From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C265C433E0 for ; Sat, 23 May 2020 15:13:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F0B20787 for ; Sat, 23 May 2020 15:13:45 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1590246826; bh=6lnalPQ4QF3yTwODc+WyzkdV0yWTMK+qbtONQ0FJ88M=; h=References:In-Reply-To:From:Date:Subject:To:Cc:List-ID:From; b=PtsLNI4CBM2OFWJkPPpuwkA/+b22fA2a25L3hMVG2lj547eCINqZxUNEEXYuZwPc0 1HvcXpXMke+1kWwQkBn8XkiOOdrFkivr18F7XR3ns0Xw8auIjTRVpQicKrcTHVA34x R/zvb6pG1/KW3pulufed/b1NprDMkOgP3o3EqCQI= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2387934AbgEWPNp (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 May 2020 11:13:45 -0400 Received: from conssluserg-04.nifty.com ([210.131.2.83]:64850 "EHLO conssluserg-04.nifty.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2387815AbgEWPNo (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 May 2020 11:13:44 -0400 Received: from mail-vk1-f180.google.com (mail-vk1-f180.google.com [209.85.221.180]) (authenticated) by conssluserg-04.nifty.com with ESMTP id 04NFDCE2003781; Sun, 24 May 2020 00:13:12 +0900 DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.10.3 conssluserg-04.nifty.com 04NFDCE2003781 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=nifty.com; s=dec2015msa; t=1590246793; bh=xJmXTYj50sybR72Tmu0sL1rVl2NmiVU6DlqCC3wSc0I=; h=References:In-Reply-To:From:Date:Subject:To:Cc:From; b=XEiMNJ6DOrq1OLjWkeqGTh/y6ilQV+akPqWRATkxQSSUDvzYdDEMSPFdDdRR6UJa2 Ch6rFVy8yw36X7KHFHo+H0nIpLYeqNWa8vwYYwxbpuxFcfKJtdQsKZqrOKTeap5WM7 9uZaB294gE82R1aG7uYZSIBmHLDf+BL3bc5w6oWSPVr3iUKQqt9hslqQy4xCP9V/jI brrwhOoBWD5MRAZKqajhiyY/kV++BZRMsAOn9j3aARmAPVf/f5QmO2hDavXkfQqX6Z oqQbRYsSBsDHbBxPF9o8sD9bRoqko/kZlTW/bLPsaOFs6DAgGgo4REDCaz2vy6CRca sqeR90S4Ar5pA== X-Nifty-SrcIP: [209.85.221.180] Received: by mail-vk1-f180.google.com with SMTP id j28so3307909vkn.8; Sat, 23 May 2020 08:13:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533mGg9TMPNAFwqWFNpy6jTLiifBeGa/YC+jepTp44R7QRbsRxo2 DSb+FbJZ6vF32UdVcflzw4vZhgJcZnTtg4/syCE= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxXuyApTJV+/vLVj3aF7laPSePeL/0+ORcYCVzUfZ7CG5bybj9ZaWHd9RNE3Ro9OuD/azIjmmmnjg/T/HhRNKo= X-Received: by 2002:a1f:1652:: with SMTP id 79mr1180703vkw.26.1590246791400; Sat, 23 May 2020 08:13:11 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20200521202716.193316-1-samitolvanen@google.com> <1590226253.lnkg0jun9x.astroid@bobo.none> In-Reply-To: <1590226253.lnkg0jun9x.astroid@bobo.none> From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 00:12:35 +0900 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: reuse vmlinux.o in vmlinux_link To: Nicholas Piggin Cc: linuxppc-dev , Michael Ellerman , Sami Tolvanen , Kees Cook , Linux Kbuild mailing list , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Michal Marek , Sam Ravnborg Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Nicholas, (+CC: Sam Ravnborg) On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 7:06 PM Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > Excerpts from Masahiro Yamada's message of May 23, 2020 3:44 am: > > + Michael, and PPC ML. > > > > They may know something about the reason of failure. > > Because the linker can't put branch stubs within object code sections, > so when you incrementally link them too large, the linker can't resolve > branches into other object files. Ah, you are right. So, this is a problem not only for PPC but also for ARM (both 32 and 64 bit), etc. ARM needs to insert a veneer to jump far. Prior to thin archive, we could not compile ARCH=arm allyesconfig because drivers/built-in.o was too large. This patch gets us back to the too large incremental object situation. With my quick compile-testing, ARCH=arm allyesconfig and ARCH=arm64 allyesconfig are broken. > This is why we added incremental linking in the first place. I suppose > it could be made conditional for platforms that can use this > optimization. > > What'd be really nice is if we could somehow build and link kallsyms > without relinking everything twice, and if we could do section mismatch > analysis without making that vmlinux.o as well. I had a few ideas but > not enough time to do much work on it. Right, kallsyms links 3 times. (not twice) Hmm, I think Sami's main motivation is Clang LTO. LTO is very time-consuming. So, the android common kernel implements Clang LTO in the pre modpost stage: 1) LTO against vmlinux.o 2) modpost against vmlinux.o 3) Link vmlinux.o + kallsyms into vmlinux (this requires linking 3 times) If we move LTO to 3), we need to do LTO 3 times. And, this was how GCC LTO was implemented in 2014, (then rejected by Linus). How to do modpost without making vmlinux.o ? In old days, the section mismatch analysis was done against the final vmlinux. 85bd2fddd68e757da8e1af98f857f61a3c9ce647 changed it to run modpost for individual .o files. Then, 741f98fe298a73c9d47ed53703c1279a29718581 introduced vmlinux.o to use it for modpost. The following two commits. I did not fully understand the background, though. I CC'ed Sam in case he may add some comments. commit 85bd2fddd68e757da8e1af98f857f61a3c9ce647 Author: Sam Ravnborg Date: Mon Feb 26 15:33:52 2007 +0100 kbuild: fix section mismatch check for vmlinux vmlinux does not contain relocation entries which is used by the section mismatch checks. Reported by: Atsushi Nemoto Use the individual objects as inputs to overcome this limitation. In modpost check the .o files and skip non-ELF files. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg commit 741f98fe298a73c9d47ed53703c1279a29718581 Author: Sam Ravnborg Date: Tue Jul 17 10:54:06 2007 +0200 kbuild: do section mismatch check on full vmlinux Previously we did do the check on the .o files used to link vmlinux but that failed to find questionable references across the .o files. Create a dedicated vmlinux.o file used only for section mismatch checks that uses the defualt linker script so section does not get renamed. The vmlinux.o may later be used as part of the the final link of vmlinux but for now it is used fo section mismatch only. For a defconfig build this is instant but for an allyesconfig this add two minutes to a full build (that anyways takes ~2 hours). Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg > > Thanks, > Nick > > > > > > > On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 2:41 AM Masahiro Yamada wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 5:27 AM Sami Tolvanen wrote: > >> > > >> > Instead of linking all compilation units again each time vmlinux_link is > >> > called, reuse vmlinux.o from modpost_link. > >> > > >> > With x86_64 allyesconfig, vmlinux_link is called three times and reusing > >> > vmlinux.o reduces the build time ~38 seconds on my system (59% reduction > >> > in the time spent in vmlinux_link). > >> > > >> > Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen > >> > --- > >> > scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 5 +---- > >> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) > >> > > >> > diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh > >> > index d09ab4afbda4..c6cc4305950c 100755 > >> > --- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh > >> > +++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh > >> > @@ -77,11 +77,8 @@ vmlinux_link() > >> > > >> > if [ "${SRCARCH}" != "um" ]; then > >> > objects="--whole-archive \ > >> > - ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS} \ > >> > + vmlinux.o \ > >> > --no-whole-archive \ > >> > - --start-group \ > >> > - ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS} \ > >> > - --end-group \ > >> > ${@}" > >> > > >> > ${LD} ${KBUILD_LDFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS_vmlinux} \ > >> > > >> > base-commit: b85051e755b0e9d6dd8f17ef1da083851b83287d > >> > -- > >> > 2.27.0.rc0.183.gde8f92d652-goog > >> > > >> > >> > >> I like this patch irrespective of CLANG_LTO, but > >> unfortunately, my build test failed. > >> > >> > >> ARCH=powerpc failed to build as follows: > >> > >> > >> > >> MODPOST vmlinux.o > >> MODINFO modules.builtin.modinfo > >> GEN modules.builtin > >> LD .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1 > >> vmlinux.o:(__ftr_alt_97+0x20): relocation truncated to fit: > >> R_PPC64_REL14 against `.text'+4b1c > >> vmlinux.o:(__ftr_alt_97+0x164): relocation truncated to fit: > >> R_PPC64_REL14 against `.text'+1cf78 > >> vmlinux.o:(__ftr_alt_97+0x288): relocation truncated to fit: > >> R_PPC64_REL14 against `.text'+1dac4 > >> vmlinux.o:(__ftr_alt_97+0x2f0): relocation truncated to fit: > >> R_PPC64_REL14 against `.text'+1e254 > >> make: *** [Makefile:1125: vmlinux] Error 1 > >> > >> > >> > >> I used powerpc-linux-gcc > >> available at > >> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/9.2.0/ > >> > >> > >> Build command: > >> > >> make -j24 ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux- defconfig all > >> > >> > >> Could you check it please? > >> > >> > >> > >> I will apply it to my test branch. > >> Perhaps, 0-day bot may find more failure cases. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Best Regards > >> Masahiro Yamada > > > > > > > > -- > > Best Regards > > Masahiro Yamada > > -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada