[PATCH] powerpc/purgatory: Omit use of bin2c
Masahiro Yamada
masahiroy at kernel.org
Mon Jul 25 01:12:05 AEST 2022
On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 7:42 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> The .incbin assembler directive is much faster than bin2c + $(CC).
>
> Do similar refactoring as in commit 4c0f032d4963 ("s390/purgatory:
> Omit use of bin2c").
>
> Please note the .quad directive matches to size_t in C (both 8 byte)
> because the purgatory is compiled only for the 64-bit kernel.
> (KEXEC_FILE depends on PPC64).
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org>
> ---
Ping?
> arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 -
> arch/powerpc/purgatory/.gitignore | 1 -
> arch/powerpc/purgatory/Makefile | 8 ++------
> arch/powerpc/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.S | 14 ++++++++++++++
> scripts/remove-stale-files | 2 ++
> 5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.S
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> index c2ce2e60c8f0..1cb684ee3519 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> @@ -547,7 +547,6 @@ config KEXEC_FILE
> bool "kexec file based system call"
> select KEXEC_CORE
> select HAVE_IMA_KEXEC if IMA
> - select BUILD_BIN2C
> select KEXEC_ELF
> depends on PPC64
> depends on CRYPTO=y
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/purgatory/.gitignore b/arch/powerpc/purgatory/.gitignore
> index b8dc6ff34254..5e40575c1f2b 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/purgatory/.gitignore
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/purgatory/.gitignore
> @@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
> # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> -kexec-purgatory.c
> purgatory.ro
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/purgatory/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/purgatory/Makefile
> index 348f59581052..a81d155b89ae 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/purgatory/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/purgatory/Makefile
> @@ -2,17 +2,13 @@
>
> KASAN_SANITIZE := n
>
> -targets += trampoline_$(BITS).o purgatory.ro kexec-purgatory.c
> +targets += trampoline_$(BITS).o purgatory.ro
>
> LDFLAGS_purgatory.ro := -e purgatory_start -r --no-undefined
>
> $(obj)/purgatory.ro: $(obj)/trampoline_$(BITS).o FORCE
> $(call if_changed,ld)
>
> -quiet_cmd_bin2c = BIN2C $@
> - cmd_bin2c = $(objtree)/scripts/bin2c kexec_purgatory < $< > $@
> -
> -$(obj)/kexec-purgatory.c: $(obj)/purgatory.ro FORCE
> - $(call if_changed,bin2c)
> +$(obj)/kexec-purgatory.o: $(obj)/purgatory.ro
>
> obj-y += kexec-purgatory.o
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.S b/arch/powerpc/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.S
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..4e5f64a0bf4a
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.S
> @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +
> + .section .rodata, "a"
> +
> + .align 8
> +kexec_purgatory:
> + .globl kexec_purgatory
> + .incbin "arch/powerpc/purgatory/purgatory.ro"
> +.Lkexec_purgatroy_end:
> +
> + .align 8
> +kexec_purgatory_size:
> + .globl kexec_purgatory_size
> + .quad .Lkexec_purgatroy_end - kexec_purgatory
> diff --git a/scripts/remove-stale-files b/scripts/remove-stale-files
> index 7adab4618035..5a7543469698 100755
> --- a/scripts/remove-stale-files
> +++ b/scripts/remove-stale-files
> @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ set -e
> # yard. Stale files stay in this file for a while (for some release cycles?),
> # then will be really dead and removed from the code base entirely.
>
> +rm -f arch/powerpc/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.c
> +
> # These were previously generated source files. When you are building the kernel
> # with O=, make sure to remove the stale files in the output tree. Otherwise,
> # the build system wrongly compiles the stale ones.
> --
> 2.32.0
>
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
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