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* init.h: add missing initcall variantsRandy Dunlap2013-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add missing initcall variants when building for loadable modules. This fixes this build error on powerpc allmodconfig: drivers/tty/ehv_bytechan.c: error: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'console_initcall' [-Werror=implicit-int] Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Timur Tabi <timur@tabi.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* init.h: document the existence of __initconstGeert Uytterhoeven2013-11-12
| | | | | | | | | Initdata can be const since more than 5 years, using the __initconst keyword. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* initmpfs: move rootfs code from fs/ramfs/ to init/Rob Landley2013-09-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the rootfs code was a wrapper around ramfs, having them in the same file made sense. Now that it can wrap another filesystem type, move it in with the init code instead. This also allows a subsequent patch to access rootfstype= command line arg. Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* init.h: remove __cpuinit sections from the kernelPaul Gortmaker2013-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time") is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created with improper use of the various __init prefixes. After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone, we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h. As an interim step, we can dummy out the macros to be no-ops, and this will allow us to avoid a giant tree-wide patch, and instead we can feed in smaller chunks mainly via the arch/ trees. This is in keeping with commit 78d86c213f28193082b5d8a1a424044b7ba406f1 ("init.h: Remove __dev* sections from the kernel") We don't strictly need to dummy out the macros to do this, but if we don't then some harmless section mismatch warnings may temporarily result. For example, notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c) and are flagged as __cpuinit. And hence the calling functions in the arch specific code are also expected to be __cpuinit -- if not, then we get the section mismatch warning. Two of the three __CPUINIT variants are not used whatsoever, and so they are simply removed directly at this point in time. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589 Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* Merge branch 'master' into for-3.9-asyncTejun Heo2013-01-23
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | To receive f56c3196f251012de9b3ebaff55732a9074fdaae ("async: fix __lowest_in_progress()"). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
| * Remove __dev* markings from init.hGreg Kroah-Hartman2013-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that all in-kernel users of __dev* are gone, let's remove them from init.h to keep them from popping up again and again. Thanks to Bill Pemberton for doing all of the hard work to make removal of this possible. Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* | init, block: try to load default elevator module early during bootTejun Heo2013-01-18
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds default module loading and uses it to load the default block elevator. During boot, it's called right after initramfs or initrd is made available and right before control is passed to userland. This ensures that as long as the modules are available in the usual places in initramfs, initrd or the root filesystem, the default modules are loaded as soon as possible. This will replace the on-demand elevator module loading from elevator init path. v2: Fixed build breakage when !CONFIG_BLOCK. Reported by kbuild test robot. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Fengguang We <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
* include/linux/init.h: use the stringify operator for the __define_initcall macroMatthew Leach2012-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the __define_initcall() macro takes three arguments, fn, id and level. The level argument is exactly the same as the id argument but wrapped in quotes. To overcome this need to specify three arguments to the __define_initcall macro, where one argument is the stringification of another, we can just use the stringification macro instead. Signed-off-by: Matthew Leach <matthew@mattleach.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* init.h: Remove __dev* sections from the kernelGreg Kroah-Hartman2012-11-30
| | | | | | | | | | With the recent work to remove CONFIG_HOTPLUG, we are starting to get a bunch of __devinit section warnings, despite CONFIG_HOTPLUG always being enabled. So, stop marking the sections entirely, by defining them away the section markings in init.h Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* sections: disable const sections for PA-RISC v2Andi Kleen2012-10-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The PA-RISC tool chain seems to have some problem with correct read/write attributes on sections. This causes problems when the const sections are fixed up for other architecture to only contain truly read-only data. Disable const sections for PA-RISC This can cause a bit of noise with modpost. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* init: add comments to keep initcall-names in sync with initcall levelsJim Cromie2012-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | main.c has initcall_level_names[] for parse_args to print in debug messages, add comments to keep them in sync with initcalls defined in init.h. Also add "loadable" into comment re not using *_initcall macros in modules, to disambiguate from kernel/params.c and other builtins. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* module_param: make bool parameters really bool (core code)Rusty Russell2012-01-12
| | | | | | | | | | | module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy trick. It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option. For this version it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* ftrace: Avoid recording mcount on .init sections directlySteven Rostedt2011-05-16
| | | | | | | | | | The init and exit sections should not be traced and adding a call to mcount to them is a waste of text and instruction cache. Have the macro section attributes include notrace to ignore these functions for tracing from the build. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023738.953028219@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* init.h: add some more documentation to __ref* tagsMichal Nazarewicz2010-10-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The __ref* tags may have been confusing for new kernel developers (I was confused by them for sure) so adding a few more sentences to comment to clear things up for people who see those for the first time. Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@samsung.com> Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 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>
* PM: Add initcall_debug style timing for suspend/resumeArjan van de Ven2009-12-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to diagnose overall suspend/resume times, we need basic instrumentation to break down the total time into per device timing, similar to initcall_debug. This patch adds the basic timing instrumentation, needed for a scritps/bootgraph.pl equivalent or humans. The bootgraph.pl program is still a work in progress, but is far enough along to know that this patch is sufficient. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
* initcalls: Add early_initcall() for modulesBorislav Petkov2009-10-02
| | | | | | | | | | | Complete the early_initcall() API by making it available in modules too. To be used by the EDAC/MCE code. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> LKML-Reference: <20091002132321.GC28682@aftab> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* x86: properly annotate alternatives.cJan Beulich2009-08-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some of the NOPs tables aren't used on 64-bits, quite some code and data is needed post-init for module loading only, and a couple of functions aren't used outside that file (i.e. can be static, and don't need to be exported). The change to __INITDATA/__INITRODATA is needed to avoid an assembler warning. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> LKML-Reference: <4A8BC8A00200007800010823@vpn.id2.novell.com> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 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>
* fbdev: move logo externs to header fileGeert Uytterhoeven2009-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now we have __initconst, we can finally move the external declarations for the various Linux logo structures to <linux/linux_logo.h>. James' ack dates back to the previous submission (way to long ago), when the logos were still __initdata, which caused failures on some platforms with some toolchain versions. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Acked-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 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>
* initconst adjustmentsJan Beulich2009-06-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | - add .init.rodata to INIT_DATA, and group all initconst flavors together - move strings generated from __setup_param() into .init.rodata - add .*init.rodata to modpost's sets of init sections - make modpost warn about references between meminit and cpuinit as well as memexit and cpuexit sections (as CPU and memory hotplug are independently selectable features) Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* Remove unused support code for refok sections.Tim Abbott2009-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The old refok sections .text.init.refok .data.init.refok .exit.text.refok have been deprecated since commit 312b1485fb509c9bc32eda28ad29537896658cb8. After the other patches in this patch series nothing is put in these sections, so clean things up by eliminating all the remaining references to them. Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add new HEAD_TEXT_SECTION macro.Tim Abbott2009-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is preparation for replacing all uses of ".head.text" or ".text.head" in the kernel with macros, so that the section name can later be changed without having to touch a lot of the kernel. Since some linker scripts do more complex things than referencing HEAD_TEXT, we add a HEAD_TEXT_SECTION macro that just contains the actual name. I've defined HEAD_TEXT_SECTION in a new header, include/linux/section-names.h, so that this section name only needs to appear in one place. I anticipate creating similar macro structures for a number of other section names. The long-term goal here is to be able to change the kernel's magic section names to those that are compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections. This requires renaming all magic sections with names of the form ".text.foo". Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Driver Core: early platform driverMagnus Damm2009-04-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | V3 of the early platform driver implementation. Platform drivers are great for embedded platforms because we can separate driver configuration from the actual driver. So base addresses, interrupts and other configuration can be kept with the processor or board code, and the platform driver can be reused by many different platforms. For early devices we have nothing today. For instance, to configure early timers and early serial ports we cannot use platform devices. This because the setup order during boot. Timers are needed before the platform driver core code is available. The same goes for early printk support. Early in this case means before initcalls. These early drivers today have their configuration either hard coded or they receive it using some special configuration method. This is working quite well, but if we want to support both regular kernel modules and early devices then we need to have two ways of configuring the same driver. A single way would be better. The early platform driver patch is basically a set of functions that allow drivers to register themselves and architecture code to locate them and probe. Registration happens through early_param(). The time for the probe is decided by the architecture code. See Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt for more details. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* adjust init section definitionsJan Beulich2008-10-29
| | | | | | | | | Add rodata equivalents for assembly use, and fix the section attributes used by __REFCONST. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* Merge branch 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-10-20
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (131 commits) tracing/fastboot: improve help text tracing/stacktrace: improve help text tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl tracing/fastboot: fix bootgraph.pl initcall name regexp tracing/fastboot: fix issues and improve output of bootgraph.pl tracepoints: synchronize unregister static inline tracepoints: tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() ftrace: make ftrace_test_p6nop disassembler-friendly markers: fix synchronize marker unregister static inline tracing/fastboot: add better resolution to initcall debug/tracing trace: add build-time check to avoid overrunning hex buffer ftrace: fix hex output mode of ftrace tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl tracing/fastboot: fix printk format typo in boot tracer ftrace: return an error when setting a nonexistent tracer ftrace: make some tracers reentrant ring-buffer: make reentrant ring-buffer: move page indexes into page headers tracing/fastboot: only trace non-module initcalls ftrace: move pc counter in irqtrace ... Manually fix conflicts: - init/main.c: initcall tracing - kernel/module.c: verbose level vs tracepoints - scripts/bootgraph.pl: fallout from cherry-picking commits.
| * ftrace: remove old pointers to mcountSteven Rostedt2008-10-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a mcount pointer is recorded into a table, it is used to add or remove calls to mcount (replacing them with nops). If the code is removed via removing a module, the pointers still exist. At modifying the code a check is always made to make sure the code being replaced is the code expected. In-other-words, the code being replaced is compared to what it is expected to be before being replaced. There is a very small chance that the code being replaced just happens to look like code that calls mcount (very small since the call to mcount is relative). To remove this chance, this patch adds ftrace_release to allow module unloading to remove the pointers to mcount within the module. Another change for init calls is made to not trace calls marked with __init. The tracing can not be started until after init is done anyway. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | init.h: remove long-dead __setup_null_param() macroRobert P. J. Day2008-10-16
|/ | | | | | | | | This macro appears to have been unused for ages, and there are no invocations of it anywhere in the source tree. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* modules: extend initcall_debug functionality to the module loaderArjan van de Ven2008-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kernel has this really nice facility where if you put "initcall_debug" on the kernel commandline, it'll print which function it's going to execute just before calling an initcall, and then after the call completes it will 1) print if it had an error code 2) checks for a few simple bugs (like leaving irqs off) and 3) print how long the init call took in milliseconds. While trying to optimize the boot speed of my laptop, I have been loving number 3 to figure out what to optimize... ... and then I wished that the same thing was done for module loading. This patch makes the module loader use this exact same functionality; it's a logical extension in my view (since modules are just sort of late binding initcalls anyway) and so far I've found it quite useful in finding where things are too slow in my boot. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* Better interface for hooking early initcallsEduard - Gabriel Munteanu2008-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Added early initcall (pre-SMP) support, using an identical interface to that of regular initcalls. Functions called from do_pre_smp_initcalls() could be converted to use this cleaner interface. This is required by CPU hotplug, because early users have to register notifiers before going SMP. One such CPU hotplug user is the relay interface with buffer-only channels, which needs to register such a notifier, to be usable in early code. This in turn is used by kmemtrace. Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* init.h: remove obsolete contentRobert P. J. Day2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | Remove apparently obsolete content from init.h referring to gcc 2.9x and to "no_module_init". Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* proper extern for late_time_initAdrian Bunk2008-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | Add a proper extern for late_time_init in include/linux/init.h Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add missing init section definitionsSam Ravnborg2008-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | When adding __devinitconst etc. the __initconst variant were missed. Add this one and proper definitions for .head.text for use in .S files. The naming .head.text is preferred over .text.head as the latter will conflict for a function named head when introducing -ffunctions-sections. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* generic: add __FINITDATAIngo Molnar2008-02-06
| | | | Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Remove __INIT_REFOK and __INITDATA_REFOKRalf Baechle2008-02-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 312b1485fb509c9bc32eda28ad29537896658cb8 made __INIT_REFOK expand into .section .section ".ref.text", "ax". Since the assembler doesn't tolerate stuttering in the source that broke all MIPS builds. Since with this change Sam downgraded __INIT_REFOK to just a backward compat thing and there being only a single use in the MIPS arch code the best solution is to delete both of __INIT_REFOK and __INITDATA_REFOK (which was equally broken) being unused anyway these can be deleted. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* Introduce new section reference annotations tags: __ref, __refdata, __refconstSam Ravnborg2008-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Today we have the following annotations for functions/data referencing __init/__exit functions / data: __init_refok => for init functions __initdata_refok => for init data __exit_refok => for exit functions There is really no difference between the __init and __exit versions and simplify it and to introduce a shorter annotation the following new annotations are introduced: __ref => for functions (code) that references __*init / __*exit __refdata => for variables __refconst => for const variables Whit this annotation is it more obvious what the annotation is for and there is no longer the arbitary division between __init and __exit code. The mechanishm is the same as before - a special section is created which is made part of the usual sections in the linker script. We will start to see annotations like this: -static struct pci_serial_quirk pci_serial_quirks[] = { +static const struct pci_serial_quirk pci_serial_quirks[] __refconst = { ----------------- -static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata cpuid_class_cpu_notifier = +static struct notifier_block cpuid_class_cpu_notifier __refdata = ---------------- -static int threshold_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, +static int __ref threshold_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, [The above is just random samples]. Note: No modifications were needed in modpost to support the new sections due to the newly introduced blacklisting. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* remove __attribute_used__Adrian Bunk2008-01-28
| | | | | | | | | Remove the deprecated __attribute_used__. [Introduce __section in a few places to silence checkpatch /sam] Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* Use separate sections for __dev/__cpu/__mem code/dataSam Ravnborg2008-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introducing separate sections for __dev* (HOTPLUG), __cpu* (HOTPLUG_CPU) and __mem* (MEMORY_HOTPLUG) allows us to do a much more reliable Section mismatch check in modpost. We are no longer dependent on the actual configuration of for example HOTPLUG. This has the effect that all users see much more Section mismatch warnings than before because they were almost all hidden when HOTPLUG was enabled. The advantage of this is that when building a piece of code then it is much more likely that the Section mismatch errors are spotted and the warnings will be felt less random of nature. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
* compiler.h: introduce __section()Sam Ravnborg2008-01-28
| | | | | | | Add a new helper: __section() that makes a section definition much shorter and more readable. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* store __setup_str_* in a more compact wayJan Beulich2007-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | __setup_str_* are referenced only during boot, hence there's no need to waste image space for aligning these strings (with the aim of improving performance). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add assembler equivalents to __init{,date}_refokRalf Baechle2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | I need __INIT_REFOK to fix a MODPOST warning for a few MIPS configs which have to call init code from .text very early in the game due to bootloader issues. __INITDATA_REFOK is just for consistency. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [NETNS]: Move some code into __init section when CONFIG_NET_NS=nPavel Emelyanov2007-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the net namespaces many code leaved the __init section, thus making the kernel occupy more memory than it did before. Since we have a config option that prohibits the namespace creation, the functions that initialize/finalize some netns stuff are simply not needed and can be freed after the boot. Currently, this is almost not noticeable, since few calls are no longer in __init, but when the namespaces will be merged it will be possible to free more code. I propose to use the __net_init, __net_exit and __net_initdata "attributes" for functions/variables that are not used if the CONFIG_NET_NS is not set to save more space in memory. The exiting functions cannot just reside in the __exit section, as noticed by David, since the init section will have references on it and the compilation will fail due to modpost checks. These references can exist, since the init namespace never dies and the exit callbacks are never called. So I introduce the __exit_refok attribute just like it is already done with the __init_refok. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* x86_64: Don't mark __exitcall as __coldAndi Kleen2007-08-11
| | | | | | | | gcc currently doesn't support attributes on types, so we can't use it function pointers. This avoids some warnings on a gcc 4.3 build. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* pure_initcall ID inconsistencyMichael Buesch2007-07-31
| | | | | | | | | pure_initcall uses the same ID as core_initcall. I guess that's a typo and it should use its own ID. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* x86: Support __attribute__((__cold__)) in gcc 4.3Andi Kleen2007-07-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | gcc 4.3 supports a new __attribute__((__cold__)) to mark functions cold. Any path directly leading to a call of this function will be unlikely. And gcc will try to generate smaller code for the function itself. Please use with care. The code generation advantage isn't large and in most cases it is not worth uglifying code with this. This patch marks some common error functions like panic(), printk() as cold. This will longer term make many unlikely()s unnecessary, although we can keep them for now for older compilers. BUG is not marked cold because there is currently no way to tell gcc to mark a inline function told. Also all __init and __exit functions are marked cold. With a non -Os build this will tell the compiler to generate slightly smaller code for them. I think it currently only uses less alignments for labels, but that might change in the future. One disadvantage over *likely() is that they cannot be easily instrumented to verify them. Another drawback is that only the latest gcc 4.3 snapshots support this. Unfortunately we cannot detect this using the preprocessor. This means older snapshots will fail now. I don't think that's a problem because they are unreleased compilers that nobody should be using. gcc also has a __hot__ attribute, but I don't see any sense in using this in the kernel right now. But someday I hope gcc will be able to use more aggressive optimizing for hot functions even in -Os, if that happens it should be added. Includes compile fix from Thomas Gleixner. Cc: Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Remove final two references to "__obsolete_setup" macroRobert P. J. Day2007-07-16
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kbuild: introduce __init_refok/__initdata_refok to supress section mismatch ↵Sam Ravnborg2007-05-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | warnings Throughout the kernel there are a few legitimite references to init or exit sections. Most of these are covered by the patterns included in modpost but a few nees special attention. To avoid hardcoding a lot of function names in modpost introduce a marker so relevant function/data can be marked. When modpost see a reference to a init/exit function from a function/data marked no warning will be issued. Idea from: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Remove cpu hotplug defines for __INIT & __INITDATAPrarit Bhargava2007-05-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After examining what was checked in and the code base I discovered that most of 86c0baf123e474b6eb404798926ecf62b426bf3a wasn't necessary anymore.... So here's a patch that reverts the last part of that changeset: Revert part of 86c0baf123e474b6eb404798926ecf62b426bf3a. The kernel has moved forward to a state where the original change is not necessary. After porting forward, this final version of the patch was applied and broke non-x86 architectures. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* init/do_mounts.c: proper prepare_namespace() prototypeAdrian Bunk2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | Add a proper protype for prepare_namespace() in include/linux/init.h. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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