c296146c05
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
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.