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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: "Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Will Deacon" <will@kernel.org>,
	"Nick Desaulniers" <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	"Jian Cai" <jiancai@google.com>,
	"Fāng-ruì Sòng" <maskray@google.com>,
	"Luis Lozano" <llozano@google.com>,
	"Manoj Gupta" <manojgupta@google.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"Ard Biesheuvel" <ardb@kernel.org>,
	"Peter Collingbourne" <pcc@google.com>,
	"James Morse" <james.morse@arm.com>,
	"Borislav Petkov" <bp@suse.de>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Russell King" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	"Masahiro Yamada" <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
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	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com,
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	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Michal Marek" <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 13/36] vmlinux.lds.h: add PGO and AutoFDO input sections
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 12:05:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200803190506.GE1299820@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200801035128.GB2800311@rani.riverdale.lan>

> However, the history of their being together comes from
> 
>   9bebe9e5b0f3 ("kbuild: Fix .text.unlikely placement")
> 
> which seems to indicate there was some problem with having them separated out,
> although I don't quite understand what the issue was from the commit message.

Separating it out is less efficient. Gives worse packing for the hot part
if they are not aligned to 64byte boundaries, which they are usually not. 

It also improves packing of the cold part, but that probably doesn't matter.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-03 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-31 23:07 [PATCH v5 00/36] Warn on orphan section placement Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:07 ` [PATCH v5 01/36] x86/boot/compressed: Move .got.plt entries out of the .got section Kees Cook
2020-08-14 15:23   ` [tip: x86/boot] " tip-bot2 for Ard Biesheuvel
2020-07-31 23:07 ` [PATCH v5 02/36] x86/boot/compressed: Force hidden visibility for all symbol references Kees Cook
2020-08-14 15:23   ` [tip: x86/boot] " tip-bot2 for Ard Biesheuvel
2020-07-31 23:07 ` [PATCH v5 03/36] x86/boot/compressed: Get rid of GOT fixup code Kees Cook
2020-08-14 15:23   ` [tip: x86/boot] " tip-bot2 for Ard Biesheuvel
2020-07-31 23:07 ` [PATCH v5 04/36] x86/boot: Add .text.* to setup.ld Kees Cook
2020-08-14 15:23   ` [tip: x86/boot] " tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar
2020-07-31 23:07 ` [PATCH v5 05/36] x86/boot: Remove run-time relocations from .head.text code Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:42   ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-14 15:23   ` [tip: x86/boot] " tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar
2020-07-31 23:07 ` [PATCH v5 06/36] x86/boot: Remove run-time relocations from head_{32,64}.S Kees Cook
2020-08-07 18:12   ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-07 20:20     ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-14 15:23   ` [tip: x86/boot] " tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar
2020-07-31 23:07 ` [PATCH v5 07/36] x86/boot: Check that there are no run-time relocations Kees Cook
2020-08-14 15:23   ` [tip: x86/boot] " tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar
2020-07-31 23:07 ` [PATCH v5 08/36] vmlinux.lds.h: Create COMMON_DISCARDS Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:07 ` [PATCH v5 09/36] vmlinux.lds.h: Add .gnu.version* to COMMON_DISCARDS Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:07 ` [PATCH v5 10/36] vmlinux.lds.h: Avoid KASAN and KCSAN's unwanted sections Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:07 ` [PATCH v5 11/36] vmlinux.lds.h: Split ELF_DETAILS from STABS_DEBUG Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:07 ` [PATCH v5 12/36] vmlinux.lds.h: Add .symtab, .strtab, and .shstrtab to ELF_DETAILS Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:07 ` [PATCH v5 13/36] vmlinux.lds.h: add PGO and AutoFDO input sections Kees Cook
2020-08-01  3:51   ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-01  6:18     ` Kees Cook
2020-08-01 17:27       ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-03 19:05     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2020-08-03 20:15       ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-04  1:19         ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2020-08-04  4:45         ` Andi Kleen
2020-08-04  5:32           ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2020-08-04 16:06           ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-21 19:18             ` Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:07 ` [PATCH v5 14/36] efi/libstub: Disable -mbranch-protection Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:07 ` [PATCH v5 15/36] arm64/mm: Remove needless section quotes Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 16/36] arm64/kernel: Remove needless Call Frame Information annotations Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 17/36] arm64/build: Remove .eh_frame* sections due to unwind tables Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 18/36] arm64/build: Use common DISCARDS in linker script Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 19/36] arm64/build: Add missing DWARF sections Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 20/36] arm64/build: Assert for unwanted sections Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 21/36] arm64/build: Warn on orphan section placement Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 22/36] arm/build: Refactor linker script headers Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 23/36] arm/build: Explicitly keep .ARM.attributes sections Kees Cook
2020-08-03 19:02   ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-17 22:06     ` Fangrui Song
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 24/36] arm/build: Add missing sections Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 25/36] arm/build: Warn on orphan section placement Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 26/36] arm/boot: Handle all sections explicitly Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 27/36] arm/boot: Warn on orphan section placement Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 28/36] x86/asm: Avoid generating unused kprobe sections Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 29/36] x86/build: Enforce an empty .got.plt section Kees Cook
2020-08-01  2:12   ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-01  5:32     ` Kees Cook
2020-08-21 17:49     ` Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 30/36] x86/build: Assert for unwanted sections Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 31/36] x86/build: Warn on orphan section placement Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 32/36] x86/boot/compressed: Reorganize zero-size section asserts Kees Cook
2020-08-01  1:47   ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-01  2:53     ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-01  5:36       ` Kees Cook
2020-08-01 17:12         ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-21 18:24           ` Kees Cook
2020-08-01  5:35     ` Kees Cook
2020-08-01 17:00       ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-21 18:19     ` Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 33/36] x86/boot/compressed: Remove, discard, or assert for unwanted sections Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 34/36] x86/boot/compressed: Add missing debugging sections to output Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 35/36] x86/boot/compressed: Warn on orphan section placement Kees Cook
2020-07-31 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 36/36] arm/build: Assert for unwanted sections Kees Cook

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