linux-toradex.git/include/asm-generic/sections.h, branch v4.6-rc3

asm/sections: add helpers to check for section data

2016-01-16T19:17:24+00:00

Add a helper to check if an object (given an address and a size) is part
of a section (given beginning and end addresses).  For convenience, also
provide a helper that performs this check for __init data using the
__init_begin and __init_end limits.

Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nosave: consolidate __nosave_{begin,end} in

2014-10-10T02:26:04+00:00

The different architectures used their own (and different) declarations:

    extern __visible const void __nosave_begin, __nosave_end;
    extern const void __nosave_begin, __nosave_end;
    extern long __nosave_begin, __nosave_end;

Consolidate them using the first variant in .

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vmlinux.lds: add comments for global variables and clean up useless declarations

2013-07-03T23:07:34+00:00

The original goal of this patchset is to fix the bug reported by
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53501 Now it has also been
expanded to reduce common code used by memory initializion.

Patch 1-7:
	1) add comments for global variables exported by vmlinux.lds
	2) normalize global variables exported by vmlinux.lds
Patch 8:
	Introduce helper functions mem_init_print_info() and
	get_num_physpages()
Patch 9:
	Avoid using global variable num_physpages at runtime
Patch 10:
	Don't update num_physpages in memory_hotplug.c
Patch 11-40:
	Modify arch mm initialization code to:
	1) Simplify mem_init() by using mem_init_print_info()
	2) Prepare for killing global variable num_physpages
Patch 41:
	Kill the global variable num_physpages

With all patches applied, mem_init(), free_initmem(), free_initrd_mem()
could be as simple as below.  This patch series has reduced about 1.2K
lines of code in total.

#ifndef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
void __init
mem_init(void)
{
	max_mapnr = max_low_pfn;
	free_all_bootmem();
	high_memory = (void *) __va(max_low_pfn * PAGE_SIZE);

	mem_init_print_info(NULL);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM */

void
free_initmem(void)
{
	free_initmem_default(-1);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
void
free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
	free_reserved_area(start, end, -1, "initrd");
}
#endif

Due to hardware resource limitations, I have only tested this on x86_64.
And the messages reported on an x86_64 system are:

Log message before applying patches:
Memory: 7745676k/8910848k available (6934k kernel code, 836024k absent, 329148k reserved, 6343k data, 1012k init)

Log message after applying patches:
Memory: 7744624K/8074824K available (6969K kernel code, 1011K data, 2828K rodata, 1016K init, 9640K bss, 330200K reserved)

Great thanks to Vineet Gupta for testing on ARC.

This patch:

Document global variables exported from vmlinux.lds.

1) Add comments about usage guidelines for global variables exported
   from vmlinux.lds.S.
2) Remove unused __initdata_begin[] and __initdata_end[].

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86: Separate out entry text section

2011-03-08T16:22:11+00:00

Put x86 entry code into a separate link section: .entry.text.

Separating the entry text section seems to have performance
benefits - caused by more efficient instruction cache usage.

Running hackbench with perf stat --repeat showed that the change
compresses the icache footprint. The icache load miss rate went
down by about 15%:

 before patch:
         19417627  L1-icache-load-misses      ( +-   0.147% )

 after patch:
         16490788  L1-icache-load-misses      ( +-   0.180% )

The motivation of the patch was to fix a particular kprobes
bug that relates to the entry text section, the performance
advantage was discovered accidentally.

Whole perf output follows:

 - results for current tip tree:

  Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs):

         19417627  L1-icache-load-misses      ( +-   0.147% )
       2676914223  instructions             #      0.497 IPC     ( +- 0.079% )
       5389516026  cycles                     ( +-   0.144% )

      0.206267711  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.138% )

 - results for current tip tree with the patch applied:

  Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs):

         16490788  L1-icache-load-misses      ( +-   0.180% )
       2717734941  instructions             #      0.502 IPC     ( +- 0.079% )
       5414756975  cycles                     ( +-   0.148% )

      0.206747566  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.137% )

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com
Cc: ananth@in.ibm.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference: <20110307181039.GB15197@jolsa.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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