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2017-03-01objtool, modules: Discard objtool annotation sections for modulesJosh Poimboeuf1-1/+1
The '__unreachable' and '__func_stack_frame_non_standard' sections are only used at compile time. They're discarded for vmlinux but they should also be discarded for modules. Since this is a recurring pattern, prefix the section names with ".discard.". It's a nice convention and vmlinux.lds.h already discards such sections. Also remove the 'a' (allocatable) flag from the __unreachable section since it doesn't make sense for a discarded section. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: d1091c7fa3d5 ("objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301180444.lhd53c5tibc4ns77@treble Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-01objtool, compiler.h: Fix __unreachable section relocation sizeJosh Poimboeuf1-1/+1
Linus reported the following commit broke module loading on his laptop: d1091c7fa3d5 ("objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends") It showed errors like the following: module: overflow in relocation type 10 val ffffffffc02afc81 module: 'nvme' likely not compiled with -mcmodel=kernel The problem is that the __unreachable section addresses are stored using the '.long' asm directive, which isn't big enough for .text section kernel addresses. Use relative addresses instead: ".long %c0b - .\t\n" Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: d1091c7fa3d5 ("objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301060504.oltm3iws6fmubnom@treble Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-02-28Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+13
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull objtool fixes from Ingo Molnar: "A handful of objtool fixes related to unreachable code, plus a build fix for out of tree modules" * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: objtool: Enclose contents of unreachable() macro in a block objtool: Prevent GCC from merging annotate_unreachable() objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends objtool: Fix CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y warning for out-of-tree modules
2017-02-28objtool: Enclose contents of unreachable() macro in a blockJosh Poimboeuf1-1/+2
Guenter Roeck reported a boot failure in mips64. It was bisected to the following commit: d1091c7fa3d5 ("objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends") The unreachable() macro was formerly only composed of a single statement. The above commit added a second statement, but neglected to enclose the statements in a block. Suggested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: d1091c7fa3d5 ("objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170228042116.glmwmwiohcix7o4a@treble Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-02-25objtool: Prevent GCC from merging annotate_unreachable()Josh Poimboeuf1-3/+3
0-day bot reported some new objtool warnings which were caused by the new annotate_unreachable() macro: fs/afs/flock.o: warning: objtool: afs_do_unlk()+0x0: duplicate frame pointer save fs/afs/flock.o: warning: objtool: afs_do_unlk()+0x0: frame pointer state mismatch fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.o: warning: objtool: btrfs_delete_delayed_dir_index()+0x0: duplicate frame pointer save fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.o: warning: objtool: btrfs_delete_delayed_dir_index()+0x0: frame pointer state mismatch fs/dlm/lock.o: warning: objtool: _grant_lock()+0x0: duplicate frame pointer save fs/dlm/lock.o: warning: objtool: _grant_lock()+0x0: frame pointer state mismatch fs/ocfs2/alloc.o: warning: objtool: ocfs2_mv_path()+0x0: duplicate frame pointer save fs/ocfs2/alloc.o: warning: objtool: ocfs2_mv_path()+0x0: frame pointer state mismatch It turns out that, for older versions of GCC, if a function has multiple BUG() incantations, GCC will sometimes merge the corresponding annotate_unreachable() inline asm statements into a single block. That has the undesirable effect of removing one of the entries in the __unreachable section, confusing objtool greatly. A workaround for this issue is to ensure that each instance of the inline asm statement uses a different label, so that GCC sees the statements are unique and leaves them alone. The inline asm ‘%=’ token could be used for that, but unfortunately older versions of GCC don't support it. So I implemented a poor man's version of it with the __LINE__ macro. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: d1091c7fa3d5 ("objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0c14b00baf9f68d1b0221ddb6c88b925181c8be8.1487997036.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-02-25compiler-gcc.h: add a new macro to wrap gcc attributeGideon Israel Dsouza1-0/+1
Add __mode(x) into compiler-gcc.h as part of a cleanup task I've taken up, to replace gcc specific attributes with macros. The next patch is a cleanup of the m68k subsystem and it requires a new macro to wrap __attribute__ ((mode (...))) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485540901-1988-2-git-send-email-gidisrael@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Gideon Israel Dsouza <gidisrael@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead endsJosh Poimboeuf1-1/+12
The BUG() macro's use of __builtin_unreachable() via the unreachable() macro tells gcc that the instruction is a dead end, and that it's safe to assume the current code path will not execute past the previous instruction. On x86, the BUG() macro is implemented with the 'ud2' instruction. When objtool's branch analysis sees that instruction, it knows the current code path has come to a dead end. Peter Zijlstra has been working on a patch to change the WARN macros to use 'ud2'. That patch will break objtool's assumption that 'ud2' is always a dead end. Generally it's best for objtool to avoid making those kinds of assumptions anyway. The more ignorant it is of kernel code internals, the better. So create a more generic way for objtool to detect dead ends by adding an annotation to the unreachable() macro. The annotation stores a pointer to the end of the unreachable code path in an '__unreachable' section. Objtool can read that section to find the dead ends. Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/41a6d33971462ebd944a1c60ad4bf5be86c17b77.1487712920.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-01-12crypto: Replaced gcc specific attributes with macros from compiler.hGideon Israel Dsouza1-0/+1
Continuing from this commit: 52f5684c8e1e ("kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...))") I submitted 4 total patches. They are part of task I've taken up to increase compiler portability in the kernel. I've cleaned up the subsystems under /kernel /mm /block and /security, this patch targets /crypto. There is <linux/compiler.h> which provides macros for various gcc specific constructs. Eg: __weak for __attribute__((weak)). I've cleaned all instances of gcc specific attributes with the right macros for the crypto subsystem. I had to make one additional change into compiler-gcc.h for the case when one wants to use this: __attribute__((aligned) and not specify an alignment factor. From the gcc docs, this will result in the largest alignment for that data type on the target machine so I've named the macro __aligned_largest. Please advise if another name is more appropriate. Signed-off-by: Gideon Israel Dsouza <gidisrael@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2016-12-13compiler-gcc.h: use "proved" instead of "proofed"Benjamin Peterson1-1/+1
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477894241.1103202.772260161.1B0A5995@webmail.messagingengine.com Signed-off-by: Benjamin Peterson <bp@benjamin.pe> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-01kasan: update kasan_global for gcc 7Dmitry Vyukov1-1/+3
kasan_global struct is part of compiler/runtime ABI. gcc revision 241983 has added a new field to kasan_global struct. Update kernel definition of kasan_global struct to include the new field. Without this patch KASAN is broken with gcc 7. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479219743-28682-1-git-send-email-dvyukov@google.com Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.0+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropyEmese Revfy1-0/+7
The __latent_entropy gcc attribute can be used only on functions and variables. If it is on a function then the plugin will instrument it for gathering control-flow entropy. If the attribute is on a variable then the plugin will initialize it with random contents. The variable must be an integer, an integer array type or a structure with integer fields. These specific functions have been selected because they are init functions (to help gather boot-time entropy), are called at unpredictable times, or they have variable loops, each of which provide some level of latent entropy. Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> [kees: expanded commit message] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2016-08-30mm/usercopy: get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKSJosh Poimboeuf1-1/+1
There are three usercopy warnings which are currently being silenced for gcc 4.6 and newer: 1) "copy_from_user() buffer size is too small" compile warning/error This is a static warning which happens when object size and copy size are both const, and copy size > object size. I didn't see any false positives for this one. So the function warning attribute seems to be working fine here. Note this scenario is always a bug and so I think it should be changed to *always* be an error, regardless of CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS. 2) "copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct" compile warning This is another static warning which happens when I enable __compiletime_object_size() for new compilers (and CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS). It happens when object size is const, but copy size is *not*. In this case there's no way to compare the two at build time, so it gives the warning. (Note the warning is a byproduct of the fact that gcc has no way of knowing whether the overflow function will be called, so the call isn't dead code and the warning attribute is activated.) So this warning seems to only indicate "this is an unusual pattern, maybe you should check it out" rather than "this is a bug". I get 102(!) of these warnings with allyesconfig and the __compiletime_object_size() gcc check removed. I don't know if there are any real bugs hiding in there, but from looking at a small sample, I didn't see any. According to Kees, it does sometimes find real bugs. But the false positive rate seems high. 3) "Buffer overflow detected" runtime warning This is a runtime warning where object size is const, and copy size > object size. All three warnings (both static and runtime) were completely disabled for gcc 4.6 with the following commit: 2fb0815c9ee6 ("gcc4: disable __compiletime_object_size for GCC 4.6+") That commit mistakenly assumed that the false positives were caused by a gcc bug in __compiletime_object_size(). But in fact, __compiletime_object_size() seems to be working fine. The false positives were instead triggered by #2 above. (Though I don't have an explanation for why the warnings supposedly only started showing up in gcc 4.6.) So remove warning #2 to get rid of all the false positives, and re-enable warnings #1 and #3 by reverting the above commit. Furthermore, since #1 is a real bug which is detected at compile time, upgrade it to always be an error. Having done all that, CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-08-27byteswap: don't use __builtin_bswap*() with sparseJohannes Berg1-2/+6
Although sparse declares __builtin_bswap*(), it can't actually do constant folding inside them (yet). As such, things like switch (protocol) { case htons(ETH_P_IP): break; } which we do all over the place cause sparse to warn that it expects a constant instead of a function call. Disable __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP*__ if __CHECKER__ is defined to avoid this. Fixes: 7322dd755e7d ("byteswap: try to avoid __builtin_constant_p gcc bug") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470914102-26389-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-20compiler.h: add support for malloc attributeRasmus Villemoes1-0/+1
gcc as far back as at least 3.04 documents the function attribute __malloc__. Add a shorthand for attaching that to a function declaration. This was also suggested by Andi Kleen way back in 2002 [1], but didn't get applied, perhaps because gcc at that time generated the exact same code with and without this attribute. This attribute tells the compiler that the return value (if non-NULL) can be assumed not to alias any other valid pointers at the time of the call. Please note that the documentation for a range of gcc versions (starting from around 4.7) contained a somewhat confusing and self-contradicting text: The malloc attribute is used to tell the compiler that a function may be treated as if any non-NULL pointer it returns cannot alias any other pointer valid when the function returns and *that the memory has undefined content*. [...] Standard functions with this property include malloc and *calloc*. (emphasis mine). The intended meaning has later been clarified [2]: This tells the compiler that a function is malloc-like, i.e., that the pointer P returned by the function cannot alias any other pointer valid when the function returns, and moreover no pointers to valid objects occur in any storage addressed by P. What this means is that we can apply the attribute to kmalloc and friends, and it is ok for the returned memory to have well-defined contents (__GFP_ZERO). But it is not ok to apply it to kmemdup(), nor to other functions which both allocate and possibly initialize the memory with existing pointers. So unless someone is doing something pretty perverted kstrdup() should also be a fine candidate. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/57172 [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56955 Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-09compiler-gcc: require gcc 4.8 for powerpc __builtin_bswap16()Josh Poimboeuf1-1/+1
gcc support for __builtin_bswap16() was supposedly added for powerpc in gcc 4.6, and was then later added for other architectures in gcc 4.8. However, Stephen Rothwell reported that attempting to use it on powerpc in gcc 4.6 fails with: lib/vsprintf.c:160:2: error: initializer element is not constant lib/vsprintf.c:160:2: error: (near initialization for 'decpair[0]') lib/vsprintf.c:160:2: error: initializer element is not constant lib/vsprintf.c:160:2: error: (near initialization for 'decpair[1]') ... I'm not entirely sure what those errors mean, but I don't see them on gcc 4.8. So let's consider gcc 4.8 to be the official starting point for __builtin_bswap16(). Arnd Bergmann adds: "I found the commit in gcc-4.8 that replaced the powerpc-specific implementation of __builtin_bswap16 with an architecture-independent one. Apparently the powerpc version (gcc-4.6 and 4.7) just mapped to the lhbrx/sthbrx instructions, so it ended up not being a constant, though the intent of the patch was mainly to add support for the builtin to x86: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52624 has the patch that went into gcc-4.8 and more information." Fixes: 7322dd755e7d ("byteswap: try to avoid __builtin_constant_p gcc bug") Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-04-05compiler-gcc: disable -ftracer for __noclone functionsPaolo Bonzini1-1/+1
-ftracer can duplicate asm blocks causing compilation to fail in noclone functions. For example, KVM declares a global variable in an asm like asm("2: ... \n .pushsection data \n .global vmx_return \n vmx_return: .long 2b"); and -ftracer causes a double declaration. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-11-07include/linux/compiler-gcc.h: improve __visible documentationAndrew Morton1-1/+4
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-06include/linux/compiler-gcc.h: hide assume_aligned attribute from sparseRasmus Villemoes1-1/+1
The patch "slab.h: sprinkle __assume_aligned attributes" causes *tons* of whinges if you do 'make C=2' with sparse 0.5.0: CHECK drivers/media/usb/pwc/pwc-if.c include/linux/slab.h:307:43: error: attribute '__assume_aligned__': unknown attribute include/linux/slab.h:308:58: error: attribute '__assume_aligned__': unknown attribute include/linux/slab.h:337:73: error: attribute '__assume_aligned__': unknown attribute include/linux/slab.h:375:74: error: attribute '__assume_aligned__': unknown attribute include/linux/slab.h:378:80: error: attribute '__assume_aligned__': unknown attribute sparse apparently pretends to be gcc >= 4.9, yet isn't prepared to handle all the function attributes supported by those gccs and complains loudly. So hide the definition of __assume_aligned from it (so that the generic one in compiler.h gets used). Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Tested-By: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-06compiler.h: add support for function attribute assume_alignedRasmus Villemoes1-0/+17
gcc 4.9 added the function attribute assume_aligned, indicating to the caller that the returned pointer may be assumed to have a certain minimal alignment. This is useful if, for example, the return value is passed to memset(). Add a shorthand macro for that. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-10-20compiler, atomics, kasan: Provide READ_ONCE_NOCHECK()Andrey Ryabinin1-0/+13
Some code may perform racy by design memory reads. This could be harmless, yet such code may produce KASAN warnings. To hide such accesses from KASAN this patch introduces READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() macro. KASAN will not check the memory accessed by READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(). The KernelThreadSanitizer (KTSAN) is going to ignore it as well. This patch creates __read_once_size_nocheck() a clone of __read_once_size(). The only difference between them is 'no_sanitized_address' attribute appended to '*_nocheck' function. This attribute tells the compiler that instrumentation of memory accesses should not be applied to that function. We declare it as static '__maybe_unsed' because GCC is not capable to inline such function: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67368 With KASAN=n READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() is just a clone of READ_ONCE(). Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de> Cc: kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445243838-17763-2-git-send-email-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-26compiler-gcc: integrate the various compiler-gcc[345].h filesJoe Perches1-4/+116
As gcc major version numbers are going to advance rather rapidly in the future, there's no real value in separate files for each compiler version. Deduplicate some of the macros #defined in each file too. Neaten comments using normal kernel commenting style. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-26compiler-gcc.h: neateningJoe Perches1-40/+45
- Move the inline and noinline blocks together - Comment neatening - Alignment of __attribute__ uses - Consistent naming of __must_be_array macro argument - Multiline macro neatening Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-05-04lib: make memzero_explicit more robust against dead store eliminationDaniel Borkmann1-1/+15
In commit 0b053c951829 ("lib: memzero_explicit: use barrier instead of OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR"), we made memzero_explicit() more robust in case LTO would decide to inline memzero_explicit() and eventually find out it could be elimiated as dead store. While using barrier() works well for the case of gcc, recent efforts from LLVMLinux people suggest to use llvm as an alternative to gcc, and there, Stephan found in a simple stand-alone user space example that llvm could nevertheless optimize and thus elimitate the memset(). A similar issue has been observed in the referenced llvm bug report, which is regarded as not-a-bug. Based on some experiments, icc is a bit special on its own, while it doesn't seem to eliminate the memset(), it could do so with an own implementation, and then result in similar findings as with llvm. The fix in this patch now works for all three compilers (also tested with more aggressive optimization levels). Arguably, in the current kernel tree it's more of a theoretical issue, but imho, it's better to be pedantic about it. It's clearly visible with gcc/llvm though, with the below code: if we would have used barrier() only here, llvm would have omitted clearing, not so with barrier_data() variant: static inline void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count) { memset(s, 0, count); barrier_data(s); } int main(void) { char buff[20]; memzero_explicit(buff, sizeof(buff)); return 0; } $ gcc -O2 test.c $ gdb a.out (gdb) disassemble main Dump of assembler code for function main: 0x0000000000400400 <+0>: lea -0x28(%rsp),%rax 0x0000000000400405 <+5>: movq $0x0,-0x28(%rsp) 0x000000000040040e <+14>: movq $0x0,-0x20(%rsp) 0x0000000000400417 <+23>: movl $0x0,-0x18(%rsp) 0x000000000040041f <+31>: xor %eax,%eax 0x0000000000400421 <+33>: retq End of assembler dump. $ clang -O2 test.c $ gdb a.out (gdb) disassemble main Dump of assembler code for function main: 0x00000000004004f0 <+0>: xorps %xmm0,%xmm0 0x00000000004004f3 <+3>: movaps %xmm0,-0x18(%rsp) 0x00000000004004f8 <+8>: movl $0x0,-0x8(%rsp) 0x0000000000400500 <+16>: lea -0x18(%rsp),%rax 0x0000000000400505 <+21>: xor %eax,%eax 0x0000000000400507 <+23>: retq End of assembler dump. As gcc, clang, but also icc defines __GNUC__, it's sufficient to define this in compiler-gcc.h only to be picked up. For a fallback or otherwise unsupported compiler, we define it as a barrier. Similarly, for ecc which does not support gcc inline asm. Reference: https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=15495 Reported-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Tested-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Cc: mancha security <mancha1@zoho.com> Cc: Mark Charlebois <charlebm@gmail.com> Cc: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2015-02-14compiler: introduce __alias(symbol) shortcutAndrey Ryabinin1-0/+1
To be consistent with other compiler attributes introduce __alias(symbol) macro expanding into __attribute__((alias(#symbol))) Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com> Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-12-05crypto: more robust crypto_memneqCesar Eduardo Barros1-0/+3
Disabling compiler optimizations can be fragile, since a new optimization could be added to -O0 or -Os that breaks the assumptions the code is making. Instead of disabling compiler optimizations, use a dummy inline assembly (based on RELOC_HIDE) to block the problematic kinds of optimization, while still allowing other optimizations to be applied to the code. The dummy inline assembly is added after every OR, and has the accumulator variable as its input and output. The compiler is forced to assume that the dummy inline assembly could both depend on the accumulator variable and change the accumulator variable, so it is forced to compute the value correctly before the inline assembly, and cannot assume anything about its value after the inline assembly. This change should be enough to make crypto_memneq work correctly (with data-independent timing) even if it is inlined at its call sites. That can be done later in a followup patch. Compile-tested on x86_64. Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.eti.br> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2013-02-22compiler-gcc.h: Add gcc-recommended GCC_VERSION macroDaniel Santos1-0/+3
Throughout compiler*.h, many version checks are made. These can be simplified by using the macro that gcc's documentation recommends. However, my primary reason for adding this is that I need bug-check macros that are enabled at certain gcc versions and it's cleaner to use this macro than the tradition method: #if __GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ => 2) If you add patch level, it gets this ugly: #if __GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && (__GNUC_MINOR__ > 2 || \ __GNUC_MINOR__ == 2 __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ >= 1)) As opposed to: #if GCC_VERSION >= 40201 While having separate headers for gcc 3 & 4 eliminates some of this verbosity, they can still be cleaned up by this. See also: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Common-Predefined-Macros.html Signed-off-by: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-18ftrace: Make all inline tags also include notraceSteven Rostedt1-3/+3
Commit 5963e317b1e9d2a ("ftrace/x86: Do not change stacks in DEBUG when calling lockdep") prevented lockdep calls from the int3 breakpoint handler from reseting the stack if a function that was called was in the process of being converted for tracing and had a breakpoint on it. The idea is, before calling the lockdep code, do a load_idt() to the special IDT that kept the breakpoint stack from reseting. This worked well as a quick fix for this kernel release, until a certain config caused a lockup in the function tracer start up tests. Investigating it, I found that the load_idt that was used to prevent the int3 from changing stacks was itself being traced! Even though the config had CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING disabled, and all 'inline' tags were set to always inline, there were still cases that it did not inline! This was caused by CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST, where it would add a pointer to the native_load_idt() which made that function to be traced. Commit 45959ee7aa645815a ("ftrace: Do not function trace inlined functions") only touched the 'inline' tags when CONFIG_OPMITIZE_INLINING was enabled. PARAVIRT_GUEST shows that this was not enough and we need to also mark always_inline with notrace as well. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-03-24include/ and checkpatch: prefer __scanf to __attribute__((format(scanf,...)Joe Perches1-1/+2
It's equivalent to __printf, so prefer __scanf. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-21ftrace: Do not function trace inlined functionsSteven Rostedt1-0/+5
When gcc inlines a function, it does not mark it with the mcount prologue, which in turn means that inlined functions are not traced by the function tracer. But if CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is set, then gcc is allowed not to inline a function that is marked inline. Depending on the options and the compiler, a function may or may not be traced by the function tracer, depending on whether gcc decides to inline a function or not. This has caused several problems in the pass becaues gcc is not always consistent with what it decides to inline between different gcc versions. Some places should not be traced (like paravirt native_* functions) and these are mostly marked as inline. When gcc decides not to inline the function, and if that function should not be traced, then the ftrace function tracer will suddenly break when it use to work fine. This becomes even harder to debug when different versions of gcc will not inline that function, making the same kernel and config work for some gcc versions and not work for others. By making all functions marked inline to not be traced will remove the ambiguity that gcc adds when it comes to tracing functions marked inline. All gcc versions will be consistent with what functions are traced and having volatile working code will be removed. Note, only the inline macro when CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is set needs to have notrace added, as the attribute __always_inline will force the function to be inlined and then not traced. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-25sparse: define __must_be_array() for __CHECKER__KOSAKI Motohiro1-0/+4
commit c5e631cf65f ("ARRAY_SIZE: check for type") added __must_be_array(). But sparse can't parse this gcc extention. Now make C=2 makes following sparse errors a lot. kernel/futex.c:2699:25: error: No right hand side of '+'-expression Because __must_be_array() is used for ARRAY_SIZE() macro and it is used very widely. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23include/linux/compiler-gcc*.h: unify macro definitionsBorislav Petkov1-0/+8
Unify identical gcc3.x and gcc4.x macros. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-10include/linux/compiler-gcc.h: use __same_type() in __must_be_array()Rusty Russell1-2/+1
We should use the __same_type() helper in __must_be_array(). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-30compiler-gcc.h: gcc-4.5 needs noclone and noinline on __naked functionsMikael Pettersson1-1/+9
A __naked function is defined in C but with a body completely implemented by asm(), including any prologue and epilogue. These asm() bodies expect standard calling conventions for parameter passing. Older GCCs implement that correctly, but 4.[56] currently do not, see GCC PR44290. In the Linux kernel this breaks ARM, causing most arch/arm/mm/copypage-*.c modules to get miscompiled, resulting in kernel crashes during bootup. Part of the kernel fix is to augment the __naked function attribute to also imply noinline and noclone. This patch implements that, and has been verified to fix boot failures with gcc-4.5 compiled 2.6.34 and 2.6.35-rc1 kernels. The patch is a no-op with older GCCs. Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-11-02compiler: Introduce __always_unusedLi Zefan1-0/+1
I wrote some code which is used as compile-time checker, and the code should be elided after compile. So I need to annotate the code as "always unused", compared to "maybe unused". Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <4AEE2CEC.8040206@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13[ARM] 5421/1: ftrace: fix crash due to tracing of __naked functionsUwe Kleine-König1-1/+9
This is a fix for the following crash observed in 2.6.29-rc3: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/29/150 On ARM it doesn't make sense to trace a naked function because then mcount is called without stack and frame pointer being set up and there is no chance to restore the lr register to the value before mcount was called. Reported-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net> Tested-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net> Cc: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@home.goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-10compiler-gcc.h: add more comments to RELOC_HIDEAndi Kleen1-2/+12
Requested by C. Lameter Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-02Sanitize gcc version header includesLinus Torvalds1-0/+5
- include the gcc version-dependent header files from the generic gcc header file, rather than the other way around (iow: don't make the non-gcc header file have to know about gcc versions) - don't include compiler-gcc4.h for gcc 5 (for whenever it gets released). That's just confusing and made us do odd things in the gcc4 header file (testing that we really had version 4!) - generate the name from the __GNUC__ version directly, rather than having a mess of #if conditionals. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30inlining: do not allow gcc below version 4 to optimize inliningIngo Molnar1-2/+3
fix the condition to match intention: always use the old inlining behavior on all gcc versions below 4. this should solve the UML build problem. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-26generic: make optimized inlining arch-opt-inIngo Molnar1-1/+2
Stephen Rothwell reported that linux-next did not build on powerpc64. make optimized inlining dependent on architecture opt-in. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-26x86: add optimized inliningIngo Molnar1-3/+9
add CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y. allow gcc to optimize the kernel image's size by uninlining functions that have been marked 'inline'. Previously gcc was forced by Linux to always-inline these functions via a gcc attribute: #define inline inline __attribute__((always_inline)) Especially when the user has already selected CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y this can make a huge difference in kernel image size (using a standard Fedora .config): text data bss dec hex filename 5613924 562708 3854336 10030968 990f78 vmlinux.before 5486689 562708 3854336 9903733 971e75 vmlinux.after that's a 2.3% text size reduction (!). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-19Replace __attribute_pure__ with __pureRalf Baechle1-1/+11
To be consistent with the use of attributes in the rest of the kernel replace all use of __attribute_pure__ with __pure and delete the definition of __attribute_pure__. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Force erroneous inclusions of compiler-*.h files to be errorsRobert P. J. Day1-1/+3
Replace worthless comments with actual preprocessor errors when including the wrong versions of the compiler.h files. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make it work] Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09compiler: introduce __used and __maybe_unusedDavid Rientjes1-0/+1
__used is defined to be __attribute__((unused)) for all pre-3.3 gcc compilers to suppress warnings for unused functions because perhaps they are referenced only in inline assembly. It is defined to be __attribute__((used)) for gcc 3.3 and later so that the code is still emitted for such functions. __maybe_unused is defined to be __attribute__((unused)) for both function and variable use if it could possibly be unreferenced due to the evaluation of preprocessor macros. Function prototypes shall be marked with __maybe_unused if the actual definition of the function is dependant on preprocessor macros. No update to compiler-intel.h is necessary because ICC supports both __attribute__((used)) and __attribute__((unused)) as specified by the gcc manual. __attribute_used__ is deprecated and will be removed once all current code is converted to using __used. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07ARRAY_SIZE: check for typeRusty Russell1-0/+3
We can use a gcc extension to ensure that ARRAY_SIZE() is handed an array, not a pointer. This is especially important when code is changed from a fixed array to a pointer. I assume the Intel compiler doesn't support __builtin_types_compatible_p. [jdike@addtoit.com: uml: update UML definition of ARRAY_SIZE] Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11[PATCH] extend the set of "__attribute__" shortcut macrosRobert P. J. Day1-0/+7
Extend the set of "__attribute__" shortcut macros, and remove identical (and now superfluous) definitions from a couple of source files. based on a page at robert love's blog: http://rlove.org/log/2005102601 extend the set of shortcut macros defined in compiler-gcc.h with the following: #define __packed __attribute__((packed)) #define __weak __attribute__((weak)) #define __naked __attribute__((naked)) #define __noreturn __attribute__((noreturn)) #define __pure __attribute__((pure)) #define __aligned(x) __attribute__((aligned(x))) #define __printf(a,b) __attribute__((format(printf,a,b))) Once these are in place, it's up to subsystem maintainers to decide if they want to take advantage of them. there is already a strong precedent for using shortcuts like this in the source tree. The ones that might give people pause are "__aligned" and "__printf", but shortcuts for both of those are already in use, and in some ways very confusingly. note the two very different definitions for a macro named "ALIGNED": drivers/net/sgiseeq.c:#define ALIGNED(x) ((((unsigned long)(x)) + 0xf) & ~(0xf)) drivers/scsi/ultrastor.c:#define ALIGNED(x) __attribute__((aligned(x))) also: include/acpi/platform/acgcc.h: #define ACPI_PRINTF_LIKE(c) __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, c, c+1))) Given the precedent, then, it seems logical to at least standardize on a consistent set of these macros. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] Work around ppc64 compiler bugAnton Blanchard1-1/+7
In the process of optimising our per cpu data code, I found a ppc64 compiler bug that has been around forever. Basically the current RELOC_HIDE can end up trashing r30. Details of the bug can be found at http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25572 This bug is present in all compilers before 4.1. It is masked by the fact that our current per cpu data code is inefficient and causes other loads that end up marking r30 as used. A workaround identified by Alan Modra is to use the =r asm constraint instead of =g. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> [ Verified that this makes no real difference on x86[-64] */ Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-09[PATCH] remove gcc-2 checksAndrew Morton1-0/+9
Remove various things which were checking for gcc-1.x and gcc-2.x compilers. From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Some documentation updates and removes some code paths for gcc < 3.2. Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-17Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds1-0/+17
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!