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]>

diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 498c1b8123006add6ad685a1fea6239208509810..1c4d012550ec5fab1e2ae26b9cf8a67168da75fd 100644 (file)
--- 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