x86/build/64: Force the linker to use 2MB page size
authorH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 20:57:46 +0000 (13:57 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 16:39:24 +0000 (18:39 +0200)
commit678b405bff8be2ccfc1d3b86ac9119049c1ea718
tree9eb399ae3b9b79b3e7466df9688a8b1595fed6c8
parent587da2b6282302325bd4bcc28a7615e822184ff1
x86/build/64: Force the linker to use 2MB page size

commit e3d03598e8ae7d195af5d3d049596dec336f569f upstream.

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 <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMe9rOp4_%3D_8twdpTyAP2DhONOCeaTOsniJLoppzhoNptL8xzA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/Makefile