The efi boot stub tries to read the entire initrd in 1 go, however
some efi implementations hang if too much if asked to read too much
data at the same time. After some experimentation I found out that my
asrock p67 board will hang if asked to read chunks of 4MiB, so use a
safe value.
elilo reads in chunks of 16KiB, but since that requires many read
calls I use a value of 1 MiB. hpa suggested adding individual
blacklists for when systems are found where this value causes a crash.
Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4EEB3A02.3090201@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
There is currently a large divide between kernel development and the
development of EFI boot loaders. The idea behind this patch is to give
the kernel developers full control over the EFI boot process. As
H. Peter Anvin put it,
"The 'kernel carries its own stub' approach been very successful in
dealing with BIOS, and would make a lot of sense to me for EFI as
well."
This patch introduces an EFI boot stub that allows an x86 bzImage to
be loaded and executed by EFI firmware. The bzImage appears to the
firmware as an EFI application. Luckily there are enough free bits
within the bzImage header so that it can masquerade as an EFI
application, thereby coercing the EFI firmware into loading it and
jumping to its entry point. The beauty of this masquerading approach
is that both BIOS and EFI boot loaders can still load and run the same
bzImage, thereby allowing a single kernel image to work in any boot
environment.
The EFI boot stub supports multiple initrds, but they must exist on
the same partition as the bzImage. Command-line arguments for the
kernel can be appended after the bzImage name when run from the EFI
shell, e.g.
Shell> bzImage console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sdb initrd=initrd.img
v7:
- Fix checkpatch warnings.
v6:
- Try to allocate initrd memory just below hdr->inird_addr_max.
v5:
- load_options_size is UTF-16, which needs dividing by 2 to convert
to the corresponding ASCII size.
v4:
- Don't read more than image->load_options_size
v3:
- Fix following warnings when compiling CONFIG_EFI_STUB=n
arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c: In function ‘main’:
arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c:138:24: warning: unused variable ‘pe_header’
arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c:138:15: warning: unused variable ‘file_sz’
- As reported by Matthew Garrett, some Apple machines have GOPs that
don't have hardware attached. We need to weed these out by
searching for ones that handle the PCIIO protocol.
- Don't allocate memory if no initrds are on cmdline
- Don't trust image->load_options_size
Maarten Lankhorst noted:
- Don't strip first argument when booted from efibootmgr
- Don't allocate too much memory for cmdline
- Don't update cmdline_size, the kernel considers it read-only
- Don't accept '\n' for initrd names
v2:
- File alignment was too large, was 8192 should be 512. Reported by
Maarten Lankhorst on LKML.
- Added UGA support for graphics
- Use VIDEO_TYPE_EFI instead of hard-coded number.
- Move linelength assignment until after we've assigned depth
- Dynamically fill out AddressOfEntryPoint in tools/build.c
- Don't use magic number for GDT/TSS stuff. Requested by Andi Kleen
- The bzImage may need to be relocated as it may have been loaded at
a high address address by the firmware. This was required to get my
macbook booting because the firmware loaded it at 0x7cxxxxxx, which
triggers this error in decompress_kernel(),
if (heap > ((-__PAGE_OFFSET-(128<<20)-1) & 0x7fffffff))
error("Destination address too large");
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321383097.2657.9.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
There are numerous broken references to Documentation files (in other
Documentation files, in comments, etc.). These broken references are
caused by typo's in the references, and by renames or removals of the
Documentation files. Some broken references are simply odd.
Fix these broken references, sometimes by dropping the irrelevant text
they were part of.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
This has been obsoleted by the root= commandline and the rdev utility
for many, many years. People who still depend on this will surely
have a copy of the rdev utility around, the rest of the world gets rid
of another piece of buildhost-dependent data in the build. Thanks to
Paul Bolle for the build.c cleanup.
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302607824-24699-1-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
When we use BIOS function e801 to probe memory, we should use ax/bx
(or cx/dx) as a pair, not mix and match. This was a typo during the
translation from assembly code, and breaks at least one set of
machines in the field (which return cx = dx = 0).
Reported-and-tested-by: Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org>
Fix-proposed-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303566747.12067.10.camel@localhost.localdomain
Ensure build doesn't silently continue despite read failure,
addressing a warning due to the unchecked call.
Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTimxxTMU3=4ry-_zbY6v1xiDi+hW9y1RegTr8vLK@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This integrates the XZ decompression code to the x86 pre-boot code.
mkpiggy.c is updated to reserve about 32 KiB more buffer safety margin for
kernel decompression. It is done unconditionally for all decompressors to
keep the code simpler.
The XZ decompressor needs around 30 KiB of heap, so the heap size is
increased to 32 KiB on both x86-32 and x86-64.
Documentation/x86/boot.txt is updated to list the XZ magic number.
With the x86 BCJ filter in XZ, XZ-compressed x86 kernel tends to be a few
percent smaller than the equivalent LZMA-compressed kernel.
Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Fix included-by file reference comments
x86, cpu: Only CPU features determine NX capabilities
x86, cpu: Call verify_cpu during 32bit CPU startup
x86, cpu: Clear XD_DISABLED flag on Intel to regain NX
x86, cpu: Rename verify_cpu_64.S to verify_cpu.S
A relocatable kernel can be anywhere in lowmem -- and in the case of a
kdump kernel, is likely to be fairly high. Since the early page
tables map everything from address zero up we need to make sure we
allocate enough brk that we can map all of lowmem if we need to.
Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4D0AD3ED.8070607@kernel.org>
The code is 32bit already, and can be used in 32bit routines.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
LKML-Reference: <1289414154-7829-2-git-send-email-kees.cook@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
The kernel decompression code parses the ELF header and then copies
the segment to the corresponding destination. Currently it uses slow
byte-copy code. This patch makes it use the string copy operations
instead.
In the test the copy performance can be improved very significantly after using
the string copy operation mechanism.
1. The copy time can be reduced from 150ms to 20ms on one Atom machine
2. The copy time can be reduced about 80% on another machine
The time is reduced from 7ms to 1.5ms when using 32-bit kernel.
The time is reduced from 10ms to 2ms when using 64-bit kernel.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1286502453-7043-1-git-send-email-yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
earlyprintk can take and I/O port, so we need to handle this case in
the setup code too, otherwise 0x3f8 will be treated as a baud rate.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4C7B05A6.4010801@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Torsten reported that there is garbage output,
after commit 8fee13a48e (x86,
setup: enable early console output from the decompressor)
It turns out we missed the offset for that case.
Reported-by: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4C7B0578.8090807@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
It is a subset of <ctype.h> functionality, so name it ctype.h. Also,
reorganize header files so #include statements are clustered near the
top as they should be.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C5752F2.8030206@kernel.org>
This enables the decompressor output to be seen on the serial console.
Most of the code is shared with the regular boot code.
We could add printf to the decompressor if needed, but currently there
is no sufficiently compelling user.
-v2: define BOOT_BOOT_H to avoid include boot.h
-v3: early_serial_base need to be static in misc.c ?
-v4: create seperate string.c printf.c cmdline.c early_serial_console.c
after hpa's patch that allow global variables in compressed/misc stage
-v5: remove printf.c related
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Separate early_serial_console from tty.c
This allows for reuse of
early_serial_console.c/string.c/printf.c/cmdline.c in boot/compressed/.
-v2: according to hpa, don't include string.c etc
-v3: compressed/misc.c must have early_serial_base as static, so move it back to tty.c
for setup code
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4C568D2B.205@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
In order for global variables and functions to work in the
decompressor, we need to fix up the GOT in assembly code.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C57382E.8050501@zytor.com>
putchar is using early_serial_base to check if port is initialized.
So we only assign it after early_serial_init() is called,
in case we need use VGA to debug early serial console.
Also add display for port addr and baud.
-v2: update to current tip
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4C3E0171.6050008@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Make the boot code also accept the console=uart8250,io,0x2f8,115200n
form of early console.
Also add back simple_guess_base(), otherwise those simple_strtoull(,,0)
are not going to work.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4C3CCE05.4090505@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This patch adds serial I/O support to the real-mode setup (very early
boot) printf(). It's useful for debugging boot code when running Linux
under KVM, for example. The actual code was lifted from early printk.
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <1278835617-11368-1-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Catch missing conversion to the register structure "glove box" scheme.
Found by gcc 4.6's new warnings.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100610111040.F1781B1A2B@basil.firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* '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
...
This reverts commit b3b77c8cae, which was
also totally broken (see commit 0d2daf5cc8 that reverted the crc32
version of it). As reported by Stephen Rothwell, it causes problems on
big-endian machines:
> In file included from fs/jfs/jfs_types.h:33,
> from fs/jfs/jfs_incore.h:26,
> from fs/jfs/file.c:22:
> fs/jfs/endian24.h:36:101: warning: "__LITTLE_ENDIAN" is not defined
The kernel has never had that crazy "__BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN"
model. It's not how we do things, and it isn't how we _should_ do
things. So don't go there.
Requested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux does not define __BYTE_ORDER in its endian header files which makes
some header files bend backwards to get at the current endian. Lets
#define __BYTE_ORDER in big_endian.h/litte_endian.h to make it easier for
header files that are used in user space too.
In userspace the convention is that
1. _both_ __LITTLE_ENDIAN and __BIG_ENDIAN are defined,
2. you have to test for e.g. __BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN.
Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
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>
* 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, setup: Don't skip mode setting for the standard VGA modes
x86-64, setup: Inhibit decompressor output if video info is invalid
x86, setup: When restoring the screen, update boot_params.screen_info
The code for setting standard VGA modes probes for the current mode,
and skips the mode setting if the mode is 3 (color text 80x25) or 7
(mono text 80x25). Unfortunately, there are BIOSes, including the
VMware BIOS, which report the previous mode if function 0F is queried
while the screen is in a VESA mode, and of course, nothing can help a
mode poked directly into the hardware.
As such, the safe option is to set the mode anyway, and only query to
see if we should be using mode 7 rather than mode 3. People who don't
want any mode setting at all should probably use vga=0x0f04
(VIDEO_CURRENT_MODE). It's possible that should be the kernel
default.
Reported-by Rene Arends <R.R.Arends@hro.nl>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <tip-*@git.kernel.org>
Inhibit output from the kernel decompressor if the video information
is invalid. This was already the case for 32 bits, make 64 bits
match.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <tip-*@git.kernel.org>
When we restore the screen content after a mode change, we return the
cursor to its former position. However, we need to also update
boot_params.screen_info accordingly, so that the decompression code
knows where on the screen the cursor is. Just in case the video BIOS
does something extra screwy, read the cursor position back from the
BIOS instead of relying on it doing the right thing.
While we're at it, make sure we cap the cursor position to the new
screen coordinates.
Reported-by: Wim Osterholt <wim@djo.tudelft.nl>
Bugzilla-Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15329
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1265478443-31072-10-git-send-email-elendil@planet.nl>
[ Left out the KVM bits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Iomem has no special significance on x86. Use the standard mem*
functions instead of trying to call other versions. Some fixups
are needed to match the function prototypes.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1265380629-3212-6-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The necessary changes to the x86 Kconfig and boot/compressed to allow the
use of this new compression method
Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Recently, some distros have started shipping versions of gcc which
default to -march=i686. This breaks building kernels for pre-i686
machines, even if they have been selected in Kconfig, due to the
generation of CMOV instructions.
There isn't enough benefit to try to preserve the generation of these
instructions even when selected, so simply force -march=i386 for the
decompressor when building a 32-bit kernel.
Reported-and-tested-by: Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <219280.97558.qm@web52907.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
* 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (29 commits)
net: fix for utsrelease.h moving to generated
gen_init_cpio: fixed fwrite warning
kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge
kbuild: generate modules.builtin
genksyms: properly consider EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}()
score: add asm/asm-offsets.h wrapper
unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190
kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope
kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig
scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if available
scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable
scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root
Kbuild: clean up marker
net: add net_tstamp.h to headers_install
kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated
kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
drop explicit include of autoconf.h
kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated
kbuild: drop include/asm
kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH
...
Fixed non-conflicting clean merge of modpost.c as per comments from
Stephen Rothwell (modpost.c had grown an include of linux/autoconf.h
that needed to be changed to generated/autoconf.h)
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>
* 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
vgacon: Add support for setting the default cursor state
vc: Add support for hiding the cursor when creating VTs
x86, setup: Store the boot cursor state
* '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
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>
Add a field to store the boot cursor state and implement this for VGA on
x86. This can then be used to set the default policy for the boot console.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258142222-16092-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
A single 'movl' is shorter than the 'xorl'-'orl' pair.
No change in behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1256341043-4928-1-git-send-email-aspotashev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Remove redundant non-NUMA topology functions
x86: early_printk: Protect against using the same device twice
x86: Reduce verbosity of "PAT enabled" kernel message
x86: Reduce verbosity of "TSC is reliable" message
x86: mce: Use safer ways to access MCE registers
x86: mce, inject: Use real inject-msg in raise_local
x86: mce: Fix thermal throttling message storm
x86: mce: Clean up thermal throttling state tracking code
x86: split NX setup into separate file to limit unstack-protected code
xen: check EFER for NX before setting up GDT mapping
x86: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros.
x86: Use section .data.page_aligned for the idt_table.
x86: convert to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros.
x86: convert compressed loader to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros.
x86: fix fragile computation of vsyscall address
Replace the use of CROSS_COMPILE to select a customized
installkernel script with the possibility to set INSTALLKERNEL
to select a custom installkernel script when running make:
make INSTALLKERNEL=arm-installkernel install
With this patch we are now more consistent across
different architectures - they did not all support use
of CROSS_COMPILE.
The use of CROSS_COMPILE was a hack as this really belongs
to gcc/binutils and the installkernel script does not change
just because we change toolchain.
The use of CROSS_COMPILE caused troubles with an upcoming patch
that saves CROSS_COMPILE when a kernel is built - it would no
longer be installable.
[Thanks to Peter Z. for this hint]
This patch undos what Ian did in commit:
0f8e2d62fa
("use ${CROSS_COMPILE}installkernel in arch/*/boot/install.sh")
The patch has been lightly tested on x86 only - but all changes
looks obvious.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [blackfin]
Acked-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> [arm]
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> [sh]
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> [x86]
Cc: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [ia64]
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> [ia64]
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> [m32r]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> [parisc]
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [powerpc]
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390]
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [x86]
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> [x86]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This has the consequence of changing the section name use for head
code from ".text.head" to ".head.text".
Linus suggested that we merge the ".text.head" section with ".text"
(presumably while preserving the fact that the head code starts at 0).
When I tried this it caused the kernel to not boot.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
