Thread (25 messages) 25 messages, 3 authors, 2023-06-23

Re: [PATCH v2 10/14] objtool: Add support for relative switch tables

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2023-06-22 11:48:29
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On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 12:54:32PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
On powerpc, switch tables are relative, than means the address of the
table is added to the value of the entry in order to get the pointed
address: (r10 is the table address, r4 the index in the table)

      lis     r10,0		<== Load r10 with upper part of .rodata address
          R_PPC_ADDR16_HA     .rodata
      addi    r10,r10,0		<== Add lower part of .rodata address
          R_PPC_ADDR16_LO     .rodata
      lwzx    r8,r10,r4		<== Read table entry at r10 + r4 into r8
      add     r10,r8,r10	<== Add table address to read value
      mtctr   r10		<== Save calculated address in CTR
      bctr			<== Branch to address in CTR

But for c_jump_tables it is not the case, they contain the
pointed address directly:

      lis     r28,0		<== Load r28 with upper .rodata..c_jump_table
          R_PPC_ADDR16_HA   .rodata..c_jump_table
      addi    r28,r28,0		<== Add lower part of .rodata..c_jump_table
          R_PPC_ADDR16_LO   .rodata..c_jump_table
      lwzx    r10,r28,r10	<== Read table entry at r10 + r28 into r10
      mtctr   r10		<== Save read value in CTR
      bctr			<== Branch to address in CTR

Add support to objtool for relative tables, with a flag in order to
tell table by table if that table uses relative or absolute addressing.

And use correct size for 'long' instead of hard coding a size of '8'.
Again, see tip/objtool/core...

This one is going to be a little hard. It would be very good if you can
avoid growing struct reloc; Josh went through a ton of effort to shrink
it.

Would it work to use reloc->sym->is_rel_jumptable ? That still has a few
spare bits in it's bitfield.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h b/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h
index e1ca588eb69d..64aac87a4825 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h
+++ b/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ struct reloc {
 	s64 addend;
 	int idx;
 	bool jump_table_start;
+	bool jump_table_is_rel;
 };
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