The early_idt_handlers asm code generates an array of entry
points spaced nine bytes apart. It's not really clear from that
code or from the places that reference it what's going on, and
the code only works in the first place because GAS never
generates two-byte JMP instructions when jumping to global
labels.
Clean up the code to generate the correct array stride (member size)
explicitly. This should be considerably more robust against
screw-ups, as GAS will warn if a .fill directive has a negative
count. Using '. =' to advance would have been even more robust
(it would generate an actual error if it tried to move
backwards), but it would pad with nulls, confusing anyone who
tries to disassemble the code. The new scheme should be much
clearer to future readers.
While we're at it, improve the comments and rename the array and
common code.
Binutils may start relaxing jumps to non-weak labels. If so,
this change will fix our build, and we may need to backport this
change.
Before, on x86_64:
0000000000000000 <early_idt_handlers>:
0: 6a 00 pushq $0x0
2: 6a 00 pushq $0x0
4: e9 00 00 00 00 jmpq 9 <early_idt_handlers+0x9>
5: R_X86_64_PC32 early_idt_handler-0x4
...
48: 66 90 xchg %ax,%ax
4a: 6a 08 pushq $0x8
4c: e9 00 00 00 00 jmpq 51 <early_idt_handlers+0x51>
4d: R_X86_64_PC32 early_idt_handler-0x4
...
117: 6a 00 pushq $0x0
119: 6a 1f pushq $0x1f
11b: e9 00 00 00 00 jmpq 120 <early_idt_handler>
11c: R_X86_64_PC32 early_idt_handler-0x4
After:
0000000000000000 <early_idt_handler_array>:
0: 6a 00 pushq $0x0
2: 6a 00 pushq $0x0
4: e9 14 01 00 00 jmpq 11d <early_idt_handler_common>
...
48: 6a 08 pushq $0x8
4a: e9 d1 00 00 00 jmpq 120 <early_idt_handler_common>
4f: cc int3
50: cc int3
...
117: 6a 00 pushq $0x0
119: 6a 1f pushq $0x1f
11b: eb 03 jmp 120 <early_idt_handler_common>
11d: cc int3
11e: cc int3
11f: cc int3
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ac027962af343b0c599cbfcf50b945ad2ef3d7a8.1432336324.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
cdeb604894