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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-12-01 20:18:59 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-12-01 20:18:59 -0800 |
| commit | 63e6995005be8ceb8a1d56a18df1a1a40c28356d (patch) | |
| tree | 9dc6af0e1ab47710fe21cf7cfd95b1d28b6bec27 /tools/objtool/objtool.c | |
| parent | b53440f8e5a1466870d7a1d255e0f9966e0041fb (diff) | |
| parent | 6ec33db1aaf06a76fb063610e668f8e12f32ebbf (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.c | 42 |
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); } |