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| author | Ard Biesheuvel | 2018-09-19 08:51:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner | 2018-09-27 17:56:47 +0200 |
| commit | c296146c058c87e9ed53001b6a3988519dbbb6a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b09a08e8e36f4360324624ec10e501f1d06d77e /arch/arm64/Kconfig | |
| parent | jump_label: Implement generic support for relative references (diff) | |
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arm64/kernel: jump_label: Switch to relative references
On a randomly chosen distro kernel build for arm64, vmlinux.o shows the
following sections, containing jump label entries, and the associated
RELA relocation records, respectively:
...
[38088] __jump_table PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00e19f30
000000000002ea10 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 8
[38089] .rela__jump_table RELA 0000000000000000 01fd8bb0
000000000008be30 0000000000000018 I 38178 38088 8
...
In other words, we have 190 KB worth of 'struct jump_entry' instances,
and 573 KB worth of RELA entries to relocate each entry's code, target
and key members. This means the RELA section occupies 10% of the .init
segment, and the two sections combined represent 5% of vmlinux's entire
memory footprint.
So let's switch from 64-bit absolute references to 32-bit relative
references for the code and target field, and a 64-bit relative
reference for the 'key' field (which may reside in another module or the
core kernel, which may be more than 4 GB way on arm64 when running with
KASLR enable): this reduces the size of the __jump_table by 33%, and
gets rid of the RELA section entirely.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180919065144.25010-4-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig index 1b1a0e95c751..16e1e2c1e77b 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ config ARM64 select HAVE_ARCH_BITREVERSE select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL + select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if !(ARM64_16K_PAGES && ARM64_VA_BITS_48) select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS |