On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 12:22:06PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Well, kernel image doesn't change while vmlinux shows only a very small
> .text increase of about 2K. I'm not sure yet why that happens though
> because it shouldn't be the padding. Because we will have to do it
> anyway, this patchset makes it automatic instead of by-hand, so to
> speak.
>
> Let me bisect it and see which patch adds the increase.
Doh, of course. I've added u8 padlen to the alternative instruction
entry struct. For 2Kish alt sites in total, this explains the almost
exact same increase in text size:
text data bss dec hex filename
12290539 1595264 1085440 14971243 e4716b vmlinux
338ea55579d1... x86/lib/copy_user_64.S: Remove FIX_ALIGNMENT define
text data bss dec hex filename
12290539 1595264 1085440 14971243 e4716b vmlinux
db477a3386de... x86/alternatives: Cleanup DPRINTK macro
text data bss dec hex filename
12290539 1595264 1085440 14971243 e4716b vmlinux
4332195c5615... x86/alternatives: Add instruction padding
text data bss dec hex filename
12293030 1595264 1085440 14973734 e47b26 vmlinux
^^^^^^^
Ok, that's sorted out now.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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