[PATCH 04/14] tools headers: Sync linux/cfi_types.h with the kernel source

Namhyung Kim namhyung at kernel.org
Tue Aug 19 03:32:18 AEST 2025


To pick up the changes in this cset:

  5ccaeedb489b41ce cfi: add C CFI type macro

This addresses these perf build warnings:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/include/linux/cfi_types.h include/linux/cfi_types.h

Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.

Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org>
---
 tools/include/linux/cfi_types.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/include/linux/cfi_types.h b/tools/include/linux/cfi_types.h
index 6b8713675765..685f7181780f 100644
--- a/tools/include/linux/cfi_types.h
+++ b/tools/include/linux/cfi_types.h
@@ -41,5 +41,28 @@
 	SYM_TYPED_START(name, SYM_L_GLOBAL, SYM_A_ALIGN)
 #endif
 
+#else /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CFI_CLANG
+#define DEFINE_CFI_TYPE(name, func)						\
+	/*									\
+	 * Force a reference to the function so the compiler generates		\
+	 * __kcfi_typeid_<func>.						\
+	 */									\
+	__ADDRESSABLE(func);							\
+	/* u32 name __ro_after_init = __kcfi_typeid_<func> */			\
+	extern u32 name;							\
+	asm (									\
+	"	.pushsection	.data..ro_after_init,\"aw\",\%progbits	\n"	\
+	"	.type	" #name ",\%object				\n"	\
+	"	.globl	" #name "					\n"	\
+	"	.p2align	2, 0x0					\n"	\
+	#name ":							\n"	\
+	"	.4byte	__kcfi_typeid_" #func "				\n"	\
+	"	.size	" #name ", 4					\n"	\
+	"	.popsection						\n"	\
+	);
+#endif
+
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 #endif /* _LINUX_CFI_TYPES_H */
-- 
2.25.1




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