ftrace: Have architectures opt-in for mcount build time sorting

First S390 complained that the sorting of the mcount sections at build
time caused the kernel to crash on their architecture. Now PowerPC is
complaining about it too. And also ARM64 appears to be having issues.

It may be necessary to also update the relocation table for the values
in the mcount table. Not only do we have to sort the table, but also
update the relocations that may be applied to the items in the table.

If the system is not relocatable, then it is fine to sort, but if it is,
some architectures may have issues (although x86 does not as it shifts all
addresses the same).

Add a HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT that an architecture can set to say it is
safe to do the sorting at build time.

Also update the config to compile in build time sorting in the sorttable
code in scripts/ to depend on CONFIG_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Yinan Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Sachin Sant <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> [arm64]
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <[email protected]>
Fixes: 72b3942 ("scripts: ftrace - move the sort-processing in ftrace_init")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>

Author: rostedt

arch/arm/Kconfig

@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ config ARM
 	select HAVE_EBPF_JIT if !CPU_ENDIAN_BE32
 	select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
 	select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
+	select HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
 	select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS if MMU
 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL && !CPU_ENDIAN_BE32 && MMU

arch/x86/Kconfig

@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ config X86
 	select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK	if HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
 	select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
 	select HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT		if STACK_VALIDATION
+	select HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
 	select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
 	select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE

kernel/trace/Kconfig

@@ -70,10 +70,16 @@ config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
 	help
 	  C version of recordmcount available?
 
+config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
+       bool
+       help
+         An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section
+	 at build time.
+
 config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
        bool
        default y
-       depends on BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT && !S390
+       depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT && DYNAMIC_FTRACE
        help
          Sort the mcount_loc section at build time.
 

scripts/Makefile

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ HOSTCFLAGS_sorttable.o += -I$(srctree)/tools/arch/x86/include
 HOSTCFLAGS_sorttable.o += -DUNWINDER_ORC_ENABLED
 endif
 
-ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
+ifdef CONFIG_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
 HOSTCFLAGS_sorttable.o += -DMCOUNT_SORT_ENABLED
 endif