31 May, 2019

1 commit

  • Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

    - Have no license information of any form

    These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
    license identifier is:

    GPL-2.0

    Reported-by: Masahiro Yamada
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
    Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Greg Kroah-Hartman
     

15 Nov, 2017

1 commit

  • Following patch is based on work done by Nick Alcock on 64-bit vDSO for sparc
    in Oracle linux. I have extended it to include support for 32-bit vDSO for sparc
    on 64-bit kernel.

    vDSO for sparc is based on the X86 implementation. This patch
    provides vDSO support for both 64-bit and 32-bit programs on 64-bit kernel.
    vDSO will be disabled on 32-bit linux kernel on sparc.

    *) vclock_gettime.c contains all the vdso functions. Since data page is mapped
    before the vdso code page, the pointer to data page is got by subracting offset
    from an address in the vdso code page. The return address stored in
    %i7 is used for this purpose.
    *) During compilation, both 32-bit and 64-bit vdso images are compiled and are
    converted into raw bytes by vdso2c program to be ready for mapping into the
    process. 32-bit images are compiled only if CONFIG_COMPAT is enabled. vdso2c
    generates two files vdso-image-64.c and vdso-image-32.c which contains the
    respective vDSO image in C structure.
    *) During vdso initialization, required number of vdso pages are allocated and
    raw bytes are copied into the pages.
    *) During every exec, these pages are mapped into the process through
    arch_setup_additional_pages and the location of mapping is passed on to the
    process through aux vector AT_SYSINFO_EHDR which is used by glibc.
    *) A new update_vsyscall routine for sparc is added to keep the data page in
    vdso updated.
    *) As vDSO cannot contain dynamically relocatable references, a new version of
    cpu_relax is added for the use of vDSO.

    This change also requires a putback to glibc to use vDSO. For testing,
    programs planning to try vDSO can be compiled against the generated
    vdso(64/32).so in the source.

    Testing:

    ========
    [root@localhost ~]# cat vdso_test.c
    int main() {
    struct timespec tv_start, tv_end;
    struct timeval tv_tmp;
    int i;
    int count = 1 * 1000 * 10000;
    long long diff;

    clock_gettime(0, &tv_start);
    for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
    gettimeofday(&tv_tmp, NULL);
    clock_gettime(0, &tv_end);
    diff = (long long)(tv_end.tv_sec -
    tv_start.tv_sec)*(1*1000*1000*1000);
    diff += (tv_end.tv_nsec - tv_start.tv_nsec);
    printf("Start sec: %d\n", tv_start.tv_sec);
    printf("End sec : %d\n", tv_end.tv_sec);
    printf("%d cycles in %lld ns = %f ns/cycle\n", count, diff,
    (double)diff / (double)count);
    return 0;
    }

    [root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t32_without_fix -m32 -lrt
    [root@localhost ~]# ./t32_without_fix
    Start sec: 1502396130
    End sec : 1502396140
    10000000 cycles in 9565148528 ns = 956.514853 ns/cycle
    [root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t32_with_fix -m32 ./vdso32.so.dbg
    [root@localhost ~]# ./t32_with_fix
    Start sec: 1502396168
    End sec : 1502396169
    10000000 cycles in 798141262 ns = 79.814126 ns/cycle
    [root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t64_without_fix -m64 -lrt
    [root@localhost ~]# ./t64_without_fix
    Start sec: 1502396208
    End sec : 1502396218
    10000000 cycles in 9846091800 ns = 984.609180 ns/cycle
    [root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t64_with_fix -m64 ./vdso64.so.dbg
    [root@localhost ~]# ./t64_with_fix
    Start sec: 1502396257
    End sec : 1502396257
    10000000 cycles in 380984048 ns = 38.098405 ns/cycle

    V1 to V2 Changes:
    =================
    Added hot patching code to switch the read stick instruction to read
    tick instruction based on the hardware.

    V2 to V3 Changes:
    =================
    Merged latest changes from sparc-next and moved the initialization
    of clocksource_tick.archdata.vclock_mode to time_init_early. Disabled
    queued spinlock and rwlock configuration when simulating 32-bit config
    to compile 32-bit VDSO.

    V3 to V4 Changes:
    =================
    Hardcoded the page size as 8192 in linker script for both 64-bit and
    32-bit binaries. Removed unused variables in vdso2c.h. Added -mv8plus flag to
    Makefile to prevent the generation of relocation entries for __lshrdi3 in 32-bit
    vdso binary.

    Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock
    Signed-off-by: Nagarathnam Muthusamy
    Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Nagarathnam Muthusamy
     

21 Aug, 2012

1 commit


22 May, 2012

1 commit

  • Pull sparc updates from David Miller:

    1) Kill off support for sun4c and Cypress sun4m chips.

    And as a result we were able to also kill off that ugly btfixup thing
    that required multi-stage links of the final vmlinux image in the
    Kbuild system. This should make the kbuild maintainers really happy.

    Thanks a lot to Sam Ravnborg for his tireless efforts to get this
    going.

    2) Convert sparc64 to nobootmem. I suspect now with sparc32 being a lot
    cleaner, it should be able to fall in line and modernize in this area
    too.

    3) Make sparc32 use generic clockevents, from Tkhai Kirill.

    [ I fixed up the BPF rules, and tried to clean up the build rules too.
    But I don't have - or want - a sparc cross-build environment, so the
    BPF rule bug and the related build cleanup was all done with just a
    bare "make -n" pseudo-test. - Linus ]

    * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next: (110 commits)
    sparc32: use flushi when run-time patching in per_cpu_patch
    sparc32: fix cpuid_patch run-time patching
    sparc32: drop unused inline functions in srmmu.c
    sparc32: drop unused functions in pgtsrmmu.h
    sparc32,leon: move leon mmu functions to leon_mm.c
    sparc32,leon: remove duplicate definitions in leon.h
    sparc32,leon: remove duplicate UART register definitions
    sparc32,leon: move leon ASI definitions to asi.h
    sparc32: move trap table to a separate file
    sparc64: renamed ttable.S to ttable_64.S
    sparc32: Remove asm/sysen.h header.
    sparc32: Delete asm/smpprim.h
    sparc32: Remove unused empty_bad_page{,_table} declarations.
    sparc32: Kill boot_cpu_id4
    sparc32: Move GET_PROCESSOR*_ID() out of asm/asmmacro.h
    sparc32: Remove completely unused code from asm/cache.h
    sparc32: Add ucmpdi2.o to obj-y instead of lib-y.
    sparc32: add ucmpdi2
    sparc: introduce arch/sparc/Kbuild
    sparc: remove obsolete documentation
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

16 May, 2012

1 commit