[PATCH kernel] powerpc/64: Add UADDR64 relocation support

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Mon Jan 31 17:38:03 AEDT 2022



Le 31/01/2022 à 05:14, Alexey Kardashevskiy a écrit :
> When ld detects unaligned relocations, it emits R_PPC64_UADDR64
> relocations instead of R_PPC64_RELATIVE. Currently R_PPC64_UADDR64 are
> detected by arch/powerpc/tools/relocs_check.sh and expected not to work.
> Below is a simple chunk to trigger this behaviour:

According to relocs_check.sh, this is expected to happen only with 
binutils < 2.19. Today minimum binutils version is 2.23

Have you observed this problem with newer version of binutils ?

> 
> \#pragma GCC push_options
> \#pragma GCC optimize ("O0")

AFAIU Linux Kernel is always built with O2

Have you observed the problem with O2 ?


> struct entry {
>          const char *file;
>          int line;
> } __attribute__((packed));
> static const struct entry e1 = { .file = __FILE__, .line = __LINE__ };
> static const struct entry e2 = { .file = __FILE__, .line = __LINE__ };
> ...
> prom_printf("e1=%s %lx %lx\n", e1.file, (unsigned long) e1.file, mfmsr());
> prom_printf("e2=%s %lx\n", e2.file, (unsigned long) e2.file);
> \#pragma GCC pop_options
> 
> 
> This adds support for UADDR64 for 64bit. This reuses __dynamic_symtab
> from the 32bit which supports more relocation types already.
> 
> This adds a workaround for the number of relocations as the DT_RELACOUNT
> ELF Dynamic Array Tag does not include relocations other than
> R_PPC64_RELATIVE. This instead iterates over the entire .rela.dyn section.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
> ---
> 
> Tested via qemu gdb stub (the kernel is loaded at 0x400000).
> 
> Disasm:
> 
> c000000001a804d0 <e1>:
> c000000001a804d0:       b0 04 a8 01     .long 0x1a804b0
>                          c000000001a804d0: R_PPC64_RELATIVE      *ABS*-0x3ffffffffe57fb50
> c000000001a804d4:       00 00 00 c0     lfs     f0,0(0)
> c000000001a804d8:       fa 08 00 00     .long 0x8fa
> 
> c000000001a804dc <e2>:
>          ...
>                          c000000001a804dc: R_PPC64_UADDR64       .rodata+0x4b0
> 
> Before relocation:
> 
>>>> p *(unsigned long *) 0x1e804d0
> $1 = 0xc000000001a804b0
>>>> p *(unsigned long *) 0x1e804dc
> $2 = 0x0
> 
> After:
>>>> p *(unsigned long *) 0x1e804d0
> $1 = 0x1e804b0
>>>> p *(unsigned long *) 0x1e804dc
> $2 = 0x1e804b0
> ---
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S     | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S  |  3 +-
>   arch/powerpc/tools/relocs_check.sh |  6 ----
>   3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S
> index 02d4719bf43a..a91175723d9d 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
>   RELA = 7
>   RELACOUNT = 0x6ffffff9
>   R_PPC64_RELATIVE = 22
> +R_PPC64_UADDR64 = 43
>   
>   /*
>    * r3 = desired final address of kernel
> @@ -25,6 +26,8 @@ _GLOBAL(relocate)
>   	add	r9,r9,r12	/* r9 has runtime addr of .rela.dyn section */
>   	ld	r10,(p_st - 0b)(r12)
>   	add	r10,r10,r12	/* r10 has runtime addr of _stext */
> +	ld	r13,(p_sym - 0b)(r12)
> +	add	r13,r13,r12	/* r13 has runtime addr of .dynsym */
>   
>   	/*
>   	 * Scan the dynamic section for the RELA and RELACOUNT entries.
> @@ -46,8 +49,8 @@ _GLOBAL(relocate)
>   	b	1b
>   4:	cmpdi	r7,0		/* check we have both RELA and RELACOUNT */
>   	cmpdi	cr1,r8,0
> -	beq	6f
> -	beq	cr1,6f
> +	beq	9f
> +	beq	cr1,9f
>   
>   	/*
>   	 * Work out linktime address of _stext and hence the
> @@ -60,25 +63,55 @@ _GLOBAL(relocate)
>   	subf	r10,r7,r10
>   	subf	r3,r10,r3	/* final_offset */
>   
> +	/*
> +	 * FIXME
> +	 * Here r8 is a number of relocations in .rela.dyn.
> +	 * When ld issues UADDR64 relocations, they end up at the end
> +	 * of the .rela.dyn section. However RELACOUNT does not include
> +	 * them so the loop below is going to finish after the last
> +	 * R_PPC64_RELATIVE as they normally go first.
> +	 * Work out the size of .rela.dyn at compile time.
> +	 */
> +	ld	r8,(p_rela_end - 0b)(r12)
> +	ld	r18,(p_rela - 0b)(r12)
> +	sub	r8,r8,r18
> +	li      r18,24		/* 24 == sizeof(elf64_rela) */
> +	divd	r8,r8,r18
> +
>   	/*
>   	 * Run through the list of relocations and process the
> -	 * R_PPC64_RELATIVE ones.
> +	 * R_PPC64_RELATIVE and R_PPC64_UADDR64 ones.
>   	 */
>   	mtctr	r8
> -5:	ld	r0,8(9)		/* ELF64_R_TYPE(reloc->r_info) */
> +5:	lwa	r0,8(r9)	/* ELF64_R_TYPE(reloc->r_info) */
>   	cmpdi	r0,R_PPC64_RELATIVE
>   	bne	6f
>   	ld	r6,0(r9)	/* reloc->r_offset */
>   	ld	r0,16(r9)	/* reloc->r_addend */
> -	add	r0,r0,r3
> +	b	7f
> +
> +6:	cmpdi	r0,R_PPC64_UADDR64
> +	bne	8f
> +	ld	r6,0(r9)
> +	ld	r0,16(r9)
> +	lwa	r14,12(r9) 	/* ELF64_R_SYM(reloc->r_info) */
> +	mulli	r14,r14,24	/* 24 == sizeof(elf64_sym) */
> +	add	r14,r14,r13	/* elf64_sym[ELF64_R_SYM] */
> +	ld	r14,8(r14)
> +	add	r0,r0,r14
> +
> +7:	add	r0,r0,r3
>   	stdx	r0,r7,r6
> -	addi	r9,r9,24
> +
> +8:	addi	r9,r9,24
>   	bdnz	5b
>   
> -6:	blr
> +9:	blr
>   
>   .balign 8
>   p_dyn:	.8byte	__dynamic_start - 0b
>   p_rela:	.8byte	__rela_dyn_start - 0b
> +p_rela_end:	.8byte __rela_dyn_end - 0b
> +p_sym:		.8byte __dynamic_symtab - 0b
>   p_st:	.8byte	_stext - 0b
>   
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> index 2bcca818136a..e9d9bda3ffaf 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -281,9 +281,7 @@ SECTIONS
>   	. = ALIGN(8);
>   	.dynsym : AT(ADDR(.dynsym) - LOAD_OFFSET)
>   	{
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
>   		__dynamic_symtab = .;
> -#endif
>   		*(.dynsym)
>   	}
>   	.dynstr : AT(ADDR(.dynstr) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.dynstr) }
> @@ -299,6 +297,7 @@ SECTIONS
>   	{
>   		__rela_dyn_start = .;
>   		*(.rela*)
> +		__rela_dyn_end = .;
>   	}
>   #endif
>   	/* .exit.data is discarded at runtime, not link time,
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/tools/relocs_check.sh b/arch/powerpc/tools/relocs_check.sh
> index 014e00e74d2b..956b9e236a60 100755
> --- a/arch/powerpc/tools/relocs_check.sh
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/tools/relocs_check.sh
> @@ -54,9 +54,3 @@ fi
>   num_bad=$(echo "$bad_relocs" | wc -l)
>   echo "WARNING: $num_bad bad relocations"
>   echo "$bad_relocs"
> -
> -# If we see this type of relocation it's an idication that
> -# we /may/ be using an old version of binutils.
> -if echo "$bad_relocs" | grep -q -F -w R_PPC64_UADDR64; then
> -	echo "WARNING: You need at least binutils >= 2.19 to build a CONFIG_RELOCATABLE kernel"
> -fi


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