linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c, branch v3.3.5

modules: make arch's use default loader hooks

2011-07-24T12:36:04+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Tested-by: Michal Simek 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

powerpc: Unify opcode definitions and support

2009-02-22T23:48:56+00:00

Create a new header that becomes a single location for defining PowerPC
opcodes used by code that is either generationg instructions
at runtime (fixups, debug, etc.), emulating instructions, or just
compiling instructions old assemblers don't know about.

We currently don't handle the floating point emulation or alignment decode
as both are better handled by the specific decode support they already
have.

Added support for the new dcbzl, dcbal, msgsnd, tlbilx, & wait instructions
since older assemblers don't know about them.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/ppc64: ftrace, handle module trampolines for dyn ftrace

2008-11-20T18:52:28+00:00

Impact: Allow 64 bit PowerPC to trace modules with dynamic ftrace

This adds code to handle the PPC64 module trampolines, and allows for
PPC64 to use dynamic ftrace.

Thanks to Paul Mackerras for these updates:

  - fix the mod and rec->arch.mod NULL checks.
  - fix to is_bl_op compare.

Thanks to Milton Miller for:

  - finding the nasty race with using two nops, and recommending
    instead that I use a branch 8 forward.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Fix compile failure with non modular builds

2008-09-17T16:14:42+00:00

Commit deac93df26b20cf8438339b5935b5f5643bc30c9 ("lib: Correct printk
%pF to work on all architectures") broke the non modular builds by
moving an essential function into modules.c.  Fix this by moving it
out again and into asm/sections.h as an inline.  To do this, the
definition of struct ppc64_opd_entry has been lifted out of modules.c
and put in asm/elf.h where it belongs.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

lib: Correct printk %pF to work on all architectures

2008-09-09T18:51:15+00:00

It was introduced by "vsprintf: add support for '%pS' and '%pF' pointer
formats" in commit 0fe1ef24f7bd0020f29ffe287dfdb9ead33ca0b2.  However,
the current way its coded doesn't work on parisc64.  For two reasons: 1)
parisc isn't in the #ifdef and 2) parisc has a different format for
function descriptors

Make dereference_function_descriptor() more accommodating by allowing
architecture overrides.  I put the three overrides (for parisc64, ppc64
and ia64) in arch/kernel/module.c because that's where the kernel
internal linker which knows how to deal with function descriptors sits.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Acked-by: Tony Luck 
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

powerpc: Add PPC_NOP_INSTR, a hash define for the preferred nop instruction

2008-07-01T01:28:23+00:00

A bunch of code has hard-coded the value for a "nop" instruction, it
would be nice to have a #define for it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Acked-by: Kumar Gala 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc: Move common module code into its own file

2008-07-01T01:28:05+00:00

Refactor common code between ppc32 and ppc64 module handling into a
shared filed.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Optimize counting distinct entries in the relocation sections

2007-12-21T04:05:58+00:00

When a module has relocation sections with tens of thousands of
entries, counting the distinct/unique entries only (i.e. no
duplicates) at load time can take tens of seconds and up to minutes.
The sore point is the count_relocs() function which is called as part
of the architecture specific module loading processing path:

	-> load_module()			generic
	   -> module_frob_arch_sections()	arch specific
	      -> get_plt_size()		32-bit
	      -> get_stubs_size()	64-bit
		 -> count_relocs()

Here count_relocs is being called to find out how many distinct
targets of R_PPC_REL24 relocations there are, since each distinct
target needs a PLT entry or a stub created for it.

The previous counting algorithm has O(n^2) complexity.  Basically two
solutions were proposed on the e-mail list: a hash based approach and
a sort based approach.

The hash based approach is the fastest (O(n)) but the has it needs
additional memory and for certain corner cases it could take lots of
memory due to the degeneration of the hash.  One such proposal was
submitted here:

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-June/037641.html

The sort based approach is slower (O(n * log n + n)) but if the
sorting is done "in place" it doesn't need additional memory.
This has O(n + n * log n) complexity with no additional memory
requirements.

This commit implements the in-place sort option.

Signed-off-by: Emil Medve 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Generic BUG for powerpc

2006-12-11T05:35:07+00:00

This makes powerpc use the generic BUG machinery.  The biggest reports the
function name, since it is redundant with kallsyms, and not needed in general.

There is an overall reduction of code, since module_32/64 duplicated several
functions.

Unfortunately there's no way to tell gcc that BUG won't return, so the BUG
macro includes a goto loop.  This will generate a real jmp instruction, which
is never used.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[paulus@samba.org: remove infinite loop in BUG_ON]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Hugh Dickens 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Support feature fixups in modules

2006-10-25T01:54:13+00:00

This patch adds support for feature fixups in modules. This involves
adding support for R_PPC64_REL64 relocs to the 64 bits module loader.
It also modifies modpost.c to ignore the powerpc fixup sections (or it
would warn when used in .init.text).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Acked-by: Olof Johansson 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras