The compiler may choose not to emit type information in DWARF for
external symbols. Clang, for example, does this for symbols not
defined in the current TU.
To provide a way to work around this issue, add support for
__gendwarfksyms_ptr_<symbol> pointers that force the compiler to emit
the necessary type information in DWARF also for the missing symbols.
Example usage:
#define GENDWARFKSYMS_PTR(sym) \
static typeof(sym) *__gendwarfksyms_ptr_##sym __used \
__section(".discard.gendwarfksyms") = &sym;
extern int external_symbol(void);
GENDWARFKSYMS_PTR(external_symbol);
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Distributions that want to maintain a stable kABI need the ability
to make ABI compatible changes to kernel data structures without
affecting symbol versions, either because of LTS updates or backports.
With genksyms, developers would typically hide these changes from
version calculation with #ifndef __GENKSYMS__, which would result
in the symbol version not changing even though the actual type has
changed. When we process precompiled object files, this isn't an
option.
Change union processing to recognize field name prefixes that allow
the user to ignore the union completely during symbol versioning with
a __kabi_ignored prefix in a field name, or to replace the type of a
placeholder field using a __kabi_reserved field name prefix.
For example, assume we want to add a new field to an existing
alignment hole in a data structure, and ignore the new field when
calculating symbol versions:
struct struct1 {
int a;
/* a 4-byte alignment hole */
unsigned long b;
};
To add `int n` to the alignment hole, we can add a union that includes
a __kabi_ignored field that causes gendwarfksyms to ignore the entire
union:
struct struct1 {
int a;
union {
char __kabi_ignored_0;
int n;
};
unsigned long b;
};
With --stable, both structs produce the same symbol version.
Alternatively, when a distribution expects future modification to a
data structure, they can explicitly add reserved fields:
struct struct2 {
long a;
long __kabi_reserved_0; /* reserved for future use */
};
To take the field into use, we can again replace it with a union, with
one of the fields keeping the __kabi_reserved name prefix to indicate
the original type:
struct struct2 {
long a;
union {
long __kabi_reserved_0;
struct {
int b;
int v;
};
};
Here gendwarfksyms --stable replaces the union with the type of the
placeholder field when calculating versions.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Distributions that want to maintain a stable kABI need the ability
to make ABI compatible changes to kernel without affecting symbol
versions, either because of LTS updates or backports.
With genksyms, developers would typically hide these changes from
version calculation with #ifndef __GENKSYMS__, which would result
in the symbol version not changing even though the actual type has
changed. When we process precompiled object files, this isn't an
option.
To support this use case, add a --stable command line flag that
gates kABI stability features that are not needed in mainline
kernels, but can be useful for distributions, and add support for
kABI rules, which can be used to restrict gendwarfksyms output.
The rules are specified as a set of null-terminated strings stored
in the .discard.gendwarfksyms.kabi_rules section. Each rule consists
of four strings as follows:
"version\0type\0target\0value"
The version string ensures the structure can be changed in a
backwards compatible way. The type string indicates the type of the
rule, and target and value strings contain rule-specific data.
Initially support two simple rules:
1. Declaration-only types
A type declaration can change into a full definition when
additional includes are pulled in to the TU, which changes the
versions of any symbol that references the type. Add support
for defining declaration-only types whose definition is not
expanded during versioning.
2. Ignored enumerators
It's possible to add new enum fields without changing the ABI,
but as the fields are included in symbol versioning, this would
change the versions. Add support for ignoring specific fields.
3. Overridden enumerator values
Add support for overriding enumerator values when calculating
versions. This may be needed when the last field of the enum
is used as a sentinel and new fields must be added before it.
Add examples for using the rules under the examples/ directory.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Calculate symbol versions from the fully expanded type strings in
type_map, and output the versions in a genksyms-compatible format.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Add support for producing genksyms-style symtypes files. Process
die_map to find the longest expansions for each type, and use symtypes
references in type definitions. The basic file format is similar to
genksyms, with two notable exceptions:
1. Type names with spaces (common with Rust) in references are
wrapped in single quotes. E.g.:
s#'core::result::Result<u8, core::num::error::ParseIntError>'
2. The actual type definition is the simple parsed DWARF format we
output with --dump-dies, not the preprocessed C-style format
genksyms produces.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Debugging the DWARF processing can be somewhat challenging, so add
more detailed debugging output for die_map operations. Add the
--dump-die-map flag, which adds color coded tags to the output for
die_map changes.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Expand each structure type only once per exported symbol. This
is necessary to support self-referential structures, which would
otherwise result in infinite recursion, and it's sufficient for
catching ABI changes.
Types defined in .c files are opaque to external users and thus
cannot affect the ABI. Consider type definitions in .c files to
be declarations to prevent opaque types from changing symbol
versions.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Add support for expanding DW_TAG_subroutine_type and the parameters
in DW_TAG_formal_parameter. Use this to also expand subprograms.
Example output with --dump-dies:
subprogram (
formal_parameter pointer_type {
const_type {
base_type char byte_size(1) encoding(6)
}
}
)
-> base_type unsigned long byte_size(8) encoding(7)
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Add support for expanding DWARF type modifiers, such as pointers,
const values etc., and typedefs. These types all have DW_AT_type
attribute pointing to the underlying type, and thus produce similar
output.
Also add linebreaks and indentation to debugging output to make it
more readable.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Basic types in DWARF repeat frequently and traversing the DIEs using
libdw is relatively slow. Add a simple hashtable based cache for the
processed DIEs.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The compiler may choose not to emit type information in DWARF for all
aliases, but it's possible for each alias to be exported separately.
To ensure we find type information for the aliases as well, read
{section, address} tuples from the symbol table and match symbols also
by address.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Add a basic DWARF parser, which uses libdw to traverse the debugging
information in an object file and looks for functions and variables.
In follow-up patches, this will be expanded to produce symbol versions
for CONFIG_MODVERSIONS from DWARF.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
