From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 12/14] arm64: image: Remove endianness handling for generating image header
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 17:37:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260907163726.17104-13-will@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260907163726.17104-1-will@kernel.org>
Since big-endian support for arm64 depends on BROKEN, we don't need to
bother jumping through hoops to generate a little-endian kernel image
header for a big-endian target. We can just ignore the possibility
instead.
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 11 -----------
arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 4 ++--
arch/arm64/kernel/image.h | 24 ++----------------------
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
index 42a167a75486..43bc5037c234 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
@@ -521,17 +521,6 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif
#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOKASAN(name) EXPORT_SYMBOL(name)
#endif
- /*
- * Emit a 64-bit absolute little endian symbol reference in a way that
- * ensures that it will be resolved at build time, even when building a
- * PIE binary. This requires cooperation from the linker script, which
- * must emit the lo32/hi32 halves individually.
- */
- .macro le64sym, sym
- .long \sym\()_lo32
- .long \sym\()_hi32
- .endm
-
/*
* mov_q - move an immediate constant into a 64-bit register using
* between 2 and 4 movz/movk instructions (depending on the
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index d5c1ea0c5b3c..0b9c973a5327 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@
efi_signature_nop // special NOP to identity as PE/COFF executable
b primary_entry // branch to kernel start, magic
.quad 0 // Image load offset from start of RAM, little-endian
- le64sym _kernel_size_le // Effective size of kernel image, little-endian
- le64sym _kernel_flags_le // Informative flags, little-endian
+ .quad _kernel_size_le // Effective size of kernel image, little-endian
+ .quad _kernel_flags_le // Informative flags, little-endian
.quad 0 // reserved
.quad 0 // reserved
.quad 0 // reserved
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h b/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h
index 5c10ca773363..208843f96b4d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h
@@ -13,21 +13,6 @@
#include <asm/image.h>
-/*
- * There aren't any ELF relocations we can use to endian-swap values known only
- * at link time (e.g. the subtraction of two symbol addresses), so we must get
- * the linker to endian-swap certain values before emitting them.
- *
- * Note that, in order for this to work when building the ELF64 PIE executable
- * (for KASLR), these values should not be referenced via R_AARCH64_ABS64
- * relocations, since these are fixed up at runtime rather than at build time
- * when PIE is in effect. So we need to split them up in 32-bit high and low
- * words.
- */
-#define DEFINE_IMAGE_LE64(sym, data) \
- sym##_lo32 = (data) & 0xffffffff; \
- sym##_hi32 = (data) >> 32
-
#define __HEAD_FLAG(field) (__HEAD_FLAG_##field << \
ARM64_IMAGE_FLAG_##field##_SHIFT)
@@ -41,13 +26,8 @@
__HEAD_FLAG(PAGE_SIZE) | \
__HEAD_FLAG(PHYS_BASE))
-/*
- * These will output as part of the Image header, which should be little-endian
- * regardless of the endianness of the kernel. While constant values could be
- * endian swapped in head.S, all are done here for consistency.
- */
#define HEAD_SYMBOLS \
- DEFINE_IMAGE_LE64(_kernel_size_le, _end - _text); \
- DEFINE_IMAGE_LE64(_kernel_flags_le, __HEAD_FLAGS);
+ _kernel_size_le = _end - _text; \
+ _kernel_flags_le = __HEAD_FLAGS;
#endif /* __ARM64_KERNEL_IMAGE_H */
--
2.55.0.979.g7e5102b832-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-07 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-07 16:37 [PATCH v2 00/14] arm64: Remove unused big-endian support Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:37 ` [PATCH v2 01/14] selftests/arm64: Remove " Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:37 ` [PATCH v2 02/14] arm64: bpf: Remove big-endian support from the JIT compiler Will Deacon
2026-09-07 18:49 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-09-07 16:37 ` [PATCH v2 03/14] arm64: crypto: Assume a little-endian kernel Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:37 ` [PATCH v2 04/14] arm64: lib: Assume a little-endian kernel in custom library routines Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:37 ` [PATCH v2 05/14] arm64: lib: Assume a little-endian kernel in optimised string routines Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:37 ` [PATCH v2 06/14] arm64: assembler: Remove endianness helper macros Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:37 ` [PATCH v2 07/14] arm64: head: Force little-endian early during boot Will Deacon
2026-09-08 17:12 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-09 11:32 ` Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:37 ` [PATCH v2 08/14] arm64: vdso32: Always build compat vDSO object as little-endian Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:37 ` [PATCH v2 09/14] KVM: arm64: Remove support for a big-endian hypervisor object Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:37 ` [PATCH v2 10/14] arm64: Remove all usage of CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:37 ` [PATCH v2 11/14] arm64: Remove all usage of __AARCH64EB__ Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:37 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2026-09-09 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 12/14] arm64: image: Remove endianness handling for generating image header Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:37 ` [PATCH v2 13/14] arm64: Kbuild: Remove vestigial big-endian support Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:37 ` [PATCH v2 14/14] drivers: Kconfig: Simplify dependencies on ARM64 && !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN Will Deacon
2026-09-07 17:04 ` Michael Kelley
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