Merge tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - klp-build livepatch module generation (Josh Poimboeuf)

   Introduce new objtool features and a klp-build script to generate
   livepatch modules using a source .patch as input.

   This builds on concepts from the longstanding out-of-tree kpatch
   project which began in 2012 and has been used for many years to
   generate livepatch modules for production kernels. However, this is a
   complete rewrite which incorporates hard-earned lessons from 12+
   years of maintaining kpatch.

   Key improvements compared to kpatch-build:

    - Integrated with objtool: Leverages objtool's existing control-flow
      graph analysis to help detect changed functions.

    - Works on vmlinux.o: Supports late-linked objects, making it
      compatible with LTO, IBT, and similar.

    - Simplified code base: ~3k fewer lines of code.

    - Upstream: No more out-of-tree #ifdef hacks, far less cruft.

    - Cleaner internals: Vastly simplified logic for
      symbol/section/reloc inclusion and special section extraction.

    - Robust __LINE__ macro handling: Avoids false positive binary diffs
      caused by the __LINE__ macro by introducing a fix-patch-lines
      script which injects #line directives into the source .patch to
      preserve the original line numbers at compile time.

 - Disassemble code with libopcodes instead of running objdump
   (Alexandre Chartre)

 - Disassemble support (-d option to objtool) by Alexandre Chartre,
   which supports the decoding of various Linux kernel code generation
   specials such as alternatives:

      17ef:  sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x62f                 mov    0x34(%r9),%edx
      17f3:  sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633               | <alternative.17f3>             | X86_FEATURE_POPCNT
      17f3:  sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633               | call   0x17f8 <__sw_hweight64> | popcnt %rdi,%rax
      17f8:  sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x638                 cmp    %eax,%edx

   ... jump table alternatives:

      1895:  sched_use_asym_prio+0x5                            test   $0x8,%ch
      1898:  sched_use_asym_prio+0x8                            je     0x18a9 <sched_use_asym_prio+0x19>
      189a:  sched_use_asym_prio+0xa                          | <jump_table.189a>                        | JUMP
      189a:  sched_use_asym_prio+0xa                          | jmp    0x18ae <sched_use_asym_prio+0x1e> | nop2
      189c:  sched_use_asym_prio+0xc                            mov    $0x1,%eax
      18a1:  sched_use_asym_prio+0x11                           and    $0x80,%ecx

   ... exception table alternatives:

    native_read_msr:
      5b80:  native_read_msr+0x0                                                     mov    %edi,%ecx
      5b82:  native_read_msr+0x2                                                   | <ex_table.5b82> | EXCEPTION
      5b82:  native_read_msr+0x2                                                   | rdmsr           | resume at 0x5b84 <native_read_msr+0x4>
      5b84:  native_read_msr+0x4                                                     shl    $0x20,%rdx

   .... x86 feature flag decoding (also see the X86_FEATURE_POPCNT
        example in sched_balance_find_dst_group() above):

      2faaf:  start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x1f                                    jne    0x2fba4 <start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x114>
      2fab5:  start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25                                  | <alternative.2fab5>                  | X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS                                  | X86_BUG_NULL_SEG
      2fab5:  start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25                                  | jmp    0x2faba <.altinstr_aux+0x2f4> | jmp    0x4b0 <start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x3f> | nop5
      2faba:  start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x2a                                    mov    $0x2b,%eax

   ... NOP sequence shortening:

      1048e2:  snapshot_write_finalize+0xc2                                            je     0x104917 <snapshot_write_finalize+0xf7>
      1048e4:  snapshot_write_finalize+0xc4                                            nop6
      1048ea:  snapshot_write_finalize+0xca                                            nop11
      1048f5:  snapshot_write_finalize+0xd5                                            nop11
      104900:  snapshot_write_finalize+0xe0                                            mov    %rax,%rcx
      104903:  snapshot_write_finalize+0xe3                                            mov    0x10(%rdx),%rax

   ... and much more.

 - Function validation tracing support (Alexandre Chartre)

 - Various -ffunction-sections fixes (Josh Poimboeuf)

 - Clang AutoFDO (Automated Feedback-Directed Optimizations) support
   (Josh Poimboeuf)

 - Misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Chen Ni, Dylan Hatch, Ingo
   Molnar, John Wang, Josh Poimboeuf, Pankaj Raghav, Peter Zijlstra,
   Thorsten Blum)

* tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (129 commits)
  objtool: Fix segfault on unknown alternatives
  objtool: Build with disassembly can fail when including bdf.h
  objtool: Trim trailing NOPs in alternative
  objtool: Add wide output for disassembly
  objtool: Compact output for alternatives with one instruction
  objtool: Improve naming of group alternatives
  objtool: Add Function to get the name of a CPU feature
  objtool: Provide access to feature and flags of group alternatives
  objtool: Fix address references in alternatives
  objtool: Disassemble jump table alternatives
  objtool: Disassemble exception table alternatives
  objtool: Print addresses with alternative instructions
  objtool: Disassemble group alternatives
  objtool: Print headers for alternatives
  objtool: Preserve alternatives order
  objtool: Add the --disas=<function-pattern> action
  objtool: Do not validate IBT for .return_sites and .call_sites
  objtool: Improve tracing of alternative instructions
  objtool: Add functions to better name alternatives
  objtool: Identify the different types of alternatives
  ...

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
index 15bc07a5ebb3..b14c045679e1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ static inline int alternatives_text_reserved(void *start, void *end)
 
 #define ALTINSTR_ENTRY(ft_flags)					      \
 	".pushsection .altinstructions,\"a\"\n"				      \
+	ANNOTATE_DATA_SPECIAL						      \
 	" .long 771b - .\n"				/* label           */ \
 	" .long 774f - .\n"				/* new instruction */ \
 	" .4byte " __stringify(ft_flags) "\n"		/* feature + flags */ \
@@ -207,6 +208,7 @@ static inline int alternatives_text_reserved(void *start, void *end)
 
 #define ALTINSTR_REPLACEMENT(newinstr)		/* replacement */	\
 	".pushsection .altinstr_replacement, \"ax\"\n"			\
+	ANNOTATE_DATA_SPECIAL						\
 	"# ALT: replacement\n"						\
 	"774:\n\t" newinstr "\n775:\n"					\
 	".popsection\n"
@@ -337,6 +339,7 @@ void nop_func(void);
  * instruction. See apply_alternatives().
  */
 .macro altinstr_entry orig alt ft_flags orig_len alt_len
+	ANNOTATE_DATA_SPECIAL
 	.long \orig - .
 	.long \alt - .
 	.4byte \ft_flags
@@ -365,6 +368,7 @@ void nop_func(void);
 	.popsection ;							\
 	.pushsection .altinstr_replacement,"ax"	;			\
 743:									\
+	ANNOTATE_DATA_SPECIAL ;						\
 	newinst	;							\
 744:									\
 	.popsection ;