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* ARM: 8168/1: extend __init_end to a page align addressYalin Wang2014-10-021-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch changes the __init_end address to a page align address, so that free_initmem() can free the whole .init section, because if the end address is not page aligned, it will round down to a page align address, then the tail unligned page will not be freed. Signed-off-by: wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* Merge 3.16-rc5 into char-misc-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman2014-07-131-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | This resolves a number of merge issues with changes in this tree and Linus's tree at the same time. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| * core: fix typo in percpu read_mostly sectionZhengyu He2014-07-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes a typo that named the read_mostly section of percpu as readmostly. It works fine with SMP because the linker script specifies .data..percpu..readmostly. However, UP kernel builds don't have percpu sections defined and the non-percpu version of the section is called data..read_mostly, so .data..readmostly will float around and may break things unexpectedly. Looking at the original change that introduced data..percpu..readmostly (commit c957ef2c59e952803766ddc22e89981ab534606f), it looks like this was the original intention. Tested: Built UP kernel and confirmed the sections got merged. - Before the patch: $ objdump -h vmlinux.o | grep '\.data\.\.read.*mostly' 38 .data..read_mostly 00004418 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00431ac0 2**6 50 .data..readmostly 00000014 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00444000 2**3 - After the patch: $ objdump -h vmlinux.o | grep '\.data\.\.read.*mostly' 38 .data..read_mostly 00004438 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00431ac0 2**6 Signed-off-by: Zhengyu He <hzy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
* | PCI: Add pci_fixup_suspend_late quirk passAndreas Noever2014-06-191-0/+3
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add pci_fixup_suspend_late as a new pci_fixup_pass. The pass is called from suspend_noirq and poweroff_noirq. Using the same pass for suspend and hibernate is consistent with resume_early which is called by resume_noirq and restore_noirq. The new quirk pass is required for Thunderbolt support on Apple hardware. Signed-off-by: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-06-121-0/+10
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull more perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "A second round of perf updates: - wide reaching kprobes sanitization and robustization, with the hope of fixing all 'probe this function crashes the kernel' bugs, by Masami Hiramatsu. - uprobes updates from Oleg Nesterov: tmpfs support, corner case fixes and robustization work. - perf tooling updates and fixes from Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Ki, Arnaldo et al: * Add support to accumulate hist periods (Namhyung Kim) * various fixes, refactorings and enhancements" * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits) perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events perf: Fix perf_event_comm() vs. exec() assumption uprobes/x86: Rename arch_uprobe->def to ->defparam, minor comment updates perf/documentation: Add description for conditional branch filter perf/x86: Add conditional branch filtering support perf/tool: Add conditional branch filter 'cond' to perf record perf: Add new conditional branch filter 'PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND' uprobes: Teach copy_insn() to support tmpfs uprobes: Shift ->readpage check from __copy_insn() to uprobe_register() perf/x86: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code perf/ARM: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code perf: Disable sampled events if no PMU interrupt perf: Fix use after free in perf_remove_from_context() perf tools: Fix 'make help' message error perf record: Fix poll return value propagation perf tools: Move elide bool into perf_hpp_fmt struct perf tools: Remove elide setup for SORT_MODE__MEMORY mode perf tools: Fix "==" into "=" in ui_browser__warning assignment perf tools: Allow overriding sysfs and proc finding with env var perf tools: Consider header files outside perf directory in tags target ...
| * kprobes: Ensure blacklist data is alignedVineet Gupta2014-05-071-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ARC Linux (not supporting native unaligned access) was failing to boot because __start_kprobe_blacklist was not aligned. This was because per generated vmlinux.lds it was emitted right next to .rodata with strings etc hence could be randomly unaligned. Fix that by ensuring a word alignment. While 4 would suffice for 32bit arches and problem at hand, it is probably better to put 8. | Path: (null) CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted | 3.15.0-rc3-next-20140430 #2 | task: 8f044000 ti: 8f01e000 task.ti: 8f01e000 | | [ECR ]: 0x00230400 => Misaligned r/w from 0x800fb0d3 | [EFA ]: 0x800fb0d3 | [BLINK ]: do_one_initcall+0x86/0x1bc | [ERET ]: init_kprobes+0x52/0x120 Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: <dl9pf@gmx.de> Cc: <sparse@chrisli.org> Cc: <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: <akataria@vmware.com> Cc: anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5361DB14.7010406@synopsys.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * kprobes: Introduce NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() macro to maintain kprobes blacklistMasami Hiramatsu2014-04-241-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() macro which builds a kprobes blacklist at kernel build time. The usage of this macro is similar to EXPORT_SYMBOL(), placed after the function definition: NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(function); Since this macro will inhibit inlining of static/inline functions, this patch also introduces a nokprobe_inline macro for static/inline functions. In this case, we must use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() for the inline function caller. When CONFIG_KPROBES=y, the macro stores the given function address in the "_kprobe_blacklist" section. Since the data structures are not fully initialized by the macro (because there is no "size" information), those are re-initialized at boot time by using kallsyms. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140417081705.26341.96719.stgit@ltc230.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jan-Simon Möller <dl9pf@gmx.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | serial: earlycon: add DT supportRob Herring2014-05-201-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds the infrastructure to generic earlycon for earlycon setup using DT. The actual setup is not enabled until a following commit to add the FDT parsing. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
* | vmlinuz.lds: define OF table sections with macrosRob Herring2014-05-201-44/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | OF table sections all have the same pattern, so create a macro to define them and insure consistency. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
* | ARM: align cpu_method_of_table namingRob Herring2014-05-201-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The cpu_method_of_table is the oddball of the various OF linker sections. In preparation to have common linker section definitions, align the cpu_method_of_table with the other definitions for the naming and ending with a blank struct. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
* | irqchip: align irqchip OF match table section namingRob Herring2014-05-201-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | | Make the irqchip OF match table section naming aligned with other OF match table sections in preparation to have a common definition. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
* Merge tag 'soc-3.15' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-04-051-0/+10
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc Pull ARM SoC specific changes from Arnd Bergmann: "Lots of changes specific to one of the SoC families. Some that stick out are: - mach-qcom gains new features, most importantly SMP support for the newer chips (Stephen Boyd, Rohit Vaswani) - mvebu gains support for three new SoCs: Armada 375, 380 and 385 (Thomas Petazzoni and Free-electrons team) - SMP support for Rockchips (Heiko Stübner) - Lots of i.MX changes (Shawn Guo) - Added support for BCM5301x SoC (Hauke Mehrtens) - Multiplatform support for Marvell Kirkwood and Dove (Andrew Lunn and Sebastian Hesselbarth doing the final part of a long journey) - Unify davinci platforms and remove obsolete ones (Sekhar Nori, Arnd Bergmann)" * tag 'soc-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (126 commits) ARM: sunxi: Select HAVE_ARM_ARCH_TIMER ARM: cache-tauros2: remove ARMv6 code ARM: mvebu: don't select CONFIG_NEON ARM: davinci: fix DT booting with default defconfig ARM: configs: bcm_defconfig: enable bcm590xx regulator support ARM: davinci: remove tnetv107x support MAINTAINERS: Update ARM STi maintainers ARM: restrict BCM_KONA_UART to ARCH_BCM_MOBILE ARM: bcm21664: Add board support. ARM: sunxi: Add the new watchog compatibles to the reboot code ARM: enable ARM_HAS_SG_CHAIN for multiplatform ARM: davinci: remove da8xx_omapl_defconfig ARM: davinci: da8xx: fix multiple watchdog device registration ARM: davinci: add da8xx specific configs to davinci_all_defconfig ARM: davinci: enable da8xx build concurrently with older devices ARM: BCM5301X: workaround suppress fault ARM: BCM5301X: add early debugging support ARM: BCM5301X: initial support for the BCM5301X/BCM470X SoCs with ARM CPU ARM: mach-bcm: Remove GENERIC_TIME ARM: shmobile: APMU: Fix warnings due to improper printk formats ...
| * ARM: Introduce CPU_METHOD_OF_DECLARE() for cpu hotplug/smpStephen Boyd2014-02-111-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The goal of multi-platform kernels is to remove the need for mach directories and machine descriptors. To further that goal, introduce CPU_METHOD_OF_DECLARE() to allow cpu hotplug/smp support to be separated from the machine descriptors. Implementers should specify an enable-method property in their cpus node and then implement a matching set of smp_ops in their hotplug/smp code, wiring it up with the CPU_METHOD_OF_DECLARE() macro. When the kernel is compiled we'll collect all the enable-method smp_ops into one section for use at boot. At boot time we'll look for an enable-method in each cpu node and try to match that against all known CPU enable methods in the kernel. If there are no enable-methods in the cpu nodes we fallback to the cpus node and try to use any enable-method found there. If that doesn't work we fall back to the old way of using the machine descriptor. Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: <devicetree@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
* | drivers: of: add support for custom reserved memory driversMarek Szyprowski2014-03-111-0/+11
|/ | | | | | | | | | | Add support for custom reserved memory drivers. Call their init() function for each reserved region and prepare for using operations provided by them with by the reserved_mem->ops array. Based on previous code provided by Josh Cartwright <joshc@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
* kernel: add support for init_array constructorsFrantisek Hrbata2013-10-171-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds the .init_array section as yet another section with constructors. This is needed because gcc could add __gcov_init calls to .init_array or .ctors section, depending on gcc (and binutils) version . v2: - reuse mod->ctors for .init_array section for modules, because gcc uses .ctors or .init_array, but not both at the same time v3: - fail to load if that does happen somehow. Signed-off-by: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* tracing: Add __tracepoint_string() to export string pointersSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)2013-07-261-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are several tracepoints (mostly in RCU), that reference a string pointer and uses the print format of "%s" to display the string that exists in the kernel, instead of copying the actual string to the ring buffer (saves time and ring buffer space). But this has an issue with userspace tools that read the binary buffers that has the address of the string but has no access to what the string itself is. The end result is just output that looks like: rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeaa 1 0 rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000 rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000 rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184333b rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184333b The above is pretty useless when read by the userspace tools. Ideally we would want something that looks like this: rcu_dyntick: Start 1 0 rcu_dyntick: End 0 140000000000000 rcu_dyntick: Start 140000000000000 0 rcu_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880037aff710 func=put_cred_rcu 0/4 rcu_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880078961980 func=file_free_rcu 0/5 rcu_dyntick: End 0 1 The trace_printk() which also only stores the address of the string format instead of recording the string into the buffer itself, exports the mapping of kernel addresses to format strings via the printk_format file in the debugfs tracing directory. The tracepoint strings can use this same method and output the format to the same file and the userspace tools will be able to decipher the address without any modification. The tracepoint strings need its own section to save the strings because the trace_printk section will cause the trace_printk() buffers to be allocated if anything exists within the section. trace_printk() is only used for debugging and should never exist in the kernel, we can not use the trace_printk sections. Add a new tracepoint_str section that will also be examined by the output of the printk_format file. Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* Merge branch 'cpuinit-delete' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-07-071-12/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux Pull first stage of __cpuinit removal from Paul Gortmaker: "The two commits here 1) dummy out all the __cpuinit macros so that we no longer generate such sections, and then 2) remove all the section processing that we used to do for those sections. This makes all the __cpuinit and friends no-ops, so that we can remove the use cases of it at our leisure. Expect stage 2, which does the tree wide removal sweep at the end of the merge window." * 'cpuinit-delete' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: modpost: remove all traces of cpuinit/cpuexit sections init.h: remove __cpuinit sections from the kernel
| * modpost: remove all traces of cpuinit/cpuexit sectionsPaul Gortmaker2013-06-261-12/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Delete all audit rules that were checking how the .cpuXYZ related sections were inter-operating with other __init like sections, now that __cpuinit is gone. Update the linker script to not have any knowledge of .cpuinit sections. [lds.h update courtesy of Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>] Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* | rapidio: convert switch drivers to modulesAlexandre Bounine2013-07-031-7/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rework RapidIO switch drivers to add an option to build them as loadable kernel modules. This patch removes RapidIO-specific vmlinux section and converts switch drivers to be compatible with LDM driver registration method. To simplify registration of device-specific callback routines this patch introduces rio_switch_ops data structure. The sw_sysfs() callback is removed from the list of device-specific operations because under the new structure its functions can be handled by switch driver's probe() and remove() routines. If a specific switch device driver is not loaded the RapidIO subsystem core will use default standard-based operations to configure a switch. Because the current implementation of RapidIO enumeration/discovery method relies on availability of device-specific operations for error management, switch device drivers must be loaded before the RapidIO enumeration/discovery starts. This patch also moves several common routines from enumeration/discovery module into the RapidIO core code to make switch-specific operations accessible to all components of RapidIO subsystem. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Andre van Herk <andre.van.herk@Prodrive.nl> Cc: Micha Nelissen <micha.nelissen@Prodrive.nl> Cc: Stef van Os <stef.van.os@Prodrive.nl> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUGStephen Rothwell2013-06-031-20/+0
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ever since commit 45f035ab9b8f ("CONFIG_HOTPLUG should be always on"), it has been basically impossible to build a kernel with CONFIG_HOTPLUG turned off. Remove all the remaining references to it. Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX: cleanup.Rusty Russell2013-03-151-7/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX, which three archs define to the string "_". But Al Viro broke this in "consolidate cond_syscall and SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations" (in linux-next), and he's not the first to do so. Using CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is awkward, since we usually just want to prefix it so something. So various places define helpers which are defined to nothing if CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX isn't set: 1) include/asm-generic/unistd.h defines __SYMBOL_PREFIX. 2) include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h defines VMLINUX_SYMBOL(sym) 3) include/linux/export.h defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX. 4) include/linux/kernel.h defines SYMBOL_PREFIX (which differs from #7) 5) kernel/modsign_certificate.S defines ASM_SYMBOL(sym) 6) scripts/modpost.c defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX 7) scripts/Makefile.lib defines SYMBOL_PREFIX on the commandline if CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is set, so that we have a non-string version for pasting. (arch/h8300/include/asm/linkage.h defines SYMBOL_NAME(), too). Let's solve this properly: 1) No more generic prefix, just CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX. 2) Make linux/export.h usable from asm. 3) Define VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR(). 4) Make everyone use them. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> (metag)
* Merge tag 'cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-socLinus Torvalds2013-02-211-1/+21
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull ARM SoC cleanups from Arnd Bergmann: "A large number of cleanups, all over the platforms. This is dominated largely by the Samsung platforms (s3c, s5p, exynos) and a few of the others moving code out of arch/arm into more appropriate subsystems. The clocksource and irqchip drivers are now abstracted to the point where platforms that are already cleaned up do not need to even specify the driver they use, it can all get configured from the device tree as we do for normal device drivers. The clocksource changes basically touch every single platform in the process. We further clean up the use of platform specific header files here, with the goal of turning more of the platforms over to being "multiplatform" enabled, which implies that they cannot expose their headers to architecture independent code any more. It is expected that no functional changes are part of the cleanup. The overall reduction in total code lines is mostly the result of removing broken and obsolete code." * tag 'cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (133 commits) ARM: mvebu: correct gated clock documentation ARM: kirkwood: add missing include for nsa310 ARM: exynos: move exynos4210-combiner to drivers/irqchip mfd: db8500-prcmu: update resource passing drivers/db8500-cpufreq: delete dangling include ARM: at91: remove NEOCORE 926 board sunxi: Cleanup the reset code and add meaningful registers defines ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-mem.h local ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-power.h local ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-s3c2412-mem.h local ARM: S3C24XX: Remove plat-s3c24xx directory in arch/arm/ ARM: S3C24XX: transform s3c2443 subirqs into new structure ARM: S3C24XX: modify s3c2443 irq init to initialize all irqs ARM: S3C24XX: move s3c2443 irq code to irq.c ARM: S3C24XX: transform s3c2416 irqs into new structure ARM: S3C24XX: modify s3c2416 irq init to initialize all irqs ARM: S3C24XX: move s3c2416 irq init to common irq code ARM: S3C24XX: Modify s3c_irq_wake to use the hwirq property ARM: S3C24XX: Move irq syscore-ops to irq-pm clocksource: always define CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE ...
| * Merge tag 'gic-vic-to-irqchip' of git://sources.calxeda.com/kernel/linux ↵Olof Johansson2013-01-141-1/+12
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | into next/cleanup From Rob Herring: Initial irqchip init infrastructure and GIC and VIC clean-ups This creates irqchip initialization infrastructure from Thomas Petazzoni. The VIC and GIC irqchip code is moved to drivers/irqchips and adapted to use the new infrastructure. All DT enabled platforms using GIC and VIC are converted over to use the new irqchip_init. * tag 'gic-vic-to-irqchip' of git://sources.calxeda.com/kernel/linux: irqchip: Move ARM vic.h to include/linux/irqchip/arm-vic.h ARM: picoxcell: use common irqchip_init function ARM: spear: use common irqchip_init function irqchip: Move ARM VIC to drivers/irqchip ARM: samsung: remove unused tick.h ARM: remove unneeded vic.h includes ARM: remove mach .handle_irq for VIC users ARM: VIC: set handle_arch_irq in VIC initialization ARM: VIC: shrink down vic.h irqchip: Move ARM gic.h to include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h ARM: use common irqchip_init for GIC init irqchip: Move ARM GIC to drivers/irqchip ARM: remove mach .handle_irq for GIC users ARM: GIC: set handle_arch_irq in GIC initialization ARM: GIC: remove direct use of gic_raise_softirq ARM: GIC: remove assembly ifdefs from gic.h ARM: mach-ux500: use SGI0 to wake up the other core arm: add set_handle_irq() to register the parent IRQ controller handler function irqchip: add basic infrastructure irqchip: add to the directories part of the IRQ subsystem in MAINTAINERS Fixed up massive merge conflicts with the timer cleanup due to adjacent changes: Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Conflicts: arch/arm/mach-bcm/board_bcm.c arch/arm/mach-cns3xxx/cns3420vb.c arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/adssphere.c arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/edb93xx.c arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/gesbc9312.c arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/micro9.c arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/simone.c arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/snappercl15.c arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/ts72xx.c arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/vision_ep9307.c arch/arm/mach-highbank/highbank.c arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-imx6q.c arch/arm/mach-msm/board-dt-8960.c arch/arm/mach-netx/nxdb500.c arch/arm/mach-netx/nxdkn.c arch/arm/mach-netx/nxeb500hmi.c arch/arm/mach-nomadik/board-nhk8815.c arch/arm/mach-picoxcell/common.c arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_eb.c arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pb1176.c arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pb11mp.c arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pba8.c arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pbx.c arch/arm/mach-socfpga/socfpga.c arch/arm/mach-spear13xx/spear1310.c arch/arm/mach-spear13xx/spear1340.c arch/arm/mach-spear13xx/spear13xx.c arch/arm/mach-spear3xx/spear300.c arch/arm/mach-spear3xx/spear310.c arch/arm/mach-spear3xx/spear320.c arch/arm/mach-spear3xx/spear3xx.c arch/arm/mach-spear6xx/spear6xx.c arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-dt-tegra20.c arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-dt-tegra30.c arch/arm/mach-u300/core.c arch/arm/mach-ux500/board-mop500.c arch/arm/mach-ux500/cpu-db8500.c arch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile_ab.c arch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile_dt.c arch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile_pb.c arch/arm/mach-vexpress/v2m.c include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
| | * irqchip: add basic infrastructureThomas Petazzoni2013-01-101-1/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the recent creation of the drivers/irqchip/ directory, it is desirable to move irq controller drivers here. At the moment, the only driver here is irq-bcm2835, the driver for the irq controller found in the ARM BCM2835 SoC, present in Rasberry Pi systems. This irq controller driver was exporting its initialization function and its irq handling function through a header file in <linux/irqchip/bcm2835.h>. When proposing to also move another irq controller driver in drivers/irqchip, Rob Herring raised the very valid point that moving things to drivers/irqchip was good in order to remove more stuff from arch/arm, but if it means adding gazillions of headers files in include/linux/irqchip/, it would not be very nice. So, upon the suggestion of Rob Herring and Arnd Bergmann, this commit introduces a small infrastructure that defines a central irqchip_init() function in drivers/irqchip/irqchip.c, which is meant to be called as the ->init_irq() callback of ARM platforms. This function calls of_irq_init() with an array of match strings and init functions generated from a special linker section. Note that the irq controller driver initialization function is responsible for setting the global handle_arch_irq() variable, so that ARM platforms no longer have to define the ->handle_irq field in their DT_MACHINE structure. A global header, <linux/irqchip.h> is also added to expose the single irqchip_init() function to the reset of the kernel. A further commit moves the BCM2835 irq controller driver to this new small infrastructure, therefore removing the include/linux/irqchip/ directory. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> [rob.herring: reword commit message to reflect use of linker sections.] Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
| * | clocksource: add common of_clksrc_init() functionStephen Warren2013-01-021-0/+9
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is desirable to move all clocksource drivers to drivers/clocksource, yet each requires its own initialization function. We'd rather not pollute <linux/> with a header for each function. Instead, create a single of_clksrc_init() function which will determine which clocksource driver to initialize based on device tree. Based on a similar patch for drivers/irqchip by Thomas Petazzoni. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
* | clk: add common of_clk_init() functionPrashant Gaikwad2013-01-241-0/+10
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Modify of_clk_init function so that it will determine which driver to initialize based on device tree instead of each driver registering to it. Based on a similar patch for drivers/irqchip by Thomas Petazzoni and drivers/clocksource by Stephen Warren. Signed-off-by: Prashant Gaikwad <pgaikwad@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Tony Prisk <linux@prisktech.co.nz> Tested-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com> Tested-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com> Tested-by: Josh Cartwright <josh.cartwright@ni.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Cartwright <josh.cartwright@ni.com> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@anandra.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org> [mturquette@linaro.org: merge conflict from missing CLKSRC_OF_TABLES()] Signed-off-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>
* vmlinux.lds.h: Allow architectures to add sections to the front of .bssDavid Daney2012-10-111-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Follow-on MIPS patch will put an object here that needs 64K alignment to minimize padding. For those architectures that don't define BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS, there is no change. Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4221/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
* ftrace: Sort all function addresses, not just per pageSteven Rostedt2012-05-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Instead of just sorting the ip's of the functions per ftrace page, sort the entire list before adding them to the ftrace pages. This will allow the bsearch algorithm to be sped up as it can also sort by pages, not just records within a page. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* params: <level>_initcall-like kernel parametersPawel Moll2012-03-261-21/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a set of macros that can be used to declare kernel parameters to be parsed _before_ initcalls at a chosen level are executed. We rename the now-unused "flags" field of struct kernel_param as the level. It's signed, for when we use this for early params as well, in future. Linker macro collating init calls had to be modified in order to add additional symbols between levels that are later used by the init code to split the calls into blocks. Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* consolidate WARN_...ONCE() static variablesJan Beulich2012-03-231-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Due to the alignment of following variables, these typically consume more than just the single byte that 'bool' requires, and as there are a few hundred instances, the cache pollution (not so much the waste of memory) sums up. Put these variables into their own section, outside of any half way frequently used memory range. Do the same also to the __warned variable of rcu_lockdep_assert(). (Don't, however, include the ones used by printk_once() and alike, as they can potentially be hot.) Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* m68k: Finally remove leftover markers sectionsKirill Tkhai2011-10-241-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | Markers have removed already twice: 1: fc5377668c3d808e1d53c4aee152c836f55c3490 2: eb878b3bc0349344dbf70c51bf01fc734d5cf2d3 But a little bit is still here. Signed-off-by: Tkhai Kirill <tkhai@yandex.ru> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
* Merge branch 'for-2.6.40' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-05-241-29/+32
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: percpu: Unify input section names percpu: Avoid extra NOP in percpu_cmpxchg16b_double percpu: Cast away printk format warning percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE Fix up fairly trivial conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h as per Tejun
| * Merge branch 'fixes-2.6.39' into for-2.6.40Tejun Heo2011-05-241-20/+24
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| | * percpu: Unify input section namesMike Frysinger2011-04-041-20/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The two percpu helper macros have the section names duplicated. So create a new define to merge the two. This also allows arches who need to link things more directly themselves to avoid duplicating the input sections in their linker script. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
| * | percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZETejun Heo2011-03-241-9/+8
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mike 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
* | Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-05-191-10/+4
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (107 commits) perf stat: Add more cache-miss percentage printouts perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events ftrace/kbuild: Add recordmcount files to force full build ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users ftrace: Modify ftrace_set_filter/notrace to take ops ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracers ftrace: Implement separate user function filtering ftrace: Free hash with call_rcu_sched() ftrace: Have global_ops store the functions that are to be traced ftrace: Add ops parameter to ftrace_startup/shutdown functions ftrace: Add enabled_functions file ftrace: Use counters to enable functions to trace ftrace: Separate hash allocation and assignment ftrace: Create a global_ops to hold the filter and notrace hashes ftrace: Use hash instead for FTRACE_FL_FILTER ftrace: Replace FTRACE_FL_NOTRACE flag with a hash of ignored functions perf bench, x86: Add alternatives-asm.h wrapper x86, 64-bit: Fix copy_[to/from]_user() checks for the userspace address limit x86, mem: memset_64.S: Optimize memset by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB x86, mem: memmove_64.S: Optimize memmove by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB ...
| * \ Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar2011-04-271-10/+4
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core Conflicts: include/linux/perf_event.h Merge reason: pick up the latest jump-label enhancements, they are cooked ready. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | jump label: Introduce static_branch() interfaceJason Baron2011-04-041-10/+4
| | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce: static __always_inline bool static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key); instead of the old JUMP_LABEL(key, label) macro. In this way, jump labels become really easy to use: Define: struct jump_label_key jump_key; Can be used as: if (static_branch(&jump_key)) do unlikely code enable/disale via: jump_label_inc(&jump_key); jump_label_dec(&jump_key); that's it! For the jump labels disabled case, the static_branch() becomes an atomic_read(), and jump_label_inc()/dec() are simply atomic_inc(), atomic_dec() operations. We show testing results for this change below. Thanks to H. Peter Anvin for suggesting the 'static_branch()' construct. Since we now require a 'struct jump_label_key *key', we can store a pointer into the jump table addresses. In this way, we can enable/disable jump labels, in basically constant time. This change allows us to completely remove the previous hashtable scheme. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for this re-write. Testing: I ran a series of 'tbench 20' runs 5 times (with reboots) for 3 configurations, where tracepoints were disabled. jump label configured in avg: 815.6 jump label *not* configured in (using atomic reads) avg: 800.1 jump label *not* configured in (regular reads) avg: 803.4 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110316212947.GA8792@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | | module: Sort exported symbolsAlessio Igor Bogani2011-05-191-10/+10
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch places every exported symbol in its own section (i.e. "___ksymtab+printk"). Thus the linker will use its SORT() directive to sort and finally merge all symbol in the right and final section (i.e. "__ksymtab"). The symbol prefixed archs use an underscore as prefix for symbols. To avoid collision we use a different character to create the temporary section names. This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum. Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (folded in '+' fixup) Tested-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>
* | Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi2011-03-311-1/+1
|/ | | | | | Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
* Merge branch 'for-2.6.39' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-03-161-13/+22
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: percpu, x86: Add arch-specific this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() support percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() alpha: use L1_CACHE_BYTES for cacheline size in the linker script percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S due to the percpu alignment having changed ("x86: Reduce back the alignment of the per-CPU data section")
| * percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cachelineTejun Heo2011-01-251-13/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
* | x86: Separate out entry text sectionJiri Olsa2011-03-081-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Put x86 entry code into a separate link section: .entry.text. Separating the entry text section seems to have performance benefits - caused by more efficient instruction cache usage. Running hackbench with perf stat --repeat showed that the change compresses the icache footprint. The icache load miss rate went down by about 15%: before patch: 19417627 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.147% ) after patch: 16490788 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.180% ) The motivation of the patch was to fix a particular kprobes bug that relates to the entry text section, the performance advantage was discovered accidentally. Whole perf output follows: - results for current tip tree: Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs): 19417627 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.147% ) 2676914223 instructions # 0.497 IPC ( +- 0.079% ) 5389516026 cycles ( +- 0.144% ) 0.206267711 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.138% ) - results for current tip tree with the patch applied: Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs): 16490788 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.180% ) 2717734941 instructions # 0.502 IPC ( +- 0.079% ) 5414756975 cycles ( +- 0.148% ) 0.206747566 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.137% ) Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com Cc: ananth@in.ibm.com Cc: davem@davemloft.net Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp LKML-Reference: <20110307181039.GB15197@jolsa.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing: Replace syscall_meta_data struct array with pointer arraySteven Rostedt2011-02-031-5/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the syscall_meta structures for the syscall tracepoints are placed in the __syscall_metadata section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all these syscall metadata structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the syscall data is processed. The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they are suppose to be in an array. A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other architectures (sparc). Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses are now put into the __syscall_metadata section. As pointers are always the natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together (otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail). By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers off a little more. The __syscall_metadata section is also moved into the .init.data section as it is now only needed at boot up. Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer arrayMathieu Desnoyers2011-02-031-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the tracepoints more robust, making them solid enough to handle compiler changes by not relying on anything based on compiler-specific behavior with respect to structure alignment. Implement an approach proposed by David Miller: use an array of const pointers to refer to the individual structures, and export this pointer array through the linker script rather than the structures per se. It will consume 32 extra bytes per tracepoint (24 for structure padding and 8 for the pointers), but are less likely to break due to compiler changes. History: commit 7e066fb8 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE() added the aligned(32) type and variable attribute to the tracepoint structures to deal with gcc happily aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte multiples. One attempt was to use a 8-byte alignment for tracepoint structures by applying both the variable and type attribute to tracepoint structures definitions and declarations. It worked fine with gcc 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5. The reason is that the "aligned" attribute only specify the _minimum_ alignment for a structure, leaving both the compiler and the linker free to align on larger multiples. Because tracepoint.c expects the structures to be placed as an array within each section, up-alignment cause NULL-pointer exceptions due to the extra unexpected padding. (this patch applies on top of -tip) Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> LKML-Reference: <20110126222622.GA10794@Krystal> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer arraySteven Rostedt2011-02-021-4/+3
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the events are processed. The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they are suppose to be in an array. A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other architectures (sparc). Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses are now put into the _ftrace_event section. As pointers are always the natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together (otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail). By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers off a little more. The _ftrace_event section is also moved into the .init.data section as it is now only needed at boot up. Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfsDmitry Torokhov2011-01-241-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently only drivers that are built as modules have their versions shown in /sys/module/<module_name>/version, but this information might also be useful for built-in drivers as well. This especially important for drivers that do not define any parameters - such drivers, if built-in, are completely invisible from userspace. This patch changes MODULE_VERSION() macro so that in case when we are compiling built-in module, version information is stored in a separate section. Kernel then uses this data to create 'version' sysfs attribute in the same fashion it creates attributes for module parameters. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h: make readmostly section correctly alignShaohua Li2011-01-131-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The readmostly section should end at a cacheline aligned address, otherwise the last several data might share cachline with other data and make the readmostly data still have cache bounce. For example, in ia64, secpath_cachep is the last readmostly data, and it shares cacheline with init_uts_ns. a000000100e80480 d secpath_cachep a000000100e80488 D init_uts_ns Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* of: Add support for linking device tree blobs into vmlinuxDirk Brandewie2010-12-231-2/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for linking device tree blob(s) into vmlinux. Modifies asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h to add linking .dtb sections into vmlinux. To maintain compatiblity with the of/fdt driver code platforms MUST copy the blob to a non-init memory location before the kernel frees the .init.* sections in the image. Modifies scripts/Makefile.lib to add a kbuild command to compile DTS files to device tree blobs and a rule to create objects to wrap the blobs for linking. STRUCT_ALIGNMENT is defined in vmlinux.lds.h for use in the rule to create wrapper objects for the dtb in Makefile.lib. The STRUCT_ALIGN() macro in vmlinux.lds.h is modified to use the STRUCT_ALIGNMENT definition. The DTB's are placed on 32 byte boundries to allow parsing the blob with driver/of/fdt.c during early boot without having to copy the blob to get the structure alignment GCC expects. A DTB is linked in by adding the DTB object to the list of objects to be linked into vmlinux in the archtecture specific Makefile using obj-y += foo.dtb.o Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> [grant.likely@secretlab.ca: cleaned up whitespace inconsistencies] Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
* Merge branch 'kbuild' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-10-281-1/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 * 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: initramfs: Fix build break on symbol-prefixed archs initramfs: fix initramfs size calculation initramfs: generalize initramfs_data.xxx.S variants scripts/kallsyms: Enable error messages while hush up unnecessary warnings scripts/setlocalversion: update comment kbuild: Use a single clean rule for kernel and external modules kbuild: Do not run make clean in $(srctree) scripts/mod/modpost.c: fix commentary accordingly to last changes kbuild: Really don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.h
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