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The -lgcc command-line argument is placed poorly in the build options,
which can result in build failures, for exapmle, on ARM when uidiv()
is required. This commit therefore places the -lgcc argument after the
source files.
Fixes: b94ec36896da ("rcutorture: Make use of nolibc when available")
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> [arm64]
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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The dracut scripting does not work on all platforms, and there are no
known failures from the init binary based on the statically linked C
program. This commit therefore removes the dracut scripting so that the
statically linked C program is always used to create the init "script".
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Replace the license boiler plate with a SPDX license identifier.
While in the area, update an email address and add copyright notices.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
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As suggested by Ingo, this header file might benefit other tools than
just rcutorture. For now it's quite limited, but is easy to extend, so
exposing it into tools/include/nolibc/ will make it much easier to
adopt by other tools.
The mkinitrd.sh script in rcutorture was updated to use this new location.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
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Why a Bourne-shell "for" loop? And why 192 instances of "a"? This commit
adds a shell comment to present the answer to these mysteries. It also
uses a series of factor-of-four Bourne-shell assignments to make it
easy to see how many instances there are, replacing the earlier wall of
'a' characters.
Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
[ paulmck: Fix wrong-variable bugs noted by Andrea Parri. ]
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This reduces the size of the init executable from ~800 kB to ~800 bytes
on x86_64. This is only implemented for x86_64, i386, arm and arm64.
Others not tested.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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If the build fails, we can end up with an empty initrd directory which
prevents the build script from operating again. Better rely on the
resulting init executable instead.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Strip using -s on the compiler command line instead of calling the "strip"
utility as the latter isn't necessarily compatible with the target arch.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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This adds the CROSS_COMPILE environment to the initrd.sh script's
gcc command to enable cross compilation.
Reported-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Currently, the initrd/init script and executable remain blocked almost
all the time. However, it is necessary to test nohz_full userspace
execution, which both variants of initrd/init fail to do. This commit
therefore causes initrd/init to spend about a millisecond per second
executing in userspace.
Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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The support for creating initrd directories using dracut is a great
improvement over having to always hand-create them, it is a bit annoying
to have to install some otherwise irrelevant package just to be able to
run rcutorture. This commit therefore adds support for creating initrd
directories on systems innocent of dracut. You do need gcc, but then
again you need that to build the kernel (or to build llvm) in any case.
The idea is to create an initrd directory containing nothing but a
statically linked binary having a for-loop over a long-term sleep().
The result is a Linux kernel with almost no userspace: even the
time-honored /dev, /lib, /tmp, and /usr directories are gone. In fact,
the only directory present is "/", but only because I don't know how to
get rid of it, at least short of not having an initrd in the first place.
Although statically linked binaries are much maligned, and rightly so,
their disadvantages seem to be irrelevant for this particular use case.
From https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/no_static_linking.html:
1. Fixes are difficult to apply to hordes of widely scattered
statically linked binaries. But in this case, there is only one
binary, but there would otherwise be no fewer than four libraries.
2. Security measures like local address randomization cannot be used.
Prudence prevents me from asserting that it is impossible to
base a remote attack on a networking-free rcutorture instance.
Nevertheless, bonus points to the first person who comes up with
such an attack!
3. More efficient use of physical memory. Not in this case, given
that libc is 1.8MB and the statically linked binary "only" 800K.
4. Features such as locales, name service switch (NSS),
internationalized domain names (IDN) tool, and so on require
dynamic linking. Bonus points to the first person coming up
with a valid rcutorture use case requiring these features in
its initrd.
5. Accidental violations of (L)GPL. Actually, this change actually
helps -avoid- such violations by reducing the temptation to
pass around tarballs of rcutorture-ready initrd directories.
After all, the rcutorture scripts automatically create an initrd
directory for you, so why bother with the tarballs?
6. Tools and hacks like ltrace, LD_PRELOAD, LD_PROFILE, and LD_AUDIT
don't work. Again, bonus points to the first person coming up
with a valid rcutorture use case requiring these features in
its initrd.
Nevertheless, the script will use dracut if available, and will create the
statically linked binary only when dracut are missing. Those preferring
the smaller initrd directory resulting from the statically linked binary
(like me) are free to hand-edit mkinitrd.sh to remove the code using
dracut. ;-)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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The rcutorture scripts currently expect the user to create the
tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/initrd directory. Should the user
fail to do this, the kernel build will fail with obscure and confusing
error messages. This commit therefore adds explicit checks for the
tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/initrd directory, and if not present,
creates one on systems on which dracut is installed. If this directory
could not be created, a less obscure error message is emitted and the
test is aborted.
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Connor Shu <Connor.Shu@ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Adapt the script to fit into the rcutorture framework and
severely abbreviate the initrd/init script. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Willy Tarreau
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