linux-toradex.git/include/linux/init.h, branch v2.6.23-rc5

x86_64: Don't mark exitcall as cold

2007-08-11T22:58:13+00:00

gcc currently doesn't support attributes on types, so we can't use it
function pointers.  This avoids some warnings on a gcc 4.3 build.

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

pure_initcall ID inconsistency

2007-07-31T22:39:41+00:00

pure_initcall uses the same ID as core_initcall.  I guess that's a typo and
it should use its own ID.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86: Support attribute((cold)) in gcc 4.3

2007-07-22T01:37:08+00:00

gcc 4.3 supports a new __attribute__((__cold__)) to mark functions cold. Any
path directly leading to a call of this function will be unlikely. And gcc
will try to generate smaller code for the function itself.

Please use with care. The code generation advantage isn't large and in most
cases it is not worth uglifying code with this.

This patch marks some common error functions like panic(), printk()
as cold.  This will longer term make many unlikely()s unnecessary, although
we can keep them for now for older compilers.

BUG is not marked cold because there is currently no way to tell
gcc to mark a inline function told.

Also all __init and __exit functions are marked cold. With a non -Os
build this will tell the compiler to generate slightly smaller code
for them. I think it currently only uses less alignments for labels,
but that might change in the future.

One disadvantage over *likely() is that they cannot be easily instrumented
to verify them.

Another drawback is that only the latest gcc 4.3 snapshots support this.
Unfortunately we cannot detect this using the preprocessor. This means older
snapshots will fail now. I don't think that's a problem because they are
unreleased compilers that nobody should be using.

gcc also has a __hot__ attribute, but I don't see any sense in using
this in the kernel right now. But someday I hope gcc will be able
to use more aggressive optimizing for hot functions even in -Os,
if that happens it should be added.

Includes compile fix from Thomas Gleixner.

Cc: Jan Hubicka 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove final two references to "__obsolete_setup" macro

2007-07-16T16:05:48+00:00

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kbuild: introduce __init_refok/__initdata_refok to supress section mismatch warnings

2007-05-19T07:11:58+00:00

Throughout the kernel there are a few legitimite references
to init or exit sections. Most of these are covered by the
patterns included in modpost but a few nees special attention.
To avoid hardcoding a lot of function names in modpost introduce
a marker so relevant function/data can be marked.
When modpost see a reference to a init/exit function from
a function/data marked no warning will be issued.

Idea from: Andrew Morton 

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Andrew Morton

Remove cpu hotplug defines for INIT & INITDATA

2007-05-15T15:54:00+00:00

After examining what was checked in and the code base I discovered that most
of 86c0baf123e474b6eb404798926ecf62b426bf3a wasn't necessary anymore....

So here's a patch that reverts the last part of that changeset:

Revert part of 86c0baf123e474b6eb404798926ecf62b426bf3a.

The kernel has moved forward to a state where the original change is not
necessary.  After porting forward, this final version of the patch was
applied and broke non-x86 architectures.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava 
Cc: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init/do_mounts.c: proper prepare_namespace() prototype

2007-05-08T18:15:00+00:00

Add a proper protype for prepare_namespace() in include/linux/init.h.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

remove software_suspend()

2007-05-07T19:12:59+00:00

Remove software_suspend() and all its users since
pm_suspend(PM_SUSPEND_DISK) should be equivalent and there's no point in
having two interfaces for the same thing.

The patch also changes the valid_state function to return 0 (false) for
PM_SUSPEND_DISK when SOFTWARE_SUSPEND is not configured instead of
accepting it and having the whole thing fail later.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Pavel Machek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] i386: Change sysenter_setup to cpuinit & improve INIT, __INITDATA

2007-05-02T17:27:05+00:00

Change sysenter_setup to __cpuinit.
Change __INIT & __INITDATA to be cpu hotplug aware.

Resolve MODPOST warnings similar to:

WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:sysenter_setup from
 .text between 'identify_cpu' (at offset 0xc040a380) and 'detect_ht'

and

WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:vsyscall_int80_end
from .text between 'sysenter_setup' (at offset 0xc041a269) and 'enable_sep_cpu'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to
.init.data:vsyscall_int80_start from .text between 'sysenter_setup' (at offset
0xc041a26e) and 'enable_sep_cpu'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to
.init.data:vsyscall_sysenter_end from .text between 'sysenter_setup' (at offset
0xc041a275) and 'enable_sep_cpu'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to
.init.data:vsyscall_sysenter_start from .text between 'sysenter_setup' (at
offset 0xc041a27a) and 'enable_sep_cpu'

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen

[PATCH] Dynamic kernel command-line: common

2007-02-12T17:48:37+00:00

Current implementation stores a static command-line buffer allocated to
COMMAND_LINE_SIZE size.  Most architectures stores two copies of this buffer,
one for future reference and one for parameter parsing.

Current kernel command-line size for most architecture is much too small for
module parameters, video settings, initramfs paramters and much more.  The
problem is that setting COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to a grater value, allocates static
buffers.

In order to allow a greater command-line size, these buffers should be
dynamically allocated or marked as init disposable buffers, so unused memory
can be released.

This patch renames the static saved_command_line variable into
boot_command_line adding __initdata attribute, so that it can be disposed
after initialization.  This rename is required so applications that use
saved_command_line will not be affected by this change.

It reintroduces saved_command_line as dynamically allocated buffer to match
the data in boot_command_line.

It also mark secondary command-line buffer as __initdata, and copies it to
dynamically allocated static_command_line buffer components may hold reference
to it after initialization.

This patch is for linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1 and is divided to target each
architecture.  I could not check this in any architecture so please forgive me
if I got it wrong.

The per-architecture modification is very simple, use boot_command_line in
place of saved_command_line.  The common code is the change into dynamic
command-line.

This patch:

1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line, mark as init
   disposable.

2. Add dynamic allocated saved_command_line.

3. Add dynamic allocated static_command_line.

4. During startup copy: boot_command_line into saved_command_line.  arch
   command_line into static_command_line.

5. Parse static_command_line and not arch command_line, so arch
   command_line may be freed.

Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Ian Molton 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Hirokazu Takata 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima 
Cc: Richard Curnow 
Cc: William Lee Irwin III 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Cc: Miles Bader 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Cc: Greg Ungerer 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds