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Due to undocumented, hysterical raisins on x86, the CFI jump-table sections in .text are needlessly aligned to PMD_SIZE in the vmlinux linker script. When compiling a CFI-enabled arm64 kernel with a 64KiB page-size, a PMD maps 512MiB of virtual memory and so the .text section increases to a whopping 940MiB and blows the final Image up to 960MiB. Others report a link failure. Since the CFI jump-table requires only instruction alignment, reduce the alignment directives to function alignment for parity with other parts of the .text section. This reduces the size of the .text section for the aforementioned 64KiB page size arm64 kernel to 19MiB for a much more reasonable total Image size of 39MiB. Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: "Mohan Rao .vanimina" <mailtoc.mohanrao@gmail.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAL_GTzigiNOMYkOPX1KDnagPhJtFNqSK=1USNbS0wUL4PW6-Uw@mail.gmail.com/ Fixes: cf68fffb66d6 ("add support for Clang CFI") Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220922215715.13345-1-will@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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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.