10 Dec, 2006
1 commit
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The new PDA code uses a dummy _proxy_pda variable to describe
memory references to the PDA. It is never referenced
in inline assembly, but exists as input/output arguments.
gcc 4.2 in some cases can CSE references to this which causes
unresolved symbols. Define it to zero to avoid this.Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
09 Dec, 2006
1 commit
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This makes i386 use the generic BUG machinery. There are no functional
changes from the old i386 implementation.The main advantage in using the generic BUG machinery for i386 is that the
inlined overhead of BUG is just the ud2a instruction; the file+line(+function)
information are no longer inlined into the instruction stream. This reduces
cache pollution, and makes disassembly work properly.Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Hugh Dickens
Cc: Michael Ellerman
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Dec, 2006
8 commits
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The .eh_frame section contents is never written to, so it can as well
benefit from CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA.Diff-ed against firstfloor tree.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen -
o Convert more absolute symbols to section relative to keep the theme in
vmlinux.lds.S file and to avoid problem if kernel is relocated.o Also put a message so that in future people can be aware of it and
avoid introducing absolute symbols.Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Cc: Andi Kleen
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1) Each hypervisor writes a probe function to detect whether we are
running under that hypervisor. paravirt_probe() registers this
function.2) If vmlinux is booted with ring != 0, we call all the probe
functions (with registers except %esp intact) in link order: the
winner will not return.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Cc: Zachary Amsden
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton -
It turns out that the most called ops, by several orders of magnitude,
are the interrupt manipulation ops. These are obvious candidates for
patching, so mark them up and create infrastructure for it.The method used is that the ops structure has a patch function, which
is called for each place which needs to be patched: this returns a
number of instructions (the rest are NOP-padded).Usually we can spare a register (%eax) for the binary patched code to
use, but in a couple of critical places in entry.S we can't: we make
the clobbers explicit at the call site, and manually clobber the
allowed registers in debug mode as an extra check.And:
Don't abuse CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, add CONFIG_DEBUG_PARAVIRT.
And:
AK: Fix warnings in x86-64 alternative.c build
And:
AK: Fix compilation with defconfig
And:
^From: Andrew Morton
Some binutlises still like to emit references to __stop_parainstructions and
__start_parainstructions.And:
AK: Fix warnings about unused variables when PARAVIRT is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton -
o Now CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is being replaced with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN.
Hardcoding the kernel physical start value creates a problem in relocatable
kernel context due to boot loader limitations. For ex, if somebody
compiles a relocatable kernel to be run from address 4MB, but this kernel
will run from location 1MB as grub loads the kernel at physical address
1MB. Kernel thinks that I am a relocatable kernel and I should run from
the address I have been loaded at. So somebody wanting to run kernel
from 4MB alignment location (for improved performance regions) can't do
that.o Hence, Eric proposed that probably CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN will make
more sense in relocatable kernel context. At run time kernel will move
itself to a physical addr location which meets user specified alignment
restrictions.Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal
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Defining __PHYSICAL_START and __KERNEL_START in asm-i386/page.h works but
it triggers a full kernel rebuild for the silliest of reasons. This
modifies the users to directly use CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and linux/config.h
which prevents the full rebuild problem, which makes the code much
more maintainer and hopefully user friendly.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen -
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen -
Ld knows about 2 kinds of symbols, absolute and section
relative. Section relative symbols symbols change value
when a section is moved and absolute symbols do not.Currently in the linker script we have several labels
marking the beginning and ending of sections that
are outside of sections, making them absolute symbols.
Having a mixture of absolute and section relative
symbols refereing to the same data is currently harmless
but it is confusing.This must be done carefully as newer revs of ld do not place
symbols that appear in sections without data and instead
ld makes those symbols global :(My ultimate goal is to build a relocatable kernel. The
safest and least intrusive technique is to generate
relocation entries so the kernel can be relocated at load
time. The only penalty would be an increase in the size
of the kernel binary. The problem is that if absolute and
relocatable symbols are not properly specified absolute symbols
will be relocated or section relative symbols won't be, which
is fatal.The practical motivation is that when generating kernels that
will run from a reserved area for analyzing what caused
a kernel panic, it is simpler if you don't need to hard code
the physical memory location they will run at, especially
for the distributions.[AK: and merged:]
o Also put a message so that in future people can be aware of it and
avoid introducing absolute symbols.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
09 Nov, 2006
1 commit
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o Currently there is no specific alignment restriction in linker script
and in some cases it can be placed non 4K aligned addresses. This fails
kexec which checks that segment to be loaded is page aligned.o I guess, it does not harm data segment to be 4K aligned.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Oct, 2006
1 commit
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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
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
[ Added AVR32 as well ]
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Sep, 2006
1 commit
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This patch will pack any .note.* section into a PT_NOTE segment in the output
file.To do this, we tell ld that we need a PT_NOTE segment. This requires us to
start explicitly mapping sections to segments, so we also need to explicitly
create PT_LOAD segments for text and data, and map the sections to them
appropriately. Fortunately, each section will default to its previous
section's segment, so it doesn't take many changes to vmlinux.lds.S.This only changes i386 for now, but I presume the corresponding changes for
other architectures will be as simple.This change also adds , which defines C and Assembler macros
for actually creating ELF notes.Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Cc: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Hollis Blanchard
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Jun, 2006
1 commit
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These are the i386-specific pieces to enable reliable stack traces. This is
going to be even more useful once CFI annotations get added to he assembly
code, namely to entry.S.Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Jun, 2006
1 commit
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Considering that there isn't a lot of hw we can depend on during resume,
this is about as good as it gets.This is x86-only for now, although the basic concept (and most of the
code) will certainly work on almost any platform.Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Mar, 2006
1 commit
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (46 commits)
kbuild: remove obsoleted scripts/reference_* files
kbuild: fix make help & make *pkg
kconfig: fix time ordering of writes to .kconfig.d and include/linux/autoconf.h
Kconfig: remove the CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_* options
kbuild: add -fverbose-asm to i386 Makefile
kbuild: clean-up genksyms
kbuild: Lindent genksyms.c
kbuild: fix genksyms build error
kbuild: in makefile.txt note that Makefile is preferred name for kbuild files
kbuild: replace PHONY with FORCE
kbuild: Fix bug in crc symbol generating of kernel and modules
kbuild: change kbuild to not rely on incorrect GNU make behavior
kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user this is the problem
kbuild: fix make dir/file.xx when asm symlink is missing
kbuild: in the section mismatch check try harder to find symbols
kbuild: fix section mismatch check for unwind on IA64
kbuild: kill false positives from section mismatch warnings for powerpc
kbuild: kill trailing whitespace in modpost & friends
kbuild: small update of allnoconfig description
kbuild: make namespace.pl CROSS_COMPILE happy
...Trivial conflict in arch/ppc/boot/Makefile manually fixed up
23 Mar, 2006
1 commit
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Implement SMP alternatives, i.e. switching at runtime between different
code versions for UP and SMP. The code can patch both SMP->UP and UP->SMP.
The UP->SMP case is useful for CPU hotplug.With CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG enabled the code switches to UP at boot time and
when the number of CPUs goes down to 1, and switches to SMP when the number
of CPUs goes up to 2.Without CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG or on non-SMP-capable systems the code is
patched once at boot time (if needed) and the tables are released
afterwards.The changes in detail:
* The current alternatives bits are moved to a separate file,
the SMP alternatives code is added there.* The patch adds some new elf sections to the kernel:
.smp_altinstructions
like .altinstructions, also contains a list
of alt_instr structs.
.smp_altinstr_replacement
like .altinstr_replacement, but also has some space to
save original instruction before replaving it.
.smp_locks
list of pointers to lock prefixes which can be nop'ed
out on UP.
The first two are used to replace more complex instruction
sequences such as spinlocks and semaphores. It would be possible
to deal with the lock prefixes with that as well, but by handling
them as special case the table sizes become much smaller.* The sections are page-aligned and padded up to page size, so they
can be free if they are not needed.* Splitted the code to release init pages to a separate function and
use it to release the elf sections if they are unused.Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 Feb, 2006
1 commit
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This matches the fix for a bug seen on x86-64. Test booted on old hardware
that had 32 byte cachelines to begin with.Signed-off-by: Zach Brown
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
11 Sep, 2005
1 commit
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Inside the linker script, insert the code for DWARF debug info sections. This
may help GDB'ing a Uml binary. Actually, it seems that ld is able to guess
what I added correctly, but normal linker scripts include this section so it
should be correct anyway adding it.On request by Sam Ravnborg , I've added it to
asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.s. I've also moved there the stabs debug section,
used the new macro in i386 linker script and added DWARF debug section to
that.In the truth, I've not been able to verify the difference in GDB behaviour
after this change (I've seen large improvements with another patch). This
may depend on my binutils version, older one may have worse defaults.However, this section is present in normal linker script, so add it at
least for the sake of cleanness.Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Sep, 2005
1 commit
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This patch contains the i386 architecture specific changes to prevent the
possible race conditions.Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Jul, 2005
1 commit
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Add a new section called ".data.read_mostly" for data items that are read
frequently and rarely written to like cpumaps etc.If these maps are placed in the .data section then these frequenly read
items may end up in cachelines with data is is frequently updated. In that
case all processors in an SMP system must needlessly reload the cachelines
again and again containing elements of those frequently used variables.The ability to share these cachelines will allow each cpu in an SMP system
to keep local copies of those shared cachelines thereby optimizing
performance.Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Jun, 2005
2 commits
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For one kernel to report a crash another kernel has created we need
to have 2 kernels loaded simultaneously in memory. To accomplish this
the two kernels need to built to run at different physical addresses.This patch adds the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option to the x86 kernel
so we can do just that. You need to know what you are doing and
the ramifications are before changing this value, and most users
won't care so I have made it depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDEDbzImage kernels will work and run at a different address when compiled
with this option but they will still load at 1MB. If you need a kernel
loaded at a different address as well you need to boot a vmlinux.Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The vmlinux on i386 does not report the correct physical address of
the kernel. Instead in the physical address field it currently
reports the virtual address of the kernel.This is patch is a bug fix that corrects vmlinux to report the
proper physical addresses.This is potentially a help for crash dump analysis tools.
This definitiely allows bootloaders that load vmlinux as a standard
ELF executable. Bootloaders directly loading vmlinux become of
practical importance when we consider the kexec on panic case.Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Apr, 2005
1 commit
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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!
