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Dave Young
2965faa5e0 kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code
There are two kexec load syscalls, kexec_load another and kexec_file_load.
 kexec_file_load has been splited as kernel/kexec_file.c.  In this patch I
split kexec_load syscall code to kernel/kexec.c.

And add a new kconfig option KEXEC_CORE, so we can disable kexec_load and
use kexec_file_load only, or vice verse.

The original requirement is from Ted Ts'o, he want kexec kernel signature
being checked with CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG enabled.  But kexec-tools use
kexec_load syscall can bypass the checking.

Vivek Goyal proposed to create a common kconfig option so user can compile
in only one syscall for loading kexec kernel.  KEXEC/KEXEC_FILE selects
KEXEC_CORE so that old config files still work.

Because there's general code need CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, so I updated all the
architecture Kconfig with a new option KEXEC_CORE, and let KEXEC selects
KEXEC_CORE in arch Kconfig.  Also updated general kernel code with to
kexec_load syscall.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
Jan Beulich
97b67ae559 x86-64: Use RIP-relative addressing for most per-CPU accesses
Observing that per-CPU data (in the SMP case) is reachable by
exploiting 64-bit address wraparound (building on the default kernel
load address being at 16Mb), the one byte shorter RIP-relative
addressing form can be used for most per-CPU accesses. The one
exception are the "stable" reads, where the use of the "P" operand
modifier prevents the compiler from using RIP-relative addressing, but
is unavoidable due to the use of the "p" constraint (side note: with
gcc 4.9.x the intended effect of this isn't being achieved anymore,
see gcc bug 63637).

With the dependency on the minimum kernel load address, arbitrarily
low values for CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START are now no longer possible. A
link time assertion is being added, directing to the need to increase
that value when it triggers.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5458A1780200007800044A9D@mail.emea.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-11-04 20:43:14 +01:00
Andy Lutomirski
309944be29 x86, vdso: Zero-pad the VVAR page
By coincidence, the VVAR page is at the end of an ELF segment.  As a
result, if it ends up being a partial page, the kernel loader will
leave garbage behind at the end of the vvar page.  Zero-pad it to a
full page to fix this issue.

This has probably been broken since the VVAR page was introduced.
On QEMU, if you dump the run-time contents of the VVAR page, you can
find entertaining strings from seabios left behind.

It's remotely possible that this is a security bug -- conceivably
there's some BIOS out there that leaves something sensitive in the
few K of memory that is exposed to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395094933-14252-12-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2014-03-18 12:52:44 -07:00
Stefani Seibold
d2312e3379 x86, vdso: Make vsyscall_gtod_data handling x86 generic
This patch move the vsyscall_gtod_data handling out of vsyscall_64.c
into an additonal file vsyscall_gtod.c to make the functionality
available for x86 32 bit kernel.

It also adds a new vsyscall_32.c which setup the VVAR page.

Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395094933-14252-2-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2014-03-18 12:51:52 -07:00
David Cohen
66ac501370 x86: intel-mid: Add section for sfi device table
When Intel mid uses SFI table to enumerate devices, it requires an extra
device table with further information about how to probe such devices.

This patch creates a section where the device table will stay if
CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MID is selected.

Signed-off-by: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382049336-21316-12-git-send-email-david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-10-17 16:41:04 -07:00
Jan Beulich
ec7fd34425 x86: Drop always empty .text..page_aligned section
Commit e44b7b7 ("x86: move suspend wakeup code to C") didn't
care to also eliminate the side effects that the earlier 4c49156
("x86: make arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_32.S use a separate")
had, thus leaving a now pointless, almost page size gap at the
beginning of .text.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/513DBAA402000078000C4896@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-03-11 15:07:56 +01:00
Jarkko Sakkinen
c9b77ccb52 x86, realmode: Move ACPI wakeup to unified realmode code
Migrated ACPI wakeup code to the real-mode blob.
Code existing in .x86_trampoline  can be completely
removed. Static descriptor table in wakeup_asm.S is
courtesy of H. Peter Anvin.

Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-7-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-05-08 11:46:05 -07:00
Andy Lutomirski
3ae36655b9 x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter
There are three choices:

vsyscall=native: Vsyscalls are native code that issues the
corresponding syscalls.

vsyscall=emulate (default): Vsyscalls are emulated by instruction
fault traps, tested in the bad_area path.  The actual contents of
the vsyscall page is the same as the vsyscall=native case except
that it's marked NX.  This way programs that make assumptions about
what the code in the page does will not be confused when they read
that code.

vsyscall=none: Trying to execute a vsyscall will segfault.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8449fb3abf89851fd6b2260972666a6f82542284.1312988155.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-08-10 19:26:46 -05:00
Andy Lutomirski
f670bb760e x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023
Gold has trouble assigning numbers to the location counter inside of
an output section description.  The bug was triggered by
9fd67b4ed0, which consolidated all of
the vsyscall sections into a single section.  The workaround is IMO
still nicer than the old way of doing it.

This produces an apparently valid kernel image and passes my vdso
tests on both GNU ld version 2.21.51.0.6-2.fc15 20110118 and GNU
gold (version 2.21.51.0.6-2.fc15 20110118) 1.10 as distributed by
Fedora 15.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0b260cb806f1f9a25c00ce8377a5f035d57f557a.1312378163.git.luto@mit.edu
Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-08-04 16:13:38 -07:00
Andy Lutomirski
9c40818da5 x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment.
The kernel's loader doesn't seem to care, but gold complains.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f0716870c297242a841b949953d80c0d87bf3d3f.1312378163.git.luto@mit.edu
Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-08-04 16:13:35 -07:00
Andy Lutomirski
98d0ac38ca x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO
The vsyscall page now consists entirely of trap instructions.

Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/637648f303f2ef93af93bae25186e9a1bea093f5.1310639973.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-07-14 17:57:05 -07:00
Andy Lutomirski
5dfcea629a x86-64: Fill unused parts of the vsyscall page with 0xcc
Jumping to 0x00 might do something depending on the following
bytes. Jumping to 0xcc is a trap.  So fill the unused parts of
the vsyscall page with 0xcc to make it useless for exploits to
jump there.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ed54bfcfbe50a9070d20ec1edbe0d149e22a4568.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-06 09:43:14 +02:00
Andy Lutomirski
bb5fe2f78e x86-64: Remove vsyscall number 3 (venosys)
It just segfaults since April 2008 (a4928cff), so I'm pretty
sure that nothing uses it.  And having an empty section makes
the linker script a bit fragile.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4a4abcf47ecadc269f2391a313576fe6d06acef7.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-06 09:43:14 +02:00
Andy Lutomirski
9fd67b4ed0 x86-64: Give vvars their own page
Move vvars out of the vsyscall page into their own page and mark
it NX.

Without this patch, an attacker who can force a daemon to call
some fixed address could wait until the time contains, say,
0xCD80, and then execute the current time.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b1460f81dc4463d66ea3f2b5ce240f58d48effec.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-05 21:30:32 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
14587a2a25 Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: vdso: Remove unused variable
  x86-64: Optimize vDSO time()
  x86-64: Add time to vDSO
  x86-64: Turn off -pg and turn on -foptimize-sibling-calls for vDSO
  x86-64: Move vread_tsc into a new file with sensible options
  x86-64: Vclock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) can't ever see nsec < 0
  x86-64: Don't generate cmov in vread_tsc
  x86-64: Remove unnecessary barrier in vread_tsc
  x86-64: Clean up vdso/kernel shared variables
2011-05-26 12:19:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5129df03d0 Merge branch 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: Unify input section names
  percpu: Avoid extra NOP in percpu_cmpxchg16b_double
  percpu: Cast away printk format warning
  percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE

Fix up fairly trivial conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h as per Tejun
2011-05-24 11:53:42 -07:00
Andy Lutomirski
8c49d9a74b x86-64: Clean up vdso/kernel shared variables
Variables that are shared between the vdso and the kernel are
currently a bit of a mess.  They are each defined with their own
magic, they are accessed differently in the kernel, the vsyscall page,
and the vdso, and one of them (vsyscall_clock) doesn't even really
exist.

This changes them all to use a common mechanism.  All of them are
delcared in vvar.h with a fixed address (validated by the linker
script).  In the kernel (as before), they look like ordinary
read-write variables.  In the vsyscall page and the vdso, they are
accessed through a new macro VVAR, which gives read-only access.

The vdso is now loaded verbatim into memory without any fixups.  As a
side bonus, access from the vdso is faster because a level of
indirection is removed.

While we're at it, pack jiffies and vgetcpu_mode into the same
cacheline.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C7357882fbb51fa30491636a7b6528747301b7ee9.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-05-24 14:51:28 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
107e0e0cd8 x86, apic: Introduce .apicdrivers section to find the list of apic drivers
This will pave the way for each apic driver to be self-contained
and eliminate the need for apic_probe[].

Order in which apic drivers are listed in the .apicdrivers
section is important, as this determines the apic probe order.
And this is enforced by the ordering of apic driver files in the
Makefile and the macros apic_driver()/apic_drivers().

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: steiner@sgi.com
Cc: gorcunov@openvz.org
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110521005526.068775085@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-22 11:48:03 +02:00
Tejun Heo
0415b00d17 percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE
Percpu allocator honors alignment request upto PAGE_SIZE and both the
percpu addresses in the percpu address space and the translated kernel
addresses should be aligned accordingly.  The calculation of the
former depends on the alignment of percpu output section in the kernel
image.

The linker script macros PERCPU_VADDR() and PERCPU() are used to
define this output section and the latter takes @align parameter.
Several architectures are using @align smaller than PAGE_SIZE breaking
percpu memory alignment.

This patch removes @align parameter from PERCPU(), renames it to
PERCPU_SECTION() and makes it always align to PAGE_SIZE.  While at it,
add PCPU_SETUP_BUG_ON() checks such that alignment problems are
reliably detected and remove percpu alignment comment recently added
in workqueue.c as the condition would trigger BUG way before reaching
there.

For um, this patch raises the alignment of percpu area.  As the area
is in .init, there shouldn't be any noticeable difference.

This problem was discovered by David Howells while debugging boot
failure on mn10300.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
2011-03-24 18:50:09 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
e7fd3b4669 Merge branch 'x86-trampoline-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-trampoline-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Fix binutils-2.21 symbol related build failures
  x86-64, trampoline: Remove unused variable
  x86, reboot: Fix the use of passed arguments in 32-bit BIOS reboot
  x86, reboot: Move the real-mode reboot code to an assembly file
  x86: Make the GDT_ENTRY() macro in <asm/segment.h> safe for assembly
  x86, trampoline: Use the unified trampoline setup for ACPI wakeup
  x86, trampoline: Common infrastructure for low memory trampolines

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
2011-03-16 10:10:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
79d8a8f736 Merge branch 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu, x86: Add arch-specific this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() support
  percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_cmpxchg_double()
  alpha: use L1_CACHE_BYTES for cacheline size in the linker script
  percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S due to the
percpu alignment having changed ("x86: Reduce back the alignment of the
per-CPU data section")
2011-03-16 08:22:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
da849abeb8 Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, binutils, xen: Fix another wrong size directive
  x86: Remove dead config option X86_CPU
  x86: Really print supported CPUs if PROCESSOR_SELECT=y
  x86: Fix a bogus unwind annotation in lib/semaphore_32.S
  um, x86-64: Fix UML build after adding CFI annotations to lib/rwsem_64.S
  x86: Remove unused bits from lib/thunk_*.S
  x86: Use {push,pop}_cfi in more places
  x86-64: Add CFI annotations to lib/rwsem_64.S
  x86, asm: Cleanup unnecssary macros in asm-offsets.c
  x86, system.h: Drop unused __SAVE/__RESTORE macros
  x86: Use bitmap library functions
  x86: Partly unify asm-offsets_{32,64}.c
  x86: Reduce back the alignment of the per-CPU data section
2011-03-15 18:59:56 -07:00
Jiri Olsa
ea7145477a x86: Separate out entry text section
Put x86 entry code into a separate link section: .entry.text.

Separating the entry text section seems to have performance
benefits - caused by more efficient instruction cache usage.

Running hackbench with perf stat --repeat showed that the change
compresses the icache footprint. The icache load miss rate went
down by about 15%:

 before patch:
         19417627  L1-icache-load-misses      ( +-   0.147% )

 after patch:
         16490788  L1-icache-load-misses      ( +-   0.180% )

The motivation of the patch was to fix a particular kprobes
bug that relates to the entry text section, the performance
advantage was discovered accidentally.

Whole perf output follows:

 - results for current tip tree:

  Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs):

         19417627  L1-icache-load-misses      ( +-   0.147% )
       2676914223  instructions             #      0.497 IPC     ( +- 0.079% )
       5389516026  cycles                     ( +-   0.144% )

      0.206267711  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.138% )

 - results for current tip tree with the patch applied:

  Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs):

         16490788  L1-icache-load-misses      ( +-   0.180% )
       2717734941  instructions             #      0.502 IPC     ( +- 0.079% )
       5414756975  cycles                     ( +-   0.148% )

      0.206747566  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.137% )

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com
Cc: ananth@in.ibm.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference: <20110307181039.GB15197@jolsa.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-08 17:22:11 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin
4822b7fc6d x86, trampoline: Common infrastructure for low memory trampolines
Common infrastructure for low memory trampolines.  This code installs
the trampolines permanently in low memory very early.  It also permits
multiple pieces of code to be used for this purpose.

This code also introduces a standard infrastructure for computing
symbol addresses in the trampoline code.

The only change to the actual SMP trampolines themselves is that the
64-bit trampoline has been made reusable -- the previous version would
overwrite the code with a status variable; this moves the status
variable to a separate location.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D5DFBE4.7090104@intel.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2011-02-17 21:02:43 -08:00
Jan Beulich
94d1ac8b55 x86: Reduce back the alignment of the per-CPU data section
This complements commit:

  47f19a0814: percpu: Remove the multi-page alignment facility

reverting one leftover of:

  fe8e0c25ca: x86, 32-bit: Align percpu area and irq stacks to THREAD_SIZE

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4D525CE60200007800030EE5@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
2011-02-10 13:31:36 +01:00
Tejun Heo
19df0c2fef percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline
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>
2011-01-25 14:26:50 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
6b35eb9ddc Revert "x86: Make relocatable kernel work with new binutils"
This reverts commit 86b1e8dd83 ("x86: Make relocatable kernel work with
new binutils").

Markus Trippelsdorf reported a boot failure caused by this patch.

The real solution to the original patch will likely involve an
arch-generic solution to define an overlaid jiffies_64 and jiffies
variables.

Until that's done and tested on all architectures revert this commit to
solve the regression.

Reported-and-bisected-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: "Lu, Hongjiu" <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <4D36A759.60704@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-19 10:09:42 +01:00
Shaohua Li
86b1e8dd83 x86: Make relocatable kernel work with new binutils
The CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y option is broken with new binutils, which will make
boot panic.

According to Lu Hongjiu, the affected binutils are from 2.20.51.0.12 to
2.21.51.0.3, which are release since Oct 22 this year. At least ubuntu 10.10 is
using such binutils. See:

    http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12327

The reason of the boot panic is that we have 'jiffies = jiffies_64;' in
vmlinux.lds.S. The jiffies isn't in any section. In kernel build, there is
warning saying jiffies is an absolute address and can't be relocatable. At
runtime, jiffies will have virtual address 0.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Lu Hongjiu<hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <1295312269.1949.725.camel@sli10-conroe>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-18 09:05:33 +01:00
Matthieu Castet
5bd5a45266 x86: Add NX protection for kernel data
This patch expands functionality of CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA to set main
(static) kernel data area as NX.

The following steps are taken to achieve this:

 1. Linker script is adjusted so .text always starts and ends on a page bound
 2. Linker script is adjusted so .rodata always start and end on a page boundary
 3. NX is set for all pages from _etext through _end in mark_rodata_ro.
 4. free_init_pages() sets released memory NX in arch/x86/mm/init.c
 5. bios rom is set to x when pcibios is used.

The results of patch application may be observed in the diff of kernel page
table dumps:

pcibios:

 -- data_nx_pt_before.txt       2009-10-13 07:48:59.000000000 -0400
 ++ data_nx_pt_after.txt        2009-10-13 07:26:46.000000000 -0400
  0x00000000-0xc0000000           3G                           pmd
  ---[ Kernel Mapping ]---
 -0xc0000000-0xc0100000           1M     RW             GLB x  pte
 +0xc0000000-0xc00a0000         640K     RW             GLB NX pte
 +0xc00a0000-0xc0100000         384K     RW             GLB x  pte
 -0xc0100000-0xc03d7000        2908K     ro             GLB x  pte
 +0xc0100000-0xc0318000        2144K     ro             GLB x  pte
 +0xc0318000-0xc03d7000         764K     ro             GLB NX pte
 -0xc03d7000-0xc0600000        2212K     RW             GLB x  pte
 +0xc03d7000-0xc0600000        2212K     RW             GLB NX pte
  0xc0600000-0xf7a00000         884M     RW         PSE GLB NX pmd
  0xf7a00000-0xf7bfe000        2040K     RW             GLB NX pte
  0xf7bfe000-0xf7c00000           8K                           pte

No pcibios:

 -- data_nx_pt_before.txt       2009-10-13 07:48:59.000000000 -0400
 ++ data_nx_pt_after.txt        2009-10-13 07:26:46.000000000 -0400
  0x00000000-0xc0000000           3G                           pmd
  ---[ Kernel Mapping ]---
 -0xc0000000-0xc0100000           1M     RW             GLB x  pte
 +0xc0000000-0xc0100000           1M     RW             GLB NX pte
 -0xc0100000-0xc03d7000        2908K     ro             GLB x  pte
 +0xc0100000-0xc0318000        2144K     ro             GLB x  pte
 +0xc0318000-0xc03d7000         764K     ro             GLB NX pte
 -0xc03d7000-0xc0600000        2212K     RW             GLB x  pte
 +0xc03d7000-0xc0600000        2212K     RW             GLB NX pte
  0xc0600000-0xf7a00000         884M     RW         PSE GLB NX pmd
  0xf7a00000-0xf7bfe000        2040K     RW             GLB NX pte
  0xf7bfe000-0xf7c00000           8K                           pte

The patch has been originally developed for Linux 2.6.34-rc2 x86 by
Siarhei Liakh <sliakh.lkml@gmail.com> and Xuxian Jiang <jiang@cs.ncsu.edu>.

 -v1:  initial patch for 2.6.30
 -v2:  patch for 2.6.31-rc7
 -v3:  moved all code into arch/x86, adjusted credits
 -v4:  fixed ifdef, removed credits from CREDITS
 -v5:  fixed an address calculation bug in mark_nxdata_nx()
 -v6:  added acked-by and PT dump diff to commit log
 -v7:  minor adjustments for -tip
 -v8:  rework with the merge of "Set first MB as RW+NX"

Signed-off-by: Siarhei Liakh <sliakh.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xuxian Jiang <jiang@cs.ncsu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4CE2F82E.60601@free.fr>
[ minor cleanliness edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 12:52:04 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
91151240ed Merge branch 'x86-irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, 32-bit: Align percpu area and irq stacks to THREAD_SIZE
  x86: Move alloc_desk_mask variables inside ifdef
  x86-32: Align IRQ stacks properly
  x86: Remove CONFIG_4KSTACKS
  x86: Always use irq stacks

Fixed up trivial conflicts in include/linux/{irq.h, percpu-defs.h}
2010-10-22 08:54:21 -07:00
Alexander van Heukelum
fe8e0c25ca x86, 32-bit: Align percpu area and irq stacks to THREAD_SIZE
The irq stacks, located in the percpu-area, need to be
THREAD_SIZE aligned. Add the infrastucture to align percpu
variables to larger-than-pagesize amounts within the percpu
area, and use it to specify the alignment for the irq stacks.
Also align the percpu area itself to THREAD_SIZE.

This should make irq stacks work with 8K THREAD_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: hch@lst.de
LKML-Reference: <1283799222.15941.1393621887@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-07 05:07:00 +02:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
7ac41ccf47 x86, iommu: Fix IOMMU_INIT alignment rules
This boot crash was observed:

 DMA-API: preallocated 32768 debug entries
 DMA-API: debugging enabled by kernel config
 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 19da8955
 IP: [<f4ffffff>] 0xf4ffffff
 *pde = 00000000

The crux of the failure was that even if we did not use any
of the .iommu_table section, the linker would still insert it
in the vmlinux file. This patch fixes that and also fixes the
runtime crash where we would try to access the array.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
LKML-Reference: <1283191802-25086-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-31 08:06:10 +02:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
6f44d0337c x86, doc: Adding comments about .iommu_table and its neighbors.
Updating the linker section with comments about .iommu_table and
some other ones that I know of.

CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Fujita Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1282933173-19960-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-08-27 18:14:31 -07:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
0444ad93ea x86, iommu: Add IOMMU_INIT macros, .iommu_table section, and iommu_table_entry structure
This patch set adds a mechanism to "modularize" the IOMMUs we have
on X86. Currently the count of IOMMUs is up to six and they have a complex
relationship that requires careful execution order. 'pci_iommu_alloc'
does that today, but most folks are unhappy with how it does it.
This patch set addresses this and also paves a mechanism to jettison
unused IOMMUs during run-time. For details that sparked this, please
refer to: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/2/282

The first solution that comes to mind is to convert wholesale
the IOMMU detection routines to be called during initcall
time frame. Unfortunately that misses the dependency relationship
that some of the IOMMUs have (for example: for AMD-Vi IOMMU to work,
GART detection MUST run first, and before all of that SWIOTLB MUST run).

The second solution would be to introduce a registration call wherein
the IOMMU would provide its detection/init routines and as well on what
MUST run before it. That would work, except that the 'pci_iommu_alloc'
which would run through this list, is called during mem_init. This means we
don't have any memory allocator, and it is so early that we haven't yet
started running through the initcall_t list.

This solution borrows concepts from the 2nd idea and from how
MODULE_INIT works. A macro is provided that each IOMMU uses to define
it's detect function and early_init (before the memory allocate is
active), and as well what other IOMMU MUST run before us.  Since most IOMMUs
depend on having SWIOTLB run first ("pci_swiotlb_detect") a convenience macro
to depends on that is also provided.

This macro is similar in design to MODULE_PARAM macro wherein
we setup a .iommu_table section in which we populate it with the values
that match a struct iommu_table_entry. During bootup we will sort
through the array so that the IOMMUs that MUST run before us are first
elements in the array. And then we just iterate through them calling the
detection routine and if appropiate, the init routines.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1282845485-8991-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Fujita Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-08-26 15:12:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1f73897861 Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild
* '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
  ...
2010-06-01 08:55:52 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
596b711ed6 x86: Make smp_locks end with page alignment
Fix:

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/init.c:342 free_init_pages+0x4c/0xfa()
 free_init_pages: range [0x40daf000, 0x40db5c24] is not aligned
 Modules linked in:
 Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted
 2.6.34-rc2-tip-03946-g4f16b23-dirty #50 Call Trace:
  [<40232e9f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x65/0x7c
  [<4021c9f0>] ? free_init_pages+0x4c/0xfa
  [<40881434>] ? _etext+0x0/0x24
  [<40232eea>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x24/0x27
  [<4021c9f0>] free_init_pages+0x4c/0xfa
  [<40881434>] ? _etext+0x0/0x24
  [<40d3f4bd>] alternative_instructions+0xf6/0x100
  [<40d3fe4f>] check_bugs+0xbd/0xbf
  [<40d398a7>] start_kernel+0x2d5/0x2e4
  [<40d390ce>] i386_start_kernel+0xce/0xd5
 ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---

Comments in vmlinux.lds.S already said:

 |        /*
 |         * smp_locks might be freed after init
 |         * start/end must be page aligned
 |         */

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1269830604-26214-2-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-29 18:42:30 +02:00
Denys Vlasenko
819d67621e Rename .text.page_aligned to .text..page_aligned.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-03-03 11:26:00 +01:00
Tim Abbott
7c74df07f9 Rename .bss.page_aligned to .bss..page_aligned.
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>
2010-03-03 11:25:59 +01:00
Tejun Heo
32032df6c2 Merge branch 'master' into percpu
Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall.S
	include/linux/percpu.h
2010-01-05 09:17:33 +09:00
H. Peter Anvin
873b5271f8 x86: Regex support and known-movable symbols for relocs, fix _end
This adds a new category of symbols to the relocs program: symbols
which are known to be relative, even though the linker emits them as
absolute; this is the case for symbols that live in the linker script,
which currently applies to _end.

Unfortunately the previous workaround of putting _end in its own empty
section was defeated by newer binutils, which remove empty sections
completely.

This patch also changes the symbol matching to use regular expressions
instead of hardcoded C for specific patterns.

This is a decidedly non-minimal patch: a modified version of the
relocs program is used as part of the Syslinux build, and this 	is
basically a backport to Linux of some of those changes; they have
thus been well tested.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AF86211.3070103@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
2009-12-14 13:55:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e33c019722 Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of 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: (36 commits)
  x86, mm: Correct the implementation of is_untracked_pat_range()
  x86/pat: Trivial: don't create debugfs for memtype if pat is disabled
  x86, mtrr: Fix sorting of mtrr after subtracting
  x86: Move find_smp_config() earlier and avoid bootmem usage
  x86, platform: Change is_untracked_pat_range() to bool; cleanup init
  x86: Change is_ISA_range() into an inline function
  x86, mm: is_untracked_pat_range() takes a normal semiclosed range
  x86, mm: Call is_untracked_pat_range() rather than is_ISA_range()
  x86: UV SGI: Don't track GRU space in PAT
  x86: SGI UV: Fix BAU initialization
  x86, numa: Use near(er) online node instead of roundrobin for NUMA
  x86, numa, bootmem: Only free bootmem on NUMA failure path
  x86: Change crash kernel to reserve via reserve_early()
  x86: Eliminate redundant/contradicting cache line size config options
  x86: When cleaning MTRRs, do not fold WP into UC
  x86: remove "extern" from function prototypes in <asm/proto.h>
  x86, mm: Report state of NX protections during boot
  x86, mm: Clean up and simplify NX enablement
  x86, pageattr: Make set_memory_(x|nx) aware of NX support
  x86, sleep: Always save the value of EFER
  ...

Fix up conflicts (added both iommu_shutdown and is_untracked_pat_range)
to 'struct x86_platform_ops') in
	arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h
	arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c
2009-12-08 13:27:33 -08:00
Jan Beulich
350f8f5631 x86: Eliminate redundant/contradicting cache line size config options
Rather than having X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES and X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
(with inconsistent defaults), just having the latter suffices as
the former can be easily calculated from it.

To be consistent, also change X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES to
X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT, and set it to 7 (128 bytes) for NUMA
to account for last level cache line size (which here matters
more than L1 cache line size).

Finally, make sure the default value for X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT,
when X86_GENERIC is selected, is being seen before that for the
individual CPU model options (other than on x86-64, where
GENERIC_CPU is part of the choice construct, X86_GENERIC is a
separate option on ix86).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <4AFD5710020000780001F8F0@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-19 04:58:34 +01:00
Rusty Russell
dd17c8f729 percpu: remove per_cpu__ prefix.
Now that the return from alloc_percpu is compatible with the address
of per-cpu vars, it makes sense to hand around the address of per-cpu
variables.  To make this sane, we remove the per_cpu__ prefix we used
created to stop people accidentally using these vars directly.

Now we have sparse, we can use that (next patch).

tj: * Updated to convert stuff which were missed by or added after the
      original patch.

    * Kill per_cpu_var() macro.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-29 22:34:15 +09:00
Suresh Siddha
d6cc1c3af7 x86-64: add comment for RODATA large page retainment
Add a comment explaining why RODATA is aligned to 2 MB.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-10-20 14:46:01 +09:00
Suresh Siddha
74e081797b x86-64: align RODATA kernel section to 2MB with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA chops the large pages spanning boundaries of kernel
text/rodata/data to small 4KB pages as they are mapped with different
attributes (text as RO, RODATA as RO and NX etc).

On x86_64, preserve the large page mappings for kernel text/rodata/data
boundaries when CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA is enabled. This is done by allowing the
RODATA section to be hugepage aligned and having same RWX attributes
for the 2MB page boundaries

Extra Memory pages padding the sections will be freed during the end of the boot
and the kernel identity mappings will have different RWX permissions compared to
the kernel text mappings.

Kernel identity mappings to these physical pages will be mapped with smaller
pages but large page mappings are still retained for kernel text,rodata,data
mappings.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091014220254.190119924@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-10-20 14:46:00 +09:00
Ingo Molnar
a5912f6b3e x86: Document linker script ASSERT() quirk
Older binutils breaks if ASSERT() is used without a sink
for the output.

For example 2.14.90.0.6 is known to be broken, the link
fails with:

  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
  ld:arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds:678: parse error

Document this quirk in all three files that use it.

  See:    http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=124930110427870&w=2
  See[2]: d2ba8b2 ("x86: Fix assert syntax in vmlinux.lds.S")

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AD6523D.5030909@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-16 07:18:46 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
db8590f504 Revert "x86: linker script syntax nits"
This reverts commit e9a63a4e55.

This breaks older binutils, where sink-less asserts are broken.

See this commit for further details:

  d2ba8b2: x86: Fix assert syntax in vmlinux.lds.S

Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AD6523D.5030909@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-15 08:09:55 +02:00
Roland McGrath
e9a63a4e55 x86: linker script syntax nits
The linker scripts grew some use of weirdly wrong linker script syntax.
It happens to work, but it's not what the syntax is documented to be.
Clean it up to use the official syntax.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
CC: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
2009-10-14 14:16:38 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
704daf55c7 Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/urgent
Merge reason: The linker script cleanups are ready for upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-25 10:47:00 +02:00
Jan Beulich
8d0cc631f6 x86: Correct segment permission flags in 64-bit linker script
While these don't get actively used (afaict), it still doesn't hurt
for them to properly reflect what how respective segments will get
mapped/ accessed.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AA0E95F0200007800013707@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-20 20:23:47 +02:00