kernel.git/arch/sparc64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S, branch linux-2.6.28.y

all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h

2008-01-28T22:21:17Z

This patch consolidate all definitions of .init.text, .init.data and .exit.text, .exit.data section definitions in the generic vmlinux.lds.h. This is a preparational patch - alone it does not buy us much good. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

[SPARC64]: beautify vmlinux.lds

2007-10-14T04:53:10Z

Apply a consistent format to vmlinux.lds. The file is now to some degree readable. In addition move several labels inside the braces such that they reflect the actual start address of a section. Without this the label would not reflect if ld added alignment. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[SPARC]: Add missing NOTES section.

2007-07-24T20:24:34Z

This fixes boot failures when the build-id LD option is actually used, because without it we end up with multiple PT_LOAD sections which the SILO boot loader cannot handle. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

define new percpu interface for shared data

2007-07-19T17:04:44Z

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 Acked-by: Suresh Siddha Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sparc64: fix alignment bug in linker definition script

2007-05-29T19:29:00Z

The RO_DATA section were hardcoded to a specific alignment in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.h. But for sparc64 this did not match the PAGE_SIZE. Introduce a new section definition named: RO_DATA that takes actual alignment as parameter. RODATA are provided for backward compatibility. On top of this avoid hardcoding alignment for sparc64 in reset of the script Fix is build-tested on sparc64 + x86_64. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

all-archs: consolidate .data section definition in asm-generic

2007-05-19T07:11:57Z

With this consolidation we can now modify the .data section definition in one spot for all archs. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

all-archs: consolidate .text section definition in asm-generic

2007-05-19T07:11:57Z

Move definition of .text section to asm-generic. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

[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] relocatable kernel: Kallsyms generate relocatable symbols

2006-12-07T01:14:04Z

Print the addresses of non-absolute symbols relative to _text so that ld will generate relocations. Allowing a relocatable kernel to relocate them. We can't actually use the symbol names because kallsyms includes static symbols that are not exported from their object files. Add the _text symbol definitions to the architectures which don't define it otherwise linker will fail. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen

[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