kernel.git/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S, branch linux-2.6.21.y

[ARM] 4224/2: allow XIP kernel to boot again

2007-02-25T16:41:38Z

Since commit 2552fc27ff79b10b9678d92bcaef21df38bb7bb6 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 Signed-off-by: Russell King

[PATCH] disable init/initramfs.c: architectures

2007-02-11T18:51:25Z

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 Cc: Al Viro Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] vmlinux.lds: consolidate initcall sections

2006-10-27T22:34:51Z

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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [ Added AVR32 as well ] Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove obsolete #include

2006-06-30T17:25:36Z

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[ARM] nommu: uaccess tweaks

2006-06-28T16:59:46Z

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 Signed-off-by: Russell King

[ARM] Make kernel link address depend on PAGE_OFFSET

2006-01-03T17:28:33Z

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

[ARM] Improve comment about ASSERT()s in vmlinux.lds.S

2005-11-17T16:43:14Z

Provide folk with an idea what to do if the ASSERT statements fail with their linker. Signed-off-by: Russell King

[ARM] 3061/1: cleanup the XIP link address mess

2005-10-29T20:44:56Z

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 Signed-off-by: Russell King

[ARM] 3008/1: the exception table is not read-only

2005-10-13T21:04:37Z

Patch from Nicolas Pitre ... and therefore should not live in the .text section. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Russell King

[ARM] 2927/1: .arch.info - postfix section with .init for `make buildcheck`

2005-09-20T15:45:20Z

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 Signed-off-by: Russell King