linux-toradex.git/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S, branch v3.4.2

[S390] cleanup entry point definition

2012-01-18T17:03:41+00:00

The vmlinux file for s390 contains a currently unused entry point,
which is specified in two different locations: the linker script
and the makefile. As it happens both definitions are different and
the linker file is broken (_start does not exist) and the makefile
specifies an entry point which makes no sense (the SALIPL loader
entry point).

So lets get rid of one definition (the makefile) and use the entry
point of all other ipl methods (0x10000 -> startup) to be consistent.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] incorrect note program header

2011-11-14T10:19:08+00:00

'readelf -n' on the s390 vmlinux file generates lots of warnings about
corrupt notes. The reason is that the 'NOTE' program header has incorrect
file and memory sizes. The problem is that the section following the
NOTES section do not switch to a different phdr and they get added to
the NOTE program section. Add a dummy entry to the linker script that
switches to the data phdr before the start of the RODATA section.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE

2011-03-24T17:50:09+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger 
Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline

2011-01-25T13:26:50+00:00

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 
Cc: Shaohua Li

[S390] Enable kmemleak on s390.

2009-10-06T08:35:06+00:00

Also increase the maximum possible kmemleak early log entries since
2000 are not sufficient on s390.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2009-09-15T16:39:44+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
  powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
  sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
  percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
  x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
  percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
  percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
  vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
  vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
  percpu: add chunk->base_addr
  percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
  percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
  percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
  percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
  percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
  percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
  percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
  percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
  percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
  percpu: improve boot messages
  percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
  ...

Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c

[S390] clean up linker script using new linker script macros.

2009-09-11T08:29:48+00:00

Note that this patch moves .data.init_task inside _edata.  In
addition, the alignment of .init.ramfs changes: It is now PAGE_ALIGNED
and __initramfs_end is arbitrarily aligned; Previously it was
only aligned to a 0x100-byte boundary, and always ended on an even
byte.

This change results in fewer output sections and in some data being
reordered, but should have no functional effect.

Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage 
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] Use macros for .data.page_aligned.

2009-09-11T08:29:47+00:00

.data.page_aligned should not need a separate output section, so as
part of this cleanup I moved into the .data output section in the
linker scripts in order to eliminate unnecessary references to the
section name.

Remove the reference to .data.idt, since nothing is put into the
.data.idt section on the s390 architecture.  It looks like Cyrill
Gorcunov posted a patch to remove the .data.idt code on s390
previously:



CCing him and the people who acked that patch in case there's a reason
it wasn't applied.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

linker script: unify usage of discard definition

2009-07-09T02:27:40+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Paul Mundt 
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger 
Tested-by: Michal Simek 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Tony Luck

linker script: throw away .discard section

2009-06-24T06:13:38+00:00

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 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Bryan Wu 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: Jesper Nilsson 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Hirokazu Takata 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Ingo Molnar