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authorMichael Brown2015-03-04 19:48:19 +0100
committerMichael Brown2015-03-05 01:59:38 +0100
commitfbc4ba4b4ed13cc86cb8fdea0bac6c3be0164ed5 (patch)
treea0c504e297806aa88e89a04e694333a7c5172757 /src/arch/x86
parent[build] Use REQUIRE_OBJECT() to drag in per-object configuration (diff)
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[build] Fix the REQUIRE_SYMBOL mechanism
At some point in the past few years, binutils became more aggressive at removing unused symbols. To function as a symbol requirement, a relocation record must now be in a section marked with @progbits and must not be in a section which gets discarded during the link (either via --gc-sections or via /DISCARD/). Update REQUIRE_SYMBOL() to generate relocation records meeting these criteria. To minimise the impact upon the final binary size, we use existing symbols (specified via the REQUIRING_SYMBOL() macro) as the relocation targets where possible. We use R_386_NONE or R_X86_64_NONE relocation types to prevent any actual unwanted relocation taking place. Where no suitable symbol exists for REQUIRING_SYMBOL() (such as in config.c), the macro PROVIDE_REQUIRING_SYMBOL() can be used to generate a one-byte-long symbol to act as the relocation target. If there are versions of binutils for which this approach fails, then the fallback will probably involve killing off REQUEST_SYMBOL(), redefining REQUIRE_SYMBOL() to use the current definition of REQUEST_SYMBOL(), and postprocessing the linked ELF file with something along the lines of "nm -u | wc -l" to check that there are no undefined symbols remaining. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--src/arch/x86/drivers/hyperv/hyperv.c3
-rw-r--r--src/arch/x86/drivers/xen/hvm.c3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/arch/x86/drivers/hyperv/hyperv.c b/src/arch/x86/drivers/hyperv/hyperv.c
index c3c0e86c0..f73829bd5 100644
--- a/src/arch/x86/drivers/hyperv/hyperv.c
+++ b/src/arch/x86/drivers/hyperv/hyperv.c
@@ -590,5 +590,8 @@ struct root_device hv_root_device __root_device = {
.driver = &hv_root_driver,
};
+/* Drag in objects via hv_root_device */
+REQUIRING_SYMBOL ( hv_root_device );
+
/* Drag in netvsc driver */
REQUIRE_OBJECT ( netvsc );
diff --git a/src/arch/x86/drivers/xen/hvm.c b/src/arch/x86/drivers/xen/hvm.c
index 6f3be8e2e..7ac32d54c 100644
--- a/src/arch/x86/drivers/xen/hvm.c
+++ b/src/arch/x86/drivers/xen/hvm.c
@@ -496,5 +496,8 @@ struct pci_driver hvm_driver __pci_driver = {
.remove = hvm_remove,
};
+/* Drag in objects via hvm_driver */
+REQUIRING_SYMBOL ( hvm_driver );
+
/* Drag in netfront driver */
REQUIRE_OBJECT ( netfront );