kernel/linux.git/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh, branch v6.18.21

kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o

2025-09-24T16:10:45+00:00

Since .vmlinux.export.c is used to add generated by modpost modaliases for builtin modules the .vmlinux.export.o is no longer optional and should always be created. The generation of this file is not dependent on CONFIG_MODULES. Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0e63a9c7741fe8217e4fd7c60afcf057ffa2ef5a.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2025-04-05T22:46:50+00:00

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Improve performance in gendwarfksyms - Remove deprecated EXTRA_*FLAGS and KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS - Support CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL for ARCH=um - Use more relative paths to sources files for better reproducibility - Support the loong64 Debian architecture - Add Kbuild bash completion - Introduce intermediate vmlinux.unstripped for architectures that need static relocations to be stripped from the final vmlinux - Fix versioning in Debian packages for -rc releases - Treat missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() as an error - Convert Nios2 Makefiles to use the generic rule for built-in DTB - Add debuginfo support to the RPM package * tag 'kbuild-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (40 commits) kbuild: rpm-pkg: build a debuginfo RPM kconfig: merge_config: use an empty file as initfile nios2: migrate to the generic rule for built-in DTB rust: kbuild: skip `--remap-path-prefix` for `rustdoc` kbuild: pacman-pkg: hardcode module installation path kbuild: deb-pkg: don't set KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION unconditionally modpost: require a MODULE_DESCRIPTION() kbuild: make all file references relative to source root x86: drop unnecessary prefix map configuration kbuild: deb-pkg: add comment about future removal of KDEB_COMPRESS kbuild: Add a help message for "headers" kbuild: deb-pkg: remove "version" variable in mkdebian kbuild: deb-pkg: fix versioning for -rc releases Documentation/kbuild: Fix indentation in modules.rst example x86: Get rid of Makefile.postlink kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved kbuild: Introduce Kconfig symbol for linking vmlinux with relocations kbuild: link-vmlinux.sh: Make output file name configurable kbuild: do not generate .tmp_vmlinux*.map when CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP=y Revert "kheaders: Ignore silly-rename files" ...

Merge tag 'trace-sorttable-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

2025-03-27T22:44:34+00:00

Pull tracing / sorttable updates from Steven Rostedt: - Implement arm64 build time sorting of the mcount location table When gcc is used to build arm64, the mcount_loc section is all zeros in the vmlinux elf file. The addresses are stored in the Elf_Rela location. To sort at build time, an array is allocated and the addresses are added to it via the content of the mcount_loc section as well as he Elf_Rela data. After sorting, the information is put back into the Elf_Rela which now has the section sorted. - Make sorting of mcount location table for arm64 work with clang as well When clang is used, the mcount_loc section contains the addresses, unlike the gcc build. An array is still created and the sorting works for both methods. - Remove weak functions from the mcount_loc section Have the sorttable code pass in the data of functions defined via 'nm -S' which shows the functions as well as their sizes. Using this information the sorttable code can determine if a function in the mcount_loc section was weak and overridden. If the function is not found, it is set to be zero. On boot, when the mcount_loc section is read and the ftrace table is created, if the address in the mcount_loc is not in the kernel core text then it is removed and not added to the ftrace_filter_functions (the functions that can be attached by ftrace callbacks). - Update and fix the reporting of how much data is used for ftrace functions On boot, a report of how many pages were used by the ftrace table as well as how they were grouped (the table holds a list of sections that are groups of pages that were able to be allocated). The removing of the weak functions required the accounting to be updated. * tag 'trace-sorttable-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: scripts/sorttable: Allow matches to functions before function entry scripts/sorttable: Use normal sort if theres no relocs in the mcount section ftrace: Check against is_kernel_text() instead of kaslr_offset() ftrace: Test mcount_loc addr before calling ftrace_call_addr() ftrace: Have ftrace pages output reflect freed pages ftrace: Update the mcount_loc check of skipped entries scripts/sorttable: Zero out weak functions in mcount_loc table scripts/sorttable: Always use an array for the mcount_loc sorting scripts/sorttable: Have mcount rela sort use direct values arm64: scripts/sorttable: Implement sorting mcount_loc at boot for arm64

kbuild: link-vmlinux.sh: Make output file name configurable

2025-03-16T15:29:45+00:00

In order to introduce an intermediate, non-stripped vmlinux build that can be used by other build steps as an input, pass the output file name to link-vmlinux.sh via its command line. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: do not generate .tmp_vmlinux*.map when CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP=y

2025-03-15T12:22:52+00:00

Commit 5cc124720461 ("kbuild: add CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP expert option") mentioned that "the .map file can be rather large (several MB), and that's a waste of space when one isn't interested in these things." If that is the case, generating map files for the intermediate tmp_vmlinux* files is also a waste of space. It is unlikely that anyone would be interested in the .tmp_vmlinux*.map files. This commit stops passing the -Map= option when linking the .tmp_vmlinux* intermediates. I also hard-coded the file name 'vmlinux.map' instead of ${output}.map because a later commit will introduce vmlinux.unstripped but I want to keep the current name of the map file. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel

scripts/sorttable: Zero out weak functions in mcount_loc table

2025-02-18T22:12:03+00:00

When a function is annotated as "weak" and is overridden, the code is not removed. If it is traced, the fentry/mcount location in the weak function will be referenced by the "__mcount_loc" section. This will then be added to the available_filter_functions list. Since only the address of the functions are listed, to find the name to show, a search of kallsyms is used. Since kallsyms will return the function by simply finding the function that the address is after but before the next function, an address of a weak function will show up as the function before it. This is because kallsyms does not save names of weak functions. This has caused issues in the past, as now the traced weak function will be listed in available_filter_functions with the name of the function before it. At best, this will cause the previous function's name to be listed twice. At worse, if the previous function was marked notrace, it will now show up as a function that can be traced. Note that it only shows up that it can be traced but will not be if enabled, which causes confusion. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220412094923.0abe90955e5db486b7bca279@kernel.org/ The commit b39181f7c6907 ("ftrace: Add FTRACE_MCOUNT_MAX_OFFSET to avoid adding weak function") was a workaround to this by checking the function address before printing its name. If the address was too far from the function given by the name then instead of printing the name it would print: __ftrace_invalid_address___ The real issue is that these invalid addresses are listed in the ftrace table look up which available_filter_functions is derived from. A place holder must be listed in that file because set_ftrace_filter may take a series of indexes into that file instead of names to be able to do O(1) lookups to enable filtering (many tools use this method). Even if kallsyms saved the size of the function, it does not remove the need of having these place holders. The real solution is to not add a weak function into the ftrace table in the first place. To solve this, the sorttable.c code that sorts the mcount regions during the build is modified to take a "nm -S vmlinux" input, sort it, and any function listed in the mcount_loc section that is not within a boundary of the function list given by nm is considered a weak function and is zeroed out. Note, this does not mean they will remain zero when booting as KASLR will still shift those addresses. To handle this, the entries in the mcount_loc section will be ignored if they are zero or match the kaslr_offset() value. Before: ~# grep __ftrace_invalid_address___ /sys/kernel/tracing/available_filter_functions | wc -l 551 After: ~# grep __ftrace_invalid_address___ /sys/kernel/tracing/available_filter_functions | wc -l 0 Cc: bpf Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Nicolas Schier Cc: Zheng Yejian Cc: Martin Kelly Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Alexander Gordeev Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250218200022.883095980@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

kallsyms: Remove KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU

2025-02-18T09:16:04+00:00

x86-64 was the only user. Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250123190747.745588-16-brgerst@gmail.com

kbuild/btf: Propagate CONFIG_WERROR to resolve_btfids

2024-12-10T16:57:42+00:00

Use CONFIG_WERROR to also fail on warnings emitted by resolve_btfids. Allow the CI bots to prevent the introduction of new warnings. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241204-resolve_btfids-v3-2-e6a279a74cfd@weissschuh.net

Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2024-11-30T21:41:50+00:00

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Add generic support for built-in boot DTB files - Enable TAB cycling for dialog buttons in nconfig - Fix issues in streamline_config.pl - Refactor Kconfig - Add support for Clang's AutoFDO (Automatic Feedback-Directed Optimization) - Add support for Clang's Propeller, a profile-guided optimization. - Change the working directory to the external module directory for M= builds - Support building external modules in a separate output directory - Enable objtool for *.mod.o and additional kernel objects - Use lz4 instead of deprecated lz4c - Work around a performance issue with "git describe" - Refactor modpost * tag 'kbuild-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (85 commits) kbuild: rename .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.syms to .tmp_vmlinux0.syms gitignore: Don't ignore 'tags' directory kbuild: add dependency from vmlinux to resolve_btfids modpost: replace tdb_hash() with hash_str() kbuild: deb-pkg: add python3:native to build dependency genksyms: reduce indentation in export_symbol() modpost: improve error messages in device_id_check() modpost: rename alias symbol for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() modpost: rename variables in handle_moddevtable() modpost: move strstarts() to modpost.h modpost: convert do_usb_table() to a generic handler modpost: convert do_of_table() to a generic handler modpost: convert do_pnp_device_entry() to a generic handler modpost: convert do_pnp_card_entries() to a generic handler modpost: call module_alias_printf() from all do_*_entry() functions modpost: pass (struct module *) to do_*_entry() functions modpost: remove DEF_FIELD_ADDR_VAR() macro modpost: deduplicate MODULE_ALIAS() for all drivers modpost: introduce module_alias_printf() helper modpost: remove unnecessary check in do_acpi_entry() ...

kbuild: rename .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.syms to .tmp_vmlinux0.syms

2024-11-27T23:46:03+00:00

Change the naming for consistency. While at this, fix the comments in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh. Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada