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Fenghua Yu
5fb7dc37dc define new percpu interface for shared data
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: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Suresh 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
ca967258b6 all-archs: consolidate .data section definition in asm-generic
With this consolidation we can now modify the .data
section definition in one spot for all archs.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-05-19 09:11:57 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
7664709b44 all-archs: consolidate .text section definition in asm-generic
Move definition of .text section to asm-generic.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-05-19 09:11:57 +02:00
Russell King
08fdffd4cf [ARM] Ensure head text is always placed at the start of kernel
Commit 86c0baf123 highlighted that we
may end up with the head text placed elsewhere in the kernel image.
Introduce a new .text.head section to contain the initial kernel
startup code, and always place this section at the beginning of the
kernel image.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-05-08 15:15:45 +01:00
Russell King
4efb448272 [ARM] Shut up warning about init_thread_union
Fix false warning:

WARNING: arch/arm/kernel/init_task.o - Section mismatch:
 reference to .init.task:init_thread_union from .data between
 'init_task' (at offset 0x4) and 'init_sighand'

caused by the section name starting with ".init".

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-05-08 12:39:37 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
c6799ade4a Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (82 commits)
  [ARM] Add comments marking in-use ptrace numbers
  [ARM] Move syscall saving out of the way of utrace
  [ARM] 4360/1: S3C24XX: regs-udc.h remove unused macro
  [ARM] 4358/1: S3C24XX: mach-qt2410.c: remove linux/mmc/protocol.h header
  [ARM] mm 10: allow memory type to be specified with ioremap
  [ARM] mm 9: add additional device memory types
  [ARM] mm 8: define mem_types table L1 bit 4 to be for ARMv6
  [ARM] iop: add missing parens in macro
  [ARM] mm 7: remove duplicated __ioremap() prototypes
  ARM: OMAP: fix OMAP1 mpuio suspend/resume oops
  ARM: OMAP: MPUIO wake updates
  ARM: OMAP: speed up gpio irq handling
  ARM: OMAP: plat-omap changes for 2430 SDP
  ARM: OMAP: gpio object shrinkage, cleanup
  ARM: OMAP: /sys/kernel/debug/omap_gpio
  ARM: OMAP: Implement workaround for GPIO wakeup bug in OMAP2420 silicon
  ARM: OMAP: Enable 24xx GPIO autoidling
  [ARM] 4318/2: DSM-G600 Board Support
  [ARM] 4227/1: minor head.S fixups
  [ARM] 4328/1: Move i.MX UART regs to driver
  ...
2007-05-06 13:20:10 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
b6e3590f81 [PATCH] x86: Allow percpu variables to be page-aligned
Let's allow page-alignment in general for per-cpu data (wanted by Xen, and
Ingo suggested KVM as well).

Because larger alignments can use more room, we increase the max per-cpu
memory to 64k rather than 32k: it's getting a little tight.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
Russell King
7ab3f8d595 [ARM] Add ability to dump exception stacks to kernel backtraces
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-04-21 20:34:34 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre
e98ff7f6d8 [ARM] 4224/2: allow XIP kernel to boot again
Since commit 2552fc27ff XIP kernels failed
to boot because (_end - PAGE_OFFSET - 1) is much smaller than the size
of the kernel text and data in the XIP case, causing the kernel not to
be entirely mapped.

Even in the non-XIP case, the use of (_end - PAGE_OFFSET - 1) is wrong
because it produces a too large value if TEXT_OFFSET is larger than 1MB.

Finally the original code was performing one loop too many.

Let's break the loop when the section pointer has passed the last byte
of the kernel instead.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-25 16:41:38 +00:00
Jean-Paul Saman
67d38229df [PATCH] disable init/initramfs.c: architectures
Update all arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S to not include space for initramfs
when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRAMFS is not selected.  This saves another 4 kbytes
on most platfoms (some reserve PAGE_SIZE for initramfs).

Signed-off-by: Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman@nxp.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:25 -08:00
Andrew Morton
61ce1efe6e [PATCH] vmlinux.lds: consolidate initcall sections
Add a vmlinux.lds.h helper macro for defining the eight-level initcall table,
teach all the architectures to use it.

This is a prerequisite for a patch which performs initcall synchronisation for
multithreaded-probing.

Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
[ Added AVR32 as well ]
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-27 15:34:51 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Russell King
9641c7cc5a [ARM] nommu: uaccess tweaks
MMUless systems have only one address space for all threads, so
both the usual access_ok() checks, and the exception handling do
not make much sense.

Hence, discard the fixup and exception tables at link time, use
memcpy/memset for the user copy/clearing functions, and define
the permission check macros to be constants.

Some of this patch was derived from the equivalent patch by
Hyok S. Choi.

Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-06-28 17:59:46 +01:00
Russell King
9d4f13e531 [ARM] Make kernel link address depend on PAGE_OFFSET
We are coding the kernel link address into the makefiles, which is
invisibly dependent on PAGE_OFFSET.  If PAGE_OFFSET is changed, the
makefiles also need to be changed.

Make adjustments such that the makefiles encode just the offset from
PAGE_OFFSET for the kernel link address, and use PAGE_OFFSET in the
linker scripts directly.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-03 17:28:33 +00:00
Russell King
728f5c076a [ARM] Improve comment about ASSERT()s in vmlinux.lds.S
Provide folk with an idea what to do if the ASSERT statements fail
with their linker.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-17 16:43:14 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre
37d07b72ef [ARM] 3061/1: cleanup the XIP link address mess
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

Since vmlinux.lds.S is preprocessed, we can use the defines already
present in asm/memory.h (allowed by patch #3060) for the XIP kernel link
address instead of relying on a duplicated Makefile hardcoded value, and
also get rid of its dependency on awk to handle it at the same time.

While at it let's clean XIP stuff even further and make things clearer
in head.S with a nice code reduction.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-10-29 21:44:56 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre
13b1f64c16 [ARM] 3008/1: the exception table is not read-only
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

... and therefore should not live in the .text section.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-10-13 22:04:37 +01:00
Ben Dooks
9d0fd1eb8a [ARM] 2927/1: .arch.info - postfix section with .init for make buildcheck
Patch from Ben Dooks

The `make buildcheck` is erroneously reporting that the .arch.info
list is referencing items in the .init section as it is not itself
postfixed with .init

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-09-20 16:45:20 +01:00
Ben Dooks
02b7dd1244 [ARM] 2926/1: .proc.info - postfix section with .init for make buildcheck
Patch from Ben Dooks

The `make buildcheck` is erroneously reporting that the .proc.info
list is referencing items in the .init section as it is not itself
postfixed with .init

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-09-20 16:35:03 +01:00
Ben Dooks
bfe6815e04 [ARM] 2925/3: earlyparam - postfix section with .init for make buildcheck
Patch from Ben Dooks

The `make buildcheck` is erroneously reporting that the earlyparam
list is referencing items in the .init section as it is not itself
postfixed with .init
Also, as per rmk's suggestion, rename the __early_param to
.early_param to bring it into line with everything else

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-09-20 16:25:12 +01:00
Ben Dooks
9506057fca [ARM] 2924/3: taglist - postfix section with .init for make buildcheck
Patch from Ben Dooks

The `make buildcheck` is erroneously reporting that the taglist
is referencing items in the .init section as it is not itself
postfixed with .init

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-09-20 16:20:49 +01:00
Russell King
4f7a18124c [PATCH] ARM: Fix kernel stack offset calculations
Various places in the ARM kernel implicitly assumed that kernel
stacks are always 8K due to hard coded constants.  Replace these
constants with definitions.

Correct the allowable range of kernel stack pointer values within
the allocation.  Arrange for the entire kernel stack to be zeroed,
not just the upper 4K if CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE is set.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-05 13:11:00 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
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!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00