kernel.git/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S, branch linux-2.6.19.y

[PATCH] x86: Work around gcc 4.2 over aggressive optimizer

2007-02-05T16:31:42Z

The new PDA code uses a dummy _proxy_pda variable to describe memory references to the PDA. It is never referenced in inline assembly, but exists as input/output arguments. gcc 4.2 in some cases can CSE references to this which causes unresolved symbols. Define it to zero to avoid this. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

[PATCH] i386: Force data segment to be 4K aligned

2006-11-09T02:29:23Z

o Currently there is no specific alignment restriction in linker script and in some cases it can be placed non 4K aligned addresses. This fails kexec which checks that segment to be loaded is page aligned. o I guess, it does not harm data segment to be 4K aligned. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 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

[PATCH] x86: put .note.* sections into a PT_NOTE segment in vmlinux

2006-09-26T15:48:55Z

This patch will pack any .note.* section into a PT_NOTE segment in the output file. To do this, we tell ld that we need a PT_NOTE segment. This requires us to start explicitly mapping sections to segments, so we also need to explicitly create PT_LOAD segments for text and data, and map the sections to them appropriately. Fortunately, each section will default to its previous section's segment, so it doesn't take many changes to vmlinux.lds.S. This only changes i386 for now, but I presume the corresponding changes for other architectures will be as simple. This change also adds , which defines C and Assembler macros for actually creating ELF notes. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Hollis Blanchard Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] i386: reliable stack trace support (i386)

2006-06-26T17:48:17Z

These are the i386-specific pieces to enable reliable stack traces. This is going to be even more useful once CFI annotations get added to he assembly code, namely to entry.S. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Add some basic resume trace facilities

2006-06-24T21:44:01Z

Considering that there isn't a lot of hw we can depend on during resume, this is about as good as it gets. This is x86-only for now, although the basic concept (and most of the code) will certainly work on almost any platform. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild

2006-03-25T16:48:48Z

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (46 commits) kbuild: remove obsoleted scripts/reference_* files kbuild: fix make help & make *pkg kconfig: fix time ordering of writes to .kconfig.d and include/linux/autoconf.h Kconfig: remove the CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_* options kbuild: add -fverbose-asm to i386 Makefile kbuild: clean-up genksyms kbuild: Lindent genksyms.c kbuild: fix genksyms build error kbuild: in makefile.txt note that Makefile is preferred name for kbuild files kbuild: replace PHONY with FORCE kbuild: Fix bug in crc symbol generating of kernel and modules kbuild: change kbuild to not rely on incorrect GNU make behavior kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user this is the problem kbuild: fix make dir/file.xx when asm symlink is missing kbuild: in the section mismatch check try harder to find symbols kbuild: fix section mismatch check for unwind on IA64 kbuild: kill false positives from section mismatch warnings for powerpc kbuild: kill trailing whitespace in modpost & friends kbuild: small update of allnoconfig description kbuild: make namespace.pl CROSS_COMPILE happy ... Trivial conflict in arch/ppc/boot/Makefile manually fixed up

[PATCH] x86: SMP alternatives

2006-03-23T15:38:04Z

Implement SMP alternatives, i.e. switching at runtime between different code versions for UP and SMP. The code can patch both SMP->UP and UP->SMP. The UP->SMP case is useful for CPU hotplug. With CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG enabled the code switches to UP at boot time and when the number of CPUs goes down to 1, and switches to SMP when the number of CPUs goes up to 2. Without CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG or on non-SMP-capable systems the code is patched once at boot time (if needed) and the tables are released afterwards. The changes in detail: * The current alternatives bits are moved to a separate file, the SMP alternatives code is added there. * The patch adds some new elf sections to the kernel: .smp_altinstructions like .altinstructions, also contains a list of alt_instr structs. .smp_altinstr_replacement like .altinstr_replacement, but also has some space to save original instruction before replaving it. .smp_locks list of pointers to lock prefixes which can be nop'ed out on UP. The first two are used to replace more complex instruction sequences such as spinlocks and semaphores. It would be possible to deal with the lock prefixes with that as well, but by handling them as special case the table sizes become much smaller. * The sections are page-aligned and padded up to page size, so they can be free if they are not needed. * Splitted the code to release init pages to a separate function and use it to release the elf sections if they are unused. Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86: align per-cpu section to configured cache bytes

2006-02-19T08:51:19Z

This matches the fix for a bug seen on x86-64. Test booted on old hardware that had 32 byte cachelines to begin with. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

[PATCH] i386 / uml: add dwarf sections to static link script

2005-09-10T19:00:17Z

Inside the linker script, insert the code for DWARF debug info sections. This may help GDB'ing a Uml binary. Actually, it seems that ld is able to guess what I added correctly, but normal linker scripts include this section so it should be correct anyway adding it. On request by Sam Ravnborg , I've added it to asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.s. I've also moved there the stabs debug section, used the new macro in i386 linker script and added DWARF debug section to that. In the truth, I've not been able to verify the difference in GDB behaviour after this change (I've seen large improvements with another patch). This may depend on my binutils version, older one may have worse defaults. However, this section is present in normal linker script, so add it at least for the sake of cleanness. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds