1. 11 10月, 2012 1 次提交
  2. 19 7月, 2012 1 次提交
  3. 07 5月, 2012 1 次提交
  4. 05 5月, 2012 1 次提交
  5. 21 2月, 2012 1 次提交
  6. 20 5月, 2011 1 次提交
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      extable, core_kernel_data(): Make sure all archs define _sdata · a2d063ac
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      A new utility function (core_kernel_data()) is used to determine if a
      passed in address is part of core kernel data or not. It may or may not
      return true for RO data, but this utility must work for RW data.
      
      Thus both _sdata and _edata must be defined and continuous,
      without .init sections that may later be freed and replaced by
      volatile memory (memory that can be freed).
      
      This utility function is used to determine if data is safe from
      ever being freed. Thus it should return true for all RW global
      data that is not in a module or has been allocated, or false
      otherwise.
      
      Also change core_kernel_data() back to the more precise _sdata condition
      and document the function.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Acked-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Acked-by: NHirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
      Cc: JamesE.J.Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305855298.1465.19.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      ----
       arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S   |    1 +
       arch/m32r/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S    |    1 +
       arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-std.lds  |    2 ++
       arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-sun3.lds |    1 +
       arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S    |    1 +
       arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S  |    3 +++
       kernel/extable.c                  |   12 +++++++++++-
       7 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
      a2d063ac
  7. 19 5月, 2011 1 次提交
  8. 11 5月, 2011 1 次提交
  9. 25 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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      percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE · 0415b00d
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      Percpu allocator honors alignment request upto PAGE_SIZE and both the
      percpu addresses in the percpu address space and the translated kernel
      addresses should be aligned accordingly.  The calculation of the
      former depends on the alignment of percpu output section in the kernel
      image.
      
      The linker script macros PERCPU_VADDR() and PERCPU() are used to
      define this output section and the latter takes @align parameter.
      Several architectures are using @align smaller than PAGE_SIZE breaking
      percpu memory alignment.
      
      This patch removes @align parameter from PERCPU(), renames it to
      PERCPU_SECTION() and makes it always align to PAGE_SIZE.  While at it,
      add PCPU_SETUP_BUG_ON() checks such that alignment problems are
      reliably detected and remove percpu alignment comment recently added
      in workqueue.c as the condition would trigger BUG way before reaching
      there.
      
      For um, this patch raises the alignment of percpu area.  As the area
      is in .init, there shouldn't be any noticeable difference.
      
      This problem was discovered by David Howells while debugging boot
      failure on mn10300.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
      Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
      0415b00d
  10. 25 1月, 2011 1 次提交
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      percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline · 19df0c2f
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      Currently percpu readmostly subsection may share cachelines with other
      percpu subsections which may result in unnecessary cacheline bounce
      and performance degradation.
      
      This patch adds @cacheline parameter to PERCPU() and PERCPU_VADDR()
      linker macros, makes each arch linker scripts specify its cacheline
      size and use it to align percpu subsections.
      
      This is based on Shaohua's x86 only patch.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
      19df0c2f
  11. 19 1月, 2011 1 次提交
  12. 17 12月, 2009 1 次提交
  13. 26 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  14. 20 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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      arm, cris, mips, sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0 · 51b563fc
      Sam Ravnborg 提交于
      Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> reported:
      
          Bash 4 filters out variables which contain a dot in them.
          This happends to be the case of CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds.
          This is rather unfortunate, as it now causes
          build failures when using SHELL=/bin/bash to compile,
          or when bash happens to be used by make (eg when it's /bin/sh)
      
      Remove the common definition of CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds by
      pushing relevant stuff to either Makefile.build or the
      arch specific kernel/Makefile where we build the linker script.
      
      This is also nice cleanup as we move the information out where
      it is used.
      
      Notes for the different architectures touched:
      
      arm - we use an already exported symbol
      cris - we use a config symbol aleady available
             [Not build tested]
      mips - the jiffies complexity has moved to vmlinux.lds.S where we need it.
             Added a few variables to CPPFLAGS - they are only used by
             the linker script.
             [Not build tested]
      powerpc - removed assignment that is not needed
                [not build tested]
      sparc - simplified it using $(BITS)
      um - introduced a few new exported variables to deal with this
      xtensa - added options to CPP invocation
               [not build tested]
      
      Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
      Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      51b563fc
  15. 18 9月, 2009 2 次提交
  16. 09 7月, 2009 1 次提交
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      linker script: unify usage of discard definition · 023bf6f1
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      Discarded sections in different archs share some commonality but have
      considerable differences.  This led to linker script for each arch
      implementing its own /DISCARD/ definition, which makes maintaining
      tedious and adding new entries error-prone.
      
      This patch makes all linker scripts to move discard definitions to the
      end of the linker script and use the common DISCARDS macro.  As ld
      uses the first matching section definition, archs can include default
      discarded sections by including them earlier in the linker script.
      
      ia64 is notable because it first throws away some ia64 specific
      subsections and then include the rest of the sections into the final
      image, so those sections must be discarded before the inclusion.
      
      defconfig compile tested for x86, x86-64, powerpc, powerpc64, ia64,
      alpha, sparc, sparc64 and s390.  Michal Simek tested microblaze.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Acked-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
      Tested-by: NMichal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
      Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
      Cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
      Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      023bf6f1
  17. 24 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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      linker script: throw away .discard section · 405d967d
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do.  Also,
      .discard is not thrown away while linking modules.  Make every arch
      and module linking throw it away.  This will be used to define dummy
      variables for percpu declarations and definitions.
      
      This patch is based on Ivan Kokshaysky's alpha percpu patch.
      
      [ Impact: always throw away everything in .discard ]
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
      Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
      Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
      Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      405d967d
  18. 15 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  19. 21 9月, 2008 1 次提交
  20. 29 1月, 2008 1 次提交
  21. 30 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  22. 17 10月, 2007 3 次提交
  23. 12 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  24. 01 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  25. 27 8月, 2007 1 次提交
  26. 20 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      define new percpu interface for shared data · 5fb7dc37
      Fenghua Yu 提交于
      per cpu data section contains two types of data.  One set which is
      exclusively accessed by the local cpu and the other set which is per cpu,
      but also shared by remote cpus.  In the current kernel, these two sets are
      not clearely separated out.  This can potentially cause the same data
      cacheline shared between the two sets of data, which will result in
      unnecessary bouncing of the cacheline between cpus.
      
      One way to fix the problem is to cacheline align the remotely accessed per
      cpu data, both at the beginning and at the end.  Because of the padding at
      both ends, this will likely cause some memory wastage and also the
      interface to achieve this is not clean.
      
      This patch:
      
      Moves the remotely accessed per cpu data (which is currently marked
      as ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp) into a different section, where all the data
      elements are cacheline aligned. And as such, this differentiates the local
      only data and remotely accessed data cleanly.
      Signed-off-by: NFenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
      Acked-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5fb7dc37
  27. 19 5月, 2007 2 次提交
  28. 03 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  29. 12 2月, 2007 1 次提交
  30. 12 12月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [MIPS] Discard .exit.text and .exit.data at runtime. · 2efac77e
      Ralf Baechle 提交于
      While the recent cset 86384d54 did improve
      things it didn't resolve all the problems.  So bite the bullet and discard
      .exit.text and .exit.data at runtime.  Which of course sucks because it
      bloats binaries with code that will never ever be used but it's the only
      thing that will work reliable as demonstrated by the function sd_major() in
      drivers/scsi/sd.c.
      
      Gcc may compile sd_major() using a jump table which it will put into
      .rodata.  If it also inlines sd_major's function body into exit_sd() which
      gcc > 3.4.x does.  If CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD has been set to y we would like ld
      to discard exit_sd's code at link time.  However sd_major happens to
      contain a switch statement which gcc will compile using a jump table in
      .rodata on the architectures I checked.  So, when ld later discards
      .exit.text only the jump table in .rodata with its stale references to
      the discard .exit.text will be left which any no antique ld will honor
      with a link error.
      Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      2efac77e
  31. 11 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  32. 02 11月, 2006 1 次提交
  33. 28 10月, 2006 1 次提交
  34. 01 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  35. 01 6月, 2006 2 次提交