Commit-ID: e3d03598e8ae7d195af5d3d049596dec336f569f Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/e3d03598e8ae7d195af5d3d049596dec336f569f Author: H.J. Lu <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:57:46 -0700 Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> CommitDate: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:03:03 +0100
x86/build/64: Force the linker to use 2MB page size Binutils 2.31 will enable -z separate-code by default for x86 to avoid mixing code pages with data to improve cache performance as well as security. To reduce x86-64 executable and shared object sizes, the maximum page size is reduced from 2MB to 4KB. But x86-64 kernel must be aligned to 2MB. Pass -z max-page-size=0x200000 to linker to force 2MB page size regardless of the default page size used by linker. Tested with Linux kernel 4.15.6 on x86-64. Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]> Cc: Eric Biederman <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/came9rop4_%[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/Makefile | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile index 498c1b812300..1c4d012550ec 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile @@ -223,6 +223,15 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections) $(asinstr) $(avx_instr) LDFLAGS := -m elf_$(UTS_MACHINE) +# +# The 64-bit kernel must be aligned to 2MB. Pass -z max-page-size=0x200000 to +# the linker to force 2MB page size regardless of the default page size used +# by the linker. +# +ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 +LDFLAGS += $(call ld-option, -z max-page-size=0x200000) +endif + # Speed up the build KBUILD_CFLAGS += -pipe # Workaround for a gcc prelease that unfortunately was shipped in a suse release
