From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Fāng-ruì Sòng" <maskray@google.com>
Cc: "Nick Desaulniers" <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
"Josh Poimboeuf" <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
lma@semihalf.com, "Guenter Roeck" <groeck@google.com>,
"Juergen Gross" <jgross@suse.com>,
lb@semihalf.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
mbenes@suse.com, "Radosław Biernacki" <rad@semihalf.com>,
upstream@semihalf.com,
"maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)"
<x86@kernel.org>,
clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
"Nathan Chancellor" <nathan@kernel.org>,
"Sami Tolvanen" <samitolvanen@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 16/16] objtool,x86: Rewrite retpoline thunk calls
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 09:56:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YL3RQCJGIw9835Y1@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFP8O3+ggR8N-ffsaYSMPX7s2XgrzzTQQjOgCwUe9smyos-waA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 06:58:39PM -0700, Fāng-ruì Sòng wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 3:39 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > I think you've absolutely nailed it; but would you have more information
> > or a code reference to what you're speaking about? My complete ELF
> > and libelf knowledge is very limited and as demonstrated here, I'm not
> > at all sure how all that extended index stuff is supposed to work.
>
> The section index field of an Elf{32,64}_Sym (st_shndx) is 16-bit, so
> it cannot represent a section index greater than 0xffff.
> ELF actually reserves values in 0xff00~0xff00 for other purposes, so
> st_shndx cannot represent a section whose index is greater or equal to
> 0xff00.
Right, that's about as far as I got, but never could find details on how
the extension worked in detail, and I clearly muddled it :/
> To overcome the 16-bit section index limitation, .symtab_shndx was designed.
>
> http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/ch4.symtab.html says
>
> > SHN_XINDEX This value is an escape value. It indicates that the
> > symbol refers to a specific location within a section, but that the
> > section header index for that section is too large to be represented
> > directly in the symbol table entry. The actual section header index
> > is found in the associated SHT_SYMTAB_SHNDX section. The entries in
> > that section correspond one to one with the entries in the symbol
> > table. Only those entries in SHT_SYMTAB_SHNDX that correspond to
> > symbol table entries with SHN_XINDEX will hold valid section header
> > indexes; all other entries will have value 0.
>
> You may use https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/tools/llvm-objcopy/ELF/Object.cpp#L843
> as a reference.
Excellent, lemme go read up and attempt to fix this.
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2021-03-26 15:11 [PATCH v3 00/16] x86,objtool: Optimize !RETPOLINE Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 15:12 ` [PATCH v3 01/16] x86: Add insn_decode_kernel() Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-01 15:08 ` [tip: x86/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 15:12 ` [PATCH v3 02/16] x86/alternatives: Optimize optimize_nops() Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-01 15:08 ` [tip: x86/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-03 11:11 ` tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 15:12 ` [PATCH v3 03/16] x86/retpoline: Simplify retpolines Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-01 15:08 ` [tip: x86/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-03 11:10 ` tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-06 8:56 ` David Laight
2021-03-26 15:12 ` [PATCH v3 04/16] objtool: Correctly handle retpoline thunk calls Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-01 15:08 ` [tip: x86/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-03 11:10 ` tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 15:12 ` [PATCH v3 05/16] objtool: Per arch retpoline naming Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-01 15:08 ` [tip: x86/core] objtool: Handle per " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-03 11:10 ` tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 15:12 ` [PATCH v3 06/16] objtool: Fix static_call list generation Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-01 15:08 ` [tip: x86/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-03 11:10 ` tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 15:12 ` [PATCH v3 07/16] objtool: Rework rebuild_reloc logic Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-01 15:08 ` [tip: x86/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-03 11:10 ` [tip: x86/core] objtool: Rework the elf_rebuild_reloc_section() logic tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 15:12 ` [PATCH v3 08/16] objtool: Add elf_create_reloc() helper Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-01 15:08 ` [tip: x86/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-03 11:10 ` tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 15:12 ` [PATCH v3 09/16] objtool: Implicitly create reloc sections Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-01 15:08 ` [tip: x86/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-03 11:10 ` [tip: x86/core] objtool: Create reloc sections implicitly tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 15:12 ` [PATCH v3 10/16] objtool: Extract elf_strtab_concat() Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-01 15:08 ` [tip: x86/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-03 11:10 ` tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 15:12 ` [PATCH v3 11/16] objtool: Extract elf_symbol_add() Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-01 15:08 ` [tip: x86/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-03 11:10 ` tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 15:12 ` [PATCH v3 12/16] objtool: Add elf_create_undef_symbol() Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-01 15:08 ` [tip: x86/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-03 11:10 ` tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 15:12 ` [PATCH v3 13/16] objtool: Keep track of retpoline call sites Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-01 15:08 ` [tip: x86/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-03 11:10 ` tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 15:12 ` [PATCH v3 14/16] objtool: Cache instruction relocs Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-01 15:08 ` [tip: x86/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-03 11:10 ` tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 15:12 ` [PATCH v3 15/16] objtool: Skip magical retpoline .altinstr_replacement Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-01 15:08 ` [tip: x86/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-03 11:10 ` tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 15:12 ` [PATCH v3 16/16] objtool,x86: Rewrite retpoline thunk calls Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 16:38 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-06-02 15:51 ` Lukasz Majczak
2021-06-02 16:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-02 17:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-02 20:43 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-06-04 20:50 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-06-04 23:27 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-06-04 23:50 ` Fangrui Song
2021-06-05 10:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-06 1:58 ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-06-07 7:56 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2021-06-07 9:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-07 9:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-07 17:23 ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-06-07 18:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-07 20:54 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-06-08 9:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-08 16:58 ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-06-08 17:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-08 17:29 ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-06-08 18:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-08 18:49 ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-06-09 7:11 ` Lukasz Majczak
2021-06-09 7:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-09 12:23 ` Lukasz Majczak
2021-06-09 15:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-09 15:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-09 15:56 ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-06-08 18:18 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-06-07 18:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-07 18:27 ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-06-07 18:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-01 15:08 ` [tip: x86/core] objtool/x86: " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-03 11:10 ` tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-30 15:02 ` [PATCH v3 00/16] x86,objtool: Optimize !RETPOLINE Miroslav Benes
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