To avoid the need for relocating absolute references to tracepoint
structures at boot time when running relocatable kernels (which may
take a disproportionate amount of space), add the option to emit
these tables as relative references instead.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
---
 include/linux/tracepoint.h | 19 +++++++++++++++----
 kernel/tracepoint.c        | 17 +++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
index a26ffbe09e71..d02bf1a695e8 100644
--- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
+++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
@@ -228,6 +228,19 @@ extern void syscall_unregfunc(void);
                return static_key_false(&__tracepoint_##name.key);      \
        }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
+#define __TRACEPOINT_ENTRY(name)                                        \
+       asm("   .section \"__tracepoints_ptrs\", \"a\"               \n" \
+           "   .balign 4                                            \n" \
+           "   .long " VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR(__tracepoint_##name) " - .\n" \
+           "   .previous                                            \n")
+#else
+#define __TRACEPOINT_ENTRY(name)                                        \
+       static struct tracepoint * const __tracepoint_ptr_##name __used  \
+       __attribute__((section("__tracepoints_ptrs"))) =                 \
+               &__tracepoint_##name
+#endif
+
 /*
  * We have no guarantee that gcc and the linker won't up-align the tracepoint
  * structures, so we create an array of pointers that will be used for 
iteration
@@ -237,11 +250,9 @@ extern void syscall_unregfunc(void);
        static const char __tpstrtab_##name[]                            \
        __attribute__((section("__tracepoints_strings"))) = #name;       \
        struct tracepoint __tracepoint_##name                            \
-       __attribute__((section("__tracepoints"))) =                      \
+       __attribute__((section("__tracepoints"), used)) =                \
                { __tpstrtab_##name, STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE, reg, unreg, NULL };\
-       static struct tracepoint * const __tracepoint_ptr_##name __used  \
-       __attribute__((section("__tracepoints_ptrs"))) =                 \
-               &__tracepoint_##name;
+       __TRACEPOINT_ENTRY(name);
 
 #define DEFINE_TRACE(name)                                             \
        DEFINE_TRACE_FN(name, NULL, NULL);
diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
index 685c50ae6300..68b0218ef66b 100644
--- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
+++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
@@ -508,12 +508,21 @@ static void for_each_tracepoint_range(struct tracepoint * 
const *begin,
                void (*fct)(struct tracepoint *tp, void *priv),
                void *priv)
 {
-       struct tracepoint * const *iter;
-
        if (!begin)
                return;
-       for (iter = begin; iter < end; iter++)
-               fct(*iter, priv);
+
+       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS)) {
+               const int *iter;
+
+               for (iter = (const int *)begin; iter < (const int *)end; iter++)
+                       fct((struct tracepoint *)((unsigned long)iter + *iter),
+                           priv);
+       } else {
+               struct tracepoint * const *iter;
+
+               for (iter = begin; iter < end; iter++)
+                       fct(*iter, priv);
+       }
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.11.0

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