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Contemporary versions of GCC (e.g. GCC 12.2.0) drop the alignment specified by '-falign-functions=N' for functions marked with the __cold__ attribute, and potentially for callees of __cold__ functions as these may be implicitly marked as __cold__ by the compiler. LLVM appears to respect '-falign-functions=N' in such cases. This has been reported to GCC in bug 88345: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88345 ... which also covers alignment being dropped when '-Os' is used, which will be addressed in a separate patch. Currently, use of '-falign-functions=N' is limited to CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT, which is largely used for performance and/or analysis reasons (e.g. with CONFIG_DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B), but isn't necessary for correct functionality. However, this dropped alignment isn't great for the performance and/or analysis cases. Subsequent patches will use CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT as part of arm64's ftrace implementation, which will require all instrumented functions to be aligned to at least 8-bytes. This patch works around the dropped alignment by avoiding the use of the __cold__ attribute when CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT is non-zero, and by specifically aligning abort(), which GCC implicitly marks as __cold__. As the __cold macro is now dependent upon config options (which is against the policy described at the top of compiler_attributes.h), it is moved into compiler_types.h. I've tested this by building and booting a kernel configured with defconfig + CONFIG_EXPERT=y + CONFIG_DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B=y, and looking for misaligned text symbols in /proc/kallsyms: * arm64: Before: # uname -rm 6.2.0-rc3 aarch64 # grep ' [Tt] ' /proc/kallsyms | grep -iv '[048c]0 [Tt] ' | wc -l 5009 After: # uname -rm 6.2.0-rc3-00001-g2a2bedf8bfa9 aarch64 # grep ' [Tt] ' /proc/kallsyms | grep -iv '[048c]0 [Tt] ' | wc -l 919 * x86_64: Before: # uname -rm 6.2.0-rc3 x86_64 # grep ' [Tt] ' /proc/kallsyms | grep -iv '[048c]0 [Tt] ' | wc -l 11537 After: # uname -rm 6.2.0-rc3-00001-g2a2bedf8bfa9 x86_64 # grep ' [Tt] ' /proc/kallsyms | grep -iv '[048c]0 [Tt] ' | wc -l 2805 There's clearly a substantial reduction in the number of misaligned symbols. From manual inspection, the remaining unaligned text labels are a combination of ACPICA functions (due to the use of '-Os'), static call trampolines, and non-function labels in assembly, which will be dealt with in subsequent patches. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230123134603.1064407-3-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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.