linux-toradex.git/include/asm-generic/sections.h, branch v2.6.38-rc4

asm/sections: add text/data checking functions for arches to override

2009-09-23T14:39:30+00:00

Some ports (like the Blackfin arch) have a discontiguous memory map which
means there may be text or data that falls outside of the standard range
of the start/end text/data symbols.  Creating some helper functions allows
these non-standard ports to declare these regions without adversely
affecting anyone else.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Robin Getz 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel: constructor support

2009-06-18T20:03:57+00:00

Call constructors (gcc-generated initcall-like functions) during kernel
start and module load.  Constructors are e.g.  used for gcov data
initialization.

Disable constructor support for usermode Linux to prevent conflicts with
host glibc.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Acked-by: Rusty Russell 
Acked-by: WANG Cong 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Huang Ying 
Cc: Li Wei 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86: make percpu symbols zerobased on SMP

2009-01-16T13:19:14+00:00

[ Based on original patch from Christoph Lameter and Mike Travis. ]

This patch makes percpu symbols zerobased on x86_64 SMP by adding
PERCPU_VADDR() to vmlinux.lds.h which helps setting explicit vaddr on
the percpu output section and using it in vmlinux_64.lds.S.  A new
PHDR is added as existing ones cannot contain sections near address
zero.  PERCPU_VADDR() also adds a new symbol __per_cpu_load which
always points to the vaddr of the loaded percpu data.init region.

The following adjustments have been made to accomodate the address
change.

* code to locate percpu gdt_page in head_64.S is updated to add the
  load address to the gdt_page offset.

* __per_cpu_load is used in places where access to the init data area
  is necessary.

* pda->data_offset is initialized soon after C code is entered as zero
  value doesn't work anymore.

This patch is mostly taken from Mike Travis' "x86_64: Base percpu
variables at zero" patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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

remove support for un-needed _extratext section

2008-02-06T18:41:01+00:00

When passing a zero address to kallsyms_lookup(), the kernel thought it was
a valid kernel address, even if it is not.  This is because is_ksym_addr()
called is_kernel_extratext() and checked against labels that don't exist on
many archs (which default as zero).  Since PPC was the only kernel which
defines _extra_text, (in 2005), and no longer needs it, this patch removes
_extra_text support.

For some history (provided by Jon):
 http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019734.html
 http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019736.html
 http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019751.html

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Robin Getz 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Jon Loeliger 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] add __[start|end]_rodata sections to asm-generic/sections.h

2006-07-01T16:56:03+00:00

Add __start_rodata and __end_rodata to sections.h to avoid extern
declarations.  Needed by s390 code (see following patch).

[akpm@osdl.org: update architectures]
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] x86_64: Only use asm/sections.h to declare section symbols

2005-11-15T03:55:14+00:00

Adding __initdata_* to asm-generic/sections.h
Replaces a lot of open coded externs in arch/x86_64/*
I had to change __bss_end to __bss_stop to match the other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Kprobes: prevent possible race conditions generic

2005-09-07T23:57:59+00:00

There are possible race conditions if probes are placed on routines within the
kprobes files and routines used by the kprobes.  For example if you put probe
on get_kprobe() routines, the system can hang while inserting probes on any
routine such as do_fork().  Because while inserting probes on do_fork(),
register_kprobes() routine grabs the kprobes spin lock and executes
get_kprobe() routine and to handle probe of get_kprobe(), kprobes_handler()
gets executed and tries to grab kprobes spin lock, and spins forever.  This
patch avoids such possible race conditions by preventing probes on routines
within the kprobes file and routines used by kprobes.

I have modified the patches as per Andi Kleen's suggestion to move kprobes
routines and other routines used by kprobes to a seperate section
.kprobes.text.

Also moved page fault and exception handlers, general protection fault to
.kprobes.text section.

These patches have been tested on i386, x86_64 and ppc64 architectures, also
compiled on ia64 and sparc64 architectures.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] x86_64: Some cleanup in setup64.c

2005-07-29T04:45:58+00:00

Minor cleanup.

Move things into their include files, remove obsolete includes, fix
indentation, remove obsolete special cases etc.

I also added the per cpu section to asm-generic/sections.h and fixed
init/main.c to use it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ppc32: platform-specific functions missing from kallsyms.

2005-05-05T23:36:31+00:00

The PPC32 kernel puts platform-specific functions into separate sections so
that unneeded parts of it can be freed when we've booted and actually
worked out what we're running on today.

This makes kallsyms ignore those functions, because they're not between
_[se]text or _[se]inittext.  Rather than teaching kallsyms about the
various pmac/chrp/etc sections, this patch adds '_[se]extratext' markers
for kallsyms.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds