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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>tracing: Replace syscall_meta_data struct array with pointer array</title>
<updated>2011-02-03T14:29:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2011-02-02T22:06:09+00:00</published>
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Currently the syscall_meta structures for the syscall tracepoints are
placed in the __syscall_metadata section, and at link time, the linker
makes one large array of all these syscall metadata structures. On boot
up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the syscall
data is processed.

The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.

A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).

Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the __syscall_metadata section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).

By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.

The __syscall_metadata section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.

Suggested-by: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Currently the syscall_meta structures for the syscall tracepoints are
placed in the __syscall_metadata section, and at link time, the linker
makes one large array of all these syscall metadata structures. On boot
up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the syscall
data is processed.

The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.

A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).

Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the __syscall_metadata section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).

By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.

The __syscall_metadata section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.

Suggested-by: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer array</title>
<updated>2011-02-03T14:28:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathieu Desnoyers</name>
<email>mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-26T22:26:22+00:00</published>
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Make the tracepoints more robust, making them solid enough to handle compiler
changes by not relying on anything based on compiler-specific behavior with
respect to structure alignment. Implement an approach proposed by David Miller:
use an array of const pointers to refer to the individual structures, and export
this pointer array through the linker script rather than the structures per se.
It will consume 32 extra bytes per tracepoint (24 for structure padding and 8
for the pointers), but are less likely to break due to compiler changes.

History:

commit 7e066fb8 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE()
added the aligned(32) type and variable attribute to the tracepoint structures
to deal with gcc happily aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte
multiples.

One attempt was to use a 8-byte alignment for tracepoint structures by applying
both the variable and type attribute to tracepoint structures definitions and
declarations. It worked fine with gcc 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5.

The reason is that the "aligned" attribute only specify the _minimum_ alignment
for a structure, leaving both the compiler and the linker free to align on
larger multiples. Because tracepoint.c expects the structures to be placed as an
array within each section, up-alignment cause NULL-pointer exceptions due to the
extra unexpected padding.

(this patch applies on top of -tip)

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20110126222622.GA10794@Krystal&gt;
CC: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
CC: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
CC: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
CC: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
CC: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
CC: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Make the tracepoints more robust, making them solid enough to handle compiler
changes by not relying on anything based on compiler-specific behavior with
respect to structure alignment. Implement an approach proposed by David Miller:
use an array of const pointers to refer to the individual structures, and export
this pointer array through the linker script rather than the structures per se.
It will consume 32 extra bytes per tracepoint (24 for structure padding and 8
for the pointers), but are less likely to break due to compiler changes.

History:

commit 7e066fb8 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE()
added the aligned(32) type and variable attribute to the tracepoint structures
to deal with gcc happily aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte
multiples.

One attempt was to use a 8-byte alignment for tracepoint structures by applying
both the variable and type attribute to tracepoint structures definitions and
declarations. It worked fine with gcc 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5.

The reason is that the "aligned" attribute only specify the _minimum_ alignment
for a structure, leaving both the compiler and the linker free to align on
larger multiples. Because tracepoint.c expects the structures to be placed as an
array within each section, up-alignment cause NULL-pointer exceptions due to the
extra unexpected padding.

(this patch applies on top of -tip)

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20110126222622.GA10794@Krystal&gt;
CC: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
CC: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
CC: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
CC: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
CC: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
CC: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer array</title>
<updated>2011-02-03T02:37:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-27T14:15:30+00:00</published>
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Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events
section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all
the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like
the initcall sections) and the events are processed.

The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.

A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).

Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the _ftrace_event section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).

By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.

The _ftrace_event section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.

Suggested-by: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events
section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all
the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like
the initcall sections) and the events are processed.

The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.

A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).

Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the _ftrace_event section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).

By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.

The _ftrace_event section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.

Suggested-by: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfs</title>
<updated>2011-01-24T04:02:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dtor@vmware.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-15T22:00:19+00:00</published>
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Currently only drivers that are built as modules have their versions
shown in /sys/module/&lt;module_name&gt;/version, but this information might
also be useful for built-in drivers as well. This especially important
for drivers that do not define any parameters - such drivers, if
built-in, are completely invisible from userspace.

This patch changes MODULE_VERSION() macro so that in case when we are
compiling built-in module, version information is stored in a separate
section. Kernel then uses this data to create 'version' sysfs attribute
in the same fashion it creates attributes for module parameters.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Currently only drivers that are built as modules have their versions
shown in /sys/module/&lt;module_name&gt;/version, but this information might
also be useful for built-in drivers as well. This especially important
for drivers that do not define any parameters - such drivers, if
built-in, are completely invisible from userspace.

This patch changes MODULE_VERSION() macro so that in case when we are
compiling built-in module, version information is stored in a separate
section. Kernel then uses this data to create 'version' sysfs attribute
in the same fashion it creates attributes for module parameters.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h: make readmostly section correctly align</title>
<updated>2011-01-13T16:03:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shaohua Li</name>
<email>shaohua.li@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-13T00:59:38+00:00</published>
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The readmostly section should end at a cacheline aligned address,
otherwise the last several data might share cachline with other data and
make the readmostly data still have cache bounce.

For example, in ia64, secpath_cachep is the last readmostly data, and it
shares cacheline with init_uts_ns.

a000000100e80480 d secpath_cachep
a000000100e80488 D init_uts_ns

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shaohua.li@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The readmostly section should end at a cacheline aligned address,
otherwise the last several data might share cachline with other data and
make the readmostly data still have cache bounce.

For example, in ia64, secpath_cachep is the last readmostly data, and it
shares cacheline with init_uts_ns.

a000000100e80480 d secpath_cachep
a000000100e80488 D init_uts_ns

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shaohua.li@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>of: Add support for linking device tree blobs into vmlinux</title>
<updated>2010-12-23T21:43:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dirk Brandewie</name>
<email>dirk.brandewie@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-22T19:57:26+00:00</published>
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This patch adds support for linking device tree blob(s) into
vmlinux. Modifies asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h to add linking
.dtb sections into vmlinux. To maintain compatiblity with the of/fdt
driver code platforms MUST copy the blob to a non-init memory location
before the kernel frees the .init.* sections in the image.

Modifies scripts/Makefile.lib to add a kbuild command to
compile DTS files to device tree blobs and a rule to create objects to
wrap the blobs for linking.

STRUCT_ALIGNMENT is defined in vmlinux.lds.h for use in the rule to
create wrapper objects for the dtb in Makefile.lib.  The
STRUCT_ALIGN() macro in vmlinux.lds.h is modified to use the
STRUCT_ALIGNMENT definition.

The DTB's are placed on 32 byte boundries to allow parsing the blob
with driver/of/fdt.c during early boot without having to copy the blob
to get the structure alignment GCC expects.

A DTB is linked in by adding the DTB object to the list of objects to
be linked into vmlinux in the archtecture specific Makefile using
   obj-y += foo.dtb.o

Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie &lt;dirk.brandewie@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
[grant.likely@secretlab.ca: cleaned up whitespace inconsistencies]
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
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This patch adds support for linking device tree blob(s) into
vmlinux. Modifies asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h to add linking
.dtb sections into vmlinux. To maintain compatiblity with the of/fdt
driver code platforms MUST copy the blob to a non-init memory location
before the kernel frees the .init.* sections in the image.

Modifies scripts/Makefile.lib to add a kbuild command to
compile DTS files to device tree blobs and a rule to create objects to
wrap the blobs for linking.

STRUCT_ALIGNMENT is defined in vmlinux.lds.h for use in the rule to
create wrapper objects for the dtb in Makefile.lib.  The
STRUCT_ALIGN() macro in vmlinux.lds.h is modified to use the
STRUCT_ALIGNMENT definition.

The DTB's are placed on 32 byte boundries to allow parsing the blob
with driver/of/fdt.c during early boot without having to copy the blob
to get the structure alignment GCC expects.

A DTB is linked in by adding the DTB object to the list of objects to
be linked into vmlinux in the archtecture specific Makefile using
   obj-y += foo.dtb.o

Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie &lt;dirk.brandewie@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
[grant.likely@secretlab.ca: cleaned up whitespace inconsistencies]
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-10-28T22:13:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-28T22:13:55+00:00</published>
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* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
  initramfs: Fix build break on symbol-prefixed archs
  initramfs: fix initramfs size calculation
  initramfs: generalize initramfs_data.xxx.S variants
  scripts/kallsyms: Enable error messages while hush up unnecessary warnings
  scripts/setlocalversion: update comment
  kbuild: Use a single clean rule for kernel and external modules
  kbuild: Do not run make clean in $(srctree)
  scripts/mod/modpost.c: fix commentary accordingly to last changes
  kbuild: Really don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.h
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* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
  initramfs: Fix build break on symbol-prefixed archs
  initramfs: fix initramfs size calculation
  initramfs: generalize initramfs_data.xxx.S variants
  scripts/kallsyms: Enable error messages while hush up unnecessary warnings
  scripts/setlocalversion: update comment
  kbuild: Use a single clean rule for kernel and external modules
  kbuild: Do not run make clean in $(srctree)
  scripts/mod/modpost.c: fix commentary accordingly to last changes
  kbuild: Really don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.h
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: lower init ramfs alignment to 4</title>
<updated>2010-10-26T23:52:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Frysinger</name>
<email>vapier@gentoo.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-26T21:22:30+00:00</published>
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The new init ramfs format (cpio based) requires an alignment of 4 (per the
documentation and per the source files themselves).  As for compressed
sources, the decompressors can all deal with unaligned buffers.

The cpio source is also found in the __init sections of the kernel, so
once they are read and expanded into a tmpfs, the source is freed.  That
means there is no need to force page alignment here either.

This has been used on Blackfin systems for many releases without issue.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The new init ramfs format (cpio based) requires an alignment of 4 (per the
documentation and per the source files themselves).  As for compressed
sources, the decompressors can all deal with unaligned buffers.

The cpio source is also found in the __init sections of the kernel, so
once they are read and expanded into a tmpfs, the source is freed.  That
means there is no need to force page alignment here either.

This has been used on Blackfin systems for many releases without issue.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: gather .data..shared_aligned sections in DATA_DATA</title>
<updated>2010-10-26T23:52:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Frysinger</name>
<email>vapier@gentoo.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-26T21:22:29+00:00</published>
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With the recent change "net: remove time limit in process_backlog()", the
softnet_data variable changed from "DEFINE_PER_CPU()" to
"DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED()" which moved it from the .data section to the
.data.shared_align section.  I'm not saying this patch is wrong, just that
is what caused me to notice this larger problem.  No one else in the
kernel is using this aligned macro variant, so I imagine that's why no one
has noticed yet.

Since .data..shared_align isn't declared in any vmlinux files that I can
see, the linker just places it last.  This "just works" for most people,
but when building a ROM kernel on Blackfin systems, it causes section
overlap errors:

bfin-uclinux-ld.real:
	section .init.data [00000000202e06b8 -&gt; 00000000202e48b7] overlaps
	section .data.shared_aligned [00000000202e06b8 -&gt; 00000000202e0723]

I imagine other arches which support the ROM config option and thus do
funky placement would see similar issues ...

On x86, it is stuck in a dedicated section at the end:
 [8] .data             PROGBITS ffffffff810ec000 2ec0000303a8 00 WA 0 0 4096
 [9] .data.shared_alig PROGBITS ffffffff8111c3c0 31c3c00000c8 00 WA 0 0 64

So make sure we include this section in the DATA_DATA macro so that it is
placed in the right location.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Alan Jenkins &lt;alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@snapgear.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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With the recent change "net: remove time limit in process_backlog()", the
softnet_data variable changed from "DEFINE_PER_CPU()" to
"DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED()" which moved it from the .data section to the
.data.shared_align section.  I'm not saying this patch is wrong, just that
is what caused me to notice this larger problem.  No one else in the
kernel is using this aligned macro variant, so I imagine that's why no one
has noticed yet.

Since .data..shared_align isn't declared in any vmlinux files that I can
see, the linker just places it last.  This "just works" for most people,
but when building a ROM kernel on Blackfin systems, it causes section
overlap errors:

bfin-uclinux-ld.real:
	section .init.data [00000000202e06b8 -&gt; 00000000202e48b7] overlaps
	section .data.shared_aligned [00000000202e06b8 -&gt; 00000000202e0723]

I imagine other arches which support the ROM config option and thus do
funky placement would see similar issues ...

On x86, it is stuck in a dedicated section at the end:
 [8] .data             PROGBITS ffffffff810ec000 2ec0000303a8 00 WA 0 0 4096
 [9] .data.shared_alig PROGBITS ffffffff8111c3c0 31c3c00000c8 00 WA 0 0 64

So make sure we include this section in the DATA_DATA macro so that it is
placed in the right location.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Alan Jenkins &lt;alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@snapgear.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2010-10-21T20:47:29+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2010-10-21T20:47:29+00:00</published>
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* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86-32, percpu: Correct the ordering of the percpu readmostly section
  x86, mm: Enable ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT with X86_64 || HIGHMEM64G
  x86: Spread tlb flush vector between nodes
  percpu: Introduce a read-mostly percpu API
  x86, mm: Fix incorrect data type in vmalloc_sync_all()
  x86, mm: Hold mm-&gt;page_table_lock while doing vmalloc_sync
  x86, mm: Fix bogus whitespace in sync_global_pgds()
  x86-32: Fix sparse warning for the __PHYSICAL_MASK calculation
  x86, mm: Add RESERVE_BRK_ARRAY() helper
  mm, x86: Saving vmcore with non-lazy freeing of vmas
  x86, kdump: Change copy_oldmem_page() to use cached addressing
  x86, mm: fix uninitialized addr in kernel_physical_mapping_init()
  x86, kmemcheck: Remove double test
  x86, mm: Make spurious_fault check explicitly check the PRESENT bit
  x86-64, mem: Update all PGDs for direct mapping and vmemmap mapping changes
  x86, mm: Separate x86_64 vmalloc_sync_all() into separate functions
  x86, mm: Avoid unnecessary TLB flush
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* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86-32, percpu: Correct the ordering of the percpu readmostly section
  x86, mm: Enable ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT with X86_64 || HIGHMEM64G
  x86: Spread tlb flush vector between nodes
  percpu: Introduce a read-mostly percpu API
  x86, mm: Fix incorrect data type in vmalloc_sync_all()
  x86, mm: Hold mm-&gt;page_table_lock while doing vmalloc_sync
  x86, mm: Fix bogus whitespace in sync_global_pgds()
  x86-32: Fix sparse warning for the __PHYSICAL_MASK calculation
  x86, mm: Add RESERVE_BRK_ARRAY() helper
  mm, x86: Saving vmcore with non-lazy freeing of vmas
  x86, kdump: Change copy_oldmem_page() to use cached addressing
  x86, mm: fix uninitialized addr in kernel_physical_mapping_init()
  x86, kmemcheck: Remove double test
  x86, mm: Make spurious_fault check explicitly check the PRESENT bit
  x86-64, mem: Update all PGDs for direct mapping and vmemmap mapping changes
  x86, mm: Separate x86_64 vmalloc_sync_all() into separate functions
  x86, mm: Avoid unnecessary TLB flush
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