- 26 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Recently, some distros have started shipping versions of gcc which default to -march=i686. This breaks building kernels for pre-i686 machines, even if they have been selected in Kconfig, due to the generation of CMOV instructions. There isn't enough benefit to try to preserve the generation of these instructions even when selected, so simply force -march=i386 for the decompressor when building a 32-bit kernel. Reported-and-tested-by: NChris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> LKML-Reference: <219280.97558.qm@web52907.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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- 15 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
This adds a new category of symbols to the relocs program: symbols which are known to be relative, even though the linker emits them as absolute; this is the case for symbols that live in the linker script, which currently applies to _end. Unfortunately the previous workaround of putting _end in its own empty section was defeated by newer binutils, which remove empty sections completely. This patch also changes the symbol matching to use regular expressions instead of hardcoded C for specific patterns. This is a decidedly non-minimal patch: a modified version of the relocs program is used as part of the Syslinux build, and this is basically a backport to Linux of some of those changes; they have thus been well tested. Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> LKML-Reference: <4AF86211.3070103@zytor.com> Acked-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Tested-by: NSedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
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- 12 12月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Sam Ravnborg 提交于
Fix up all users of utsrelease.h Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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由 Sam Ravnborg 提交于
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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- 19 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Jan Beulich 提交于
Rather than having X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES and X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT (with inconsistent defaults), just having the latter suffices as the former can be easily calculated from it. To be consistent, also change X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES to X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT, and set it to 7 (128 bytes) for NUMA to account for last level cache line size (which here matters more than L1 cache line size). Finally, make sure the default value for X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT, when X86_GENERIC is selected, is being seen before that for the individual CPU model options (other than on x86-64, where GENERIC_CPU is part of the choice construct, X86_GENERIC is a separate option on ix86). Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: NRavikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Acked-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> LKML-Reference: <4AFD5710020000780001F8F0@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 14 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Matthew Garrett 提交于
Add a field to store the boot cursor state and implement this for VGA on x86. This can then be used to set the default policy for the boot console. Signed-off-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1258142222-16092-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 24 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Alexander Potashev 提交于
A single 'movl' is shorter than the 'xorl'-'orl' pair. No change in behaviour. Signed-off-by: NAlexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1256341043-4928-1-git-send-email-aspotashev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 16 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Older binutils breaks if ASSERT() is used without a sink for the output. For example 2.14.90.0.6 is known to be broken, the link fails with: LD .tmp_vmlinux1 ld:arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds:678: parse error Document this quirk in all three files that use it. See: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=124930110427870&w=2 See[2]: d2ba8b21 ("x86: Fix assert syntax in vmlinux.lds.S") Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> LKML-Reference: <4AD6523D.5030909@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 20 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Sam Ravnborg 提交于
Replace the use of CROSS_COMPILE to select a customized installkernel script with the possibility to set INSTALLKERNEL to select a custom installkernel script when running make: make INSTALLKERNEL=arm-installkernel install With this patch we are now more consistent across different architectures - they did not all support use of CROSS_COMPILE. The use of CROSS_COMPILE was a hack as this really belongs to gcc/binutils and the installkernel script does not change just because we change toolchain. The use of CROSS_COMPILE caused troubles with an upcoming patch that saves CROSS_COMPILE when a kernel is built - it would no longer be installable. [Thanks to Peter Z. for this hint] This patch undos what Ian did in commit: 0f8e2d62 ("use ${CROSS_COMPILE}installkernel in arch/*/boot/install.sh") The patch has been lightly tested on x86 only - but all changes looks obvious. Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [blackfin] Acked-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> [arm] Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> [sh] Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> [x86] Cc: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [ia64] Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> [ia64] Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> [m32r] Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k] Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> [parisc] Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [powerpc] Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390] Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [x86] Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> [x86] Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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- 19 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Tim Abbott 提交于
This has the consequence of changing the section name use for head code from ".text.head" to ".head.text". Linus suggested that we merge the ".text.head" section with ".text" (presumably while preserving the fact that the head code starts at 0). When I tried this it caused the kernel to not boot. Signed-off-by: NTim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 21 8月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Jan Beulich 提交于
The absence of vmlinux.lds here keeps .vmlinux.lds.cmd from being included, which in turn leads to it and all its dependents always getting rebuilt independent of whether they are already up-to-date. Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> LKML-Reference: <4A8D84670200007800010D31@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 05 7月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Akinobu Mita 提交于
Some intcall() misuses the input biosregs as output in cf06de7b This fixes the problem vga=ask boot option doesn't show enough modes. Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090701021307.GA3127@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 27 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
There were a set of pre-Kconfig configuration variables defined in the video code. There is absolutely no evidence that they have been tweaked by anybody in modern history, so just get rid of them and hope nobody notices. If someone does complain, these should be made real Kconfig variables. Reported-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 19 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Peter Oberparleiter 提交于
Enable gcov profiling of the entire kernel on x86_64. Required changes include disabling profiling for: * arch/kernel/acpi/realmode and arch/kernel/boot/compressed: not linked to main kernel * arch/vdso, arch/kernel/vsyscall_64 and arch/kernel/hpet: profiling causes segfaults during boot (incompatible context) Signed-off-by: NPeter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 17 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Use .code16gcc to compile arch/x86/boot/bioscall.S rather than .code16, since some older versions of binutils can't generate 32-bit addressing expressions (67 prefixes) in .code16 mode, only in .code16gcc mode. Reported-by: NTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 03 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Mike Galbraith 提交于
git status complains of untracked (generated) files in arch/x86/boot.. # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # ../../arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy # ../../arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S # ../../arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds # ../../arch/x86/boot/voffset.h # ../../arch/x86/boot/zoffset.h ..so adjust .gitignore files accordingly. Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 26 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
For relocatable 32bit kernels, boot/compressed/relocs.c processes relocation entries in the kernel image and appends it to the kernel image such that boot/compressed/head_32.S can relocate the kernel. The kernel image is one statically linked object and only uses two relocation types - R_386_PC32 and R_386_32, of the two only the latter needs massaging during kernel relocation and thus handled by relocs. R_386_PC32 is ignored and all other relocation types are considered error. When the target of a relocation resides in a discarded section, binutils doesn't throw away the relocation record but nullifies it by changing it to R_386_NONE, which unfortunately makes relocs fail. The problem was triggered by yet out-of-tree x86 stack unwind patches but given the binutils behavior, ignoring R_386_NONE is the right thing to do. The problem has been tracked down to binutils behavior by Jan Beulich. [ Impact: fix build with certain binutils by ignoring R_386_NONE ] Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <4A1B8150.40702@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 23 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Remove ACPI 3 E820 extended memory attributes support. At least one vendor actively set all the flags to zero, but left ECX on return at 24. This bug may be present in other BIOSes. The breakage functionally means the ACPI 3 flags are probably completely useless, and that no OS any time soon is going to rely on their existence. Therefore, drop support completely. We may want to revisit this question in the future, if we find ourselves actually needing the flags. This reverts all or part of the following checkins: cd670599 c549e71d However, retain the part from the latter commit that copies e820 into a temporary buffer; that is an unrelated BIOS workaround. Put in a comment to explain that part. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499396 for some additional information. [ Impact: detect all memory on affected machines ] Reported-by: NThomas J. Baker <tjb@unh.edu> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin@redhat.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <matt_domsch@dell.com>
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- 21 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE (the amount of memory we need during decompression). One symbol (ZO_startup_32) was missing from zoffset.h, and another (ZO_z_extract_offset) was misspelled. [ Impact: build fix ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 13 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c contains several sanity checks on the output address. Correct constraints that are no longer correct: - the alignment test should be MIN_KERNEL_ALIGN on both 32 and 64 bits. - the 64 bit maximum address was set to 2^40, which was the limit of one specific x86-64 implementation. Change the test to 2^46, the current Linux limit, and at least try to test the end rather than the beginning. - for non-relocatable kernels, test against LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on both 32 and 64 bits. [ Impact: fix potential boot failure due to invalid tests ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 12 5月, 2009 5 次提交
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
A long ago, in days of yore, it all began with a god named Thor. There were vikings and boats and some plans for a Linux kernel header. Unfortunately, a single 8-bit field was used for bootloader type and version. This has generally worked without *too* much pain, but we're getting close to flat running out of ID fields. Add extension fields for both type and version. The type will be extended if it the old field is 0xE; the version is a simple MSB extension. Keep /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type containing (type << 4) + (ver & 0xf) for backwards compatiblity, but also add /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_version which contains the full version number. [ Impact: new feature to support more bootloaders ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Make the kernel_alignment field adjustable; this allows us to set it to a large value (intended to be 16 MB to avoid ZONE_DMA contention, memory holes and other weirdness) while a smart bootloader can still force a loading at a lesser alignment if absolutely necessary. Also export pref_address (preferred loading address, corresponding to the link-time address) and init_size, the total amount of linear memory the kernel will require during initialization. [ Impact: allows better kernel placement, gives bootloader more info ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Remove a couple of lines of dead code from arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_*.S; all of these update registers that are dead in the current code. [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Use LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR instead of CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START in the 64-bit decompression code, for equivalence with the 32-bit code. [ Impact: cleanup, increases code similarity ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Make symbols from the main vmlinux, as opposed to just compressed/vmlinux, available to header.S. Also, export a few additional symbols. This will be used in a subsequent patch to export the total memory footprint of the kernel. [ Impact: enable future enhancement ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 09 5月, 2009 11 次提交
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Determine the compressed code offset (from the kernel runtime address) at compile time. This allows some minor optimizations in arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_*.S, but more importantly it makes this value available to the build process, which will enable a future patch to export the necessary linear memory footprint into the bzImage header. [ Impact: cleanup, future patch enabling ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
In the pre-decompression code, use the appropriate largest possible rep movs and rep stos to move code and clear bss, respectively. For reverse copy, do note that the initial values are supposed to be the address of the first (highest) copy datum, not one byte beyond the end of the buffer. rep strings are not necessarily the fastest way to perform these operations on all current processors, but are likely to be in the future, and perhaps more importantly, we want to encourage the architecturally right thing to do here. This also fixes a couple of trivial inefficiencies on 64 bits. [ Impact: trivial performance enhancement, increase code similarity ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
The 64-bit code already clears EFLAGS as soon as it has a stack. This seems like a reasonable precaution, so do it on 32 bits as well. [ Impact: extra paranoia ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Set up the decompression stack as soon as we know where it needs to go. That way we have a full-service stack as soon as possible, rather than relying on the BP_scratch field. Note that the stack does need to be empty during bss zeroing (or else the stack needs to be moved out of the bss segment, which is also an option.) [ Impact: cleanup, minor paranoia ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Both on 32 and 64 bits, we copy all the way up to the end of bss, except that on 64 bits there is a hack to avoid copying on top of the page tables. There is no point in copying bss at all, especially since we are just about to zero it all anyway. To clean up and unify the handling, we now do: - copy from startup_32 to _bss. - zero from _bss to _ebss. - the _ebss symbol is aligned to an 8-byte boundary. - the page tables are moved to a separate section. Use _bss as the copy endpoint since _edata may be misaligned. [ Impact: cleanup, trivial performance improvement ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Clean up style issues in arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S. This file had a lot fewer style issues than its 32-bit cousin, but the ones it has are worth fixing, especially since it makes the two files more similar. [ Impact: cleanup, no object code change ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Reformat arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S to be closer to currently preferred kernel assembly style, that is: - opcode and operand separated by tab - operands separated by ", " - C-style comments This also makes it more similar to head_64.S. [ Impact: cleanup, no object code change ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Use the BP_scratch symbol from asm-offsets.h instead of hard-coding the location. [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
When generating the compression suffix in arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile, follow standard Kbuild conventions, that is: - Use a dash not underscore before y/m/n endings - Use := whenever possible. Requested-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Simplify the arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile, by using the new capability of specifying multiple inputs to a compressor, and the CONFIG_X86_NEED_RELOCS Kconfig symbol. Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Aligning the .bss section makes it trivial to use large operation sizes for moving the initialized sections and clearing the .bss. The alignment chosen (L1 cache) is somewhat arbitrary, but should be large enough to avoid all known performance traps and small enough to not cause troubles. [ Impact: trivial performance enhancement, future patch prep ] Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 30 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Sam Ravnborg 提交于
Jesper reported that he saw following build issue: > ld:arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds:9: syntax error > make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 1 > make[1]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2 > make: *** [bzImage] Error 2 CPP defines the symbol "i386" to "1". Undefine this to fix it. [ Impact: build fix with certain tool chains ] Reported-by: NJesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904260958190.3101@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 27 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Look at the: diff -u arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_*.lds output and realize that they're basially exactly the same except for trivial naming differences, and the fact that the 64-bit version has a "pgtable" thing. So unify them. There's some trivial cleanup there (make the output format a Kconfig thing rather than doing #ifdef's for it, and unify both 32-bit and 64-bit BSS end to "_ebss", where 32-bit used to use the traditional "_end"), but other than that it's really very mindless and straigt conversion. For example, I think we should aim to remove "startup_32" vs "startup_64", and just call it "startup", and get rid of one more difference. I didn't do that. Also, notice the comment in the unified vmlinux.lds.S talks about "head_64" and "startup_32" which is an odd and incorrect mix, but that was actually what the old 64-bit only lds file had, so the confusion isn't new, and now that mixing is arguably more accurate thanks to the vmlinux.lds.S file being shared between the two cases ;) [ Impact: cleanup, unification ] Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 12 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Impact: Comment change only The glove box is about avoiding problems with *registers* being touched, not *memory*. Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 10 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Impact: BIOS proofing "Glove box" off BIOS interrupts in the video code. LKML-Reference: <49DE7F79.4030106@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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