Re: [RFC 00/31] objtool, livepatch: Livepatch module generation

[Song Liu]

Hi Josh,

I have attached the config I used for LLVM and gcc.

Thanks,
Song

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 9:30 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 10:32:00AM -0700, Song Liu wrote:
> > Hi Josh,
> >
> > Thanks for the patchset! We really need this work so that we can undo our
> > hack for LTO enabled kernels.
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 9:00 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Here's a new way to build livepatch modules called klp-build.
> > >
> > > I started working on it when I realized that objtool already does 99% of
> > > the work needed for detecting function changes.
> > >
> > > This is similar in concept to kpatch-build, but the implementation is
> > > much cleaner.
> > >
> > > Personally I still have reservations about the "source-based" approach
> > > (klp-convert and friends), including the fragility and performance
> > > concerns of -flive-patching.  I would submit that klp-build might be
> > > considered the "official" way to make livepatch modules.
> > >
> > > Please try it out and let me know what you think.  Based on v6.10.
> > >
> > > Also avaiable at:
> > >
> > >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jpoimboe/linux.git klp-build-rfc
> >
> > I tried to compile the code in this branch with gcc-12 and llvm-18. Some
> > of these errors are easy to fix (attached below). But some are trickier, for
> > example:
> >
> > with gcc-12:
> >   ...
> >   BTFIDS  vmlinux
> >   NM      System.map
> >   SORTTAB vmlinux
> > incomplete ORC unwind tables in file: vmlinux
> > Failed to sort kernel tables
>
> Thanks for trying it!  If you share your config(s) I can look into it.
>
> I haven't tried clang yet, but will soon.
>
> --
> Josh

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