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 <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
This patch adds a generic solution to support multiple machines based on
a given SoC within a single kernel image. It is implemented already for
several other architectures but MIPS has no generic support for that yet.
[Ralf: This competes with DT but DT is a much more complex solution and this
code has been used by OpenWRT for a long time so for now DT is a bad reason
to stop the merge but longer term this should be migrated to DT.]
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kaloz@openwrt.org
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: Cliff Holden <Cliff.Holden@Atheros.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1814/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This patch add a new section for MIPS to record the block of the hardirq
handling for function graph tracer(print_graph_irq) via adding the
__irq_entry annotation to the the entrypoints of the hardirqs(the block
with irq_enter()...irq_exit()).
Thanks goes to Steven & Frederic Weisbecker for their feedbacks.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/676/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Commit 51b563fc93 ("arm, cris, mips,
sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0") removed a few
CPPFLAGS with vital include paths necessary to build vmlinux.lds
on MIPS, and moved the calculation of the 'jiffies' symbol
directly to vmlinux.lds.S but forgot to change make ifdef/... to
cpp macros.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@gmail.com>
[sam: moved assignment of CPPFLAGS arch/mips/kernel/Makefile]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> reported:
Bash 4 filters out variables which contain a dot in them.
This happends to be the case of CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds.
This is rather unfortunate, as it now causes
build failures when using SHELL=/bin/bash to compile,
or when bash happens to be used by make (eg when it's /bin/sh)
Remove the common definition of CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds by
pushing relevant stuff to either Makefile.build or the
arch specific kernel/Makefile where we build the linker script.
This is also nice cleanup as we move the information out where
it is used.
Notes for the different architectures touched:
arm - we use an already exported symbol
cris - we use a config symbol aleady available
[Not build tested]
mips - the jiffies complexity has moved to vmlinux.lds.S where we need it.
Added a few variables to CPPFLAGS - they are only used by
the linker script.
[Not build tested]
powerpc - removed assignment that is not needed
[not build tested]
sparc - simplified it using $(BITS)
um - introduced a few new exported variables to deal with this
xtensa - added options to CPP invocation
[not build tested]
Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This patch results in fewer output sections and in some data being
reordered, but should have no functional impact.
Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Now that PAGE_SIZE is available to assembly directly, there is no need
to separately expose it as _PAGE_SIZE through asm-offsets.
In addition, remove _PAGE_SHIFT from asm-offsets, since it was never
needed, and is not used anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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>
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>
The -ffunction-sections puts each text in .text.function_name section.
Without this patch, most functions are placed outside _text..._etext
area and it breaks show_stacktrace(), etc.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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>
This style will be consitent with all other arch's - soon.
In addition:
- Moved a few labels inside brackets for the sections they specify
to prevent that linker alignmnet made them point before the section start
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Store any note sections after the exception tables like the other
architectures do. This is required for .note.gnu.build-id emitted from
binutils 2.18 onwards if nothing else.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Leaving these sections is useful to some tools that look at the image, and
none of them are loaded into memory. The .mdebug.abi64 section, in
particular, lets GDB recognize vmlinux.32 as an N64 program instead of
guessing that it is O32.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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>
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>
While the recent cset 86384d5441 did improve
things it didn't resolve all the problems. So bite the bullet and discard
.exit.text and .exit.data at runtime. Which of course sucks because it
bloats binaries with code that will never ever be used but it's the only
thing that will work reliable as demonstrated by the function sd_major() in
drivers/scsi/sd.c.
Gcc may compile sd_major() using a jump table which it will put into
.rodata. If it also inlines sd_major's function body into exit_sd() which
gcc > 3.4.x does. If CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD has been set to y we would like ld
to discard exit_sd's code at link time. However sd_major happens to
contain a switch statement which gcc will compile using a jump table in
.rodata on the architectures I checked. So, when ld later discards
.exit.text only the jump table in .rodata with its stale references to
the discard .exit.text will be left which any no antique ld will honor
with a link error.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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 <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
[ Added AVR32 as well ]
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When debugging a kernel compiled by gcc 4.1 with gdb 6.4, gdb could
not show filename, linenumber, etc. It seems fixed if I used generic
DWARF_DEBUG macro. Although gcc 3.x seems work without this change,
it would be better to use the generic macro unless there were
something MIPS specific.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
At times gcc will place bits of __exit functions into .rodata. If
compiled into the kernle itself we used to discard .exit.text - but
not the bits left in .rodata. While harmless this did at times result
in a large number of warnings. So until gcc fixes this, discard
.exit.text at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Very much to my surprise Fuxin Zhang reports this is all it takes to get
the kernel to work for page sizes larger than 4kB. This also paves the
way for support for the R6000 and R8000 which don't support 4kB page size.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
