user/sven/linux.git/scripts/mksysmap, branch v6.6.17

scripts/mksysmap: Ignore prefixed KCFI symbols

2023-06-26T23:35:43Z

The (relatively) new KCFI feature in LLVM/Clang encodes type information for C functions by generating symbols named __kcfi_typeid_, which can then be referenced from assembly. However, some custom build rules (e.g. nVHE or early PIE on arm64) use objcopy to add a prefix to all the symbols in their object files, making mksysmap's ignore filter miss those KCFI symbols. Therefore, explicitly list those twice-prefixed KCFI symbols as ignored. Alternatively, this could also be achieved in a less verbose way by ignoring any symbol containing the string "__kcfi_typeid_". However, listing the combined prefixes explicitly saves us from running the small risk of ignoring symbols that should be kept. Signed-off-by: Pierre-Clément Tosi Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

scripts/mksysmap: Ignore __pi_ local arm64 symbols

2023-06-07T13:41:08Z

Similarly to "__kvm_nvhe_", filter out any local symbol that was prefixed with "__pi_" (generated when CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y) when compiling System.map and in kallsyms. Signed-off-by: Pierre-Clément Tosi Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

scripts/mksysmap: Fix badly escaped '$'

2023-06-07T13:41:08Z

The backslash characters escaping '$' in the command to sed (intended to prevent it from interpreting '$' as "end-of-line") are currently being consumed by the Shell (where they mean that sh should not evaluate what follows '$' as a variable name). This means that sed -e "/ \$/d" executes the script / $/d instead of the intended / \$/d So escape twice in mksysmap any '$' that actually needs to reach sed escaped so that the backslash survives the Shell. Fixes: c4802044a0a7 ("scripts/mksysmap: use sed with in-line comments") Fixes: 320e7c9d4494 ("scripts/kallsyms: move compiler-generated symbol patterns to mksysmap") Signed-off-by: Pierre-Clément Tosi Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

scripts/kallsyms: move compiler-generated symbol patterns to mksysmap

2023-04-17T02:03:56Z

scripts/kallsyms.c maintains compiler-generated symbols, but we end up with something similar in scripts/mksysmap to avoid the "Inconsistent kallsyms data" error. For example, commit c17a2538704f ("mksysmap: Fix the mismatch of 'L0' symbols in System.map"). They were separately maintained prior to commit 94ff2f63d6a3 ("kbuild: reuse mksysmap output for kallsyms"). Now that scripts/kallsyms.c parses the output of scripts/mksysmap, it makes more sense to collect all the ignored patterns to mksysmap. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers

scripts/kallsyms: exclude symbols generated by itself dynamically

2023-04-17T02:03:56Z

Drop the symbols generated by scripts/kallsyms itself automatically instead of maintaining the symbol list manually. Pass the kallsyms object from the previous kallsyms step (if it exists) as the third parameter of scripts/mksysmap, which will weed out the generated symbols from the input to the next kallsyms step. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

scripts/mksysmap: use sed with in-line comments

2023-04-17T02:03:56Z

It is not feasible to insert comments in a multi-line shell command. Use sed, and move comments close to the code. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

scripts/mksysmap: remove comments described in nm(1)

2023-04-17T02:03:56Z

I do not think we need to repeat what is written in 'man nm'. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kallsyms: ignore __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* symbols

2022-10-02T18:51:58Z

Every EXPORT_SYMBOL creates __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_*, which consumes 15-20% of the kallsyms entries. For example, on the system built from the x86_64 defconfig, $ cat /proc/kallsyms | wc 129527 388581 5685465 $ cat /proc/kallsyms | grep __kstrtab | wc 23489 70467 1187932 We already ignore __crc_* symbols populated by EXPORT_SYMBOL, so it should be fine to ignore __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* as well. This makes vmlinux a bit smaller. $ size vmlinux.before vmlinux.after text data bss dec hex filename 22785374 8559694 1413328 32758396 1f3da7c vmlinux.before 22785374 8137806 1413328 32336508 1ed6a7c vmlinux.after Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kallsyms: drop duplicated ignore patterns from kallsyms.c

2022-10-02T09:06:05Z

Now that kallsyms.c parses the output from mksysmap, some symbols have already been dropped. Move comments to scripts/mksysmap. Also, make the grep command readable. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

mksysmap: update comment about __crc_*

2022-10-02T09:06:05Z

Since commit 7b4537199a4a ("kbuild: link symbol CRCs at final link, removing CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS"), __crc_* symbols never become absolute. Keep ignoring __crc_*, but update the comment. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada