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 <sam@ravnborg.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (33 commits)
xtensa: use DATA_DATA in xtensa
powerpc: add missing DATA_DATA to powerpc
cris: use DATA_DATA in cris
kallsyms: remove usage of memmem and _GNU_SOURCE from scripts/kallsyms.c
kbuild: use -fno-optimize-sibling-calls unconditionally
kconfig: reset generated values only if Kconfig and .config agree.
kbuild: fix the warning when running make tags
kconfig: strip 'CONFIG_' automatically in kernel configuration search
kbuild: use POSIX BRE in headers install target
Whitelist references from __dbe_table to .init
modpost white list pattern adjustment
kbuild: do section mismatch check on full vmlinux
kbuild: whitelist references from variables named _timer to .init.text
kbuild: remove hardcoded _logo names from modpost
kbuild: remove hardcoded apic_es7000 from modpost
kbuild: warn about references from .init.text to .exit.text
kbuild: consolidate section checks
kbuild: refactor code in modpost to improve maintainability
kbuild: ignore section mismatch warnings originating from .note section
kbuild: .paravirtprobe section is obsolete, so modpost doesn't need to handle it
...
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>
* Sam Ravnborg (sam@ravnborg.org) wrote:
> From your patch it looks like I originally missed out
> powerpc + xtensa when introducing DATA_DATA - would be nice if
> you could fix that.
>
Use DATA_DATA in CRIS
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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>
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>
New CRIS sub architecture named v32.
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Fix swapped kmalloc args
Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Sam Ravnborg
Linus Torvalds
Fenghua Yu
Mathieu Desnoyers
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Jean-Paul Saman
Jörn Engel
Mikael Starvik