RELR as a relocation packing format for relative relocations for
reducing the size of relative relocation records. In a position
independent executable there are often many relative relocation
records, and our vmlinux is a PIE.
The LLD linker (since 17.0.0) and the BFD linker (since 2.43) supports
packing the relocations in the RELR format for LoongArch, with the flag
-z pack-relative-relocs.
Commits 5cf896fb6b ("arm64: Add support for relocating the kernel
with RELR relocations") and ccb2d173b9 ("Makefile: use -z
pack-relative-relocs") have already added the framework to use RELR.
We just need to wire it up and process the RELR relocation records in
relocate_relative() in addition to the RELA relocation records.
A ".p2align 3" directive is added to la_abs macro or the BFD linker
cannot pack the relocation records against the .la_abs section (the
". = ALIGN(8);" directive in vmlinux.lds.S is too late in the linking
process).
With defconfig and CONFIG_RELR vmlinux.efi is 2.1 MiB (6%) smaller, and
vmlinuz.efi (using gzip compression) is 384 KiB (2.8%) smaller.
Link: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/generic-abi/bX460iggiKg
Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D138135#4531389
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=d89ecf33ab6d
Signed-off-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
To clarify, the previous version functioned flawlessly. However, it's
worth noting that the LLVM's LoongArch backend currently lacks support
for cross-section label calculations. With this patch, we enable the use
of clang to compile relocatable kernels.
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: WANG Rui <wangrui@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) is used to accelerate binary translation,
which contains 4 scratch registers (scr0 to scr3), x86/ARM eflags (eflags)
and x87 fpu stack pointer (ftop).
This patch support kernel to save/restore these registers, handle the LBT
exception and maintain sigcontext.
Signed-off-by: Qi Hu <huqi@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
When building with CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_FULL, there are several errors due
to the way that parse_r is defined with an __asm__ statement in a
header:
ld.lld: error: ld-temp.o <inline asm>:105:1: macro 'parse_r' is already defined
.macro parse_r var r
^
This was an issue for arch/mips as well, which was resolved by commit
67512a8cf5 ("MIPS: Avoid macro redefinitions").
However, parse_r is unused in arch/loongarch after commit 83d8b38967
("LoongArch: Simplify the invtlb wrappers"), so doing the same change
does not make much sense now. Just remove parse_r (and parse_v, which
is also unused) to resolve the redefinition error. If it needs to be
brought back due to an actual use, it should be brought back with the
same changes as the aforementioned arch/mips commit.
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1924
Reviewed-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
This config allows to compile kernel as PIE and to relocate it at any
virtual address at runtime: this paves the way to KASLR.
Runtime relocation is possible since relocation metadata are embedded
into the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Youling Tang <tangyouling@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site> # Use arch_initcall
Signed-off-by: Jinyang He <hejinyang@loongson.cn> # Provide la_abs relocation code
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
Use the "la_abs macro" instead of the "la.abs pseudo instruction" to
prepare for the subsequent PIE kernel. When PIE is not enabled, la_abs
is equivalent to la.abs.
Signed-off-by: Youling Tang <tangyouling@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
These syntactic sugars have been supported by upstream binutils from the
beginning, so no need to patch them locally.
Signed-off-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
Add some other common headers for basic LoongArch support.
Reviewed-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>
Reviewed-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
