linux/arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S, branch v3.2.41

Merge branch 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2011-05-24T18:53:42Z

* '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

extable, core_kernel_data(): Make sure all archs define _sdata

2011-05-20T06:56:56Z

A new utility function (core_kernel_data()) is used to determine if a passed in address is part of core kernel data or not. It may or may not return true for RO data, but this utility must work for RW data. Thus both _sdata and _edata must be defined and continuous, without .init sections that may later be freed and replaced by volatile memory (memory that can be freed). This utility function is used to determine if data is safe from ever being freed. Thus it should return true for all RW global data that is not in a module or has been allocated, or false otherwise. Also change core_kernel_data() back to the more precise _sdata condition and document the function. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Acked-by: Ralf Baechle Acked-by: Hirokazu Takata Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Roman Zippel Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org Cc: Kyle McMartin Cc: Helge Deller Cc: JamesE.J.Bottomley Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305855298.1465.19.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar ---- arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + arch/m32r/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-std.lds | 2 ++ arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-sun3.lds | 1 + arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 +++ kernel/extable.c | 12 +++++++++++- 7 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE

2011-03-24T17:50:09Z

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 Acked-by: Mike Frysinger Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org Cc: David Howells Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

alpha: use L1_CACHE_BYTES for cacheline size in the linker script

2011-01-25T13:27:38Z

Currently the linker script uses 64 for cacheline size which isn't optimal for all cases. Include asm/cache.h and use L1_CACHE_BYTES instead as suggested by Sam Ravnborg. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Sam Ravnborg

percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline

2011-01-25T13:26:50Z

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 Cc: Shaohua Li

alpha: Fix duplicate include

2009-09-27T21:46:05Z

.. duplicated by merging the same fix twice, for details see commit 0d9df2515dbceb67d343c0f10fd3ff218380d524 ("Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes") Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2009-09-26T17:51:54Z

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes: alpha: fix build after vmlinux.lds.S cleanup mips: fix build of vmlinux.lds

alpha: fix build after vmlinux.lds.S cleanup

2009-09-25T17:54:56Z

Add include to get missing THREAD_SIZE definition Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Tim Abbott Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Richard Henderson

alpha: Clean up linker script using new linker script macros.

2009-09-25T00:16:22Z

Note that .data.page_aligned and .data.cacheline_aligned are now after _data; it was probably a bug that they were before it. Also, some explicit ALIGN(8)'s between various initcall sections were removed; this should be harmless as the implicit alignment of initcall_t was already 8. Signed-off-by: Geoffrey Thomas Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alpha: use .data.init_task instead of .data.init_thread.

2009-09-25T00:16:22Z

alpha is the only architecture that uses the section name .data.init_thread instead of .data.init_task. So convert alpha to use .data.init_task like everything else. .data.init_task does not need a separate output section; this change also moves it into the .data output section. Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds