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Vincent Chen a3f349393e riscv: avoid the PIC offset of static percpu data in module beyond 2G limits
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The compiler uses the PIC-relative method to access static variables
instead of GOT when the code model is PIC. Therefore, the limitation of
the access range from the instruction to the symbol address is +-2GB.
Under this circumstance, the kernel cannot load a kernel module if this
module has static per-CPU symbols declared by DEFINE_PER_CPU(). The reason
is that kernel relocates the .data..percpu section of the kernel module to
the end of kernel's .data..percpu. Hence, the distance between the per-CPU
symbols and the instruction will exceed the 2GB limits. To solve this
problem, the kernel should place the loaded module in the memory area
[&_end-2G, VMALLOC_END].

Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
Suggested-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Suggested-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Tested-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Tested-by: Carlos de Paula <me@carlosedp.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2020-03-25 08:25:48 +01:00
arch riscv: avoid the PIC offset of static percpu data in module beyond 2G limits 2020-03-25 08:25:48 +01:00
block blk-mq: insert flush request to the front of dispatch queue 2020-03-21 08:11:57 +01:00
certs
crypto crypto: rename sm3-256 to sm3 in hash_algo_name 2020-02-28 17:22:26 +01:00
Documentation ACPI: watchdog: Allow disabling WDAT at boot 2020-03-21 08:11:47 +01:00
drivers dm integrity: use dm_bio_record and dm_bio_restore 2020-03-25 08:25:48 +01:00
fs cifs: add missing mount option to /proc/mounts 2020-03-25 08:25:43 +01:00
include driver code: clarify and fix platform device DMA mask allocation 2020-03-18 07:17:56 +01:00
init kbuild: remove header compile test 2020-03-05 16:43:47 +01:00
ipc Revert "ipc,sem: remove uneeded sem_undo_list lock usage in exit_sem()" 2020-02-28 17:22:20 +01:00
kernel signal: avoid double atomic counter increments for user accounting 2020-03-21 08:11:53 +01:00
lib kbuild: move headers_check rule to usr/include/Makefile 2020-03-05 16:43:47 +01:00
LICENSES
mm mm: slub: add missing TID bump in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() 2020-03-21 08:11:58 +01:00
net ipv4: ensure rcu_read_lock() in cipso_v4_error() 2020-03-21 08:11:59 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: Set -fno-stack-protector when building BPF programs 2020-02-24 08:36:36 +01:00
scripts kbuild: move headers_check rule to usr/include/Makefile 2020-03-05 16:43:47 +01:00
security efi: Only print errors about failing to get certs if EFI vars are found 2020-03-12 13:00:14 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Fixed one of HP ALC671 platform Headset Mic supported 2020-03-18 07:17:38 +01:00
tools selftests/rseq: Fix out-of-tree compilation 2020-03-21 08:11:49 +01:00
usr kbuild: fix 'No such file or directory' warning when cleaning 2020-03-12 13:00:09 +01:00
virt KVM: Check for a bad hva before dropping into the ghc slow path 2020-03-05 16:43:48 +01:00
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MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update drm/i915 bug filing URL 2020-02-28 17:22:19 +01:00
Makefile Linux 5.4.27 2020-03-21 08:12:00 +01:00
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
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

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.