("symbols_addresses", false);
printf("#else\n");
- output_label("symbols_offsets");
+ output_label("symbols_offsets", true);
printf("#endif\n");
for (i = 0, ends = 0; i < table_cnt; i++) {
printf("\tPTR\t%#llx - SYMBOLS_ORIGIN\n", table[i].addr);
@@ -370,17 +379,15 @@ static void write_src(void)
printf("\tPTR\t%#llx - SYMBOLS_ORIGIN\n",
table[i].addr + table[i].size);
}
- printf("\n");
- output_label("symbols_num_addrs");
+ output_label("symbols_num_addrs", false);
printf("\t.long\t%d\n", table_cnt + ends);
- printf("\n");
/* table of offset markers, that give the offset in the compressed stream
* every 256 symbols */
markers = malloc(sizeof(*markers) * ((table_cnt + ends + 255) >> 8));
- output_label("symbols_names");
+ output_label("symbols_names", false);
for (i = 0, off = 0, ends = 0; i < table_cnt; i++) {
if (((i + ends) & 0xFF) == 0)
markers[(i + ends) >> 8] = off;
@@ -404,15 +411,12 @@ static void write_src(void)
printf("\t.byte 0\n");
++off;
}
- printf("\n");
- output_label("symbols_markers");
+ output_label("symbols_markers", false);
for (i = 0; i < ((table_cnt + ends + 255) >> 8); i++)
printf("\t.long\t%d\n", markers[i]);
- printf("\n");
-
- output_label("symbols_token_table");
+ output_label("symbols_token_table", false);
off = 0;
for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
best_idx[i] = off;
@@ -420,34 +424,27 @@ static void write_src(void)
printf("\t.asciz\t\"%s\"\n", buf);
off += strlen(buf) + 1;
}
- printf("\n");
- output_label("symbols_token_index");
+ output_label("symbols_token_index", false);
for (i = 0; i < 256; i++)
printf("\t.short\t%d\n", best_idx[i]);
- printf("\n");
- if (!sort_by_name) {
- free(markers);
- return;
- }
-
- output_label("symbols_num_names");
- printf("\t.long\t%d\n", table_cnt);
- printf("\n");
-
- /* Sorted by original symbol names and type. */
- qsort(table, table_cnt, sizeof(*table), compare_name_orig);
-
- output_label("symbols_sorted_offsets");
- /* A fixed sized array with two entries: offset in the
- * compressed stream (for symbol name), and offset in
- * symbols_addresses (or symbols_offset). */
- for (i = 0; i < table_cnt; i++) {
- printf("\t.long %u, %u\n", table[i].stream_offset, table[i].addr_idx);
+ if (sort_by_name) {
+ output_label("symbols_num_names", false);
+ printf("\t.long\t%d\n", table_cnt);
+
+ /* Sorted by original symbol names and type. */
+ qsort(table, table_cnt, sizeof(*table), compare_name_orig);
+
+ /* A fixed sized array with two entries: offset in the
+ * compressed stream (for symbol name), and offset in
+ * symbols_addresses (or symbols_offset). */
+ output_label("symbols_sorted_offsets", false);
+ for (i = 0; i < table_cnt; i++)
+ printf("\t.long %u, %u\n", table[i].stream_offset, table[i].addr_idx);
}
- printf("\n");
+ output_label(NULL, false);
free(markers);
}
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