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Thomas Gleixner 6553896666 vmlinux.lds.h: Create section for protection against instrumentation
Some code pathes, especially the low level entry code, must be protected
against instrumentation for various reasons:

 - Low level entry code can be a fragile beast, especially on x86.

 - With NO_HZ_FULL RCU state needs to be established before using it.

Having a dedicated section for such code allows to validate with tooling
that no unsafe functions are invoked.

Add the .noinstr.text section and the noinstr attribute to mark
functions. noinstr implies notrace. Kprobes will gain a section check
later.

Provide also a set of markers: instrumentation_begin()/end()

These are used to mark code inside a noinstr function which calls
into regular instrumentable text section as safe.

The instrumentation markers are only active when CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY is
enabled as the end marker emits a NOP to prevent the compiler from merging
the annotation points. This means the objtool verification requires a
kernel compiled with this option.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134100.075416272@linutronix.de
2020-05-19 15:47:20 +02:00
arch vmlinux.lds.h: Create section for protection against instrumentation 2020-05-19 15:47:20 +02:00
block bdi: use bdi_dev_name() to get device name 2020-05-09 16:07:39 -06:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto gcc-10: avoid shadowing standard library 'free()' in crypto 2020-05-09 15:58:04 -07:00
Documentation Bugfixes, mostly for ARM and AMD, and more documentation. 2020-05-07 09:50:59 -07:00
drivers IOMMU Fixes for Linux v5.7-rc4 2020-05-10 11:26:23 -07:00
fs block-5.7-2020-05-09 2020-05-10 11:16:07 -07:00
include vmlinux.lds.h: Create section for protection against instrumentation 2020-05-19 15:47:20 +02:00
init gcc-10: mark more functions __init to avoid section mismatch warnings 2020-05-09 17:50:03 -07:00
ipc ipc/mqueue.c: change __do_notify() to bypass check_kill_permission() 2020-05-07 19:27:20 -07:00
kernel Stop the ad-hoc games with -Wno-maybe-initialized 2020-05-09 13:57:10 -07:00
lib ubsan: disable UBSAN_ALIGNMENT under COMPILE_TEST 2020-05-07 19:27:21 -07:00
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net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-05-06 20:53:22 -07:00
samples tracing: Fix doc mistakes in trace sample 2020-05-07 13:32:57 -04:00
scripts vmlinux.lds.h: Create section for protection against instrumentation 2020-05-19 15:47:20 +02:00
security selinux/stable-5.7 PR 20200430 2020-04-30 16:35:45 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.7-rc4 2020-05-01 11:05:28 -07:00
tools A set of fixes for x86: 2020-05-10 11:59:53 -07:00
usr kbuild: fix comment about missing include guard detection 2020-04-11 12:09:48 +09:00
virt KVM: arm64: Fix 32bit PC wrap-around 2020-05-01 09:51:08 +01:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Hand MIPS over to Thomas 2020-02-24 22:43:18 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS Fixes for an endianness handling bug that prevented mounts on 2020-05-08 10:27:00 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.7-rc5 2020-05-10 15:16:58 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.