The imperative paradigm used to build vmlinux, extract some info from it
or perform some checks on it, and subsequently modify it again goes
against the declarative paradigm that is usually employed for defining
make rules.
In particular, the Makefile.postlink files that consume their input via
an output rule result in some dodgy logic in the decompressor makefiles
for RISC-V and x86, given that the vmlinux.relocs input file needed to
generate the arch-specific relocation tables may not exist or be out of
date, but cannot be constructed using the ordinary Make dependency based
rules, because the info needs to be extracted while vmlinux is in its
ephemeral, non-stripped form.
So instead, for architectures that require the static relocations that
are emitted into vmlinux when passing --emit-relocs to the linker, and
are subsequently stripped out again, introduce an intermediate vmlinux
target called vmlinux.unstripped, and organize the reset of the build
logic accordingly:
- vmlinux.unstripped is created only once, and not updated again
- build rules under arch/*/boot can depend on vmlinux.unstripped without
running the risk of the data disappearing or being out of date
- the final vmlinux generated by the build is not bloated with static
relocations that are never needed again after the build completes.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Due to the fact that runtime const ELF sections are named without a
leading period or double underscore, the RSTRIP logic that removes the
static RELA sections from vmlinux fails to identify them. This results
in a situation like below, where some sections that were supposed to get
removed are left behind.
[Nr] Name Type Address Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al
[58] runtime_shift_d_hash_shift PROGBITS ffffffff83500f50 2900f50 000014 00 A 0 0 1
[59] .relaruntime_shift_d_hash_shift RELA 0000000000000000 55b6f00 000078 18 I 70 58 8
[60] runtime_ptr_dentry_hashtable PROGBITS ffffffff83500f68 2900f68 000014 00 A 0 0 1
[61] .relaruntime_ptr_dentry_hashtable RELA 0000000000000000 55b6f78 000078 18 I 70 60 8
[62] runtime_ptr_USER_PTR_MAX PROGBITS ffffffff83500f80 2900f80 000238 00 A 0 0 1
[63] .relaruntime_ptr_USER_PTR_MAX RELA 0000000000000000 55b6ff0 000d50 18 I 70 62 8
So tweak the match expression to strip all sections starting with .rel.
While at it, consolidate the logic used by RISC-V, s390 and x86 into a
single shared Makefile library command.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjk3ynjomNvFN8jf9A1k=qSc=JFF591W00uXj-qqNUxPQ@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Tested-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Since commit 778666df60 ("s390: compile relocatable kernel without
-fPIE") the kernel vmlinux ELF file is linked with --emit-relocs to
preserve all relocations, so that all absolute relocations can be
extracted using the 'relocs' tool to adjust them during boot.
Port and adapt Petr Pavlu's x86 commit 9d9173e9ce ("x86/build: Avoid
relocation information in final vmlinux") to s390 to strip all
relocations from the final vmlinux ELF file to optimize its size.
Following is his original commit message with minor adaptions for s390:
The Linux build process on s390 roughly consists of compiling all input
files, statically linking them into a vmlinux ELF file, and then taking
and turning this file into an actual bzImage bootable file.
vmlinux has in this process two main purposes:
1) It is an intermediate build target on the way to produce the final
bootable image.
2) It is a file that is expected to be used by debuggers and standard
ELF tooling to work with the built kernel.
For the second purpose, a vmlinux file is typically collected by various
package build recipes, such as distribution spec files, including the
kernel's own tar-pkg target.
When building the kernel vmlinux contains also relocation information
produced by using the --emit-relocs linker option. This is utilized by
subsequent build steps to create relocs.S and produce a relocatable
image. However, the information is not needed by debuggers and other
standard ELF tooling.
The issue is then that the collected vmlinux file and hence distribution
packages end up unnecessarily large because of this extra data. The
following is a size comparison of vmlinux v6.10 with and without the
relocation information:
| Configuration | With relocs | Stripped relocs |
| defconfig | 696 MB | 320 MB |
| -CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO | 48 MB | 32 MB |
Optimize a resulting vmlinux by adding a postlink step that splits the
relocation information into relocs.S and then strips it from the vmlinux
binary.
Reviewed-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
