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2008-01-28all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.hSam Ravnborg
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>
2007-12-07[IA64] rename _bss to __bss_startBernhard Walle
Rename _bss to __bss_start as on other architectures. That makes it possible to use the <linux/sections.h> instead of own declarations. Also add __bss_stop because that symbol exists on other architectures. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-08-13[IA64] get back PT_IA_64_UNWIND program headerDavid Mosberger-Tang
Explicitly put the unwind section into its own program-header. This used to be unnecessary (probably because binutils did it for us), but with current binutils (e.g., v2.17.50.20070804) we won't get the PT_IA_64_UNWIND header without this patch which will break unwinding in a debugger and simulators such as Ski. Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <dmosberger@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-08-13[IA64] need NOTES in vmlinux.lds.SDavid Mosberger-Tang
Add NOTES to linker script such that the kernel can be built with recent versions of binutils. Without this patch, final link fails with this error: ld: .tmp_vmlinux1: section `.text' can't be allocated in segment 0 ld: final link failed: Bad value This error is due to the fact that the --build-id option is used with newer linkers to include a .notes section on the kernel, but without the NOTES macro, that section won't be included in the kernel which then leads to the above error message. Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <dmosberger@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-07-25[IA64] fix section mismatch warningsTony Luck
In 741f98fe298a73c9d47ed53703c1279a29718581 Sam added full checking across the entire vmlinux image. This flushed out a dozen new section mismatch warnings. Start the whack-a-mole game again to stomp them out. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-07-19define new percpu interface for shared dataFenghua Yu
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 Ravnborg
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 Ravnborg
Move definition of .text section to asm-generic. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-04-30Pull percpu-dtc into release branchTony Luck
2007-02-11[PATCH] disable init/initramfs.c: architecturesJean-Paul Saman
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>
2007-02-06[IA64] remove per-cpu ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8Chen, Kenneth W
It's not efficient to use a per-cpu variable just to store how many physical stack register a cpu has. Ever since the incarnation of ia64 up till upcoming Montecito processor, that variable has "glued" to 96. Having a variable in memory means that the kernel is burning an extra cacheline access on every syscall and kernel exit path. Such "static" value is better served with the instruction patching utility exists today. Convert ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8 into dynamic insn patching. This also has a pleasant side effect of eliminating access to per-cpu area while psr.ic=0 in the kernel exit path. (fixable for per-cpu DTC work, but why bother?) There are some concerns with the default value that the instruc- tion encoded in the kernel image. It shouldn't be concerned. The reasons are: (1) cpu_init() is called at CPU initialization. In there, we find out physical stack register size from PAL and patch two instructions in kernel exit code. The code in question can not be executed before the patching is done. (2) current implementation stores zero in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8, and that's what the current kernel exit path loads the value with. With the new code, it is equivalent that we store reg size 96 in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8, thus creating a better safety net. Given (1) above can never fail, having (2) is just a bonus. All in all, this patch allow one less memory reference in the kernel exit path, thus reducing syscall and interrupt return latency; and avoid polluting potential useful data in the CPU cache. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-02-05[IA64] alignment bug in ldscriptKirill Korotaev
Occasionally the FSYS_RETURN patch list can have an odd length, causing other data structures to get out of alignment. In OpenVZ it is odd and we get misaligned kernel image, which does not boot. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-10-27[PATCH] vmlinux.lds: consolidate initcall sectionsAndrew Morton
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>
2006-09-26[IA64] minor reformatting to vmlinux.lds.SAl Stone
Minor reformatting to vmlinux.lds.S to make it 80-column usable, in accordance with Linux coding style. Signed-off-by: Al Stone <ahs3@fc.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-29[IA64] Move __mca_table out of the __init sectionRuss Anderson
Move __mca_table out of the __init section. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-03-24[IA64] MCA recovery: kernel context recovery tableRuss Anderson
Memory errors encountered by user applications may surface when the CPU is running in kernel context. The current code will not attempt recovery if the MCA surfaces in kernel context (privilage mode 0). This patch adds a check for cases where the user initiated the load that surfaces in kernel interrupt code. An example is a user process lauching a load from memory and the data in memory had bad ECC. Before the bad data gets to the CPU register, and interrupt comes in. The code jumps to the IVT interrupt entry point and begins execution in kernel context. The process of saving the user registers (SAVE_REST) causes the bad data to be loaded into a CPU register, triggering the MCA. The MCA surfaces in kernel context, even though the load was initiated from user context. As suggested by David and Tony, this patch uses an exception table like approach, puting the tagged recovery addresses in a searchable table. One difference from the exception table is that MCAs do not surface in precise places (such as with a TLB miss), so instead of tagging specific instructions, address ranges are registers. A single macro is used to do the tagging, with the input parameter being the label of the starting address and the macro being the ending address. This limits clutter in the code. This patch only tags one spot, the interrupt ivt entry. Testing showed that spot to be a "heavy hitter" with MCAs surfacing while saving user registers. Other spots can be added as needed by adding a single macro. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com) Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-03-22[IA64] move patchlist and machvec into init sectionChen, Kenneth W
ia64_mv is initialized based on platform detected or specified. However, there is one instantiation of each platform type. We don't expect to switch platform vector during run time. Move those platform specific type into init section since a copy is made into global ia64_mv at initialization. Also move instruction patch list into init section as well. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-12-16[IA64] Add __read_mostly support for IA64Christoph Lameter
sparc64, i386 and x86_64 have support for a special data section dedicated to rarely updated data that is frequently read. The section was created to avoid false sharing of those rarely read data with frequently written kernel data. This patch creates such a data section for ia64 and will group rarely written data into this section. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-07[PATCH] Kprobes: prevent possible race conditions ia64 changesPrasanna S Panchamukhi
This patch contains the ia64 architecture specific changes to prevent the possible race conditions. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27[PATCH] kprobes/ia64: refuse kprobe on ivt codeKeshavamurthy Anil S
Not safe to insert kprobes on IVT code. This patch checks to see if the address on which Kprobes is being inserted is in ivt code and if it is in ivt code then refuse to register kprobe. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Acked-by: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!