mainlining shenanigans
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Currently with -mindirect-branch=thunk and -mfunction-return=thunk compiler options expoline thunks are put into individual COMDAT group sections. s390 is the only architecture which has group sections and it has implications for kpatch and objtool tools support. Using -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern and -mfunction-return=thunk-extern is an alternative, which comes with a need to generate all required expoline thunks manually. Unfortunately modules area is too far away from the kernel image, and expolines from the kernel image cannon be used. But since all new distributions (except Debian) build kernels for machine generations newer than z10, where "exrl" instruction is available, that leaves only 16 expolines thunks possible. Provide an option to build the kernel with -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern and -mfunction-return=thunk-extern for z10 or newer. This also requires to postlink expoline thunks into all modules explicitly. Currently modules already contain most expolines anyhow. Unfortunately -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern and -mfunction-return=thunk-extern options support is broken in gcc <= 11.2. Additional compile test is required to verify proper gcc support. Acked-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com> Co-developed-by: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.