RELR as a relocation packing format for relative relocations for
reducing the size of relative relocation records. In a position
independent executable there are often many relative relocation
records, and our vmlinux is a PIE.
The LLD linker (since 17.0.0) and the BFD linker (since 2.43) supports
packing the relocations in the RELR format for LoongArch, with the flag
-z pack-relative-relocs.
Commits
5cf896fb6be3eff ("arm64: Add support for relocating the kernel
with RELR relocations") and
ccb2d173b983984bfa ("Makefile: use -z
pack-relative-relocs") have already added the framework to use RELR.
We just need to wire it up and process the RELR relocation records in
relocate_relative() in addition to the RELA relocation records.
A ".p2align 3" directive is added to la_abs macro or the BFD linker
cannot pack the relocation records against the .la_abs section (the
". = ALIGN(8);" directive in vmlinux.lds.S is too late in the linking
process).
With defconfig and CONFIG_RELR vmlinux.efi is 2.1 MiB (6%) smaller, and
vmlinuz.efi (using gzip compression) is 384 KiB (2.8%) smaller.
Link: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/generic-abi/bX460iggiKg
Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D138135#4531389
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=d89ecf33ab6d
Signed-off-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
config RELOCATABLE
bool "Relocatable kernel"
+ select ARCH_HAS_RELR
help
This builds the kernel as a Position Independent Executable (PIE),
which retains all relocation metadata required, so as to relocate
lu32i.d \reg, 0
lu52i.d \reg, \reg, 0
.pushsection ".la_abs", "aw", %progbits
+ .p2align 3
.dword 766b
.dword \sym
.popsection
extern long __rela_dyn_begin;
extern long __rela_dyn_end;
+#ifdef CONFIG_RELR
+extern long __relr_dyn_begin;
+extern long __relr_dyn_end;
+#endif
+
extern unsigned long __init relocate_kernel(void);
#endif
relocated_addr = (Elf64_Addr)RELOCATED(relocated_addr);
*(Elf64_Addr *)RELOCATED(addr) = relocated_addr;
}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_RELR
+ u64 *addr = NULL;
+ u64 *relr = (u64 *)&__relr_dyn_begin;
+ u64 *relr_end = (u64 *)&__relr_dyn_end;
+
+ for ( ; relr < relr_end; relr++) {
+ if ((*relr & 1) == 0) {
+ addr = (u64 *)(*relr + reloc_offset);
+ *addr++ += reloc_offset;
+ } else {
+ for (u64 *p = addr, r = *relr >> 1; r; p++, r >>= 1)
+ if (r & 1)
+ *p += reloc_offset;
+ addr += 63;
+ }
+ }
+#endif
}
static inline void __init relocate_absolute(long random_offset)
__rela_dyn_end = .;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_RELR
+ .relr.dyn : ALIGN(8) {
+ __relr_dyn_begin = .;
+ *(.relr.dyn)
+ __relr_dyn_end = .;
+ }
+#endif
+
.data.rel : { *(.data.rel*) }
#ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE