Impact: debuggability and micro-optimization

Putting whatever is possible into the (final) .rodata section increases
the likelihood of catching memory corruption bugs early, and reduces
false cache line sharing.
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B90961.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1. add c_x86_vendor into cpu_dev
2. change cpu_devs to static
3. check c_x86_vendor before put that cpu_dev into array
4. remove alignment for 64bit
5. order the sequence in cpu_devs according to link sequence...
   so could put intel at first, then amd...
Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Before:
   total: 3 errors, 1 warnings, 23 lines checked
After:
   total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 25 lines checked

No code changed:

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/umc.o:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
     24	    616	      0	    640	    280	umc.o.before
     24	    616	      0	    640	    280	umc.o.after

md5:
   e8daa3eaed0963a0cdd2e83c2e1f9823  umc.o.before.asm
   e8daa3eaed0963a0cdd2e83c2e1f9823  umc.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Replace the hardcoded list of initialization functions for each CPU
vendor by a list in an ELF section, which is read at initialization in
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.c to fill the cpu_devs[] array. The ELF
section, named .x86cpuvendor.init, is reclaimed after boot, and
contains entries of type "struct cpu_vendor_dev" which associates a
vendor number with a pointer to a "struct cpu_dev" structure.

This first modification allows to remove all the VENDOR_init_cpu()
functions.

This patch also removes the hardcoded calls to early_init_amd() and
early_init_intel(). Instead, we add a "c_early_init" member to the
cpu_dev structure, which is then called if not NULL by the generic CPU
initialization code. Unfortunately, in early_cpu_detect(), this_cpu is
not yet set, so we have to use the cpu_devs[] array directly.

This patch is part of the Linux Tiny project, and is needed for
further patch that will allow to disable compilation of unused CPU
support code.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

In arch/i386/cpu/common.c there is:
cpu_devs[X86_VENDOR_INTEL]
cpu_devs[X86_VENDOR_CYRIX]
cpu_devs[X86_VENDOR_AMD]
...
They are all filled with data early.
The data (struct) got set to NULL  for all, but Intel in different
late_initcall (exit_cpu_vendor) calls.
I don't see what sense this makes at all, maybe something that got
forgotten with the HOTPLUG_CPU extenstions?

Please check/review whether initdata, cpuinitdata is still ok and this
still works with HOTPLUG_CPU and without, it should...
Signed-off-by: NThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: davej@redhat.com

Mark i386-specific cpu init functions as __cpuinit. They are all
only called from arch/i386/common.c:identify_cpu() that already is marked as
__cpuinit. This patch also removes the empty function init_umc().
Signed-off-by: NMagnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

The different cpu_dev structures are all used from __cpuinit callers what
I can tell. So mark them as __cpuinitdata instead of __initdata. I am a
little bit unsure about arch/i386/common.c:default_cpu, especially when it
comes to the purpose of this_cpu.
Signed-off-by: NMagnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

i386 CPU init code accesses freed init memory when booting a newly-started
processor after CPU hotplug.  The cpu_devs array is searched to find the
vendor and it contains pointers to freed data.

Fix that by:

        1. Zeroing entries for freed vendor data after bootup.
        2. Changing Transmeta, NSC and UMC to all __init[data].
        3. Printing a warning (once only) and setting this_cpu
           to a safe default when the vendor is not found.

This does not change behavior for AMD systems.  They were broken already
but no error was reported.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!