kallsyms is a directory of all the symbols in the vmlinux binary, and so
creating it is somewhat of a chicken-and-egg problem, as its non-zero
size affects the layout of the binary, and therefore the values of the
symbols.

For this reason, the kernel is linked more than once, and the first pass
does not include any kallsyms data at all. For the linker to accept
this, the symbol declarations describing the kallsyms metadata are
emitted as having weak linkage, so they can remain unsatisfied. During
the subsequent passes, the weak references are satisfied by the kallsyms
metadata that was constructed based on information gathered from the
preceding passes.

Weak references lead to somewhat worse codegen, because taking their
address may need to produce NULL (if the reference was unsatisfied), and
this is not usually supported by RIP or PC relative symbol references.

Given that these references are ultimately always satisfied in the final
link, let's drop the weak annotation, and instead, provide fallback
definitions in the linker script that are only emitted if an unsatisfied
reference exists.

While at it, drop the FRV specific annotation that these symbols reside
in .rodata - FRV is long gone.

Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> # Boot
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230504174320.3930345-1-ardb%40kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

Weak references are references that are permitted to remain unsatisfied
in the final link. This means they cannot be implemented using place
relative relocations, resulting in GOT entries when using position
independent code generation.

The notes section should always exist, so the weak annotations can be
omitted.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

If the BTF code is enabled in the build configuration, the start/stop
BTF markers are guaranteed to exist. Only when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=n,
the references in btf_parse_vmlinux() will remain unsatisfied, relying
on the weak linkage of the external references to avoid breaking the
build.

Avoid GOT based relocations to these markers in the final executable by
dropping the weak attribute and instead, make btf_parse_vmlinux() return
ERR_PTR(-ENOENT) directly if CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF is not enabled to
begin with.  The compiler will drop any subsequent references to
__start_BTF and __stop_BTF in that case, allowing the link to succeed.

Note that Clang will notice that taking the address of __start_BTF can
no longer yield NULL, so testing for that condition becomes unnecessary.

Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>