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Isaku Yamahata 8311d21c35 [IA64] pvops: preparation: move the constants, LOAD_OFFSET, to a header file.
Move the LOAD_OFFSET definition from vmlinux.lds.S into system.h.
On paravirtualized environments, it is necessary to detect the
execution environment. One of the solutions is the multi entry point.
The multi entry point allows a boot loader to start the kernel execution
from the entry point which is different from the ELF entry point.
The non standard entry point will defined as the specialized elf note
which contains the LMA of the entry point symbol.
The constant, LOAD_OFFSET, is necessary to calculate the symbol's LMA.
Move the definition into the public header file to make it available
to the multi entry point support.

Cc: "He, Qing" <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-05-27 14:38:18 -07:00
Tony Luck 4dcc29e157 [IA64] Workaround for RSE issue
Problem: An application violating the architectural rules regarding
operation dependencies and having specific Register Stack Engine (RSE)
state at the time of the violation, may result in an illegal operation
fault and invalid RSE state.  Such faults may initiate a cascade of
repeated illegal operation faults within OS interruption handlers.
The specific behavior is OS dependent.

Implication: An application causing an illegal operation fault with
specific RSE state may result in a series of illegal operation faults
and an eventual OS stack overflow condition.

Workaround: OS interruption handlers that switch to kernel backing
store implement a check for invalid RSE state to avoid the series
of illegal operation faults.

The core of the workaround is the RSE_WORKAROUND code sequence
inserted into each invocation of the SAVE_MIN_WITH_COVER and
SAVE_MIN_WITH_COVER_R19 macros.  This sequence includes hard-coded
constants that depend on the number of stacked physical registers
being 96.  The rest of this patch consists of code to disable this
workaround should this not be the case (with the presumption that
if a future Itanium processor increases the number of registers, it
would also remove the need for this patch).

Move the start of the RBS up to a mod32 boundary to avoid some
corner cases.

The dispatch_illegal_op_fault code outgrew the spot it was
squatting in when built with this patch and CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y
Move it out to the end of the ivt.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-05-27 13:24:39 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg 01ba2bdc6b all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h
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>
2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
Bernhard Walle b898a424ed [IA64] rename _bss to __bss_start
Rename _bss to __bss_start as on other architectures.  That makes it
possible to use the <linux/sections.h> instead of own declarations.  Also
add __bss_stop because that symbol exists on other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-12-07 16:11:49 -08:00
David Mosberger-Tang 9bf77d0e20 [IA64] get back PT_IA_64_UNWIND program header
Explicitly put the unwind section into its own program-header.  This
used to be unnecessary (probably because binutils did it for us), but
with current binutils (e.g., v2.17.50.20070804) we won't get
the PT_IA_64_UNWIND header without this patch which will break
unwinding in a debugger and simulators such as Ski.

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <dmosberger@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-08-13 14:50:35 -07:00
David Mosberger-Tang 336cdba864 [IA64] need NOTES in vmlinux.lds.S
Add NOTES to linker script such that the kernel can be built with
recent versions of binutils.  Without this patch, final link fails
with this error:

ld: .tmp_vmlinux1: section `.text' can't be allocated in segment 0
ld: final link failed: Bad value

This error is due to the fact that the --build-id option is used
with newer linkers to include a .notes section on the kernel, but
without the NOTES macro, that section won't be included in the kernel
which then leads to the above error message.

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <dmosberger@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-08-13 13:28:04 -07:00
Tony Luck 9d6f40b86b [IA64] fix section mismatch warnings
In 741f98fe29 Sam added full
checking across the entire vmlinux image.  This flushed out
a dozen new section mismatch warnings.  Start the whack-a-mole
game again to stomp them out.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-07-25 13:08:26 -07:00
Fenghua Yu 5fb7dc37dc define new percpu interface for shared data
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>
2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg ca967258b6 all-archs: consolidate .data section definition in asm-generic
With this consolidation we can now modify the .data
section definition in one spot for all archs.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-05-19 09:11:57 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg 7664709b44 all-archs: consolidate .text section definition in asm-generic
Move definition of .text section to asm-generic.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-05-19 09:11:57 +02:00
Tony Luck b643b0fdbc Pull percpu-dtc into release branch 2007-04-30 13:56:00 -07:00
Jean-Paul Saman 67d38229df [PATCH] disable init/initramfs.c: architectures
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>
2007-02-11 10:51:25 -08:00
Chen, Kenneth W a0776ec8e9 [IA64] remove per-cpu ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8
It's not efficient to use a per-cpu variable just to store
how many physical stack register a cpu has.  Ever since the
incarnation of ia64 up till upcoming Montecito processor, that
variable has "glued" to 96. Having a variable in memory means
that the kernel is burning an extra cacheline access on every
syscall and kernel exit path.  Such "static" value is better
served with the instruction patching utility exists today.
Convert ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8 into dynamic insn patching.

This also has a pleasant side effect of eliminating access to
per-cpu area while psr.ic=0 in the kernel exit path. (fixable
for per-cpu DTC work, but why bother?)

There are some concerns with the default value that the instruc-
tion encoded in the kernel image.  It shouldn't be concerned.
The reasons are:

(1) cpu_init() is called at CPU initialization.  In there, we
    find out physical stack register size from PAL and patch
    two instructions in kernel exit code.  The code in question
    can not be executed before the patching is done.

(2) current implementation stores zero in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8,
    and that's what the current kernel exit path loads the value with.
    With the new code, it is equivalent that we store reg size 96
    in ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8, thus creating a better safety net.
    Given (1) above can never fail, having (2) is just a bonus.

All in all, this patch allow one less memory reference in the kernel
exit path, thus reducing syscall and interrupt return latency; and
avoid polluting potential useful data in the CPU cache.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-02-06 15:04:18 -08:00
Kirill Korotaev d00195ebc1 [IA64] alignment bug in ldscript
Occasionally the FSYS_RETURN patch list can have an odd length, causing other
data structures to get out of alignment.  In OpenVZ it is odd and we get
misaligned kernel image, which does not boot.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-02-05 16:45:42 -08:00
Andrew Morton 61ce1efe6e [PATCH] vmlinux.lds: consolidate initcall sections
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>
2006-10-27 15:34:51 -07:00
Al Stone df8f0ec1a4 [IA64] minor reformatting to vmlinux.lds.S
Minor reformatting to vmlinux.lds.S to make it 80-column usable,
in accordance with Linux coding style.

Signed-off-by: Al Stone <ahs3@fc.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-09-26 15:35:47 -07:00
Jörn Engel 6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Russ Anderson d89cfe7f1e [IA64] Move __mca_table out of the __init section
Move __mca_table out of the __init section.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-03-29 10:43:04 -08:00
Russ Anderson d2a28ad9fa [IA64] MCA recovery: kernel context recovery table
Memory errors encountered by user applications may surface
when the CPU is running in kernel context.  The current code
will not attempt recovery if the MCA surfaces in kernel
context (privilage mode 0).  This patch adds a check for cases
where the user initiated the load that surfaces in kernel
interrupt code.

An example is a user process lauching a load from memory
and the data in memory had bad ECC.  Before the bad data
gets to the CPU register, and interrupt comes in.  The
code jumps to the IVT interrupt entry point and begins
execution in kernel context.  The process of saving the
user registers (SAVE_REST) causes the bad data to be loaded
into a CPU register, triggering the MCA.  The MCA surfaces in
kernel context, even though the load was initiated from
user context.

As suggested by David and Tony, this patch uses an exception
table like approach, puting the tagged recovery addresses in
a searchable table.  One difference from the exception table
is that MCAs do not surface in precise places (such as with
a TLB miss), so instead of tagging specific instructions,
address ranges are registers.  A single macro is used to do
the tagging, with the input parameter being the label
of the starting address and the macro being the ending
address.  This limits clutter in the code.

This patch only tags one spot, the interrupt ivt entry.
Testing showed that spot to be a "heavy hitter" with
MCAs surfacing while saving user registers.  Other spots
can be added as needed by adding a single macro.

Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com)
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-03-24 09:49:52 -08:00
Chen, Kenneth W 39e18de810 [IA64] move patchlist and machvec into init section
ia64_mv is initialized based on platform detected or specified.
However, there is one instantiation of each platform type.  We
don't expect to switch platform vector during run time.  Move
those platform specific type into init section since a copy is
made into global ia64_mv at initialization.

Also move instruction patch list into init section as well.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-03-22 16:55:05 -08:00
Christoph Lameter dc86e88c2b [IA64] Add __read_mostly support for IA64
sparc64, i386 and x86_64 have support for a special data section dedicated
to rarely updated data that is frequently read. The section was created to
avoid false sharing of those rarely read data with frequently written kernel
data.

This patch creates such a data section for ia64 and will group rarely written
data into this section.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-12-16 10:52:46 -08:00
Prasanna S Panchamukhi 1f7ad57b75 [PATCH] Kprobes: prevent possible race conditions ia64 changes
This patch contains the ia64 architecture specific changes to prevent the
possible race conditions.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:58:00 -07:00
Keshavamurthy Anil S c7b645f934 [PATCH] kprobes/ia64: refuse kprobe on ivt code
Not safe to insert kprobes on IVT code.

This patch checks to see if the address on which Kprobes is being inserted is
in ivt code and if it is in ivt code then refuse to register kprobe.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27 15:23:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
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!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00