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ARM: fix unwinding for XIP kernels

Message ID 1321537200-9532-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
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Uwe Kleine-König Nov. 17, 2011, 1:40 p.m. UTC
The linker places the unwind tables in readonly sections. So when using
an XIP kernel these are located in ROM and cannot be modified.

For that reason don't convert the symbol addresses during boot (or
module loading) but only when interpreting them in search_index().
Moreover several consts are added to catch future writes and rename the
member "addr" of struct unwind_idx to "addr_offset" to better match the
new semantic.

This fixes unwinding on XIP which compared prel31 offsets to absolute
addresses because the initial conversion from prel31 to absolute failed.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
---
Hello,

this is broken since unwinding was introduce in v2.6.30-rc1.

Best regards
Uwe

 arch/arm/include/asm/unwind.h |   15 ++----------
 arch/arm/kernel/setup.c       |    2 -
 arch/arm/kernel/unwind.c      |   48 ++++++++++++----------------------------
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

Comments

Catalin Marinas Nov. 17, 2011, 2:17 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 01:40:00PM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> The linker places the unwind tables in readonly sections. So when using
> an XIP kernel these are located in ROM and cannot be modified.
> 
> For that reason don't convert the symbol addresses during boot (or
> module loading) but only when interpreting them in search_index().
> Moreover several consts are added to catch future writes and rename the
> member "addr" of struct unwind_idx to "addr_offset" to better match the
> new semantic.
> 
> This fixes unwinding on XIP which compared prel31 offsets to absolute
> addresses because the initial conversion from prel31 to absolute failed.

My only worry - does this increase the index search by doing the prel31
conversion every time? It could affect tools like lockdep that need to
get the backtrace regularly at run-time.
Uwe Kleine-König Nov. 17, 2011, 6:59 p.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 02:17:06PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 01:40:00PM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > The linker places the unwind tables in readonly sections. So when using
> > an XIP kernel these are located in ROM and cannot be modified.
> > 
> > For that reason don't convert the symbol addresses during boot (or
> > module loading) but only when interpreting them in search_index().
> > Moreover several consts are added to catch future writes and rename the
> > member "addr" of struct unwind_idx to "addr_offset" to better match the
> > new semantic.
> > 
> > This fixes unwinding on XIP which compared prel31 offsets to absolute
> > addresses because the initial conversion from prel31 to absolute failed.
> 
> My only worry - does this increase the index search by doing the prel31
> conversion every time? It could affect tools like lockdep that need to
> get the backtrace regularly at run-time.
Yeah, I thought about the increased runtime, too and considered to only
fix it on CONFIG_XIP=y. Unfortunately as the addresses are relative to
their respective position in the idx section it's not trivial to just do
the inverse mapping on the address and compare that. But maybe it's
still cheaper to do it that way?

I will take a look and do some measurements when I have my more pressing
problems solved. For now I'm happy to have backtraces again.

Best regards
Uwe
Nicolas Pitre Nov. 18, 2011, 6:28 p.m. UTC | #3
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 01:40:00PM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > The linker places the unwind tables in readonly sections. So when using
> > an XIP kernel these are located in ROM and cannot be modified.
> > 
> > For that reason don't convert the symbol addresses during boot (or
> > module loading) but only when interpreting them in search_index().
> > Moreover several consts are added to catch future writes and rename the
> > member "addr" of struct unwind_idx to "addr_offset" to better match the
> > new semantic.
> > 
> > This fixes unwinding on XIP which compared prel31 offsets to absolute
> > addresses because the initial conversion from prel31 to absolute failed.
> 
> My only worry - does this increase the index search by doing the prel31
> conversion every time? It could affect tools like lockdep that need to
> get the backtrace regularly at run-time.

We're talking about two constant shifts and an add.  something that 
myght take around 2 cycles on ARM.  Hardly noticeable I would say, 
especially given that lockdep is already quite costly and hardly 
something you want to keep around in production anyway.

On the plus side, this fixes the XIP case, and allow for backtrace to be 
usable pretty early without any explicit initialization.

As far as I'm concerned (which isn't much as this is not my code):

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>


Nicolas
Catalin Marinas Nov. 18, 2011, 9:36 p.m. UTC | #4
On 18 November 2011 18:28, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 01:40:00PM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>> > The linker places the unwind tables in readonly sections. So when using
>> > an XIP kernel these are located in ROM and cannot be modified.
>> >
>> > For that reason don't convert the symbol addresses during boot (or
>> > module loading) but only when interpreting them in search_index().
>> > Moreover several consts are added to catch future writes and rename the
>> > member "addr" of struct unwind_idx to "addr_offset" to better match the
>> > new semantic.
>> >
>> > This fixes unwinding on XIP which compared prel31 offsets to absolute
>> > addresses because the initial conversion from prel31 to absolute failed.
>>
>> My only worry - does this increase the index search by doing the prel31
>> conversion every time? It could affect tools like lockdep that need to
>> get the backtrace regularly at run-time.
>
> We're talking about two constant shifts and an add.  something that
> myght take around 2 cycles on ARM.  Hardly noticeable I would say,
> especially given that lockdep is already quite costly and hardly
> something you want to keep around in production anyway.

Just doing some maths - the prel31 conversion takes 2 instructions on
ARMv7 (sbfx, add). The search_index() loop is executed for
log(nr-symbols) iterations. On a vmlinux I have around with ~15000
function symbols, it means 14 iterations, so we get ~28 more cycles
per stack frame. For an average backtrace of 8 function calls, it adds
~200 cycles per backtrace.

For lockdep, that's indeed unnoticeable but there are some other tools
that need tracing. If no-one complains about this increase, I'm ok
with the patch (I know in the past people complained that unwinding is
much slower than frame pointers).
Uwe Kleine-König Nov. 20, 2011, 11:28 a.m. UTC | #5
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 02:17:06PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 01:40:00PM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > The linker places the unwind tables in readonly sections. So when using
> > an XIP kernel these are located in ROM and cannot be modified.
> > 
> > For that reason don't convert the symbol addresses during boot (or
> > module loading) but only when interpreting them in search_index().
> > Moreover several consts are added to catch future writes and rename the
> > member "addr" of struct unwind_idx to "addr_offset" to better match the
> > new semantic.
> > 
> > This fixes unwinding on XIP which compared prel31 offsets to absolute
> > addresses because the initial conversion from prel31 to absolute failed.
> 
> My only worry - does this increase the index search by doing the prel31
> conversion every time? It could affect tools like lockdep that need to
> get the backtrace regularly at run-time.
I did a first test now using 

	static int __init unwind_test(void)
	{
	      unsigned long flags;
	      u64 start, end;
	      register unsigned long current_sp asm ("sp");
	      int i;

	      struct stackframe init_frame;

	      init_frame.fp = (unsigned long)__builtin_frame_address(0);
	      init_frame.sp = current_sp;
	      init_frame.lr = (unsigned long)__builtin_return_address(0);
	      init_frame.pc = (unsigned long)unwind_test;

	      local_irq_save(flags);
	      start = timestamp();
	      for (i = 0; i < 100; ++i) {
		      struct stackframe frame = init_frame;
		      while (!unwind_frame(&frame));
	      }
	      end = timestamp();
	      local_irq_restore(flags);

	      pr_info("%s: ************************ unwind test took %llu\n",
			      __func__, (unsigned long long)(end - start));
	      return 0;
	}
	late_initcall(unwind_test);

where timestamp reads and returns the value of a cpu counter on an mx35
machine.

The increase in runtime of my patch is at approx 7% for the above test
case.

I will try later to optimise a bit more as I wrote earlier in this
thread.

Best regards
Uwe
Catalin Marinas Nov. 21, 2011, 6:35 p.m. UTC | #6
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:28:09AM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 02:17:06PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 01:40:00PM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > The linker places the unwind tables in readonly sections. So when using
> > > an XIP kernel these are located in ROM and cannot be modified.
> > > 
> > > For that reason don't convert the symbol addresses during boot (or
> > > module loading) but only when interpreting them in search_index().
> > > Moreover several consts are added to catch future writes and rename the
> > > member "addr" of struct unwind_idx to "addr_offset" to better match the
> > > new semantic.
> > > 
> > > This fixes unwinding on XIP which compared prel31 offsets to absolute
> > > addresses because the initial conversion from prel31 to absolute failed.
> > 
> > My only worry - does this increase the index search by doing the prel31
> > conversion every time? It could affect tools like lockdep that need to
> > get the backtrace regularly at run-time.
> I did a first test now using 
> 
> 	static int __init unwind_test(void)

With your latest patch, have you tried dropping __init from this
function? Since the .init.text section goes after the unwind_idx tables,
all the prel31 offsets are positive and the number of init functions is
smaller than the run-time ones.
Uwe Kleine-König Nov. 28, 2011, 9:22 a.m. UTC | #7
Hello,

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 06:35:45PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:28:09AM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 02:17:06PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 01:40:00PM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > > The linker places the unwind tables in readonly sections. So when using
> > > > an XIP kernel these are located in ROM and cannot be modified.
> > > > 
> > > > For that reason don't convert the symbol addresses during boot (or
> > > > module loading) but only when interpreting them in search_index().
> > > > Moreover several consts are added to catch future writes and rename the
> > > > member "addr" of struct unwind_idx to "addr_offset" to better match the
> > > > new semantic.
> > > > 
> > > > This fixes unwinding on XIP which compared prel31 offsets to absolute
> > > > addresses because the initial conversion from prel31 to absolute failed.
> > > 
> > > My only worry - does this increase the index search by doing the prel31
> > > conversion every time? It could affect tools like lockdep that need to
> > > get the backtrace regularly at run-time.
> > I did a first test now using 
> > 
> > 	static int __init unwind_test(void)
> 
> With your latest patch, have you tried dropping __init from this
> function? Since the .init.text section goes after the unwind_idx tables,
> all the prel31 offsets are positive and the number of init functions is
> smaller than the run-time ones.
Yeah, it works fine. In fact unwinding unwind_test yields:

	do_one_initcall+0x50/0x158
	kernel_init+0x78/0x120
	kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8

where kernel_thread_exit is not in .init.text, too.

I don't know why you asked? Did you see a bug? Or is it just to let me
do enough testing before you start reviewing my patches?

Best regards
Uwe
Catalin Marinas Nov. 28, 2011, 9:45 a.m. UTC | #8
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:22:17AM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 06:35:45PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:28:09AM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 02:17:06PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 01:40:00PM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > > > The linker places the unwind tables in readonly sections. So when using
> > > > > an XIP kernel these are located in ROM and cannot be modified.
> > > > > 
> > > > > For that reason don't convert the symbol addresses during boot (or
> > > > > module loading) but only when interpreting them in search_index().
> > > > > Moreover several consts are added to catch future writes and rename the
> > > > > member "addr" of struct unwind_idx to "addr_offset" to better match the
> > > > > new semantic.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This fixes unwinding on XIP which compared prel31 offsets to absolute
> > > > > addresses because the initial conversion from prel31 to absolute failed.
> > > > 
> > > > My only worry - does this increase the index search by doing the prel31
> > > > conversion every time? It could affect tools like lockdep that need to
> > > > get the backtrace regularly at run-time.
> > > I did a first test now using 
> > > 
> > > 	static int __init unwind_test(void)
> > 
> > With your latest patch, have you tried dropping __init from this
> > function? Since the .init.text section goes after the unwind_idx tables,
> > all the prel31 offsets are positive and the number of init functions is
> > smaller than the run-time ones.
> Yeah, it works fine. In fact unwinding unwind_test yields:
> 
> 	do_one_initcall+0x50/0x158
> 	kernel_init+0x78/0x120
> 	kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8
> 
> where kernel_thread_exit is not in .init.text, too.
> 
> I don't know why you asked? Did you see a bug? Or is it just to let me
> do enough testing before you start reviewing my patches?

It's not a bug, just a wondering about the performance figures you got
with your latest patch. When you have __init to unwind_test, the
.init.text functions are placed by the linker after the unwinding table,
with having a positive prel31 address. All the non-init functions are
placed before the table with a negative prel31. With your latest patch,
you split the set of functions in two ranges - the non-init one with a
negative prel31 and the init functions with a positive prel31 and the
binary search only happens on one of these ranges. The problem is that
the init range is much smaller than the non-init one, so your benchmark
figures may not be realistic.

Could you run the simple benchmark on a non-init function?

Thanks.
Uwe Kleine-König Nov. 28, 2011, 10:02 a.m. UTC | #9
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:45:03AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:22:17AM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 06:35:45PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:28:09AM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 02:17:06PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 01:40:00PM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > > > > The linker places the unwind tables in readonly sections. So when using
> > > > > > an XIP kernel these are located in ROM and cannot be modified.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > For that reason don't convert the symbol addresses during boot (or
> > > > > > module loading) but only when interpreting them in search_index().
> > > > > > Moreover several consts are added to catch future writes and rename the
> > > > > > member "addr" of struct unwind_idx to "addr_offset" to better match the
> > > > > > new semantic.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > This fixes unwinding on XIP which compared prel31 offsets to absolute
> > > > > > addresses because the initial conversion from prel31 to absolute failed.
> > > > > 
> > > > > My only worry - does this increase the index search by doing the prel31
> > > > > conversion every time? It could affect tools like lockdep that need to
> > > > > get the backtrace regularly at run-time.
> > > > I did a first test now using 
> > > > 
> > > > 	static int __init unwind_test(void)
> > > 
> > > With your latest patch, have you tried dropping __init from this
> > > function? Since the .init.text section goes after the unwind_idx tables,
> > > all the prel31 offsets are positive and the number of init functions is
> > > smaller than the run-time ones.
> > Yeah, it works fine. In fact unwinding unwind_test yields:
> > 
> > 	do_one_initcall+0x50/0x158
> > 	kernel_init+0x78/0x120
> > 	kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8
> > 
> > where kernel_thread_exit is not in .init.text, too.
> > 
> > I don't know why you asked? Did you see a bug? Or is it just to let me
> > do enough testing before you start reviewing my patches?
> 
> It's not a bug, just a wondering about the performance figures you got
> with your latest patch. When you have __init to unwind_test, the
> .init.text functions are placed by the linker after the unwinding table,
> with having a positive prel31 address. All the non-init functions are
> placed before the table with a negative prel31. With your latest patch,
> you split the set of functions in two ranges - the non-init one with a
> negative prel31 and the init functions with a positive prel31 and the
> binary search only happens on one of these ranges. The problem is that
> the init range is much smaller than the non-init one, so your benchmark
> figures may not be realistic.
> 
> Could you run the simple benchmark on a non-init function?
Without __init I get with the original implementation:

	34139, 34127, 34100

and with my patch I get

	33456, 33425, 33407

So the speedup here is smaller here, but still OK. Anyhow, I don't care
much about the speedup compared to the current implementation. I like my
patch because it's more correct as it doesn't need to modify the unwind
tables and is searched in a nice way that doesn't look to be less
effective by an order.

Best regards
Uwe
Catalin Marinas Nov. 28, 2011, 10:07 a.m. UTC | #10
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:02:19AM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:45:03AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:22:17AM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 06:35:45PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:28:09AM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 02:17:06PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 01:40:00PM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > > > > > The linker places the unwind tables in readonly sections. So when using
> > > > > > > an XIP kernel these are located in ROM and cannot be modified.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > For that reason don't convert the symbol addresses during boot (or
> > > > > > > module loading) but only when interpreting them in search_index().
> > > > > > > Moreover several consts are added to catch future writes and rename the
> > > > > > > member "addr" of struct unwind_idx to "addr_offset" to better match the
> > > > > > > new semantic.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > This fixes unwinding on XIP which compared prel31 offsets to absolute
> > > > > > > addresses because the initial conversion from prel31 to absolute failed.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > My only worry - does this increase the index search by doing the prel31
> > > > > > conversion every time? It could affect tools like lockdep that need to
> > > > > > get the backtrace regularly at run-time.
> > > > > I did a first test now using 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 	static int __init unwind_test(void)
> > > > 
> > > > With your latest patch, have you tried dropping __init from this
> > > > function? Since the .init.text section goes after the unwind_idx tables,
> > > > all the prel31 offsets are positive and the number of init functions is
> > > > smaller than the run-time ones.
> > > Yeah, it works fine. In fact unwinding unwind_test yields:
> > > 
> > > 	do_one_initcall+0x50/0x158
> > > 	kernel_init+0x78/0x120
> > > 	kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8
> > > 
> > > where kernel_thread_exit is not in .init.text, too.
> > > 
> > > I don't know why you asked? Did you see a bug? Or is it just to let me
> > > do enough testing before you start reviewing my patches?
> > 
> > It's not a bug, just a wondering about the performance figures you got
> > with your latest patch. When you have __init to unwind_test, the
> > .init.text functions are placed by the linker after the unwinding table,
> > with having a positive prel31 address. All the non-init functions are
> > placed before the table with a negative prel31. With your latest patch,
> > you split the set of functions in two ranges - the non-init one with a
> > negative prel31 and the init functions with a positive prel31 and the
> > binary search only happens on one of these ranges. The problem is that
> > the init range is much smaller than the non-init one, so your benchmark
> > figures may not be realistic.
> > 
> > Could you run the simple benchmark on a non-init function?
> Without __init I get with the original implementation:
> 
> 	34139, 34127, 34100
> 
> and with my patch I get
> 
> 	33456, 33425, 33407
> 
> So the speedup here is smaller here, but still OK.

OK, so as long as it is not much worse than before, I'm ok with this.
I'll do a proper review of the patch in the next day or so.

Thanks.
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/unwind.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/unwind.h
index a5edf42..2ae0e0a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/unwind.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/unwind.h
@@ -30,14 +30,14 @@  enum unwind_reason_code {
 };
 
 struct unwind_idx {
-	unsigned long addr;
+	unsigned long addr_offset;
 	unsigned long insn;
 };
 
 struct unwind_table {
 	struct list_head list;
-	struct unwind_idx *start;
-	struct unwind_idx *stop;
+	const struct unwind_idx *start;
+	const struct unwind_idx *stop;
 	unsigned long begin_addr;
 	unsigned long end_addr;
 };
@@ -49,15 +49,6 @@  extern struct unwind_table *unwind_table_add(unsigned long start,
 extern void unwind_table_del(struct unwind_table *tab);
 extern void unwind_backtrace(struct pt_regs *regs, struct task_struct *tsk);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND
-extern int __init unwind_init(void);
-#else
-static inline int __init unwind_init(void)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-#endif
-
 #endif	/* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
index 7e7977a..cf9d71a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
@@ -893,8 +893,6 @@  void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 {
 	struct machine_desc *mdesc;
 
-	unwind_init();
-
 	setup_processor();
 	mdesc = setup_machine_fdt(__atags_pointer);
 	if (!mdesc)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/unwind.c b/arch/arm/kernel/unwind.c
index e7e8365..ad3f06f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/unwind.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/unwind.c
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr2);
 
 struct unwind_ctrl_block {
 	unsigned long vrs[16];		/* virtual register set */
-	unsigned long *insn;		/* pointer to the current instructions word */
+	const unsigned long *insn;	/* pointer to the current instructions word */
 	int entries;			/* number of entries left to interpret */
 	int byte;			/* current byte number in the instructions word */
 };
@@ -83,8 +83,8 @@  enum regs {
 	PC = 15
 };
 
-extern struct unwind_idx __start_unwind_idx[];
-extern struct unwind_idx __stop_unwind_idx[];
+extern const struct unwind_idx __start_unwind_idx[];
+extern const struct unwind_idx __stop_unwind_idx[];
 
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(unwind_lock);
 static LIST_HEAD(unwind_tables);
@@ -101,22 +101,22 @@  static LIST_HEAD(unwind_tables);
  * Binary search in the unwind index. The entries entries are
  * guaranteed to be sorted in ascending order by the linker.
  */
-static struct unwind_idx *search_index(unsigned long addr,
-				       struct unwind_idx *first,
-				       struct unwind_idx *last)
+static const struct unwind_idx *search_index(unsigned long addr,
+				       const struct unwind_idx *first,
+				       const struct unwind_idx *last)
 {
 	pr_debug("%s(%08lx, %p, %p)\n", __func__, addr, first, last);
 
-	if (addr < first->addr) {
+	if (addr < prel31_to_addr(&first->addr_offset)) {
 		pr_warning("unwind: Unknown symbol address %08lx\n", addr);
 		return NULL;
-	} else if (addr >= last->addr)
+	} else if (addr >= prel31_to_addr(&last->addr_offset))
 		return last;
 
 	while (first < last - 1) {
-		struct unwind_idx *mid = first + ((last - first + 1) >> 1);
+		const struct unwind_idx *mid = first + ((last - first + 1) >> 1);
 
-		if (addr < mid->addr)
+		if (addr < prel31_to_addr(&mid->addr_offset))
 			last = mid;
 		else
 			first = mid;
@@ -125,9 +125,9 @@  static struct unwind_idx *search_index(unsigned long addr,
 	return first;
 }
 
-static struct unwind_idx *unwind_find_idx(unsigned long addr)
+static const struct unwind_idx *unwind_find_idx(unsigned long addr)
 {
-	struct unwind_idx *idx = NULL;
+	const struct unwind_idx *idx = NULL;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	pr_debug("%s(%08lx)\n", __func__, addr);
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@  static int unwind_exec_insn(struct unwind_ctrl_block *ctrl)
 int unwind_frame(struct stackframe *frame)
 {
 	unsigned long high, low;
-	struct unwind_idx *idx;
+	const struct unwind_idx *idx;
 	struct unwind_ctrl_block ctrl;
 
 	/* only go to a higher address on the stack */
@@ -399,7 +399,6 @@  struct unwind_table *unwind_table_add(unsigned long start, unsigned long size,
 				      unsigned long text_size)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
-	struct unwind_idx *idx;
 	struct unwind_table *tab = kmalloc(sizeof(*tab), GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	pr_debug("%s(%08lx, %08lx, %08lx, %08lx)\n", __func__, start, size,
@@ -408,15 +407,11 @@  struct unwind_table *unwind_table_add(unsigned long start, unsigned long size,
 	if (!tab)
 		return tab;
 
-	tab->start = (struct unwind_idx *)start;
-	tab->stop = (struct unwind_idx *)(start + size);
+	tab->start = (const struct unwind_idx *)start;
+	tab->stop = (const struct unwind_idx *)(start + size);
 	tab->begin_addr = text_addr;
 	tab->end_addr = text_addr + text_size;
 
-	/* Convert the symbol addresses to absolute values */
-	for (idx = tab->start; idx < tab->stop; idx++)
-		idx->addr = prel31_to_addr(&idx->addr);
-
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&unwind_lock, flags);
 	list_add_tail(&tab->list, &unwind_tables);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&unwind_lock, flags);
@@ -437,16 +432,3 @@  void unwind_table_del(struct unwind_table *tab)
 
 	kfree(tab);
 }
-
-int __init unwind_init(void)
-{
-	struct unwind_idx *idx;
-
-	/* Convert the symbol addresses to absolute values */
-	for (idx = __start_unwind_idx; idx < __stop_unwind_idx; idx++)
-		idx->addr = prel31_to_addr(&idx->addr);
-
-	pr_debug("unwind: ARM stack unwinding initialised\n");
-
-	return 0;
-}