Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCFF3C38142 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:46:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230357AbjAWNqZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2023 08:46:25 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:34764 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231757AbjAWNqT (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2023 08:46:19 -0500 Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A873425283; Mon, 23 Jan 2023 05:46:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CBD01474; Mon, 23 Jan 2023 05:46:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakrids.cambridge.arm.com (usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 857443F64C; Mon, 23 Jan 2023 05:46:15 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Rutland To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, mhiramat@kernel.org, ndesaulniers@google.com, ojeda@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com, revest@chromium.org, robert.moore@intel.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, will@kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v3 2/8] Compiler attributes: GCC cold function alignment workarounds Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:45:57 +0000 Message-Id: <20230123134603.1064407-3-mark.rutland@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.30.2 In-Reply-To: <20230123134603.1064407-1-mark.rutland@arm.com> References: <20230123134603.1064407-1-mark.rutland@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Florent Revest Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Nick Desaulniers --- include/linux/compiler_attributes.h | 6 ------ include/linux/compiler_types.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/exit.c | 9 ++++++++- 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h b/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h index 898b3458b24a..b83126452c65 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h @@ -75,12 +75,6 @@ # define __assume_aligned(a, ...) #endif -/* - * gcc: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Function-Attributes.html#index-cold-function-attribute - * gcc: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Label-Attributes.html#index-cold-label-attribute - */ -#define __cold __attribute__((__cold__)) - /* * Note the long name. * diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_types.h b/include/linux/compiler_types.h index 7c1afe0f4129..aab34e30128e 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler_types.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler_types.h @@ -79,6 +79,33 @@ static inline void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *ptr) { } /* Attributes */ #include +#if CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT > 0 +#define __function_aligned __aligned(CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT) +#else +#define __function_aligned +#endif + +/* + * gcc: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Function-Attributes.html#index-cold-function-attribute + * gcc: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Label-Attributes.html#index-cold-label-attribute + * + * When -falign-functions=N is in use, we must avoid the cold attribute as + * contemporary versions of GCC drop the alignment for cold functions. Worse, + * GCC can implicitly mark callees of cold functions as cold themselves, so + * it's not sufficient to add __function_aligned here as that will not ensure + * that callees are correctly aligned. + * + * See: + * + * https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y77%2FqVgvaJidFpYt@FVFF77S0Q05N + * https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88345#c9 + */ +#if !defined(CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC) || (CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT == 0) +#define __cold __attribute__((__cold__)) +#else +#define __cold +#endif + /* Builtins */ /* diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 15dc2ec80c46..c8e0375705f4 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -1898,7 +1898,14 @@ bool thread_group_exited(struct pid *pid) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(thread_group_exited); -__weak void abort(void) +/* + * This needs to be __function_aligned as GCC implicitly makes any + * implementation of abort() cold and drops alignment specified by + * -falign-functions=N. + * + * See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88345#c11 + */ +__weak __function_aligned void abort(void) { BUG(); -- 2.30.2