Re: [sched] c3a340f7e7: invalid_opcode:#[##]

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 04:02:31PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 03:55:05PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> 
> > > Consistently so with GCC-4.9. Any other GCC I tried does the sane thing.
> > 
> > Does that include gcc 4.8, or is it only "anything newer than 4.9"?
> 
> It includes 4.8 :-)
> 
> > so the section it was put in has an alignment of 64. The generated
> > assembly is indeed
> > 
> >         .globl  fair_sched_class
> >         .section        __fair_sched_class,"a",@progbits
> >         .align 64
> > 
> > /me goes brew coffee
> 
> Right.. so I now have the below patch, and with that I get:
> 
> 62931: c1e62c20     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 __begin_sched_classes
> 65736: c1e62e40   128 OBJECT  GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 stop_sched_class
> 71813: c1e62cc0   128 OBJECT  GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 fair_sched_class
> 78689: c1e62c40   128 OBJECT  GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 idle_sched_class
> 78953: c1e62ec0     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 __end_sched_classes
> 79090: c1e62d40   128 OBJECT  GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 rt_sched_class
> 79431: c1e62dc0   128 OBJECT  GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 dl_sched_class
> 
> 
> Which has me stumped on __begin_sched_classes being on a 32byte edge
> (and crashes differently due to that).

OK, when I look at defconfig-build/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds I get:

. = ALIGN(32); *(__dummy_sched_class) __begin_sched_classes = .;

So I'm thinking the GCC_VERSION thing works for sched.h but not for
arch//x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S, lovely. Let me try and figure out why.