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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2020-07-24 13:50:25 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2020-07-24 13:56:23 +0200
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compiler.h: Move instrumentation_begin()/end() to new <linux/instrumentation.h> header
Linus pointed out that compiler.h - which is a key header that gets included in every single one of the 28,000+ kernel files during a kernel build - was bloated in: 655389666643: ("vmlinux.lds.h: Create section for protection against instrumentation") Linus noted: > I have pulled this, but do we really want to add this to a header file > that is _so_ core that it gets included for basically every single > file built? > > I don't even see those instrumentation_begin/end() things used > anywhere right now. > > It seems excessive. That 53 lines is maybe not a lot, but it pushed > that header file to over 12kB, and while it's mostly comments, it's > extra IO and parsing basically for _every_ single file compiled in the > kernel. > > For what appears to be absolutely zero upside right now, and I really > don't see why this should be in such a core header file! Move these primitives into a new header: <linux/instrumentation.h>, and include that header in the headers that make use of it. Unfortunately one of these headers is asm-generic/bug.h, which does get included in a lot of places, similarly to compiler.h. So the de-bloating effect isn't as good as we'd like it to be - but at least the interfaces are defined separately. No change to functionality intended. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200604071921.GA1361070@gmail.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compiler.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compiler.h53
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 53 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 204e76856435..681894bfde99 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -120,65 +120,12 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,
/* Annotate a C jump table to allow objtool to follow the code flow */
#define __annotate_jump_table __section(.rodata..c_jump_table)
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY
-/* Begin/end of an instrumentation safe region */
-#define instrumentation_begin() ({ \
- asm volatile("%c0: nop\n\t" \
- ".pushsection .discard.instr_begin\n\t" \
- ".long %c0b - .\n\t" \
- ".popsection\n\t" : : "i" (__COUNTER__)); \
-})
-
-/*
- * Because instrumentation_{begin,end}() can nest, objtool validation considers
- * _begin() a +1 and _end() a -1 and computes a sum over the instructions.
- * When the value is greater than 0, we consider instrumentation allowed.
- *
- * There is a problem with code like:
- *
- * noinstr void foo()
- * {
- * instrumentation_begin();
- * ...
- * if (cond) {
- * instrumentation_begin();
- * ...
- * instrumentation_end();
- * }
- * bar();
- * instrumentation_end();
- * }
- *
- * If instrumentation_end() would be an empty label, like all the other
- * annotations, the inner _end(), which is at the end of a conditional block,
- * would land on the instruction after the block.
- *
- * If we then consider the sum of the !cond path, we'll see that the call to
- * bar() is with a 0-value, even though, we meant it to happen with a positive
- * value.
- *
- * To avoid this, have _end() be a NOP instruction, this ensures it will be
- * part of the condition block and does not escape.
- */
-#define instrumentation_end() ({ \
- asm volatile("%c0: nop\n\t" \
- ".pushsection .discard.instr_end\n\t" \
- ".long %c0b - .\n\t" \
- ".popsection\n\t" : : "i" (__COUNTER__)); \
-})
-#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY */
-
#else
#define annotate_reachable()
#define annotate_unreachable()
#define __annotate_jump_table
#endif
-#ifndef instrumentation_begin
-#define instrumentation_begin() do { } while(0)
-#define instrumentation_end() do { } while(0)
-#endif
-
#ifndef ASM_UNREACHABLE
# define ASM_UNREACHABLE
#endif