x86/unwind: Add the ORC unwinder

Add the new ORC unwinder which is enabled by CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y.
It plugs into the existing x86 unwinder framework.

It relies on objtool to generate the needed .orc_unwind and
.orc_unwind_ip sections.

For more details on why ORC is used instead of DWARF, see
Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt - but the short version is
that it's a simplified, fundamentally more robust debugninfo
data structure, which also allows up to two orders of magnitude
faster lookups than the DWARF unwinder - which matters to
profiling workloads like perf.

Thanks to Andy Lutomirski for the performance improvement ideas:
splitting the ORC unwind table into two parallel arrays and creating a
fast lookup table to search a subset of the unwind table.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a6cbfb40f8da99b7a45a1a8302dc6aef16ec812.1500938583.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
[ Extended the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Josh Poimboeuf
2017-07-24 18:36:57 -05:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 1ee6f00d11
commit ee9f8fce99
18 changed files with 980 additions and 67 deletions

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@@ -680,6 +680,31 @@
#define BUG_TABLE
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER
#define ORC_UNWIND_TABLE \
. = ALIGN(4); \
.orc_unwind_ip : AT(ADDR(.orc_unwind_ip) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_orc_unwind_ip) = .; \
KEEP(*(.orc_unwind_ip)) \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop_orc_unwind_ip) = .; \
} \
. = ALIGN(6); \
.orc_unwind : AT(ADDR(.orc_unwind) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_orc_unwind) = .; \
KEEP(*(.orc_unwind)) \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop_orc_unwind) = .; \
} \
. = ALIGN(4); \
.orc_lookup : AT(ADDR(.orc_lookup) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(orc_lookup) = .; \
. += (((SIZEOF(.text) + LOOKUP_BLOCK_SIZE - 1) / \
LOOKUP_BLOCK_SIZE) + 1) * 4; \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(orc_lookup_end) = .; \
}
#else
#define ORC_UNWIND_TABLE
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PM_TRACE
#define TRACEDATA \
. = ALIGN(4); \
@@ -866,7 +891,7 @@
DATA_DATA \
CONSTRUCTORS \
} \
BUG_TABLE
BUG_TABLE \
#define INIT_TEXT_SECTION(inittext_align) \
. = ALIGN(inittext_align); \