Re: [PATCH v4] MIPS: Truncate link address into 32bit for 32bit kernel

[Nathan Chancellor]

Hi Jiaxun,

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 02:26:49PM +0800, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> LLD failed to link vmlinux with 64bit load address for 32bit ELF
> while bfd will strip 64bit address into 32bit silently.
> To fix LLD build, we should truncate load address provided by platform
> into 32bit for 32bit kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/786
> Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25784
> Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> --
> V2: Take MaskRay's shell magic.
> 
> V3: After spent an hour on dealing with special character issue in
> Makefile, I gave up to do shell hacks and write a util in C instead.
> Thanks Maciej for pointing out Makefile variable problem.
> 
> v4: Finally we managed to find a Makefile method to do it properly
> thanks to Kees. As it's too far from the initial version, I removed
> Review & Test tag from Nick and Fangrui and Cc instead.
> ---
>  arch/mips/Makefile             | 12 +++++++++++-
>  arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |  2 +-
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile
> index e1c44aed8156..18495568f03e 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/mips/Makefile
> @@ -288,9 +288,19 @@ ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
>    endif
>  endif
>  
> +# When linking a 32-bit executable the LLVM linker cannot cope with a
> +# 32-bit load address that has been sign-extended to 64 bits.  Simply
> +# remove the upper 32 bits then, as it is safe to do so with other
> +# linkers.
> +ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> +	load-ld			= $(load-y)
> +else
> +	load-ld			= $(subst 0xffffffff,0x,$(load-y))
> +endif
> +
>  KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= $(cflags-y)
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(cflags-y)
> -KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DVMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS=$(load-y)
> +KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DVMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS=$(load-y) -DVMLINUX_LINK_ADDRESS=$(load-ld)
>  KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DDATAOFFSET=$(if $(dataoffset-y),$(dataoffset-y),0)
>  
>  bootvars-y	= VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS=$(load-y) \
> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> index a5f00ec73ea6..5226cd8e4bee 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ SECTIONS
>  	/* . = 0xa800000000300000; */
>  	. = 0xffffffff80300000;
>  #endif
> -	. = VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS;
> +	. = VMLINUX_LINK_ADDRESS;
>  	/* read-only */
>  	_text = .;	/* Text and read-only data */
>  	.text : {
> -- 
> 2.26.0.rc2
> 

This version does not quite work:

ld.lld: error: section .text at 0xFFFFFFFF80990000 of size 0x388C exceeds available address space
ld.lld: error: section .MIPS.abiflags at 0xFFFFFFFF80993890 of size 0x18 exceeds available address space
ld.lld: error: section .rodata.str1.1 at 0xFFFFFFFF809938A8 of size 0x164 exceeds available address space
ld.lld: error: section .eh_frame at 0xFFFFFFFF80993A0C of size 0x2C exceeds available address space
ld.lld: error: section .data at 0xFFFFFFFF80993A40 of size 0x38EFD0 exceeds available address space
ld.lld: error: section .got at 0xFFFFFFFF80D22A10 of size 0x8 exceeds available address space
ld.lld: error: section .bss at 0xFFFFFFFF80E22A20 of size 0x402010 exceeds available address space
ld.lld: error: section .sbss at 0xFFFFFFFF81224A30 of size 0x8 exceeds available address space
make[2]: *** [/home/nathan/src/linux/arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile:104: vmlinuz] Error 1

I think something like this is needed but I do not know if it is proper.

Cheers,
Nathan

diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile
index 18495568f03e..68c0f22fefc0 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/Makefile
@@ -304,6 +304,7 @@ KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DVMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS=$(load-y) -DVMLINUX_LINK_ADDRESS=$(loa
 KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DDATAOFFSET=$(if $(dataoffset-y),$(dataoffset-y),0)
 
 bootvars-y	= VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS=$(load-y) \
+		  VMLINUX_LINK_ADDRESS=$(load-ld) \
 		  VMLINUX_ENTRY_ADDRESS=$(entry-y) \
 		  PLATFORM="$(platform-y)" \
 		  ITS_INPUTS="$(its-y)"
diff --git a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 0df0ee8a298d..3d391256ab7e 100644
--- a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ ifneq ($(zload-y),)
 VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS := $(zload-y)
 else
 VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS = $(shell $(obj)/calc_vmlinuz_load_addr \
-		$(obj)/vmlinux.bin $(VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS))
+		$(obj)/vmlinux.bin $(VMLINUX_LINK_ADDRESS))
 endif
 UIMAGE_LOADADDR = $(VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS)