1. 03 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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      powerpc: Fixup lwsync at runtime · 2d1b2027
      Kumar Gala 提交于
      To allow for a single kernel image on e500 v1/v2/mc we need to fixup lwsync
      at runtime.  On e500v1/v2 lwsync causes an illop so we need to patch up
      the code.  We default to 'sync' since that is always safe and if the cpu
      is capable we will replace 'sync' with 'lwsync'.
      
      We introduce CPU_FTR_LWSYNC as a way to determine at runtime if this is
      needed.  This flag could be moved elsewhere since we dont really use it
      for the normal CPU_FTR purpose.
      
      Finally we only store the relative offset in the fixup section to keep it
      as small as possible rather than using a full fixup_entry.
      Signed-off-by: NKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      2d1b2027
  2. 01 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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      powerpc: Introduce infrastructure for feature sections with alternatives · fac23fe4
      Michael Ellerman 提交于
      The current feature section logic only supports nop'ing out code, this means
      if you want to choose at runtime between instruction sequences, one or both
      cases will have to execute the nop'ed out contents of the other section, eg:
      
      BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
      	or	1,1,1
      END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(FOO)
      BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
      	or	2,2,2
      END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(FOO)
      
      and the resulting code will be either,
      
      	or	1,1,1
      	nop
      
      or,
      	nop
      	or	2,2,2
      
      For small code segments this is fine, but for larger code blocks and in
      performance criticial code segments, it would be nice to avoid the nops.
      This commit starts to implement logic to allow the following:
      
      BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
      	or	1,1,1
      FTR_SECTION_ELSE
      	or	2,2,2
      ALT_FTR_SECTION_END_IFSET(FOO)
      
      and the resulting code will be:
      
      	or	1,1,1
      or,
      	or	2,2,2
      
      We achieve this by extending the existing FTR macros. The current feature
      section semantic just becomes a special case, ie. if the else case is empty
      we nop out the default case.
      
      The key limitation is that the size of the else case must be less than or
      equal to the size of the default case. If the else case is smaller the
      remainder of the section is nop'ed.
      
      We let the linker put the else case code in with the rest of the text,
      so that relative branches from the else case are more likley to link,
      this has the disadvantage that we can't free the unused else cases.
      
      This commit introduces the required macro and linker script changes, but
      does not enable the patching of the alternative sections.
      
      We also need to update two hand-made section entries in reg.h and timex.h
      Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      fac23fe4
  3. 23 5月, 2008 1 次提交
  4. 17 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  5. 25 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [POWERPC] Support feature fixups in vdso's · 0909c8c2
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
      This patch reworks the feature fixup mecanism so vdso's can be fixed up.
      The main issue was that the construct:
      
              .long   label  (or .llong on 64 bits)
      
      will not work in the case of a shared library like the vdso. It will
      generate an empty placeholder in the fixup table along with a reloc,
      which is not something we can deal with in the vdso.
      
      The idea here (thanks Alan Modra !) is to instead use something like:
      
      1:
              .long   label - 1b
      
      That is, the feature fixup tables no longer contain addresses of bits of
      code to patch, but offsets of such code from the fixup table entry
      itself. That is properly resolved by ld when building the .so's. I've
      modified the fixup mecanism generically to use that method for the rest
      of the kernel as well.
      
      Another trick is that the 32 bits vDSO included in the 64 bits kernel
      need to have a table in the 64 bits format. However, gas does not
      support 32 bits code with a statement of the form:
      
              .llong  label - 1b  (Or even just .llong label)
      
      That is, it cannot emit the right fixup/relocation for the linker to use
      to assign a 32 bits address to an .llong field. Thus, in the specific
      case of the 32 bits vdso built as part of the 64 bits kernel, we are
      using a modified macro that generates:
      
              .long   0xffffffff
              .llong  label - 1b
      
      Note that is assumes that the value is negative which is enforced by
      the .lds (those offsets are always negative as the .text is always
      before the fixup table and gas doesn't support emiting the reloc the
      other way around).
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      0909c8c2
  6. 01 8月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] vDSO hash-style fix · 0b0bf7a3
      Roland McGrath 提交于
      The latest toolchains can produce a new ELF section in DSOs and
      dynamically-linked executables.  The new section ".gnu.hash" replaces
      ".hash", and allows for more efficient runtime symbol lookups by the
      dynamic linker.  The new ld option --hash-style={sysv|gnu|both} controls
      whether to produce the old ".hash", the new ".gnu.hash", or both.  In some
      new systems such as Fedora Core 6, gcc by default passes --hash-style=gnu
      to the linker, so that a standard invocation of "gcc -shared" results in
      producing a DSO with only ".gnu.hash".  The new ".gnu.hash" sections need
      to be dealt with the same way as ".hash" sections in all respects; only the
      dynamic linker cares about their contents.  To work with older dynamic
      linkers (i.e.  preexisting releases of glibc), a binary must have the old
      ".hash" section.  The --hash-style=both option produces binaries that a new
      dynamic linker can use more efficiently, but an old dynamic linker can
      still handle.
      
      The new section runs afoul of the custom linker scripts used to build vDSO
      images for the kernel.  On ia64, the failure mode for this is a boot-time
      panic because the vDSO's PT_IA_64_UNWIND segment winds up ill-formed.
      
      This patch addresses the problem in two ways.
      
      First, it mentions ".gnu.hash" in all the linker scripts alongside ".hash".
       This produces correct vDSO images with --hash-style=sysv (or old tools),
      with --hash-style=gnu, or with --hash-style=both.
      
      Second, it passes the --hash-style=sysv option when building the vDSO
      images, so that ".gnu.hash" is not actually produced.  This is the most
      conservative choice for compatibility with any old userland.  There is some
      concern that some ancient glibc builds (though not any known old production
      system) might choke on --hash-style=both binaries.  The optimizations
      provided by the new style of hash section do not really matter for a DSO
      with a tiny number of symbols, as the vDSO has.  If someone wants to use
      =gnu or =both for their vDSO builds and worry less about that
      compatibility, just change the option and the linker script changes will
      make any choice work fine.
      Signed-off-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      0b0bf7a3
  7. 11 11月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to 32 bits kernel · a7f290da
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
      This patch moves the vdso's to arch/powerpc, adds support for the 32
      bits vdso to the 32 bits kernel, rename systemcfg (finally !), and adds
      some new (still untested) routines to both vdso's: clock_gettime() with
      support for CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, clock_getres() (same
      clocks) and get_tbfreq() for glibc to retreive the timebase frequency.
      
      Tom,Steve: The implementation of get_tbfreq() I've done for 32 bits
      returns a long long (r3, r4) not a long. This is such that if we ever
      add support for >4Ghz timebases on ppc32, the userland interface won't
      have to change.
      
      I have tested gettimeofday() using some glibc patches in both ppc32 and
      ppc64 kernels using 32 bits userland (I haven't had a chance to test a
      64 bits userland yet, but the implementation didn't change and was
      tested earlier). I haven't tested yet the new functions.
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      a7f290da
  8. 01 5月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] ppc64: add PT_NOTE section to vDSO · 1b29f9d1
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
      This patch from Roland adds a PT_NOTE section to both 32 and 64 bits vDSOs
      to expose the kernel version to glibc, thus avoiding a uname syscall on
      every launch.  This is equivalent to the patches Roland posted already for
      x86 and x86-64.
      
      Note: the 64 bits .note is actually using the 32 bits format.  This is
      normal.  The ELF spec specifies a different format for 64 bits .note, but
      for some reason, this was never properly implemented, the core dumps for
      example are all using 32 bits format .note, and binutils cannot even read a
      64 bits format .note.  Talking to our toolchain folks, they think we'd
      rather stick to 32 bits format .note everywhere and get the spec fixed some
      day ...
      Signed-off-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      1b29f9d1
  9. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      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!
      1da177e4