linux-toradex.git/arch/mips/kernel/module.c, branch v3.10.2 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules MIPS: Whitespace cleanup. 2013-02-01T09:00:22+00:00 Ralf Baechle ralf@linux-mips.org 2013-01-22T11:59:30+00:00 7034228792cc561e79ff8600f02884bd4c80e287 Having received another series of whitespace patches I decided to do this once and for all rather than dealing with this kind of patches trickling in forever. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> 
Having received another series of whitespace patches I decided to do this
once and for all rather than dealing with this kind of patches trickling
in forever.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
MIPS: Fix module.c build for 32 bit 2012-09-28T05:01:02+00:00 Ralf Baechle ralf@linux-mips.org 2012-08-14T15:13:45+00:00 6ede81239e31cfacbb1e2d260530cd80d13cf0db Fixes build failure introduced by "Make most arch asm/module.h files use asm-generic/module.h" by moving all the RELA processing code to a separate file to be used only for RELA processing on 64-bit kernels. CC arch/mips/kernel/module.o arch/mips/kernel/module.c:250:14: error: 'reloc_handlers_rela' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-variable] cc1: all warnings being treated as errors make[6]: *** [arch/mips/kernel/module.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> 
Fixes build failure introduced by "Make most arch asm/module.h files use
asm-generic/module.h" by moving all the RELA processing code to a
separate file to be used only for RELA processing on 64-bit kernels.

  CC      arch/mips/kernel/module.o
arch/mips/kernel/module.c:250:14: error: 'reloc_handlers_rela' defined but not
used [-Werror=unused-variable]
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

make[6]: *** [arch/mips/kernel/module.o] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
MIPS: Module: Deal with malformed HI16/LO16 relocation sequences. 2012-08-17T08:57:28+00:00 Ralf Baechle ralf@linux-mips.org 2012-08-13T22:34:18+00:00 c54de490a2e4e74164f747925ff05c00dfa153cd In case a series of R_MIPS_HI16 relocations was not followed by an R_MIPS_LO16 relocation we were leaking the hi16 relocation chain. Handle that error and return an error. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> 
In case a series of R_MIPS_HI16 relocations was not followed by an
R_MIPS_LO16 relocation we were leaking the hi16 relocation chain.
Handle that error and return an error.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
MIPS: Fix race condition in module relocation code. 2012-08-17T08:57:28+00:00 Ralf Baechle ralf@linux-mips.org 2012-08-08T14:59:43+00:00 861667dc82f561e65336ea67f73021b782b4ff74 The relocation code was essentially taken from the 2.4 modutils which perform relocation in userspace. In 2.6 relocation of multiple modules may be performed in parallel by the in-kernel loader so the global variable mips_hi16_list won't fly anymore. Fix race by moving it into mod_arch_specific. [ralf@linux-mips.org: folded in Tony's followup fix. Thanks Tony!] Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Wu <tung7970@gmail.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4189/ 
The relocation code was essentially taken from the 2.4 modutils which
perform relocation in userspace.  In 2.6 relocation of multiple modules
may be performed in parallel by the in-kernel loader so the global
variable mips_hi16_list won't fly anymore.  Fix race by moving it into
mod_arch_specific.

[ralf@linux-mips.org: folded in Tony's followup fix.  Thanks Tony!]

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Wu <tung7970@gmail.com>
Cc:  linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4189/
MIPS: Fix memory leak in error path of HI16/LO16 relocation handling. 2012-08-17T08:57:27+00:00 Ralf Baechle ralf@linux-mips.org 2012-08-08T12:57:03+00:00 d3cac35cd0a2a987f7559e1829fb0253cea33872 Commit 6f5d2e970452b5c86906adcb8e7ad246f535ba39 (lmo) / 477c4b07406357ad93d0e32788dbf3ee814eadaa (kernel.org) [[MIPS: VPE: Free relocation chain on error.] fixed the same issue in the vpe loader in 2009 but back then the same bug in module.c went unfixed. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Reported-by: Akhilesh Kumar <akhilesh.lxr@gmail.com> 
Commit 6f5d2e970452b5c86906adcb8e7ad246f535ba39 (lmo) /
477c4b07406357ad93d0e32788dbf3ee814eadaa (kernel.org) [[MIPS: VPE: Free
relocation chain on error.] fixed the same issue in the vpe loader in 2009
but back then the same bug in module.c went unfixed.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Reported-by: Akhilesh Kumar <akhilesh.lxr@gmail.com>
mips: remove needless include of module.h from core kernel files. 2011-10-31T23:30:57+00:00 Paul Gortmaker paul.gortmaker@windriver.com 2011-07-23T20:55:17+00:00 848484e2c41220f07b432ffea79874a1b02ce6db None of these files are using modular infrastructure, and build tests reveal that none of these files are really relying on any implicit inclusions via. module.h either. So delete them. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> 
None of these files are using modular infrastructure, and build
tests reveal that none of these files are really relying on any
implicit inclusions via. module.h either.  So delete them.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
modules: make arch's use default loader hooks 2011-07-24T12:36:04+00:00 Jonas Bonn jonas@southpole.se 2011-06-30T19:22:12+00:00 66574cc05438dd0907029075d7e6ec5ac0036fbc This patch removes all the module loader hook implementations in the architecture specific code where the functionality is the same as that now provided by the recently added default hooks. Signed-off-by: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> 
This patch removes all the module loader hook implementations in the
architecture specific code where the functionality is the same as that
now provided by the recently added default hooks.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
MIPS: jump label: Add MIPS support. 2011-01-18T18:30:24+00:00 David Daney ddaney@caviumnetworks.com 2010-12-28T21:26:23+00:00 94bb0c1ab293c298a8852e4f10c4215bad6daa9b In order not to be left behind, we add jump label support for MIPS. Tested on 64-bit big endian (Octeon), and 32-bit little endian (malta/qemu). Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1923/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> 
In order not to be left behind, we add jump label support for MIPS.

Tested on 64-bit big endian (Octeon), and 32-bit little endian
(malta/qemu).

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1923/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
mm: unify module_alloc code for vmalloc 2011-01-14T01:32:34+00:00 David Rientjes rientjes@google.com 2011-01-13T23:46:02+00:00 d0a21265dfb5fa8ae54e90d0fb6d1c215b10a28a Four architectures (arm, mips, sparc, x86) use __vmalloc_area() for module_init(). Much of the code is duplicated and can be generalized in a globally accessible function, __vmalloc_node_range(). __vmalloc_node() now calls into __vmalloc_node_range() with a range of [VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END) for functionally equivalent behavior. Each architecture may then use __vmalloc_node_range() directly to remove the duplication of code. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Four architectures (arm, mips, sparc, x86) use __vmalloc_area() for
module_init().  Much of the code is duplicated and can be generalized in a
globally accessible function, __vmalloc_node_range().

__vmalloc_node() now calls into __vmalloc_node_range() with a range of
[VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END) for functionally equivalent behavior.

Each architecture may then use __vmalloc_node_range() directly to remove
the duplication of code.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
MIPS: Module: Make error messages unique. 2009-08-03T16:52:48+00:00 Ralf Baechle ralf@linux-mips.org 2009-08-03T09:50:19+00:00 6f9fdeb6761a46ded6bf4b799993a3f235ab853d There were three different errors resulting in a "dangerous relocation" message. Add the relocation type to the messgages to make them more useful. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> 
There were three different errors resulting in a "dangerous relocation"
message.  Add the relocation type to the messgages to make them more
useful.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>