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2011-07-07ARM: vmlinux.lds: use _text and _stext the same way as x86Russell King1-2/+2
x86 uses _text to mark the start of the kernel image including the head text, and _stext to mark the start of the .text section. Change our vmlinux.lds to conform. An audit of the places which use _stext and _text in arch/arm indicates no users of either symbol are impacted by this change. It does mean a slight change to /proc/iomem output. Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-07ARM: vmlinux.lds: move init sections between text and data sectionsRussell King1-48/+48
Place the init sections between the text and data sections. This means all code is grouped together at the beginning of the kernel image, and all data is at the end of the image. This avoids problems with the 24-bit branch instruction relocations becoming invalid with large initramfs images. Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-07ARM: vmlinux.lds: remove .rodata/.rodata1 from main .text segmentRussell King1-2/+0
RODATA() already handles these sections, so allow it to take care of them for us. Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-07ARM: vmlinux.lds: rearrange .init output sectionRussell King1-18/+29
Keep the various linker tables as separate output sections rather than combining them together into one big .init section. This makes the 'vmlinux' easier to see what is placed where. Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-07ARM: vmlinux.lds: move discarded sections to beginningRussell King1-25/+22
Rather than scattering the discarded sections throughout the linker file, move them to the start. Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-24percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZETejun Heo1-1/+1
Percpu allocator honors alignment request upto PAGE_SIZE and both the percpu addresses in the percpu address space and the translated kernel addresses should be aligned accordingly. The calculation of the former depends on the alignment of percpu output section in the kernel image. The linker script macros PERCPU_VADDR() and PERCPU() are used to define this output section and the latter takes @align parameter. Several architectures are using @align smaller than PAGE_SIZE breaking percpu memory alignment. This patch removes @align parameter from PERCPU(), renames it to PERCPU_SECTION() and makes it always align to PAGE_SIZE. While at it, add PCPU_SETUP_BUG_ON() checks such that alignment problems are reliably detected and remove percpu alignment comment recently added in workqueue.c as the condition would trigger BUG way before reaching there. For um, this patch raises the alignment of percpu area. As the area is in .init, there shouldn't be any noticeable difference. This problem was discovered by David Howells while debugging boot failure on mn10300. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
2011-03-16Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds1-0/+4
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (91 commits) ARM: 6806/1: irq: introduce entry and exit functions for chained handlers ARM: 6781/1: Thumb-2: Work around buggy Thumb-2 short branch relocations in gas ARM: 6747/1: P2V: Thumb2 support ARM: 6798/1: aout-core: zero thread debug registers in a.out core dump ARM: 6796/1: Footbridge: Fix I/O mappings for NOMMU mode ARM: 6784/1: errata: no automatic Store Buffer drain on Cortex-A9 ARM: 6772/1: errata: possible fault MMU translations following an ASID switch ARM: 6776/1: mach-ux500: activate fix for errata 753970 ARM: 6794/1: SPEAr: Append UL to device address macros. ARM: 6793/1: SPEAr: Remove unused *_SIZE macros from spear*.h files ARM: 6792/1: SPEAr: Replace SIZE macro's with SZ_4K macros ARM: 6791/1: SPEAr3xx: Declare device structures after shirq code ARM: 6790/1: SPEAr: Clock Framework: Rename usbd clock and align apb_clk entry ARM: 6789/1: SPEAr3xx: Rename sdio to sdhci ARM: 6788/1: SPEAr: Include mach/hardware.h instead of mach/spear.h ARM: 6787/1: SPEAr: Reorder #includes in .h & .c files. ARM: 6681/1: SPEAr: add debugfs support to clk API ARM: 6703/1: SPEAr: update clk API support ARM: 6679/1: SPEAr: make clk API functions more generic ARM: 6737/1: SPEAr: formalized timer support ...
2011-03-16Merge branch 'p2v' into develRussell King1-0/+4
Conflicts: arch/arm/kernel/module.c arch/arm/mach-s5pv210/sleep.S
2011-03-16Merge branch 'for-2.6.39' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: percpu, x86: Add arch-specific this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() support percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() alpha: use L1_CACHE_BYTES for cacheline size in the linker script percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S due to the percpu alignment having changed ("x86: Reduce back the alignment of the per-CPU data section")
2011-02-21ARM: Keep exit text/data around for SMP_ON_UPRussell King1-0/+9
When SMP_ON_UP is used and the spinlocks are inlined, we end up with inline spinlocks in the exit code, with references from the SMP alternatives section to the exit sections. This causes link time errors. Avoid this by placing the exit sections in the init-discarded region. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Tested-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-02-21ARM: 6740/1: Place correctly notes section in the linker scriptPawel Moll1-0/+2
Commit 18991197b4b588255ccabf472ebc84db7b66a19c added --build-id linker option when toolchain supports it. ARM one does, but for some reason places the section at 0 when linker script doesn't mention it explicitly. The 1e621a8e3752367d4aae78a8ab00a18fb2793f34 worked around the problem removing this section from binary image with explicit objcopy options, but it still exists in vmlinux, confusing tools like debuggers and perf. This problem was discussed here: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2010-May/015994.html http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2010-May/015994.html but the proposed changes to the linker script were substantial. This patch simply places NOTES (36 bytes long, at least when compiled with CodeSourcery toolchain) between data and bss, which seem to be the right place (and suggested by the sample linker script in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h). It is enough to place it correctly in vmlinux (so debuggers are happy): Section Headers: [11] .data PROGBITS c07ce000 7ce000 020fc0 00 WA 0 0 32 [12] .notes NOTE c07eefc0 7eefc0 000024 00 AX 0 0 4 [13] .bss NOBITS c07ef000 7eefe4 01e628 00 WA 0 0 32 Program Headers: LOAD 0x008000 0xc0008000 0xc0008000 0x7e6fe4 0x805628 RWE 0x8000 NOTE 0x7eefc0 0xc07eefc0 0xc07eefc0 0x00024 0x00024 R E 0x4 Section to Segment mapping: Segment Sections... 00 <...> .data .notes .bss 01 .notes and to get it exposed as /sys/kernel/notes used by perf tools. Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-02-17ARM: P2V: introduce phys_to_virt/virt_to_phys runtime patchingRussell King1-0/+4
This idea came from Nicolas, Eric Miao produced an initial version, which was then rewritten into this. Patch the physical to virtual translations at runtime. As we modify the code, this makes it incompatible with XIP kernels, but allows us to achieve this with minimal loss of performance. As many translations are of the form: physical = virtual + (PHYS_OFFSET - PAGE_OFFSET) virtual = physical - (PHYS_OFFSET - PAGE_OFFSET) we generate an 'add' instruction for __virt_to_phys(), and a 'sub' instruction for __phys_to_virt(). We calculate at run time (PHYS_OFFSET - PAGE_OFFSET) by comparing the address prior to MMU initialization with where it should be once the MMU has been initialized, and place this constant into the above add/sub instructions. Once we have (PHYS_OFFSET - PAGE_OFFSET), we can calculate the real PHYS_OFFSET as PAGE_OFFSET is a build-time constant, and save this for the C-mode PHYS_OFFSET variable definition to use. At present, we are unable to support Realview with Sparsemem enabled as this uses a complex mapping function, and MSM as this requires a constant which will not fit in our math instruction. Add a module version magic string for this feature to prevent incompatible modules being loaded. Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-25percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cachelineTejun Heo1-1/+1
Currently percpu readmostly subsection may share cachelines with other percpu subsections which may result in unnecessary cacheline bounce and performance degradation. This patch adds @cacheline parameter to PERCPU() and PERCPU_VADDR() linker macros, makes each arch linker scripts specify its cacheline size and use it to align percpu subsections. This is based on Shaohua's x86 only patch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
2011-01-06Merge branch 'misc' into develRussell King1-0/+1
Conflicts: arch/arm/Kconfig arch/arm/common/Makefile arch/arm/kernel/Makefile arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
2010-12-05ARM: implement support for read-mostly sectionsRussell King1-0/+1
As our SMP implementation uses MESI protocols. Grouping together data which is mostly only read together means that we avoid unnecessary cache line bouncing when this code shares a cache line with other data. In other words, cache lines associated with read-mostly data are expected to spend most of their time in shared state. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-11-19ARM: place C irq handlers in IRQ_ENTRY for ftraceRabin Vincent1-0/+1
When FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER is enabled, place do_IRQ() and friends in the IRQ_ENTRY section so that the irq-related features of the function graph tracer work. Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
2010-10-27ARM: 6465/1: Fix data abort accessing proc_info from __lookup_processor_typeTony Lindgren1-0/+1
Commit 5085f3ff458521045f7e43da62b8c30ea7df2e82 added better support for CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU by keeping proc_info around. However, depending on the Kconfig options selected, this can make the booting fail mysteriously early on. Turns out a data abort can happen in __lookup_processor in ldmia r5 {r3, r4}. When it happens the address loaded to r5 is not aligned. Fix the problem by aligning proc_info. Reported-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com> Tested-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-18Merge branch 'hotplug' into develRussell King1-7/+17
Conflicts: arch/arm/kernel/head-common.S
2010-10-08ARM: hotplug cpu: Keep processor information, startup code & ↵Russell King1-7/+17
__lookup_processor_type When hotplug CPU is enabled, we need to keep the list of supported CPUs, their setup functions, and __lookup_processor_type in place so that we can find and initialize secondary CPUs. Move these into the __CPUINIT section. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-08ARM: vmlinux.lds: Move unwind tables into _stext.._etextRussell King1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-04ARM: Allow SMP kernels to boot on UP systemsRussell King1-0/+11
UP systems do not implement all the instructions that SMP systems have, so in order to boot a SMP kernel on a UP system, we need to rewrite parts of the kernel. Do this using an 'alternatives' scheme, where the kernel code and data is modified prior to initialization to replace the SMP instructions, thereby rendering the problematical code ineffectual. We use the linker to generate a list of 32-bit word locations and their replacement values, and run through these replacements when we detect a UP system. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-15ARM: 5880/1: arm: use generic infrastructure for early paramsJeremy Kerr1-4/+0
The ARM setup code includes its own parser for early params, there's also one in the generic init code. This patch removes __early_init (and related code) from arch/arm/kernel/setup.c, and changes users to the generic early_init macro instead. The generic macro takes a char * argument, rather than char **, so we need to update the parser functions a little. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-15ARM: use unified discard definition in linker scriptAlan Jenkins1-5/+8
Commit 023bf6f "linker script: unify usage of discard definition" changed the linker scripts for all architectures except for ARM. I can find no discussion about this ommision, so here are the changes for ARM. These changes are exactly parallel to the ia64 case. "ia64 is notable because it first throws away some ia64 specific subsections and then include the rest of the sections into the final image, so those sections must be discarded before the inclusion." Not boot-tested. In build testing, the modified linker script generated an identical vmlinux file. [I would like to be able to rely on this unified discard definition. I want to sort the kernel symbol tables to allow faster symbol resolution during module loading. The simplest way appears to be to generate sorted versions from vmlinux.o, link them in to vmlinux, _and discard the original unsorted tables_. This work is driven by my x86 netbook, but it is implemented at a generic level. It is possible it will benefit some ARM systems also.] Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by-without-testing: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-11-23ARM: Clean up linker script using new linker script macros.Nelson Elhage1-54/+23
This patch is mostly a straightforward translation. The primary side effect to the resulting vmlinux should be to increase the alignment on the initramfs to the standard PAGE_SIZE from 32 bytes. Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-11-23ARM: convert to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros.Tim Abbott1-5/+3
This has the consequence of changing the section name used for head code from ".text.head" to ".head.text". Since this commit changes all users in the architecture, this change should be harmless. The .text.head output section is eliminated and the head text code is included at the start of the .init output section. Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-22Merge branch 'master' into for-linusRussell King1-0/+1
2009-09-15ARM: 5580/2: ARM TCM (Tightly-Coupled Memory) support v3Linus Walleij1-0/+57
This adds the TCM interface to Linux, when active, it will detect and report TCM memories and sizes early in boot if present, introduce generic TCM memory handling, provide a generic TCM memory pool and select TCM memory for the U300 platform. See the Documentation/arm/tcm.txt for documentation. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-07-04Merge branch 'master' into for-nextTejun Heo1-7/+16
Pull linus#master to merge PER_CPU_DEF_ATTRIBUTES and alpha build fix changes. As alpha in percpu tree uses 'weak' attribute instead of inline assembly, there's no need for __used attribute. Conflicts: arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S include/linux/percpu-defs.h
2009-06-25[ARM] 5565/2: Use PAGE_SIZE and RO_DATA() in link scriptLinus Walleij1-7/+8
Update the link script for ARM to use PAGE_SIZE instead of hard- coded 4096. Also the old RODATA macro is deprecated for the RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE) macro. As a consequence the PAGE_SIZE was changed from (1UL << PAGE_SHIFT) to (_AC(1,UL) << PAGE_SHIFT) because the linker does not understand the "UL" suffix to numeric constants. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-24linker script: throw away .discard sectionTejun Heo1-0/+1
x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do. Also, .discard is not thrown away while linking modules. Make every arch and module linking throw it away. This will be used to define dummy variables for percpu declarations and definitions. This patch is based on Ivan Kokshaysky's alpha percpu patch. [ Impact: always throw away everything in .discard ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-19[ARM] 5557/1: Discard some ARM.ex*.*exit.text sections when !HOTPLUG or ↵Catalin Marinas1-0/+8
!HOTPLUG_CPU Not discarding these sections when hotplug isn't available prevents the kernel from building. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-30arm: Provide _sdata and __bss_stop in the vmlinux.lds.S fileCatalin Marinas1-0/+2
_sdata and __bss_stop are common symbols defined by many architectures and made available to the kernel via asm-generic/sections.h. Kmemleak uses these symbols when scanning the data sections. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-03-28Merge branch 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds1-0/+19
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (422 commits) [ARM] 5435/1: fix compile warning in sanity_check_meminfo() [ARM] 5434/1: ARM: OMAP: Fix mailbox compile for 24xx [ARM] pxa: fix the bad assumption that PCMCIA sockets always start with 0 [ARM] pxa: fix Colibri PXA300 and PXA320 LCD backlight pins imxfb: Fix TFT mode i.MX21/27: remove ifdef CONFIG_FB_IMX imxfb: add clock support mxc: add arch_reset() function clkdev: add possibility to get a clock based on the device name i.MX1: remove fb support from mach-imx [ARM] pxa: build arch/arm/plat-pxa/mfp.c only when PXA3xx or ARCH_MMP defined Gemini: Add support for Teltonika RUT100 Gemini: gpiolib based GPIO support v2 MAINTAINERS: add myself as Gemini architecture maintainer ARM: Add Gemini architecture v3 [ARM] OMAP: Fix compile for omap2_init_common_hw() MAINTAINERS: Add myself as Faraday ARM core variant maintainer ARM: Add support for FA526 v2 [ARM] acorn,ebsa110,footbridge,integrator,sa1100: Convert asm/io.h to linux/io.h [ARM] collie: fix two minor formatting nits ...
2009-03-10linker script: define __per_cpu_load on all SMP capable archsTejun Heo1-0/+1
Impact: __per_cpu_load available on all SMP capable archs Percpu now requires three symbols to be defined - __per_cpu_load, __per_cpu_start and __per_cpu_end. There were three archs which didn't have it. Update them as follows. * powerpc: can use generic PERCPU() macro. Compile tested for powerpc32, compile/boot tested for powerpc64. * ia64: can use generic PERCPU_VADDR() macro. __phys_per_cpu_start is identical to __per_cpu_load. Compile tested and symbol table looks identical after the change except for the additional __per_cpu_load. * arm: added explicit __per_cpu_load definition. Currently uses unified .init output section so can't use the generic macro. Dunno whether the unified .init ouput section is required by arch peculiarity so I left it alone. Please break it up and use PERCPU() if possible. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-02-19[ARM] 5383/2: unwind: Add core support for ARM stack unwindingCatalin Marinas1-0/+19
This patch adds the main functionality for parsing the stack unwinding information generated by the ARM EABI toolchains. The unwinding information consists of an index with a pair of words per function and a table with unwinding instructions. For more information, see "Exception Handling ABI for the ARM Architecture" at: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.subset.swdev.abi/index.html Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-17linker script: add missing .data.percpu.page_alignedTejun Heo1-0/+1
arm, arm/mach-integrator and powerpc were missing .data.percpu.page_aligned in their percpu output section definitions. Add it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2008-12-01[ARM] use asm/sections.hRussell King1-1/+1
Update to use the asm/sections.h header rather than declaring these symbols ourselves. Change __data_start to _data to conform with the naming found within asm/sections.h. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-28all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.hSam Ravnborg1-5/+5
This patch consolidate all definitions of .init.text, .init.data and .exit.text, .exit.data section definitions in the generic vmlinux.lds.h. This is a preparational patch - alone it does not buy us much good. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-01-26ARM kprobes: prevent some functions involved with kprobes from being probedNicolas Pitre1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
2007-07-19define new percpu interface for shared dataFenghua Yu1-0/+1
per cpu data section contains two types of data. One set which is exclusively accessed by the local cpu and the other set which is per cpu, but also shared by remote cpus. In the current kernel, these two sets are not clearely separated out. This can potentially cause the same data cacheline shared between the two sets of data, which will result in unnecessary bouncing of the cacheline between cpus. One way to fix the problem is to cacheline align the remotely accessed per cpu data, both at the beginning and at the end. Because of the padding at both ends, this will likely cause some memory wastage and also the interface to achieve this is not clean. This patch: Moves the remotely accessed per cpu data (which is currently marked as ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp) into a different section, where all the data elements are cacheline aligned. And as such, this differentiates the local only data and remotely accessed data cleanly. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-19all-archs: consolidate .data section definition in asm-genericSam Ravnborg1-1/+1
With this consolidation we can now modify the .data section definition in one spot for all archs. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-05-19all-archs: consolidate .text section definition in asm-genericSam Ravnborg1-1/+1
Move definition of .text section to asm-generic. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-05-08[ARM] Ensure head text is always placed at the start of kernelRussell King1-3/+7
Commit 86c0baf123e474b6eb404798926ecf62b426bf3a highlighted that we may end up with the head text placed elsewhere in the kernel image. Introduce a new .text.head section to contain the initial kernel startup code, and always place this section at the beginning of the kernel image. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-05-08[ARM] Shut up warning about init_thread_unionRussell King1-1/+1
Fix false warning: WARNING: arch/arm/kernel/init_task.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.task:init_thread_union from .data between 'init_task' (at offset 0x4) and 'init_sighand' caused by the section name starting with ".init". Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-05-06Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds1-0/+3
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (82 commits) [ARM] Add comments marking in-use ptrace numbers [ARM] Move syscall saving out of the way of utrace [ARM] 4360/1: S3C24XX: regs-udc.h remove unused macro [ARM] 4358/1: S3C24XX: mach-qt2410.c: remove linux/mmc/protocol.h header [ARM] mm 10: allow memory type to be specified with ioremap [ARM] mm 9: add additional device memory types [ARM] mm 8: define mem_types table L1 bit 4 to be for ARMv6 [ARM] iop: add missing parens in macro [ARM] mm 7: remove duplicated __ioremap() prototypes ARM: OMAP: fix OMAP1 mpuio suspend/resume oops ARM: OMAP: MPUIO wake updates ARM: OMAP: speed up gpio irq handling ARM: OMAP: plat-omap changes for 2430 SDP ARM: OMAP: gpio object shrinkage, cleanup ARM: OMAP: /sys/kernel/debug/omap_gpio ARM: OMAP: Implement workaround for GPIO wakeup bug in OMAP2420 silicon ARM: OMAP: Enable 24xx GPIO autoidling [ARM] 4318/2: DSM-G600 Board Support [ARM] 4227/1: minor head.S fixups [ARM] 4328/1: Move i.MX UART regs to driver ...
2007-05-02[PATCH] x86: Allow percpu variables to be page-alignedJeremy Fitzhardinge1-1/+1
Let's allow page-alignment in general for per-cpu data (wanted by Xen, and Ingo suggested KVM as well). Because larger alignments can use more room, we increase the max per-cpu memory to 64k rather than 32k: it's getting a little tight. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-21[ARM] Add ability to dump exception stacks to kernel backtracesRussell King1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-25[ARM] 4224/2: allow XIP kernel to boot againNicolas Pitre1-0/+1
Since commit 2552fc27ff79b10b9678d92bcaef21df38bb7bb6 XIP kernels failed to boot because (_end - PAGE_OFFSET - 1) is much smaller than the size of the kernel text and data in the XIP case, causing the kernel not to be entirely mapped. Even in the non-XIP case, the use of (_end - PAGE_OFFSET - 1) is wrong because it produces a too large value if TEXT_OFFSET is larger than 1MB. Finally the original code was performing one loop too many. Let's break the loop when the section pointer has passed the last byte of the kernel instead. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-11[PATCH] disable init/initramfs.c: architecturesJean-Paul Saman1-0/+2
Update all arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S to not include space for initramfs when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRAMFS is not selected. This saves another 4 kbytes on most platfoms (some reserve PAGE_SIZE for initramfs). Signed-off-by: Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman@nxp.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-10-27[PATCH] vmlinux.lds: consolidate initcall sectionsAndrew Morton1-7/+1
Add a vmlinux.lds.h helper macro for defining the eight-level initcall table, teach all the architectures to use it. This is a prerequisite for a patch which performs initcall synchronisation for multithreaded-probing. Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> [ Added AVR32 as well ] Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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