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First S390 complained that the sorting of the mcount sections at build time caused the kernel to crash on their architecture. Now PowerPC is complaining about it too. And also ARM64 appears to be having issues. It may be necessary to also update the relocation table for the values in the mcount table. Not only do we have to sort the table, but also update the relocations that may be applied to the items in the table. If the system is not relocatable, then it is fine to sort, but if it is, some architectures may have issues (although x86 does not as it shifts all addresses the same). Add a HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT that an architecture can set to say it is safe to do the sorting at build time. Also update the config to compile in build time sorting in the sorttable code in scripts/ to depend on CONFIG_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/944D10DA-8200-4BA9-8D0A-3BED9AA99F82@linux.ibm.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220127153821.3bc1ac6e@gandalf.local.home Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Yinan Liu <yinan@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> [arm64] Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com> Fixes: 72b3942a173c ("scripts: ftrace - move the sort-processing in ftrace_init") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Linux kernel
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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.