23 Sep, 2010
1 commit
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base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline
assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto'
statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently
be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which
might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed.
Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for.Acked-by: David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron
LKML-Reference:[ cleaned up some formating ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
07 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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…git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits)
tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex
perf: expose event__process function
perf events: Fix mmap offset determination
perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t
perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected
perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree
perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place
x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction
perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers
perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class
perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic
perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable
perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing
perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings
perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states
perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events
perf: New migration tool overview
tracing: Drop cpparg() macro
perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call
...Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
05 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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* upstream/pvhvm:
Introduce CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM compile option
blkfront: do not create a PV cdrom device if xen_hvm_guest
support multiple .discard.* sections to avoid section type conflicts
xen/pvhvm: fix build problem when !CONFIG_XEN
xenfs: enable for HVM domains too
x86: Call HVMOP_pagetable_dying on exit_mmap.
x86: Unplug emulated disks and nics.
x86: Use xen_vcpuop_clockevent, xen_clocksource and xen wallclock.
xen: Fix find_unbound_irq in presence of ioapic irqs.
xen: Add suspend/resume support for PV on HVM guests.
xen: Xen PCI platform device driver.
x86/xen: event channels delivery on HVM.
x86: early PV on HVM features initialization.
xen: Add support for HVM hypercalls.Conflicts:
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
arch/x86/xen/time.c
02 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Conflicts:
tools/perf/Makefile
tools/perf/util/hist.cMerge reason: Resolve the conflicts and update to latest upstream.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
28 Jul, 2010
1 commit
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gcc 4.4.4 will complain if you use a .discard section for both text and
data ("causes a section type conflict"). Add support for ".discard.*"
sections, and use .discard.text for a dummy function in the x86
RESERVE_BRK() macro.Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
24 Jul, 2010
1 commit
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* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
vmlinux.lds: fix .data..init_task output section (fix popwerpc boot)
powerpc: Fix erroneous lmb->memblock conversions
powerpc/mm: Add some debug output when hash insertion fails
powerpc/mm: Fix bugs in huge page hashing
powerpc/mm: Move around testing of _PAGE_PRESENT in hash code
powerpc/mm: Handle hypervisor pte insert failure in __hash_page_huge
powerpc/kexec: Fix boundary case for book-e kexec memory limits
23 Jul, 2010
1 commit
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The .data..init_task output section was missing
a load offset causing a popwerpc target to fail to boot.Sean MacLennan tracked it down to the definition of
INIT_TASK_DATA_SECTION().There are only two users of INIT_TASK_DATA_SECTION()
in the kernel today: cris and popwerpc.
cris do not support relocatable kernels and is thus not
impacted by this change.Fix INIT_TASK_DATA_SECTION() to specify load offset like
all other output sections.Reported-by: Sean MacLennan
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
21 Jul, 2010
1 commit
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We define a number of symbols in the linker scipt like this:
__start_syscalls_metadata = .;
*(__syscalls_metadata)But we do not know the alignment of "." when we assign
the __start_syscalls_metadata symbol.
gcc started to uses bigger alignment for structs (32 bytes),
so we saw situations where the linker due to alignment
constraints increased the value of "." after the symbol assignment.This resulted in boot fails.
Fix this by forcing a 32 byte alignment of "." before the
assignment.This patch introduces the forced alignment for
ftrace_events and syscalls_metadata.
It may be required in more places.Reported-by: Zeev Tarantov
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
LKML-Reference:
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
16 Jul, 2010
1 commit
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Markers have been removed, but we forgot to remove their
section.Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers
01 Jun, 2010
1 commit
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* 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (81 commits)
kbuild: Revert part of e8d400a to resolve a conflict
kbuild: Fix checking of scm-identifier variable
gconfig: add support to show hidden options that have prompts
menuconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts
gconfig: remove show_debug option
gconfig: remove dbg_print_ptype() and dbg_print_stype()
kconfig: fix zconfdump()
kconfig: some small fixes
add random binaries to .gitignore
kbuild: Include gen_initramfs_list.sh and the file list in the .d file
kconfig: recalc symbol value before showing search results
.gitignore: ignore *.lzo files
headerdep: perlcritic warning
scripts/Makefile.lib: Align the output of LZO
kbuild: Generate modules.builtin in make modules_install
Revert "kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope"
kbuild: Do not unnecessarily regenerate modules.builtin
headers_install: use local file handles
headers_check: fix perl warnings
export_report: fix perl warnings
...
28 May, 2010
2 commits
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Modify the way how RapidIO switch operations are declared. Multiple
assignments through the linker script replaced by single initialization
call.Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine
Cc: Matt Porter
Cc: Li Yang
Cc: Kumar Gala
Cc: Thomas Moll
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Add RapidIO Port-Write message handling in the context of Error
Management Extensions Specification Rev.1.3.Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine
Tested-by: Thomas Moll
Cc: Matt Porter
Cc: Li Yang
Cc: Kumar Gala
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 Mar, 2010
7 commits
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Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek -
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek -
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek -
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek -
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek -
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek -
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
15 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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The next commit will require the use of MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX in
.tmp_exports-asm.S. Currently it is mixed in with C structure
definitions in "asm/module.h". Move the definition of this arch option
into Kconfig, so it can be easily accessed by any code.This also lets modpost.c use the same definition. Previously modpost
relied on a hardcoded list of architectures in mk_elfconfig.c.A build test for blackfin, one of the two MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX archs,
showed the generated code was unchanged. vmlinux was identical save
for build ids, and an apparently randomized suffix on a single "__key"
symbol in the kallsyms data).Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger (blackfin)
CC: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
25 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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The old RW_DATA_SECTION had INIT_TASK_DATA (which was
more-than-PAGE_SIZE-aligned), followed by a bunch of small alignment
stuff, followed by more PAGE_SIZE-aligned stuff, so you wasted memory
in the middle of .data re-aligning back up to PAGE_SIZE.This patch sorts the sections by alignment requirements, which should
pack them essentially optimally.Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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Merge reason: Pick up kernel/softirq.c update for dependent fix.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
13 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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__start_mcount_loc[] is unused after init, yet occupies RAM forever
as part of .rodata. 152kiB is typical on a 64-bit architecture. Instead,
__start_mcount_loc should be in the interval [__init_begin, __init_end)
so that the space is reclaimed after init.__start_mcount_loc[] is generated during the load portion
of kernel build, and is used only by ftrace_init(). ftrace_init is declared
'__init' and is in .init.text, which is freed after init.
__start_mcount_loc is placed into .rodata by a call to MCOUNT_REC inside
the RO_DATA macro of include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h. The array *is*
read-only, but more importantly it is not used after init. So the call to
MCOUNT_REC should be moved from RO_DATA to INIT_DATA.This patch has been tested on x86_64 with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y
which verifies that the address range never is accessed after init.Signed-off-by: John Reiser
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
14 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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Conflicts:
arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
mm/percpu.cConflicts in core and arch percpu codes are mostly from commit
ed78e1e078dd44249f88b1dd8c76dafb39567161 which substituted many
num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids. As for-next branch has moved all
the first chunk allocators into mm/percpu.c, the changes are moved
from arch code to mm/percpu.c.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
18 Jul, 2009
1 commit
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The BSS section macros in vmlinux.lds.h currently place the .sbss
input section outside the bounds of [__bss_start, __bss_end]. On all
architectures except for microblaze that handle both .sbss and
__bss_start/__bss_end, this is wrong: the .sbss input section is
within the range [__bss_start, __bss_end]. Relatedly, the example
code at the top of the file actually has __bss_start/__bss_end defined
twice; I believe the right fix here is to define them in the
BSS_SECTION macro but not in the BSS macro.Another problem with the current macros is that several
architectures have an ALIGN(4) or some other small number just before
__bss_stop in their linker scripts. The BSS_SECTION macro currently
hardcodes this to 4; while it should really be an argument. It also
ignores its sbss_align argument; fix that.mn10300 is the only user at present of any of the macros touched by
this patch. It looks like mn10300 actually was incorrectly converted
to use the new BSS() macro (the alignment of 4 prior to conversion was
a __bss_stop alignment, but the argument to the BSS macro is a start
alignment). So fix this as well.I'd like acks from Sam and David on this one. Also CCing Paul, since
he has a patch from me which will need to be updated to use
BSS_SECTION(0, PAGE_SIZE, 4) once this gets merged.Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
09 Jul, 2009
1 commit
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Discarded sections in different archs share some commonality but have
considerable differences. This led to linker script for each arch
implementing its own /DISCARD/ definition, which makes maintaining
tedious and adding new entries error-prone.This patch makes all linker scripts to move discard definitions to the
end of the linker script and use the common DISCARDS macro. As ld
uses the first matching section definition, archs can include default
discarded sections by including them earlier in the linker script.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.defconfig compile tested for x86, x86-64, powerpc, powerpc64, ia64,
alpha, sparc, sparc64 and s390. Michal Simek tested microblaze.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Paul Mundt
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger
Tested-by: Michal Simek
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Simek
Cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Cc: Tony Luck
05 Jul, 2009
1 commit
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes:
kbuild: finally remove the obsolete variable $TOPDIR
gitignore: ignore scripts/ihex2fw
Kbuild: Disable the -Wformat-security gcc flag
gitignore: ignore gcov output files
kbuild: deb-pkg ship changelog
Add new __init_task_data macro to be used in arch init_task.c files.
asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h: shuffle INIT_TASK* macro names in vmlinux.lds.h
Add new macros for page-aligned data and bss sections.
asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h: Fix up RW_DATA_SECTION definition.
04 Jul, 2009
1 commit
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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
01 Jul, 2009
1 commit
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The ctors section for each object file is eight byte aligned (on 64 bit).
However the __ctors_start symbol starts at an arbitrary address dependent
on the size of the previous sections.Therefore the linker may add some zeroes after __ctors_start to make sure
the ctors contents are properly aligned. However the extra zeroes at the
beginning aren't expected by the code. When walking the functions
pointers contained in there and extra zeroes are added this may result in
random jumps. So make sure that the __ctors_start symbol is always
aligned as well.Fixes this crash on an allyesconfig on s390:
[ 0.582482] Kernel BUG at 0000000000000012 [verbose debug info unavailable]
[ 0.582489] illegal operation: 0001 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[ 0.582496] Modules linked in:
[ 0.582501] CPU: 0 Tainted: G W 2.6.31-rc1-dirty #273
[ 0.582506] Process swapper (pid: 1, task: 000000003f218000, ksp: 000000003f2238e8)
[ 0.582510] Krnl PSW : 0704200180000000 0000000000000012 (0x12)
[ 0.582518] R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:2 PM:0 EA:3
[ 0.582524] Krnl GPRS: 0000000000036727 0000000000000010 0000000000000001 0000000000000001
[ 0.582529] 00000000001dfefa 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000040
[ 0.582534] 0000000001fff0f0 0000000001790628 0000000002296048 0000000002296048
[ 0.582540] 00000000020c438e 0000000001786000 0000000002014a66 000000003f223e60
[ 0.582553] Krnl Code:>0000000000000012: 0000 unknown
[ 0.582559] 0000000000000014: 0000 unknown
[ 0.582564] 0000000000000016: 0000 unknown
[ 0.582570] 0000000000000018: 0000 unknown
[ 0.582575] 000000000000001a: 0000 unknown
[ 0.582580] 000000000000001c: 0000 unknown
[ 0.582585] 000000000000001e: 0000 unknown
[ 0.582591] 0000000000000020: 0000 unknown
[ 0.582596] Call Trace:
[ 0.582599] ([] kernel_init+0x622/0x7a0)
[ 0.582607] [] kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc
[ 0.582615] [] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc
[ 0.582621] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
[ 0.582624] Last Breaking-Event-Address:
[ 0.582627] [] kernel_init+0x640/0x7a0Cc: Peter Oberparleiter
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Jun, 2009
2 commits
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We recently added a INIT_TASK(align) in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h,
but there is already a macro INIT_TASK in include/linux/init_task.h, which
is quite confusing. We should switch the macro in the linker script to
INIT_TASK_DATA. (Sorry that I missed this in reviewing the patch). Since
the macros are new, there is only one user of the INIT_TASK in
vmlinux.lds.h, arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S.However, we are currently using INIT_TASK_DATA for laying down an entire
.data.init_task section. So rename that to INIT_TASK_DATA_SECTION.I would be worried about changing the meaning of INIT_TASK_DATA, but the
old INIT_TASK_DATA implementation had no users, and in fact if anyone had
tried to use it, it would have failed to compile because it didn't pass
the alignment to the old INIT_TASK.Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Jesper Nilsson -
RW_DATA_SECTION is defined to take 4 different alignment parameters,
while NOSAVE_DATA currently uses a fixed PAGE_SIZE alignment as noted
in the comments.There are presently no in-tree users of this at present, and I just
stumbled across this while implementing the simplified script on a new
architecture port, which subsequently resulted in a syntax error.Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
24 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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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
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Cc: Richard Henderson
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen
Cc: Bryan Wu
Cc: Mikael Starvik
Cc: Jesper Nilsson
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Yoshinori Sato
Cc: Tony Luck
Cc: Hirokazu Takata
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Michal Simek
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Kyle McMartin
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: David S. Miller
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: Chris Zankel
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Ingo Molnar
23 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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In asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, name INIT_RAM_FS consistently, no matter the
setting of CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD. This corrects:commit ef53dae8658cf0e93d380983824a661067948d87
Author: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Sun Jun 7 20:46:37 2009 +0200
Subject: Improve vmlinux.lds.h support for arch specific linker scriptsSigned-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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Call constructors (gcc-generated initcall-like functions) during kernel
start and module load. Constructors are e.g. used for gcov data
initialization.Disable constructor support for usermode Linux to prevent conflicts with
host glibc.Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter
Acked-by: Rusty Russell
Acked-by: WANG Cong
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Huang Ying
Cc: Li Wei
Cc: Michael Ellerman
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Jun, 2009
2 commits
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* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (53 commits)
.gitignore: ignore *.lzma files
kbuild: add generic --set-str option to scripts/config
kbuild: simplify argument loop in scripts/config
kbuild: handle non-existing options in scripts/config
kallsyms: generalize text region handling
kallsyms: support kernel symbols in Blackfin on-chip memory
documentation: make version fix
kbuild: fix a compile warning
gitignore: Add GNU GLOBAL files to top .gitignore
kbuild: fix delay in setlocalversion on readonly source
README: fix misleading pointer to the defconf directory
vmlinux.lds.h update
kernel-doc: cleanup perl script
Improve vmlinux.lds.h support for arch specific linker scripts
kbuild: fix headers_exports with boolean expression
kbuild/headers_check: refine extern check
kbuild: fix "Argument list too long" error for "make headers_check",
ignore *.patch files
Remove bashisms from scripts
menu: fix embedded menu presentation
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Updated after review by Tim Abbott.
- Use HEAD_TEXT_SECTION
- Drop use of section-names.h and delete file
- Introduce EXIT_CALLDeleting section-names.h required a few simple
updates of init.hSigned-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
Cc: Tim Abbott
10 Jun, 2009
2 commits
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To support alingment of the individual architecture specific linker scripts
provide a set of general definitions in vmlinux.lds.hWith these definitions applied the diverse linekr scripts can be reduced
in line count and their readability are improved - IMO.A sample linker script is included to give the preferred
order of the sections for the architectures that do not
have any special requirments.These definitions are also a first step towards eventual
support for -ffunction-sections.
The definitions makes it much easier to do a global
renaming of section names - but the main purpose is
to clean up the linker scripts.Tim Aboot has provided a lot of inputs to improve
the definitions - all faults are mine.Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
Cc: Tim Abbott -
- add .init.rodata to INIT_DATA, and group all initconst flavors
together
- move strings generated from __setup_param() into .init.rodata
- add .*init.rodata to modpost's sets of init sections
- make modpost warn about references between meminit and cpuinit
as well as memexit and cpuexit sections (as CPU and memory
hotplug are independently selectable features)Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
07 May, 2009
1 commit
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Merge reason: tracing/core was on a .30-rc1 base and was missing out on
on a handful of tracing fixes present in .30-rc5-almost.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
28 Apr, 2009
1 commit
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The old refok sections
.text.init.refok
.data.init.refok
.exit.text.refokhave been deprecated since commit
312b1485fb509c9bc32eda28ad29537896658cb8. After the other patches in
this patch series nothing is put in these sections, so clean things up
by eliminating all the remaining references to them.Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
