linux-toradex.git/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S, branch v2.6.25.10

all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h

2008-01-28T22:21:17+00:00

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

ARM kprobes: prevent some functions involved with kprobes from being probed

2008-01-26T15:25:17+00:00

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre

define new percpu interface for shared data

2007-07-19T17:04:44+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

all-archs: consolidate .data section definition in asm-generic

2007-05-19T07:11:57+00:00

With this consolidation we can now modify the .data
section definition in one spot for all archs.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

all-archs: consolidate .text section definition in asm-generic

2007-05-19T07:11:57+00:00

Move definition of .text section to asm-generic.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

[ARM] Ensure head text is always placed at the start of kernel

2007-05-08T14:15:45+00:00

Commit 86c0baf123e474b6eb404798926ecf62b426bf3a highlighted that we
may end up with the head text placed elsewhere in the kernel image.
Introduce a new .text.head section to contain the initial kernel
startup code, and always place this section at the beginning of the
kernel image.

Signed-off-by: Russell King

[ARM] Shut up warning about init_thread_union

2007-05-08T11:39:37+00:00

Fix false warning:

WARNING: arch/arm/kernel/init_task.o - Section mismatch:
 reference to .init.task:init_thread_union from .data between
 'init_task' (at offset 0x4) and 'init_sighand'

caused by the section name starting with ".init".

Signed-off-by: Russell King

Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm

2007-05-06T20:20:10+00:00

* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (82 commits)
  [ARM] Add comments marking in-use ptrace numbers
  [ARM] Move syscall saving out of the way of utrace
  [ARM] 4360/1: S3C24XX: regs-udc.h remove unused macro
  [ARM] 4358/1: S3C24XX: mach-qt2410.c: remove linux/mmc/protocol.h header
  [ARM] mm 10: allow memory type to be specified with ioremap
  [ARM] mm 9: add additional device memory types
  [ARM] mm 8: define mem_types table L1 bit 4 to be for ARMv6
  [ARM] iop: add missing parens in macro
  [ARM] mm 7: remove duplicated __ioremap() prototypes
  ARM: OMAP: fix OMAP1 mpuio suspend/resume oops
  ARM: OMAP: MPUIO wake updates
  ARM: OMAP: speed up gpio irq handling
  ARM: OMAP: plat-omap changes for 2430 SDP
  ARM: OMAP: gpio object shrinkage, cleanup
  ARM: OMAP: /sys/kernel/debug/omap_gpio
  ARM: OMAP: Implement workaround for GPIO wakeup bug in OMAP2420 silicon
  ARM: OMAP: Enable 24xx GPIO autoidling
  [ARM] 4318/2: DSM-G600 Board Support
  [ARM] 4227/1: minor head.S fixups
  [ARM] 4328/1: Move i.MX UART regs to driver
  ...

[PATCH] x86: Allow percpu variables to be page-aligned

2007-05-02T17:27:12+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

[ARM] Add ability to dump exception stacks to kernel backtraces

2007-04-21T19:34:34+00:00

Signed-off-by: Russell King