From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
To: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
mingo@kernel.org, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mka@chromium.org, dvyukov@google.com, md@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/boot/64/clang: Use fixup_pointer() to access '__supported_pte_mask'
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 09:49:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a67943d1-f7e8-c465-ce8d-a9c9a0a6f653@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180508162829.7729-1-glider@google.com>
On 05/08/2018 09:28 AM, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> Clang builds with defconfig started crashing after commit fb43d6cb91ef
> ("x86/mm: Do not auto-massage page protections")
> This was caused by introducing a new global access in __startup_64().
>
> Code in __startup_64() can be relocated during execution, but the compiler
> doesn't have to generate PC-relative relocations when accessing globals
> from that function. Clang actually does not generate them, which leads
> to boot-time crashes. To work around this problem, every global pointer
> must be adjusted using fixup_pointer().
Looks good to me. Thanks for adding the comment, especially!
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-08 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-08 16:28 Alexander Potapenko
2018-05-08 16:49 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2018-05-08 21:44 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-05-09 9:16 ` Alexander Potapenko
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