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<title>arm64: support __int128 with clang</title>
<updated>2018-04-24T18:07:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
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<published>2017-12-23T00:43:23+00:00</published>
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Commit fb8722735f50 ("arm64: support __int128 on gcc 5+") added support
for arm64 __int128 with gcc with a version-conditional, but neglected to
enable this for clang, which in fact appears to support aarch64 __int128.
This commit therefore enables it if the compiler is clang, using the
same type of makefile conditional used elsewhere in the tree.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64/kernel: don't ban ADRP to work around Cortex-A53 erratum #843419</title>
<updated>2018-03-09T13:21:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2018-03-06T17:15:33+00:00</published>
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Working around Cortex-A53 erratum #843419 involves special handling of
ADRP instructions that end up in the last two instruction slots of a
4k page, or whose output register gets overwritten without having been
read. (Note that the latter instruction sequence is never emitted by
a properly functioning compiler, which is why it is disregarded by the
handling of the same erratum in the bfd.ld linker which we rely on for
the core kernel)

Normally, this gets taken care of by the linker, which can spot such
sequences at final link time, and insert a veneer if the ADRP ends up
at a vulnerable offset. However, linux kernel modules are partially
linked ELF objects, and so there is no 'final link time' other than the
runtime loading of the module, at which time all the static relocations
are resolved.

For this reason, we have implemented the #843419 workaround for modules
by avoiding ADRP instructions altogether, by using the large C model,
and by passing -mpc-relative-literal-loads to recent versions of GCC
that may emit adrp/ldr pairs to perform literal loads. However, this
workaround forces us to keep literal data mixed with the instructions
in the executable .text segment, and literal data may inadvertently
turn into an exploitable speculative gadget depending on the relative
offsets of arbitrary symbols.

So let's reimplement this workaround in a way that allows us to switch
back to the small C model, and to drop the -mpc-relative-literal-loads
GCC switch, by patching affected ADRP instructions at runtime:
- ADRP instructions that do not appear at 4k relative offset 0xff8 or
  0xffc are ignored
- ADRP instructions that are within 1 MB of their target symbol are
  converted into ADR instructions
- remaining ADRP instructions are redirected via a veneer that performs
  the load using an unaffected movn/movk sequence.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
[will: tidied up ADRP -&gt; ADR instruction patching.]
[will: use ULL suffix for 64-bit immediate]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>kasan, arm64: clean up KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT usage</title>
<updated>2018-03-06T18:52:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
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<published>2018-03-01T17:07:12+00:00</published>
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This is a follow up patch to the series I sent recently that cleans up
KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT usage (which value was hardcoded and scattered
all over the code). This fixes the one place that I forgot to fix.

The change is purely aesthetical, instead of hardcoding the value for
KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT in arch/arm64/Makefile, an appropriate variable
is declared and used.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: ftrace: emit ftrace-mod.o contents through code</title>
<updated>2017-12-01T13:04:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2017-11-20T17:41:30+00:00</published>
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When building the arm64 kernel with both CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS and
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE enabled, the ftrace-mod.o object file is built
with the kernel and contains a trampoline that is linked into each
module, so that modules can be loaded far away from the kernel and
still reach the ftrace entry point in the core kernel with an ordinary
relative branch, as is emitted by the compiler instrumentation code
dynamic ftrace relies on.

In order to be able to build out of tree modules, this object file
needs to be included into the linux-headers or linux-devel packages,
which is undesirable, as it makes arm64 a special case (although a
precedent does exist for 32-bit PPC).

Given that the trampoline essentially consists of a PLT entry, let's
not bother with a source or object file for it, and simply patch it
in whenever the trampoline is being populated, using the existing
PLT support routines.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: support __int128 on gcc 5+</title>
<updated>2017-11-03T15:24:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-03T14:18:58+00:00</published>
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Versions of gcc prior to gcc 5 emitted a __multi3 function call when
dealing with TI types, resulting in failures when trying to link to
libgcc, and more generally, bad performance. However, since gcc 5,
the compiler supports actually emitting fast instructions, which means
we can at long last enable this option and receive the speedups.

The gcc commit that added proper Aarch64 support is:
https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=d1ae7bb994f49316f6f63e6173f2931e837a351d
This commit appears to be part of the gcc 5 release.

There are still a few instructions, __ashlti3 and __ashrti3, which
require libgcc, which is fine. Rather than linking to libgcc, we
simply provide them ourselves, since they're not that complicated.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: prevent regressions in compressed kernel image size when upgrading to binutils 2.27</title>
<updated>2017-10-30T13:45:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
<email>ndesaulniers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-27T16:33:41+00:00</published>
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Upon upgrading to binutils 2.27, we found that our lz4 and gzip
compressed kernel images were significantly larger, resulting is 10ms
boot time regressions.

As noted by Rahul:
"aarch64 binaries uses RELA relocations, where each relocation entry
includes an addend value. This is similar to x86_64.  On x86_64, the
addend values are also stored at the relocation offset for relative
relocations. This is an optimization: in the case where code does not
need to be relocated, the loader can simply skip processing relative
relocations.  In binutils-2.25, both bfd and gold linkers did this for
x86_64, but only the gold linker did this for aarch64.  The kernel build
here is using the bfd linker, which stored zeroes at the relocation
offsets for relative relocations.  Since a set of zeroes compresses
better than a set of non-zero addend values, this behavior was resulting
in much better lz4 compression.

The bfd linker in binutils-2.27 is now storing the actual addend values
at the relocation offsets. The behavior is now consistent with what it
does for x86_64 and what gold linker does for both architectures.  The
change happened in this upstream commit:
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=1f56df9d0d5ad89806c24e71f296576d82344613
Since a bunch of zeroes got replaced by non-zero addend values, we see
the side effect of lz4 compressed image being a bit bigger.

To get the old behavior from the bfd linker, "--no-apply-dynamic-relocs"
flag can be used:
$ LDFLAGS="--no-apply-dynamic-relocs" make
With this flag, the compressed image size is back to what it was with
binutils-2.25.

If the kernel is using ASLR, there aren't additional runtime costs to
--no-apply-dynamic-relocs, as the relocations will need to be applied
again anyway after the kernel is relocated to a random address.

If the kernel is not using ASLR, then presumably the current default
behavior of the linker is better. Since the static linker performed the
dynamic relocs, and the kernel is not moved to a different address at
load time, it can skip applying the relocations all over again."

Some measurements:

$ ld -v
GNU ld (binutils-2.25-f3d35cf6) 2.25.51.20141117
                    ^
$ ls -l vmlinux
-rwxr-x--- 1 ndesaulniers eng 300652760 Oct 26 11:57 vmlinux
$ ls -l Image.lz4-dtb
-rw-r----- 1 ndesaulniers eng 16932627 Oct 26 11:57 Image.lz4-dtb

$ ld -v
GNU ld (binutils-2.27-53dd00a1) 2.27.0.20170315
                    ^
pre patch:
$ ls -l vmlinux
-rwxr-x--- 1 ndesaulniers eng 300376208 Oct 26 11:43 vmlinux
$ ls -l Image.lz4-dtb
-rw-r----- 1 ndesaulniers eng 18159474 Oct 26 11:43 Image.lz4-dtb

post patch:
$ ls -l vmlinux
-rwxr-x--- 1 ndesaulniers eng 300376208 Oct 26 12:06 vmlinux
$ ls -l Image.lz4-dtb
-rw-r----- 1 ndesaulniers eng 16932466 Oct 26 12:06 Image.lz4-dtb

By Siqi's measurement w/ gzip:
binutils 2.27 with this patch (with --no-apply-dynamic-relocs):
Image 41535488
Image.gz 13404067

binutils 2.27 without this patch (without --no-apply-dynamic-relocs):
Image 41535488
Image.gz 14125516

Any compression scheme should be able to get better results from the
longer runs of zeros, not just GZIP and LZ4.

10ms boot time savings isn't anything to get excited about, but users of
arm64+compression+bfd-2.27 should not have to pay a penalty for no
runtime improvement.

Reported-by: Gopinath Elanchezhian &lt;gelanchezhian@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sindhuri Pentyala &lt;spentyala@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Wei Wang &lt;wvw@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Rahul Chaudhry &lt;rahulchaudhry@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Siqi Lin &lt;siqilin@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Stephen Hines &lt;srhines@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
[will: added comment to Makefile]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: ensure the kernel is compiled for LP64</title>
<updated>2017-09-18T10:20:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Pinski</name>
<email>apinski@cavium.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-18T10:20:20+00:00</published>
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The kernel needs to be compiled as a LP64 binary for ARM64, even when
using a compiler that defaults to code-generation for the ILP32 ABI.
Consequently, we need to explicitly pass '-mabi=lp64' (supported on
gcc-4.9 and newer).

Signed-off-by: Andrew Pinski &lt;Andrew.Pinski@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Philipp Tomsich &lt;philipp.tomsich@theobroma-systems.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Muellner &lt;christoph.muellner@theobroma-systems.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov &lt;ynorov@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Daney &lt;ddaney@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: pass endianness info to sparse</title>
<updated>2017-06-26T09:15:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luc Van Oostenryck</name>
<email>luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-24T15:42:11+00:00</published>
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ARM64 depends on the macro __AARCH64EB__ being defined or not
to correctly select or define endian-specific macros, structures
or pieces of code.

This macro is predefined by the compiler but sparse knows nothing
about it and thus may pre-process files differently from what
gcc would.

Fix this by passing '-D__AARCH64EL__' or '-D__AARCH64EB__' to
sparse depending of the endianness of the kernel, like defined
by GCC.

Note: In most case it won't change anything since most arm64 use
      little-endian (but an allyesconfig would use big-endian!).

CC: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
CC: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
CC: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck &lt;luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: pass machine size to sparse</title>
<updated>2017-06-20T15:47:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luc Van Oostenryck</name>
<email>luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-20T12:24:43+00:00</published>
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When using sparse on the arm64 tree we get many thousands of
warnings like 'constant ... is so big it is unsigned long long'
or 'shift too big (32) for type unsigned long'. This happens
because by default sparse considers the machine as 32bit and
defines the size of the types accordingly.

Fix this by passing the '-m64' flag to sparse so that
sparse can correctly define longs as being 64bit.

CC: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
CC: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
CC: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck &lt;luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</content>
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<title>arm64: ftrace: add support for far branches to dynamic ftrace</title>
<updated>2017-06-07T10:52:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-06T17:00:22+00:00</published>
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Currently, dynamic ftrace support in the arm64 kernel assumes that all
core kernel code is within range of ordinary branch instructions that
occur in module code, which is usually the case, but is no longer
guaranteed now that we have support for module PLTs and address space
randomization.

Since on arm64, all patching of branch instructions involves function
calls to the same entry point [ftrace_caller()], we can emit the modules
with a trampoline that has unlimited range, and patch both the trampoline
itself and the branch instruction to redirect the call via the trampoline.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
[will: minor clarification to smp_wmb() comment]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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