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David Daney
485172b3df MIPS: Align swapper_pg_dir to 64K for better TLB Refill code.
We can save an instruction in the TLB Refill path for kernel mappings
by aligning swapper_pg_dir on a 64K boundary.  The address of
swapper_pg_dir can be generated with a single LUI instead of
LUI/{D}ADDUI.

The alignment of __init_end is bumped up to 64K so there are no holes
between it and swapper_pg_dir, which is placed at the very beginning
of .bss.

The alignment of invalid_pmd_table and invalid_pte_table can be
relaxed to PAGE_SIZE.  We do this by using __page_aligned_bss, which
has the added benefit of eliminating alignment holes in .bss.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4220/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2012-10-11 11:02:40 +02:00
David Daney
7b1c0d26a8 MIPS: Properly align the .data..init_task section.
Improper alignment can lead to unbootable systems and/or random
crashes.

[ralf@linux-mips.org: This is a lond standing bug since
6eb10bc9e2 (kernel.org) rsp.
c422a10917f75fd19fa7fe070aaaa23e384dae6f (lmo) [MIPS: Clean up linker script
using new linker script macros.] so dates back to 2.6.32.]

Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/3881/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2012-07-19 11:23:43 +02:00
Tony Wu
58a7fca67a MIPS: vmlinux.lds.S: remove duplicate _sdata symbol
_sdata is defined twice in vmlinux.lds.S. According to vmlinux.ld.h
in asm-generic, _sdata should be marked at the beginning RO_DATA_SECTION.

 *      _sdata = .;
 *      RO_DATA_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE)
 *      RW_DATA_SECTION(...)
 *      _edata = .;

Remove the one that is marked at RW_DATA_SECTION.

Signed-off-by: Tony Wu <tung7970@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/3215/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2012-02-20 18:33:18 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
5129df03d0 Merge branch 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: Unify input section names
  percpu: Avoid extra NOP in percpu_cmpxchg16b_double
  percpu: Cast away printk format warning
  percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE

Fix up fairly trivial conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h as per Tejun
2011-05-24 11:53:42 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
a2d063ac21 extable, core_kernel_data(): Make sure all archs define _sdata
A new utility function (core_kernel_data()) is used to determine if a
passed in address is part of core kernel data or not. It may or may not
return true for RO data, but this utility must work for RW data.

Thus both _sdata and _edata must be defined and continuous,
without .init sections that may later be freed and replaced by
volatile memory (memory that can be freed).

This utility function is used to determine if data is safe from
ever being freed. Thus it should return true for all RW global
data that is not in a module or has been allocated, or false
otherwise.

Also change core_kernel_data() back to the more precise _sdata condition
and document the function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: JamesE.J.Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305855298.1465.19.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
----
 arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S   |    1 +
 arch/m32r/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S    |    1 +
 arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-std.lds  |    2 ++
 arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-sun3.lds |    1 +
 arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S    |    1 +
 arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S  |    3 +++
 kernel/extable.c                  |   12 +++++++++++-
 7 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
2011-05-20 08:56:56 +02:00
Maxin John
c0a5afb9bc MIPS: Enable kmemleak for MIPS
Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com>
Cc: naveen yadav <yad.naveen@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2244/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2011-05-19 09:55:41 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
f8bec75acd MIPS: Rename .data..mostly and properly handle it in linker script
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2011-05-10 18:15:24 +01:00
Tejun Heo
0415b00d17 percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE
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
2011-03-24 18:50:09 +01:00
Tejun Heo
19df0c2fef percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline
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>
2011-01-25 14:26:50 +01:00
Gabor Juhos
487d70d0b8 MIPS: Add generic support for multiple machines within a single kernel
This patch adds a generic solution to support multiple machines based on
a given SoC within a single kernel image. It is implemented already for
several other architectures but MIPS has no generic support for that yet.

[Ralf: This competes with DT but DT is a much more complex solution and this
code has been used by OpenWRT for a long time so for now DT is a bad reason
to stop the merge but longer term this should be migrated to DT.]

Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kaloz@openwrt.org
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: Cliff Holden <Cliff.Holden@Atheros.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1814/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2011-01-18 19:30:21 +01:00
Wu Zhangjin
8f99a16265 MIPS: Tracing: Add IRQENTRY_EXIT section for MIPS
This patch add a new section for MIPS to record the block of the hardirq
handling for function graph tracer(print_graph_irq) via adding the
__irq_entry annotation to the the entrypoints of the hardirqs(the block
with irq_enter()...irq_exit()).

Thanks goes to Steven & Frederic Weisbecker for their feedbacks.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/676/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2009-12-17 01:57:24 +00:00
Manuel Lauss
d71789b6fa mips: fix build of vmlinux.lds
Commit 51b563fc93 ("arm, cris, mips,
sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0") removed a few
CPPFLAGS with vital include paths necessary to build vmlinux.lds
on MIPS, and moved the calculation of the 'jiffies' symbol
directly to vmlinux.lds.S but forgot to change make ifdef/... to
cpp macros.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@gmail.com>
[sam: moved assignment of CPPFLAGS arch/mips/kernel/Makefile]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
2009-09-25 19:49:27 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
51b563fc93 arm, cris, mips, sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0
Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> reported:

    Bash 4 filters out variables which contain a dot in them.
    This happends to be the case of CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds.
    This is rather unfortunate, as it now causes
    build failures when using SHELL=/bin/bash to compile,
    or when bash happens to be used by make (eg when it's /bin/sh)

Remove the common definition of CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds by
pushing relevant stuff to either Makefile.build or the
arch specific kernel/Makefile where we build the linker script.

This is also nice cleanup as we move the information out where
it is used.

Notes for the different architectures touched:

arm - we use an already exported symbol
cris - we use a config symbol aleady available
       [Not build tested]
mips - the jiffies complexity has moved to vmlinux.lds.S where we need it.
       Added a few variables to CPPFLAGS - they are only used by
       the linker script.
       [Not build tested]
powerpc - removed assignment that is not needed
          [not build tested]
sparc - simplified it using $(BITS)
um - introduced a few new exported variables to deal with this
xtensa - added options to CPP invocation
         [not build tested]

Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-20 12:28:22 +02:00
Nelson Elhage
6eb10bc9e2 MIPS: Clean up linker script using new linker script macros.
This patch results in fewer output sections and in some data being
reordered, but should have no functional impact.

Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2009-09-17 20:07:49 +02:00
Nelson Elhage
a0b54e256d MIPS: Use PAGE_SIZE in assembly instead of _PAGE_SIZE.
Now that PAGE_SIZE is available to assembly directly, there is no need
to separately expose it as _PAGE_SIZE through asm-offsets.

In addition, remove _PAGE_SHIFT from asm-offsets, since it was never
needed, and is not used anywhere.

Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2009-09-17 20:07:48 +02:00
Tejun Heo
023bf6f1b8 linker script: unify usage of discard definition
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 <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2009-07-09 11:27:40 +09:00
Tejun Heo
405d967dc7 linker script: throw away .discard section
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>
2009-06-24 15:13:38 +09:00
David Daney
2dbac10263 MIPS: Align .data.cacheline_aligned based on CONFIG_MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomaso Paoletti <tpaoletti@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-15 12:46:50 +01:00
Atsushi Nemoto
6b3766a263 [MIPS] vmlinux.lds.S: handle .text.*
The -ffunction-sections puts each text in .text.function_name section.
Without this patch, most functions are placed outside _text..._etext
area and it breaks show_stacktrace(), etc.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-09-21 14:52:58 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
01ba2bdc6b all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h
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>
2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
Franck Bui-Huu
16be243589 [MIPS] vmlinux.ld.S: correctly indent .data section
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-29 19:35:37 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
f70fd1b53c [MIPS] vmlinux.lds.S: Handle KPROBES_TEXT.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-16 18:23:46 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
603bb99c8b [MIPS] vmlinux.lds.S: Fix handling of .notes in final link.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-16 18:23:46 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
f5153ee0f5 [MIPS] vmlinux.lds.S: Remove duplicate comment.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-16 18:23:46 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
0f5c906442 [MIPS] Introduce a consistent style for vmlinux.lds.
This style will be consitent with all other arch's - soon.

In addition:
- Moved a few labels inside brackets for the sections they specify
  to prevent that linker alignmnet made them point before the section start

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-11 23:46:04 +01:00
Maciej W. Rozycki
6f6b3940ed [MIPS] vmlinux.lds.S: Handle note sections
Store any note sections after the exception tables like the other
architectures do.  This is required for .note.gnu.build-id emitted from
binutils 2.18 onwards if nothing else.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-01 14:17:50 +01:00
Daniel Jacobowitz
6c76988b81 [MIPS] Do not discard extra debugging sections.
Leaving these sections is useful to some tools that look at the image, and
none of them are loaded into memory.  The .mdebug.abi64 section, in
particular, lets GDB recognize vmlinux.32 as an N64 program instead of
guessing that it is O32.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-08-27 02:16:53 +01:00
Fenghua Yu
5fb7dc37dc define new percpu interface for shared data
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>
2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
ca967258b6 all-archs: consolidate .data section definition in asm-generic
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>
2007-05-19 09:11:57 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
7664709b44 all-archs: consolidate .text section definition in asm-generic
Move definition of .text section to asm-generic.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-05-19 09:11:57 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
b6e3590f81 [PATCH] x86: Allow percpu variables to be page-aligned
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>
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
Jean-Paul Saman
67d38229df [PATCH] disable init/initramfs.c: architectures
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>
2007-02-11 10:51:25 -08:00
Ralf Baechle
2efac77e82 [MIPS] Discard .exit.text and .exit.data at runtime.
While the recent cset 86384d5441 did improve
things it didn't resolve all the problems.  So bite the bullet and discard
.exit.text and .exit.data at runtime.  Which of course sucks because it
bloats binaries with code that will never ever be used but it's the only
thing that will work reliable as demonstrated by the function sd_major() in
drivers/scsi/sd.c.

Gcc may compile sd_major() using a jump table which it will put into
.rodata.  If it also inlines sd_major's function body into exit_sd() which
gcc > 3.4.x does.  If CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD has been set to y we would like ld
to discard exit_sd's code at link time.  However sd_major happens to
contain a switch statement which gcc will compile using a jump table in
.rodata on the architectures I checked.  So, when ld later discards
.exit.text only the jump table in .rodata with its stale references to
the discard .exit.text will be left which any no antique ld will honor
with a link error.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-12-12 01:46:24 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
86384d5441 [MIPS] Discard .exit.text at linktime.
This fixes fairly unobvious breakage of various drivers.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-12-10 21:52:11 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
242954b5aa [MIPS] 16K & 64K page size fixes
Derived from Peter Watkins <treestem@gmail.com>'s work.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-11-01 17:46:09 +00:00
Andrew Morton
61ce1efe6e [PATCH] vmlinux.lds: consolidate initcall sections
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>
2006-10-27 15:34:51 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Atsushi Nemoto
78665aaa96 [MIPS] Use generic STABS_DEBUG macro.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-06-01 00:28:33 +01:00
Atsushi Nemoto
04b6b3b651 [MIPS] Use generic DWARF_DEBUG
When debugging a kernel compiled by gcc 4.1 with gdb 6.4, gdb could
not show filename, linenumber, etc.  It seems fixed if I used generic
DWARF_DEBUG macro.  Although gcc 3.x seems work without this change,
it would be better to use the generic macro unless there were
something MIPS specific.
    
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-06-01 00:28:32 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
41c594ab65 [MIPS] MT: Improved multithreading support.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-04-19 04:14:28 +02:00
Ralf Baechle
bb7d83f744 [MIPS] Discard .exit.text at runtime.
At times gcc will place bits of __exit functions into .rodata.  If
compiled into the kernle itself we used to discard .exit.text - but
not the bits left in .rodata.  While harmless this did at times result
in a large number of warnings.  So until gcc fixes this, discard
.exit.text at runtime.
    
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-09 18:05:09 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
dbee90b7f9 [MIPS] Fix linker script to work for non-4K page size.
Very much to my surprise Fuxin Zhang reports this is all it takes to get
the kernel to work for page sizes larger than 4kB.  This also paves the
way for support for the R6000 and R8000 which don't support 4kB page size.
    
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-02-07 13:30:26 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
b4dbf95e30 Get rid of the the remains of 2.4-style ramdisk support.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2005-10-29 19:30:57 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
c83cfc9c94 Get rid of early_init. There's more need to make this form of
initialization actually useful and as is certainly unmergable with
upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2005-10-29 19:30:18 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
42a3b4f25a [PATCH] mips: nuke trailing whitespace
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
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!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00