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parisc: Allow building 64-bit kernel without -mlong-calls compiler option

RFC PATCH New Helge Deller 1 participant 1 message May 14, 2019 PA-RISC architecture

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RFC PATCH 1/1 parisc: Allow building 64-bit kernel without -mlong-calls compiler option

A 64-bit kernel built without CONFIG_MLONGCALLS (-mlong-calls compiler option) usually fails to link because of unreachable functions. Try to work around that linking issue by moving the *.init and *.exit text segments closer to the main text segment. With that change those segments now don't get freed at runtime any longer, but since we in most cases run with huge-page enabled, we ignore the lost memory in preference of better performance.

This change will not guarantee that every kernel config will now sucessfully build with short calls and without linking issues.

Signed-off-by Helge Deller <[email protected]>
arch/parisc/Kconfig +2 -1
index d333570fec13..56a9b6d6e979 100644
@@ -195,7 +195,8 @@ config PREFETCH
 
 config MLONGCALLS
 	bool "Enable the -mlong-calls compiler option for big kernels"
-	default y
+	default y if !MODULES || UBSAN || FTRACE
+	default n
 	depends on PA8X00
 	help
 	  If you configure the kernel to include many drivers built-in instead
arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +14 -7
index c3b1b9c24ede..cd33b4feacb1 100644
@@ -35,6 +35,15 @@ OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf64-hppa-linux")
 OUTPUT_ARCH(hppa:hppa2.0w)
 #endif
 
+#define EXIT_TEXT_SECTIONS()	.exit.text : { EXIT_TEXT }
+#if !defined(CONFIG_64BIT) || defined(CONFIG_MLONGCALLS)
+#define MLONGCALL_KEEP(x)
+#define MLONGCALL_DISCARD(x)	x
+#else
+#define MLONGCALL_KEEP(x)	x
+#define MLONGCALL_DISCARD(x)
+#endif
+
 ENTRY(parisc_kernel_start)
 #ifndef CONFIG_64BIT
 jiffies = jiffies_64 + 4;

@@ -47,15 +56,11 @@ SECTIONS
 
 	__init_begin = .;
 	HEAD_TEXT_SECTION
-	INIT_TEXT_SECTION(8)
+	MLONGCALL_DISCARD(INIT_TEXT_SECTION(8))
 
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 	INIT_DATA_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE)
-	/* we have to discard exit text and such at runtime, not link time */
-	.exit.text :
-	{
-		EXIT_TEXT
-	}
+	MLONGCALL_DISCARD(EXIT_TEXT_SECTIONS())
 	.exit.data :
 	{
 		EXIT_DATA

@@ -73,11 +78,12 @@ SECTIONS
 
 	_text = .;		/* Text and read-only data */
 	_stext = .;
+	MLONGCALL_KEEP(INIT_TEXT_SECTION(8))
 	.text ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE) : {
 		TEXT_TEXT
+		LOCK_TEXT
 		SCHED_TEXT
 		CPUIDLE_TEXT
-		LOCK_TEXT
 		KPROBES_TEXT
 		IRQENTRY_TEXT
 		SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT

@@ -92,6 +98,7 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(.lock.text)		/* out-of-line lock text */
 		*(.gnu.warning)
 	}
+	MLONGCALL_KEEP(EXIT_TEXT_SECTIONS())
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 	_etext = .;
 	/* End of text section */