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From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
To: jthierry@redhat.com
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
	keescook@chromium.org, clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com,
	peterz@infradead.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
	masahiroy@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	michal.lkml@markovi.net, raphael.gault@arm.com,
	broonie@kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
	jpoimboe@redhat.com, will@kernel.org, ardb@kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 12/17] gcc-plugins: objtool: Add plugin to detect switch table on arm64
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 14:15:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210127221557.1119744-1-ndesaulniers@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210120173800.1660730-13-jthierry@redhat.com>

> From: Raphael Gault <raphael.gault@arm.com>
> 
> This plugins comes into play before the final 2 RTL passes of GCC and
> detects switch-tables that are to be outputed in the ELF and writes
> information in an ".discard.switch_table_info" section which will be
> used by objtool.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Raphael Gault <raphael.gault@arm.com>
> [J.T.: Change section name to store switch table information,
>        Make plugin Kconfig be selected rather than opt-in by user,
>        Add a relocation in the switch_table_info that points to
>        the jump operation itself]
> Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>

Rather than tightly couple this feature to a particular toolchain via
plugin, it might be nice to consider what features could be spec'ed out
for toolchains to implement (perhaps via a -f flag).

Distributions (like Android, CrOS) wont be able to use such a feature as
is.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-27 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-20 17:37 [RFC PATCH 00/17] objtool: add base support for arm64 Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 01/17] tools: Add some generic functions and headers Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 02/17] tools: arm64: Make aarch64 instruction decoder available to tools Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 03/17] tools: bug: Remove duplicate definition Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 04/17] objtool: arm64: Add base definition for arm64 backend Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 05/17] objtool: arm64: Decode add/sub instructions Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 06/17] objtool: arm64: Decode jump and call related instructions Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 07/17] objtool: arm64: Decode other system instructions Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 08/17] objtool: arm64: Decode load/store instructions Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 09/17] objtool: arm64: Decode LDR instructions Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 10/17] objtool: arm64: Accept padding in code sections Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 11/17] efi: libstub: Ignore relocations for .discard sections Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 12/17] gcc-plugins: objtool: Add plugin to detect switch table on arm64 Julien Thierry
2021-01-27 22:15   ` Nick Desaulniers [this message]
2021-01-27 23:26     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-29 18:10       ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-02-01 21:44         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-02-01 23:17           ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-02-02  0:02             ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-02-02 14:24               ` David Laight
2021-02-02 22:33               ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-02-02 23:36                 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-02-02 23:52                   ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-02-02  8:57             ` Julien Thierry
2021-02-02 23:01               ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-02-03  0:14                 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-02-03 11:57                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-02-03 13:04                   ` Mark Brown
2021-02-03 13:58                   ` Mark Rutland
2021-02-03  8:11                 ` Julien Thierry
2021-02-09 16:30                 ` Daniel Kiss
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 13/17] objtool: arm64: Implement functions to add switch tables alternatives Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 14/17] objtool: arm64: Cache section with switch table information Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 15/17] objtool: arm64: Handle supported relocations in alternatives Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 16/17] objtool: arm64: Ignore replacement section for alternative callback Julien Thierry
2021-01-20 17:38 ` [RFC PATCH 17/17] objtool: arm64: Enable stack validation for arm64 Julien Thierry
2021-01-21  9:03 ` [RFC PATCH 00/17] objtool: add base support " Ard Biesheuvel
2021-01-21 10:26   ` Julien Thierry
2021-01-21 11:08     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-01-21 11:23       ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-21 11:48         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-01-21 18:54           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-22 17:43             ` Mark Brown
2021-01-22 17:54               ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-01-28 22:10                 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-29 15:47                   ` Mark Brown
2021-01-22 21:15               ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-22 21:43                 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-01-22 21:44                   ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-25 21:19                   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-22 21:16               ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-21 13:23       ` Julien Thierry
2021-01-21 14:23         ` Mark Brown

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