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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2025-12-01 20:18:59 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2025-12-01 20:18:59 -0800
commit63e6995005be8ceb8a1d56a18df1a1a40c28356d (patch)
tree9dc6af0e1ab47710fe21cf7cfd95b1d28b6bec27 /tools/objtool/objtool.c
parentb53440f8e5a1466870d7a1d255e0f9966e0041fb (diff)
parent6ec33db1aaf06a76fb063610e668f8e12f32ebbf (diff)
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 ...
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/objtool/objtool.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/objtool/objtool.c42
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/objtool.c b/tools/objtool/objtool.c
index 5c8b974ad0f9..3c26ed561c7e 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/objtool.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/objtool.c
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@
#include <objtool/objtool.h>
#include <objtool/warn.h>
-bool help;
+bool debug;
+int indent;
static struct objtool_file file;
@@ -71,6 +72,39 @@ int objtool_pv_add(struct objtool_file *f, int idx, struct symbol *func)
return 0;
}
+char *top_level_dir(const char *file)
+{
+ ssize_t len, self_len, file_len;
+ char self[PATH_MAX], *str;
+ int i;
+
+ len = readlink("/proc/self/exe", self, sizeof(self) - 1);
+ if (len <= 0)
+ return NULL;
+ self[len] = '\0';
+
+ for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
+ char *s = strrchr(self, '/');
+ if (!s)
+ return NULL;
+ *s = '\0';
+ }
+
+ self_len = strlen(self);
+ file_len = strlen(file);
+
+ str = malloc(self_len + file_len + 2);
+ if (!str)
+ return NULL;
+
+ memcpy(str, self, self_len);
+ str[self_len] = '/';
+ strcpy(str + self_len + 1, file);
+
+ return str;
+}
+
+
int main(int argc, const char **argv)
{
static const char *UNUSED = "OBJTOOL_NOT_IMPLEMENTED";
@@ -79,5 +113,11 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
exec_cmd_init("objtool", UNUSED, UNUSED, UNUSED);
pager_init(UNUSED);
+ if (argc > 1 && !strcmp(argv[1], "klp")) {
+ argc--;
+ argv++;
+ return cmd_klp(argc, argv);
+ }
+
return objtool_run(argc, argv);
}