From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
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Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
llvm@lists.linux.dev, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
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Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
"Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 07/23] elf-parse: add section flags, symbol binding and a read-only mapping
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:55:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260908-build-speedup-v1-7-5dc1ac01672d@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260908-build-speedup-v1-0-5dc1ac01672d@kernel.org>
Extend elf-parse to be able to read the symbol table of vmlinux in kallyms.
This requires the ability to open ELF files in read-only mode, so provide
elf_map_ro() to do so.
It also requires accessors for section flags and symbol bindings, so
provide these via shdr_flags() and sym_bind().
Also, check for the file being an ELF file first in elf_parse(). This is
the logical thing to check for first, but additionally prevents kallsyms
from having to check this it self.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
---
scripts/elf-parse.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
scripts/elf-parse.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/elf-parse.c b/scripts/elf-parse.c
index 99869ff91a8c..87aa95b1e5e1 100644
--- a/scripts/elf-parse.c
+++ b/scripts/elf-parse.c
@@ -17,15 +17,21 @@ struct elf_funcs elf_parser;
* Get the whole file as a programming convenience in order to avoid
* malloc+lseek+read+free of many pieces. If successful, then mmap
* avoids copying unused pieces; else just read the whole file.
- * Open for both read and write.
+ * Open for both read and write if writable is true, otherwise open
+ * read-only.
*/
-static void *map_file(char const *fname, size_t *size)
+static void *map_file(char const *fname, size_t *size, bool writable)
{
- int fd;
+ int fd, prot = PROT_READ, flags = MAP_PRIVATE;
struct stat sb;
void *addr = NULL;
- fd = open(fname, O_RDWR);
+ if (writable) {
+ prot |= PROT_WRITE;
+ flags = MAP_SHARED;
+ }
+
+ fd = open(fname, writable ? O_RDWR : O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0) {
perror(fname);
return NULL;
@@ -39,7 +45,7 @@ static void *map_file(char const *fname, size_t *size)
goto out;
}
- addr = mmap(0, sb.st_size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
+ addr = mmap(0, sb.st_size, prot, flags, fd, 0);
if (addr == MAP_FAILED) {
fprintf(stderr, "Could not mmap file: %s\n", fname);
goto out;
@@ -57,6 +63,12 @@ static int elf_parse(const char *fname, void *addr, uint32_t types)
Elf_Ehdr *ehdr = addr;
uint16_t type;
+ if (memcmp(ELFMAG, ehdr->e32.e_ident, SELFMAG) != 0 ||
+ ehdr->e32.e_ident[EI_VERSION] != EV_CURRENT) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "unrecognized ELF file %s\n", fname);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
switch (ehdr->e32.e_ident[EI_DATA]) {
case ELFDATA2LSB:
elf_parser.r = rle;
@@ -78,12 +90,6 @@ static int elf_parse(const char *fname, void *addr, uint32_t types)
return -1;
}
- if (memcmp(ELFMAG, ehdr->e32.e_ident, SELFMAG) != 0 ||
- ehdr->e32.e_ident[EI_VERSION] != EV_CURRENT) {
- fprintf(stderr, "unrecognized ELF file %s\n", fname);
- return -1;
- }
-
type = elf_parser.r2(&ehdr->e32.e_type);
if (!((1 << type) & types)) {
fprintf(stderr, "Invalid ELF type file %s\n", fname);
@@ -103,7 +109,9 @@ static int elf_parse(const char *fname, void *addr, uint32_t types)
elf_parser.shdr_name = shdr32_name;
elf_parser.shdr_type = shdr32_type;
elf_parser.shdr_entsize = shdr32_entsize;
+ elf_parser.shdr_flags = shdr32_flags;
elf_parser.sym_type = sym32_type;
+ elf_parser.sym_bind = sym32_bind;
elf_parser.sym_name = sym32_name;
elf_parser.sym_value = sym32_value;
elf_parser.sym_shndx = sym32_shndx;
@@ -133,7 +141,9 @@ static int elf_parse(const char *fname, void *addr, uint32_t types)
elf_parser.shdr_name = shdr64_name;
elf_parser.shdr_type = shdr64_type;
elf_parser.shdr_entsize = shdr64_entsize;
+ elf_parser.shdr_flags = shdr64_flags;
elf_parser.sym_type = sym64_type;
+ elf_parser.sym_bind = sym64_bind;
elf_parser.sym_name = sym64_name;
elf_parser.sym_value = sym64_value;
elf_parser.sym_shndx = sym64_shndx;
@@ -174,12 +184,13 @@ int elf_map_long_size(void *addr)
return ehdr->e32.e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS32 ? 4 : 8;
}
-void *elf_map(char const *fname, size_t *size, uint32_t types)
+static void *__elf_map(char const *fname, size_t *size, uint32_t types,
+ bool writable)
{
void *addr;
int ret;
- addr = map_file(fname, size);
+ addr = map_file(fname, size, writable);
if (!addr)
return NULL;
@@ -192,6 +203,17 @@ void *elf_map(char const *fname, size_t *size, uint32_t types)
return addr;
}
+void *elf_map(char const *fname, size_t *size, uint32_t types)
+{
+ return __elf_map(fname, size, types, true);
+}
+
+/* For tools that only read the file. */
+void *elf_map_ro(char const *fname, size_t *size, uint32_t types)
+{
+ return __elf_map(fname, size, types, false);
+}
+
void elf_unmap(void *addr, size_t size)
{
munmap(addr, size);
diff --git a/scripts/elf-parse.h b/scripts/elf-parse.h
index f4411e03069d..453286e63032 100644
--- a/scripts/elf-parse.h
+++ b/scripts/elf-parse.h
@@ -37,10 +37,12 @@ struct elf_funcs {
uint64_t (*shdr_offset)(Elf_Shdr *shdr);
uint64_t (*shdr_size)(Elf_Shdr *shdr);
uint64_t (*shdr_entsize)(Elf_Shdr *shdr);
+ uint64_t (*shdr_flags)(Elf_Shdr *shdr);
uint32_t (*shdr_link)(Elf_Shdr *shdr);
uint32_t (*shdr_name)(Elf_Shdr *shdr);
uint32_t (*shdr_type)(Elf_Shdr *shdr);
uint8_t (*sym_type)(Elf_Sym *sym);
+ uint8_t (*sym_bind)(Elf_Sym *sym);
uint32_t (*sym_name)(Elf_Sym *sym);
uint64_t (*sym_value)(Elf_Sym *sym);
uint16_t (*sym_shndx)(Elf_Sym *sym);
@@ -143,6 +145,7 @@ SHDR_ADDR(addr)
SHDR_ADDR(offset)
SHDR_ADDR(size)
SHDR_ADDR(entsize)
+SHDR_ADDR(flags)
SHDR_WORD(link)
SHDR_WORD(name)
@@ -211,6 +214,21 @@ static inline uint8_t sym_type(Elf_Sym *sym)
return elf_parser.sym_type(sym);
}
+static inline uint8_t sym64_bind(Elf_Sym *sym)
+{
+ return ELF64_ST_BIND(sym->e64.st_info);
+}
+
+static inline uint8_t sym32_bind(Elf_Sym *sym)
+{
+ return ELF32_ST_BIND(sym->e32.st_info);
+}
+
+static inline uint8_t sym_bind(Elf_Sym *sym)
+{
+ return elf_parser.sym_bind(sym);
+}
+
SYM_ADDR(value)
SYM_WORD(name)
SYM_HALF(shndx)
@@ -298,6 +316,7 @@ static inline void w8le(uint64_t val, uint64_t *x)
}
void *elf_map(char const *fname, size_t *size, uint32_t types);
+void *elf_map_ro(char const *fname, size_t *size, uint32_t types);
void elf_unmap(void *addr, size_t size);
int elf_map_machine(void *addr);
int elf_map_long_size(void *addr);
--
2.55.0
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Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-08 20:55 [PATCH 00/23] kbuild: significantly speed up kernel builds Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 01/23] scripts/mksysmap: drop the MODULE_INFO() symbols from kallsyms Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 19:47 ` Nicolas Schier
2026-09-10 11:00 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 4:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-10 11:03 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 19:00 ` Nicolas Schier
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 02/23] scripts/mksysmap: fix escape of '$' in the __pi_ pattern Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 19:47 ` Nicolas Schier
2026-09-10 11:04 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 4:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-10 11:21 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 19:00 ` Nicolas Schier
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 03/23] kallsyms: index symbols by token to speed up table compression Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 04/23] kallsyms: output binary data to speed output and kallsyms assembly Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 14:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-09-10 9:29 ` David Laight
2026-09-11 11:07 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 05/23] kbuild: do not sort nm output where the order is irrelevant Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 4:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 06/23] kbuild: only emit vmlinux relocations when required Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 4:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-08 20:55 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) [this message]
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 08/23] kallsyms: reimplement mksysmap in C Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 09/23] kbuild: do not allocate .modinfo in vmlinux Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 4:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-10 10:59 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 10/23] kbuild: cache list, composite object state per object Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 11/23] kbuild: implement and use depcheck to check dependency timestamps Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 15:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 12/23] kbuild: avoid re-running compiler and linker probes Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 4:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-10 15:42 ` Nicolas Schier
2026-09-11 10:30 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-11 10:26 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 13/23] modpost: hash module source per-file, not per-byte Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 12:52 ` Petr Pavlu
2026-09-11 10:41 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-11 11:57 ` Petr Pavlu
2026-09-11 12:21 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 14/23] modpost: cache section relocation mismatch state Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 15/23] modpost: emit module descriptors as assembly Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 14:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 16/23] kbuild: batch module finalisation Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 15:48 ` Nicolas Schier
2026-09-11 10:23 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 17/23] modpost: perform srcversion hashing in parallel Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 10:32 ` David Laight
2026-09-11 10:49 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 18/23] objtool: cache relocations and function dead end state, do less work Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 19/23] objtool: decode instructions and resolve branch targets in parallel Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 20/23] kbuild: rust: parallelise rustc front end Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 21:13 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-09-09 14:22 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 10:22 ` Björn Baron
2026-09-09 12:59 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-09-09 14:26 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 12:25 ` Nicolas Schier (FRITZ!)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 21/23] rust: make exports.o depend on the headers generated for it Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 22/23] kbuild: build rust crates in parallel with the rest of the build Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 20:55 ` [PATCH 23/23] kbuild: use pigz for gzip compression if available Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 4:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-11 11:03 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-08 21:06 ` [PATCH 00/23] kbuild: significantly speed up kernel builds Nick Desaulniers
2026-09-09 14:17 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 22:09 ` Nick Desaulniers
2026-09-11 11:25 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 15:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-09-09 16:30 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 21:58 ` Florian Fainelli
2026-09-11 11:28 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 4:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-09-11 11:13 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
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