1. 23 11月, 2008 2 次提交
  2. 08 11月, 2008 1 次提交
  3. 23 10月, 2008 2 次提交
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      ftrace: remove warning of old objcopy and local functions · d53475b5
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      The warning messages about old objcopy and local functions spam the
      user quite drastically.  Remove the warning until we can find a nicer
      way of tell the user to upgrade their objcopy.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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      ftrace: objcopy version test for local symbols · f2f8458e
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      The --globalize-symbols option came out in objcopy version 2.17.
      If the kernel is being compiled on a system with a lower version of
      objcopy, then we can not use the globalize / localize trick to
      link to symbols pointing to local functions.
      
      This patch tests the version of objcopy and will only use the trick
      if the version is greater than or equal to 2.17. Otherwise, if an
      object has only local functions within a section, it will give a
      nice warning and recommend the user to upgrade their objcopy.
      
      Leaving the symbols unrecorded is not that big of a deal, since the
      mcount record method changes the actual mcount code to be a simple
      "ret" without recording registers or anything.
      Reported-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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      ftrace: handle weak symbol functions · 8feff1ca
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      During tests and checks, I've discovered that there were failures to
      convert mcount callers into nops. Looking deeper into these failures,
      code that was attempted to be changed was not an mcount caller.
      The current code only updates if the code being changed is what it expects,
      but I still investigate any time there is a failure.
      
      What was happening is that a weak symbol was being used as a reference
      for other mcount callers. That weak symbol was also referenced elsewhere
      so the offsets were using the strong symbol and not the function symbol
      that it was referenced from.
      
      This patch changes the setting up of the mcount_loc section to search
      for a global function that is not weak. It will pick a local over a weak
      but if only a weak is found in a section, a warning is printed and the
      mcount location is not recorded (just to be safe).
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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      ftrace: update recordmount.pl arch changes · d74fcd1e
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      I'm trying to keep all the arch changes in recordmcount.pl in one place.
      I moved your code into that area, by adding the flags to the commands
      that were passed in.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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      ftrace: scripts/recordmcount.pl cross-build hack · 3989cce8
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      hack around:
      
       ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf32-i386 (init/.tmp_gl_calibrate.o) to format elf64-x86-64 (init/.tmp_mx_calibrate.o) i  CC      arch/x86/mm/extable.o
       objcopy: 'init/.tmp_mx_calibrate.o': No such file
       rm: cannot remove `init/.tmp_mx_calibrate.o': No such file or directory
       ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf32-i386 (arch/x86/mm/extable.o) to format elf64-x86-64 (arch/x86/mm/.tmp_mx_extable.o) is not supported
       mv: cannot stat `arch/x86/mm/.tmp_mx_extable.o': No such file or directory
       ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf32-i386 (arch/x86/mm/fault.o) to format elf64-x86-64 (arch/x86/mm/.tmp_mx_fault.o) is not supported
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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      ftrace: create __mcount_loc section · 8da3821b
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      This patch creates a section in the kernel called "__mcount_loc".
      This will hold a list of pointers to the mcount relocation for
      each call site of mcount.
      
      For example:
      
      objdump -dr init/main.o
      [...]
      Disassembly of section .text:
      
      0000000000000000 <do_one_initcall>:
         0:   55                      push   %rbp
      [...]
      000000000000017b <init_post>:
       17b:   55                      push   %rbp
       17c:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
       17f:   53                      push   %rbx
       180:   48 83 ec 08             sub    $0x8,%rsp
       184:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  189 <init_post+0xe>
                              185: R_X86_64_PC32      mcount+0xfffffffffffffffc
      [...]
      
      We will add a section to point to each function call.
      
         .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
      [...]
         .quad .text + 0x185
      [...]
      
      The offset to of the mcount call site in init_post is an offset from
      the start of the section, and not the start of the function init_post.
      The mcount relocation is at the call site 0x185 from the start of the
      .text section.
      
        .text + 0x185  == init_post + 0xa
      
      We need a way to add this __mcount_loc section in a way that we do not
      lose the relocations after final link.  The .text section here will
      be attached to all other .text sections after final link and the
      offsets will be meaningless.  We need to keep track of where these
      .text sections are.
      
      To do this, we use the start of the first function in the section.
      do_one_initcall.  We can make a tmp.s file with this function as a reference
      to the start of the .text section.
      
         .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
      [...]
         .quad do_one_initcall + 0x185
      [...]
      
      Then we can compile the tmp.s into a tmp.o
      
        gcc -c tmp.s -o tmp.o
      
      And link it into back into main.o.
      
        ld -r main.o tmp.o -o tmp_main.o
        mv tmp_main.o main.o
      
      But we have a problem.  What happens if the first function in a section
      is not exported, and is a static function. The linker will not let
      the tmp.o use it.  This case exists in main.o as well.
      
      Disassembly of section .init.text:
      
      0000000000000000 <set_reset_devices>:
         0:   55                      push   %rbp
         1:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
         4:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  9 <set_reset_devices+0x9>
                              5: R_X86_64_PC32        mcount+0xfffffffffffffffc
      
      The first function in .init.text is a static function.
      
      00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
      000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
      0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices
      
      The lowercase 't' means that set_reset_devices is local and is not exported.
      If we simply try to link the tmp.o with the set_reset_devices we end
      up with two symbols: one local and one global.
      
       .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
       .quad set_reset_devices + 0x10
      
      00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
      000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
      0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices
                       U set_reset_devices
      
      We still have an undefined reference to set_reset_devices, and if we try
      to compile the kernel, we will end up with an undefined reference to
      set_reset_devices, or even worst, it could be exported someplace else,
      and then we will have a reference to the wrong location.
      
      To handle this case, we make an intermediate step using objcopy.
      We convert set_reset_devices into a global exported symbol before linking
      it with tmp.o and set it back afterwards.
      
      00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
      000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
      0000000000000000 T set_reset_devices
      
      00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
      000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
      0000000000000000 T set_reset_devices
      
      00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
      000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
      0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices
      
      Now we have a section in main.o called __mcount_loc that we can place
      somewhere in the kernel using vmlinux.ld.S and access it to convert
      all these locations that call mcount into nops before starting SMP
      and thus, eliminating the need to do this with kstop_machine.
      
      Note, A well documented perl script (scripts/recordmcount.pl) is used
      to do all this in one location.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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