linux/include/asm-generic
Linus Torvalds b6547e5486 runtime constants: deal with old decrepit linkers
The runtime constants linker script depended on documented linker
behavior [1]:

 "If an output section’s name is the same as the input section’s name
  and is representable as a C identifier, then the linker will
  automatically PROVIDE two symbols: __start_SECNAME and __stop_SECNAME,
  where SECNAME is the name of the section. These indicate the start
  address and end address of the output section respectively"

to just automatically define the symbol names for the bounds of the
runtime constant arrays.

It turns out that this isn't actually something we can rely on, with old
linkers not generating these automatic symbols.  It looks to have been
introduced in binutils-2.29 back in 2017, and we still support building
with versions all the way back to binutils-2.25 (from 2015).

And yes, Oleg actually seems to be using such ancient versions of
binutils.

So instead of depending on the implicit symbols from "section names
match and are representable C identifiers", just do this all manually.
It's not like it causes us any extra pain, we already have to do that
for all the other sections that we use that often have special
characters in them.

Reported-and-tested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Input-Section-Example.html [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240802114518.GA20924@redhat.com/
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2024-08-03 08:38:45 -07:00
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bitops bitops: Change function return types from long to int 2024-05-03 17:04:50 +02:00
vdso
Kbuild asm-generic updates for 6.11 2024-07-16 12:09:03 -07:00
access_ok.h
agp.h
archrandom.h
asm-offsets.h
asm-prototypes.h
atomic.h
atomic64.h
audit_change_attr.h
audit_dir_write.h
audit_read.h
audit_signal.h
audit_write.h
barrier.h sched: Add missing memory barrier in switch_mm_cid 2024-04-16 13:59:45 +02:00
bitops.h
bitsperlong.h
bug.h bug: Improve comment 2024-05-07 14:20:48 +02:00
cache.h
cacheflush.h
cfi.h
checksum.h
cmpxchg-local.h
cmpxchg.h
codetag.lds.h lib: add allocation tagging support for memory allocation profiling 2024-04-25 20:55:52 -07:00
compat.h
current.h
delay.h
device.h
div64.h
dma-mapping.h
dma.h
early_ioremap.h
emergency-restart.h
error-injection.h
exec.h
extable.h
fixmap.h fixmap: Remove unused set_fixmap_offset_io() 2024-07-11 17:41:23 +02:00
flat.h
ftrace.h
futex.h
getorder.h
hardirq.h
hugetlb.h mm: provide mm_struct and address to huge_ptep_get() 2024-07-12 15:52:15 -07:00
hw_irq.h
hyperv-tlfs.h hyperv-fixes for v6.9-rc4 2024-04-11 16:23:56 -07:00
int-ll64.h
io.h asm-generic/io.h: kill vmalloc.h dependency 2024-04-25 20:55:50 -07:00
ioctl.h
iomap.h
irq.h
irq_regs.h
irq_work.h
irqflags.h
kdebug.h
kmap_size.h
kprobes.h
kvm_para.h
kvm_types.h
linkage.h
local.h
local64.h
logic_io.h
mcs_spinlock.h
memory_model.h
mm_hooks.h
mmiowb.h
mmiowb_types.h
mmu.h
mmu_context.h
module.h
module.lds.h
mshyperv.h hyperv-fixes for v6.9-rc4 2024-04-11 16:23:56 -07:00
msi.h
nommu_context.h
numa.h
param.h
parport.h
pci.h
pci_iomap.h
percpu.h
pgalloc.h mm: change inlined allocation helpers to account at the call site 2024-04-25 20:55:59 -07:00
pgtable-nop4d.h
pgtable-nopmd.h
pgtable-nopud.h
pgtable_uffd.h
preempt.h
qrwlock.h
qrwlock_types.h
qspinlock.h
qspinlock_types.h
resource.h
runtime-const.h runtime constants: add default dummy infrastructure 2024-06-19 12:34:34 -07:00
rwonce.h
seccomp.h
sections.h
serial.h
set_memory.h
shmparam.h
signal.h
simd.h
softirq_stack.h
spinlock.h
spinlock_types.h
statfs.h
string.h
switch_to.h
syscall.h
syscalls.h syscalls: mmap(): use unsigned offset type consistently 2024-06-25 15:57:38 +02:00
timex.h
tlb.h
tlbflush.h
topology.h
trace_clock.h
uaccess.h
unaligned.h
user.h
vermagic.h
vga.h
video.h arch: Rename fbdev header and source files 2024-05-03 17:07:50 +02:00
vmlinux.lds.h runtime constants: deal with old decrepit linkers 2024-08-03 08:38:45 -07:00
word-at-a-time.h
xor.h