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* tracing: Replace syscall_meta_data struct array with pointer arraySteven Rostedt2011-02-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the syscall_meta structures for the syscall tracepoints are placed in the __syscall_metadata section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all these syscall metadata structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the syscall data is processed. The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they are suppose to be in an array. A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other architectures (sparc). Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses are now put into the __syscall_metadata section. As pointers are always the natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together (otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail). By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers off a little more. The __syscall_metadata section is also moved into the .init.data section as it is now only needed at boot up. Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer arrayMathieu Desnoyers2011-02-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the tracepoints more robust, making them solid enough to handle compiler changes by not relying on anything based on compiler-specific behavior with respect to structure alignment. Implement an approach proposed by David Miller: use an array of const pointers to refer to the individual structures, and export this pointer array through the linker script rather than the structures per se. It will consume 32 extra bytes per tracepoint (24 for structure padding and 8 for the pointers), but are less likely to break due to compiler changes. History: commit 7e066fb8 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE() added the aligned(32) type and variable attribute to the tracepoint structures to deal with gcc happily aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte multiples. One attempt was to use a 8-byte alignment for tracepoint structures by applying both the variable and type attribute to tracepoint structures definitions and declarations. It worked fine with gcc 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5. The reason is that the "aligned" attribute only specify the _minimum_ alignment for a structure, leaving both the compiler and the linker free to align on larger multiples. Because tracepoint.c expects the structures to be placed as an array within each section, up-alignment cause NULL-pointer exceptions due to the extra unexpected padding. (this patch applies on top of -tip) Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> LKML-Reference: <20110126222622.GA10794@Krystal> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer arraySteven Rostedt2011-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the events are processed. The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they are suppose to be in an array. A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other architectures (sparc). Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses are now put into the _ftrace_event section. As pointers are always the natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together (otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail). By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers off a little more. The _ftrace_event section is also moved into the .init.data section as it is now only needed at boot up. Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfsDmitry Torokhov2011-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently only drivers that are built as modules have their versions shown in /sys/module/<module_name>/version, but this information might also be useful for built-in drivers as well. This especially important for drivers that do not define any parameters - such drivers, if built-in, are completely invisible from userspace. This patch changes MODULE_VERSION() macro so that in case when we are compiling built-in module, version information is stored in a separate section. Kernel then uses this data to create 'version' sysfs attribute in the same fashion it creates attributes for module parameters. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h: make readmostly section correctly alignShaohua Li2011-01-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The readmostly section should end at a cacheline aligned address, otherwise the last several data might share cachline with other data and make the readmostly data still have cache bounce. For example, in ia64, secpath_cachep is the last readmostly data, and it shares cacheline with init_uts_ns. a000000100e80480 d secpath_cachep a000000100e80488 D init_uts_ns Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* of: Add support for linking device tree blobs into vmlinuxDirk Brandewie2010-12-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for linking device tree blob(s) into vmlinux. Modifies asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h to add linking .dtb sections into vmlinux. To maintain compatiblity with the of/fdt driver code platforms MUST copy the blob to a non-init memory location before the kernel frees the .init.* sections in the image. Modifies scripts/Makefile.lib to add a kbuild command to compile DTS files to device tree blobs and a rule to create objects to wrap the blobs for linking. STRUCT_ALIGNMENT is defined in vmlinux.lds.h for use in the rule to create wrapper objects for the dtb in Makefile.lib. The STRUCT_ALIGN() macro in vmlinux.lds.h is modified to use the STRUCT_ALIGNMENT definition. The DTB's are placed on 32 byte boundries to allow parsing the blob with driver/of/fdt.c during early boot without having to copy the blob to get the structure alignment GCC expects. A DTB is linked in by adding the DTB object to the list of objects to be linked into vmlinux in the archtecture specific Makefile using obj-y += foo.dtb.o Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> [grant.likely@secretlab.ca: cleaned up whitespace inconsistencies] Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
* Merge branch 'kbuild' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-10-28
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 * 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: initramfs: Fix build break on symbol-prefixed archs initramfs: fix initramfs size calculation initramfs: generalize initramfs_data.xxx.S variants scripts/kallsyms: Enable error messages while hush up unnecessary warnings scripts/setlocalversion: update comment kbuild: Use a single clean rule for kernel and external modules kbuild: Do not run make clean in $(srctree) scripts/mod/modpost.c: fix commentary accordingly to last changes kbuild: Really don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.h
| * initramfs: fix initramfs size calculationHendrik Brueckner2010-09-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The size of a built-in initramfs is calculated in init/initramfs.c by "__initramfs_end - __initramfs_start". Those symbols are defined in the linker script include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h: #define INIT_RAM_FS \ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__initramfs_start) = .; \ *(.init.ramfs) \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__initramfs_end) = .; If the initramfs file has an odd number of bytes, the "__initramfs_end" symbol points to an odd address, for example, the symbols in the System.map might look like: 0000000000572000 T __initramfs_start 00000000005bcd05 T __initramfs_end <-- odd address At least on s390 this causes a problem: Certain s390 instructions, especially instructions for loading addresses (larl) or branch addresses must be on even addresses. The compiler loads the symbol addresses with the "larl" instruction. This instruction sets the last bit to 0 and, therefore, for odd size files, the calculated size is one byte less than it should be: 0000000000540a9c <populate_rootfs>: 540a9c: eb cf f0 78 00 24 stmg %r12,%r15,120(%r15), 540aa2: c0 10 00 01 8a af larl %r1,572000 <__initramfs_start> 540aa8: c0 c0 00 03 e1 2e larl %r12,5bcd04 <initramfs_end> (Instead of 5bcd05) ... 540abe: 1b c1 sr %r12,%r1 To fix the problem, this patch introduces the global variable __initramfs_size, which is calculated in the "usr/initramfs_data.S" file. The populate_rootfs() function can then use the start marker of the .init.ramfs section and the value of __initramfs_size for loading the initramfs. Because the start marker and size is sufficient, the __initramfs_end symbol is no longer needed and is removed. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
* | vmlinux.lds.h: lower init ramfs alignment to 4Mike Frysinger2010-10-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new init ramfs format (cpio based) requires an alignment of 4 (per the documentation and per the source files themselves). As for compressed sources, the decompressors can all deal with unaligned buffers. The cpio source is also found in the __init sections of the kernel, so once they are read and expanded into a tmpfs, the source is freed. That means there is no need to force page alignment here either. This has been used on Blackfin systems for many releases without issue. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | vmlinux.lds.h: gather .data..shared_aligned sections in DATA_DATAMike Frysinger2010-10-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the recent change "net: remove time limit in process_backlog()", the softnet_data variable changed from "DEFINE_PER_CPU()" to "DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED()" which moved it from the .data section to the .data.shared_align section. I'm not saying this patch is wrong, just that is what caused me to notice this larger problem. No one else in the kernel is using this aligned macro variant, so I imagine that's why no one has noticed yet. Since .data..shared_align isn't declared in any vmlinux files that I can see, the linker just places it last. This "just works" for most people, but when building a ROM kernel on Blackfin systems, it causes section overlap errors: bfin-uclinux-ld.real: section .init.data [00000000202e06b8 -> 00000000202e48b7] overlaps section .data.shared_aligned [00000000202e06b8 -> 00000000202e0723] I imagine other arches which support the ROM config option and thus do funky placement would see similar issues ... On x86, it is stuck in a dedicated section at the end: [8] .data PROGBITS ffffffff810ec000 2ec0000303a8 00 WA 0 0 4096 [9] .data.shared_alig PROGBITS ffffffff8111c3c0 31c3c00000c8 00 WA 0 0 64 So make sure we include this section in the DATA_DATA macro so that it is placed in the right location. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-10-21
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86-32, percpu: Correct the ordering of the percpu readmostly section x86, mm: Enable ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT with X86_64 || HIGHMEM64G x86: Spread tlb flush vector between nodes percpu: Introduce a read-mostly percpu API x86, mm: Fix incorrect data type in vmalloc_sync_all() x86, mm: Hold mm->page_table_lock while doing vmalloc_sync x86, mm: Fix bogus whitespace in sync_global_pgds() x86-32: Fix sparse warning for the __PHYSICAL_MASK calculation x86, mm: Add RESERVE_BRK_ARRAY() helper mm, x86: Saving vmcore with non-lazy freeing of vmas x86, kdump: Change copy_oldmem_page() to use cached addressing x86, mm: fix uninitialized addr in kernel_physical_mapping_init() x86, kmemcheck: Remove double test x86, mm: Make spurious_fault check explicitly check the PRESENT bit x86-64, mem: Update all PGDs for direct mapping and vmemmap mapping changes x86, mm: Separate x86_64 vmalloc_sync_all() into separate functions x86, mm: Avoid unnecessary TLB flush
| * | x86-32, percpu: Correct the ordering of the percpu readmostly sectionH. Peter Anvin2010-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Checkin c957ef2c59e952803766ddc22e89981ab534606f had inconsistent ordering of .data..percpu..page_aligned and .data..percpu..readmostly; the still-broken version affected x86-32 at least. The page aligned version really must be page aligned... Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> LKML-Reference: <1287544022.4571.7.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
| * | percpu: Introduce a read-mostly percpu APIShaohua Li2010-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new readmostly percpu section and API. This can be used to avoid dirtying data lines which are generally not written to, which is especially important for data which may be accessed by processors other than the one for which the percpu area belongs to. [ hpa: moved it *after* the page-aligned section, for obvious reasons. ] Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1287544022.4571.7.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* | | jump label: Base patch for jump labelJason Baron2010-09-22
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto' statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed. Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for. Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <ee8b3595967989fdaf84e698dc7447d315ce972a.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com> [ cleaned up some formating ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-08-06
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits) tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex perf: expose event__process function perf events: Fix mmap offset determination perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events perf: New migration tool overview tracing: Drop cpparg() macro perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call ... Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
| * | Merge commit 'v2.6.35' into perf/coreIngo Molnar2010-08-02
| |\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: tools/perf/Makefile tools/perf/util/hist.c Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts and update to latest upstream. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | tracing: Remove letfover markers sectionFrederic Weisbecker2010-07-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Markers have been removed, but we forgot to remove their section. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
* | | Merge branch 'upstream/pvhvm' into upstream/xenJeremy Fitzhardinge2010-08-04
|\ \ \ | |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * upstream/pvhvm: Introduce CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM compile option blkfront: do not create a PV cdrom device if xen_hvm_guest support multiple .discard.* sections to avoid section type conflicts xen/pvhvm: fix build problem when !CONFIG_XEN xenfs: enable for HVM domains too x86: Call HVMOP_pagetable_dying on exit_mmap. x86: Unplug emulated disks and nics. x86: Use xen_vcpuop_clockevent, xen_clocksource and xen wallclock. xen: Fix find_unbound_irq in presence of ioapic irqs. xen: Add suspend/resume support for PV on HVM guests. xen: Xen PCI platform device driver. x86/xen: event channels delivery on HVM. x86: early PV on HVM features initialization. xen: Add support for HVM hypercalls. Conflicts: arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c arch/x86/xen/time.c
| * | support multiple .discard.* sections to avoid section type conflictsJeremy Fitzhardinge2010-07-28
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | gcc 4.4.4 will complain if you use a .discard section for both text and data ("causes a section type conflict"). Add support for ".discard.*" sections, and use .discard.text for a dummy function in the x86 RESERVE_BRK() macro. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
* | Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-07-23
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: vmlinux.lds: fix .data..init_task output section (fix popwerpc boot) powerpc: Fix erroneous lmb->memblock conversions powerpc/mm: Add some debug output when hash insertion fails powerpc/mm: Fix bugs in huge page hashing powerpc/mm: Move around testing of _PAGE_PRESENT in hash code powerpc/mm: Handle hypervisor pte insert failure in __hash_page_huge powerpc/kexec: Fix boundary case for book-e kexec memory limits
| * | vmlinux.lds: fix .data..init_task output section (fix popwerpc boot)Sam Ravnborg2010-07-22
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The .data..init_task output section was missing a load offset causing a popwerpc target to fail to boot. Sean MacLennan tracked it down to the definition of INIT_TASK_DATA_SECTION(). There are only two users of INIT_TASK_DATA_SECTION() in the kernel today: cris and popwerpc. cris do not support relocatable kernels and is thus not impacted by this change. Fix INIT_TASK_DATA_SECTION() to specify load offset like all other output sections. Reported-by: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* / tracing: Properly align linker defined symbolsSam Ravnborg2010-07-20
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We define a number of symbols in the linker scipt like this: __start_syscalls_metadata = .; *(__syscalls_metadata) But we do not know the alignment of "." when we assign the __start_syscalls_metadata symbol. gcc started to uses bigger alignment for structs (32 bytes), so we saw situations where the linker due to alignment constraints increased the value of "." after the symbol assignment. This resulted in boot fails. Fix this by forcing a 32 byte alignment of "." before the assignment. This patch introduces the forced alignment for ftrace_events and syscalls_metadata. It may be required in more places. Reported-by: Zeev Tarantov <zeev.tarantov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> LKML-Reference: <20100710063459.GA14596@merkur.ravnborg.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuildLinus Torvalds2010-06-01
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (81 commits) kbuild: Revert part of e8d400a to resolve a conflict kbuild: Fix checking of scm-identifier variable gconfig: add support to show hidden options that have prompts menuconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts gconfig: remove show_debug option gconfig: remove dbg_print_ptype() and dbg_print_stype() kconfig: fix zconfdump() kconfig: some small fixes add random binaries to .gitignore kbuild: Include gen_initramfs_list.sh and the file list in the .d file kconfig: recalc symbol value before showing search results .gitignore: ignore *.lzo files headerdep: perlcritic warning scripts/Makefile.lib: Align the output of LZO kbuild: Generate modules.builtin in make modules_install Revert "kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope" kbuild: Do not unnecessarily regenerate modules.builtin headers_install: use local file handles headers_check: fix perl warnings export_report: fix perl warnings ...
| * Rename .data.nosave to .data..nosave.Denys Vlasenko2010-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
| * Rename .data.read_mostly to .data..read_mostly.Denys Vlasenko2010-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
| * Rename .data[.percpu][.XXX] to .data[..percpu][..XXX].Denys Vlasenko2010-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
| * Rename .bss.page_aligned to .bss..page_aligned.Tim Abbott2010-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
| * Rename .data.page_aligned to .data..page_aligned.Tim Abbott2010-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
| * Rename .data.init_task to .data..init_task.Tim Abbott2010-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
| * Rename .data.cacheline_aligned to .data..cacheline_aligned.Tim Abbott2010-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
* | rapidio: modify initialization of switch operationsAlexandre Bounine2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Modify the way how RapidIO switch operations are declared. Multiple assignments through the linker script replaced by single initialization call. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | rapidio: add Port-Write handling for EMAlexandre Bounine2010-05-27
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Add RapidIO Port-Write message handling in the context of Error Management Extensions Specification Rev.1.3. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Tested-by: Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo.com> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* module: make MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX into a CONFIG optionAlan Jenkins2009-12-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The next commit will require the use of MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX in .tmp_exports-asm.S. Currently it is mixed in with C structure definitions in "asm/module.h". Move the definition of this arch option into Kconfig, so it can be easily accessed by any code. This also lets modpost.c use the same definition. Previously modpost relied on a hardcoded list of architectures in mk_elfconfig.c. A build test for blackfin, one of the two MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX archs, showed the generated code was unchanged. vmlinux was identical save for build ids, and an apparently randomized suffix on a single "__key" symbol in the kallsyms data). Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> (blackfin) CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* Optimize the ordering of sections in RW_DATA_SECTION.Tim Abbott2009-09-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The old RW_DATA_SECTION had INIT_TASK_DATA (which was more-than-PAGE_SIZE-aligned), followed by a bunch of small alignment stuff, followed by more PAGE_SIZE-aligned stuff, so you wasted memory in the middle of .data re-aligning back up to PAGE_SIZE. This patch sorts the sections by alignment requirements, which should pack them essentially optimally. Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar2009-09-17
|\ | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: Pick up kernel/softirq.c update for dependent fix. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * Merge branch 'percpu-for-linus' into percpu-for-nextTejun Heo2009-08-14
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c mm/percpu.c Conflicts in core and arch percpu codes are mostly from commit ed78e1e078dd44249f88b1dd8c76dafb39567161 which substituted many num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids. As for-next branch has moved all the first chunk allocators into mm/percpu.c, the changes are moved from arch code to mm/percpu.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
| * | linker script: unify usage of discard definitionTejun Heo2009-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Discarded sections in different archs share some commonality but have considerable differences. This led to linker script for each arch implementing its own /DISCARD/ definition, which makes maintaining tedious and adding new entries error-prone. This patch makes all linker scripts to move discard definitions to the end of the linker script and use the common DISCARDS macro. As ld uses the first matching section definition, archs can include default discarded sections by including them earlier in the linker script. ia64 is notable because it first throws away some ia64 specific subsections and then include the rest of the sections into the final image, so those sections must be discarded before the inclusion. defconfig compile tested for x86, x86-64, powerpc, powerpc64, ia64, alpha, sparc, sparc64 and s390. Michal Simek tested microblaze. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * | Merge branch 'master' into for-nextTejun Heo2009-07-03
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull linus#master to merge PER_CPU_DEF_ATTRIBUTES and alpha build fix changes. As alpha in percpu tree uses 'weak' attribute instead of inline assembly, there's no need for __used attribute. Conflicts: arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S include/linux/percpu-defs.h
| * | | linker script: throw away .discard sectionTejun Heo2009-06-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do. Also, .discard is not thrown away while linking modules. Make every arch and module linking throw it away. This will be used to define dummy variables for percpu declarations and definitions. This patch is based on Ivan Kokshaysky's alpha percpu patch. [ Impact: always throw away everything in .discard ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | ftrace: __start_mcount_loc should be .init.rodataJohn Reiser2009-09-12
| |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __start_mcount_loc[] is unused after init, yet occupies RAM forever as part of .rodata. 152kiB is typical on a 64-bit architecture. Instead, __start_mcount_loc should be in the interval [__init_begin, __init_end) so that the space is reclaimed after init. __start_mcount_loc[] is generated during the load portion of kernel build, and is used only by ftrace_init(). ftrace_init is declared '__init' and is in .init.text, which is freed after init. __start_mcount_loc is placed into .rodata by a call to MCOUNT_REC inside the RO_DATA macro of include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h. The array *is* read-only, but more importantly it is not used after init. So the call to MCOUNT_REC should be moved from RO_DATA to INIT_DATA. This patch has been tested on x86_64 with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y which verifies that the address range never is accessed after init. Signed-off-by: John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com> LKML-Reference: <4A6DF0B6.7080402@bitwagon.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | | vmlinux.lds.h: restructure BSS linker script macrosTim Abbott2009-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The BSS section macros in vmlinux.lds.h currently place the .sbss input section outside the bounds of [__bss_start, __bss_end]. On all architectures except for microblaze that handle both .sbss and __bss_start/__bss_end, this is wrong: the .sbss input section is within the range [__bss_start, __bss_end]. Relatedly, the example code at the top of the file actually has __bss_start/__bss_end defined twice; I believe the right fix here is to define them in the BSS_SECTION macro but not in the BSS macro. Another problem with the current macros is that several architectures have an ALIGN(4) or some other small number just before __bss_stop in their linker scripts. The BSS_SECTION macro currently hardcodes this to 4; while it should really be an argument. It also ignores its sbss_align argument; fix that. mn10300 is the only user at present of any of the macros touched by this patch. It looks like mn10300 actually was incorrectly converted to use the new BSS() macro (the alignment of 4 prior to conversion was a __bss_stop alignment, but the argument to the BSS macro is a start alignment). So fix this as well. I'd like acks from Sam and David on this one. Also CCing Paul, since he has a patch from me which will need to be updated to use BSS_SECTION(0, PAGE_SIZE, 4) once this gets merged. Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixesLinus Torvalds2009-07-04
|\ \ \ | |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes: kbuild: finally remove the obsolete variable $TOPDIR gitignore: ignore scripts/ihex2fw Kbuild: Disable the -Wformat-security gcc flag gitignore: ignore gcov output files kbuild: deb-pkg ship changelog Add new __init_task_data macro to be used in arch init_task.c files. asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h: shuffle INIT_TASK* macro names in vmlinux.lds.h Add new macros for page-aligned data and bss sections. asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h: Fix up RW_DATA_SECTION definition.
| * | asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h: shuffle INIT_TASK* macro names in vmlinux.lds.hTim Abbott2009-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We recently added a INIT_TASK(align) in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, but there is already a macro INIT_TASK in include/linux/init_task.h, which is quite confusing. We should switch the macro in the linker script to INIT_TASK_DATA. (Sorry that I missed this in reviewing the patch). Since the macros are new, there is only one user of the INIT_TASK in vmlinux.lds.h, arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S. However, we are currently using INIT_TASK_DATA for laying down an entire .data.init_task section. So rename that to INIT_TASK_DATA_SECTION. I would be worried about changing the meaning of INIT_TASK_DATA, but the old INIT_TASK_DATA implementation had no users, and in fact if anyone had tried to use it, it would have failed to compile because it didn't pass the alignment to the old INIT_TASK. Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <Jesper.Nilsson@axis.com Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
| * | asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h: Fix up RW_DATA_SECTION definition.Paul Mundt2009-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | RW_DATA_SECTION is defined to take 4 different alignment parameters, while NOSAVE_DATA currently uses a fixed PAGE_SIZE alignment as noted in the comments. There are presently no in-tree users of this at present, and I just stumbled across this while implementing the simplified script on a new architecture port, which subsequently resulted in a syntax error. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* | | gcov: fix __ctors_start alignmentHeiko Carstens2009-06-30
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The ctors section for each object file is eight byte aligned (on 64 bit). However the __ctors_start symbol starts at an arbitrary address dependent on the size of the previous sections. Therefore the linker may add some zeroes after __ctors_start to make sure the ctors contents are properly aligned. However the extra zeroes at the beginning aren't expected by the code. When walking the functions pointers contained in there and extra zeroes are added this may result in random jumps. So make sure that the __ctors_start symbol is always aligned as well. Fixes this crash on an allyesconfig on s390: [ 0.582482] Kernel BUG at 0000000000000012 [verbose debug info unavailable] [ 0.582489] illegal operation: 0001 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC [ 0.582496] Modules linked in: [ 0.582501] CPU: 0 Tainted: G W 2.6.31-rc1-dirty #273 [ 0.582506] Process swapper (pid: 1, task: 000000003f218000, ksp: 000000003f2238e8) [ 0.582510] Krnl PSW : 0704200180000000 0000000000000012 (0x12) [ 0.582518] R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:2 PM:0 EA:3 [ 0.582524] Krnl GPRS: 0000000000036727 0000000000000010 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 [ 0.582529] 00000000001dfefa 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000040 [ 0.582534] 0000000001fff0f0 0000000001790628 0000000002296048 0000000002296048 [ 0.582540] 00000000020c438e 0000000001786000 0000000002014a66 000000003f223e60 [ 0.582553] Krnl Code:>0000000000000012: 0000 unknown [ 0.582559] 0000000000000014: 0000 unknown [ 0.582564] 0000000000000016: 0000 unknown [ 0.582570] 0000000000000018: 0000 unknown [ 0.582575] 000000000000001a: 0000 unknown [ 0.582580] 000000000000001c: 0000 unknown [ 0.582585] 000000000000001e: 0000 unknown [ 0.582591] 0000000000000020: 0000 unknown [ 0.582596] Call Trace: [ 0.582599] ([<0000000002014a46>] kernel_init+0x622/0x7a0) [ 0.582607] [<0000000000113e22>] kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc [ 0.582615] [<0000000000113e1c>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc [ 0.582621] INFO: lockdep is turned off. [ 0.582624] Last Breaking-Event-Address: [ 0.582627] [<0000000002014a64>] kernel_init+0x640/0x7a0 Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* / LDSCRIPT: Name INIT_RAM_FS consistentlyDavid Howells2009-06-22
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | In asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, name INIT_RAM_FS consistently, no matter the setting of CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD. This corrects: commit ef53dae8658cf0e93d380983824a661067948d87 Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Date: Sun Jun 7 20:46:37 2009 +0200 Subject: Improve vmlinux.lds.h support for arch specific linker scripts Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kernel: constructor supportPeter Oberparleiter2009-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Call constructors (gcc-generated initcall-like functions) during kernel start and module load. Constructors are e.g. used for gcov data initialization. Disable constructor support for usermode Linux to prevent conflicts with host glibc. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-14
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next * 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (53 commits) .gitignore: ignore *.lzma files kbuild: add generic --set-str option to scripts/config kbuild: simplify argument loop in scripts/config kbuild: handle non-existing options in scripts/config kallsyms: generalize text region handling kallsyms: support kernel symbols in Blackfin on-chip memory documentation: make version fix kbuild: fix a compile warning gitignore: Add GNU GLOBAL files to top .gitignore kbuild: fix delay in setlocalversion on readonly source README: fix misleading pointer to the defconf directory vmlinux.lds.h update kernel-doc: cleanup perl script Improve vmlinux.lds.h support for arch specific linker scripts kbuild: fix headers_exports with boolean expression kbuild/headers_check: refine extern check kbuild: fix "Argument list too long" error for "make headers_check", ignore *.patch files Remove bashisms from scripts menu: fix embedded menu presentation ...
| * vmlinux.lds.h updateSam Ravnborg2009-06-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Updated after review by Tim Abbott. - Use HEAD_TEXT_SECTION - Drop use of section-names.h and delete file - Introduce EXIT_CALL Deleting section-names.h required a few simple updates of init.h Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
| * Improve vmlinux.lds.h support for arch specific linker scriptsSam Ravnborg2009-06-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To support alingment of the individual architecture specific linker scripts provide a set of general definitions in vmlinux.lds.h With these definitions applied the diverse linekr scripts can be reduced in line count and their readability are improved - IMO. A sample linker script is included to give the preferred order of the sections for the architectures that do not have any special requirments. These definitions are also a first step towards eventual support for -ffunction-sections. The definitions makes it much easier to do a global renaming of section names - but the main purpose is to clean up the linker scripts. Tim Aboot has provided a lot of inputs to improve the definitions - all faults are mine. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>