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>
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>
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>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The .data.idt section is just squashed into the .data.page_aligned
output section by the linker script anyway, so it might as well be in
the .data.page_aligned section.
This eliminates all references to .data.idt on x86.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
This has the consequence of changing the section name use for head
code from ".text.head" to ".head.text". It also eliminates the
".text.head" output section (instead placing head code at the start of
the .text output section), which should be harmless.
This patch only changes the sections in the actual kernel, not those
in the compressed boot loader.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Previously, the address of the vsyscall page (VSYSCALL_PHYS_ADDR,
VSYSCALL_VIRT_ADDR) was computed by arithmetic on the address of the
last section. This leads to bugs when new sections are inserted, such
as the one fixed by commit d312ceda56.
Let's compute it from the current address instead.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
percpu: add chunk->base_addr
percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
percpu: improve boot messages
percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
...
Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
binutils prior to 2.17 can't deal with the currently possible
situation of a new segment following the per-CPU segment, but
that new segment being empty - objcopy misplaces the .bss (and
perhaps also the .brk) sections outside of any segment.
However, the current ordering of sections really just appears
to be the effect of cumulative unrelated changes; re-ordering
things allows to easily guarantee that the segment following
the per-CPU one is non-empty, and at once eliminates the need
for the bogus data.init2 segment.
Once touching this code, also use the various data section
helper macros from include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.
-v2: fix !SMP builds.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A94085D02000078000119A5@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Conflicts:
arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
mm/percpu.c
Conflicts in core and arch percpu codes are mostly from commit
ed78e1e078dd44249f88b1dd8c76dafb39567161 which substituted many
num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids. As for-next branch has moved all
the first chunk allocators into mm/percpu.c, the changes are moved
from arch code to mm/percpu.c.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Older versions of binutils did not accept the naked "ASSERT" syntax;
it is considered an expression whose value needs to be assigned to
something.
Reported-tested-and-fixed-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The .data.read_mostly and .data.cacheline_aligned sections
aren't covered by the _sdata .. _edata range on x86-64. This
affects kmemleak reporting leading to possible false
positives by not scanning the whole data section.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <1247565175.28240.37.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.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>
_sdata is a common symbol defined by many architectures and made
available to the kernel via asm-generic/sections.h. Kmemleak uses this
symbol when scanning the data sections.
[ Impact: add new global symbol ]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090511122105.26556.96593.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
32 bit:
- increase alignment from 4 to 8 for .parainstructions
- increase alignment from 4 to 8 for .altinstructions
64 bit:
- move ALIGN() outside output section for .altinstructions
None of the above should result in any functional change.
[ Impact: refactor and unify linker script ]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
32-bit:
- Move definition of __init_begin outside output_section
because it covers more than one section
- Move ALIGN() for end-of-section inside .smp_locks output section.
Same effect but the intent is better documented that
we need both start and end aligned.
64-bit:
- Move ALIGN() outside output section in .init.setup
- Deleted unused __smp_alt_* symbols
None of the above should result in any functional change.
[ Impact: refactor and unify linker script ]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
For 64 bit the following functional changes are introduced:
- .data.page_aligned has moved
- .data.cacheline_aligned has moved
- .data.read_mostly has moved
- ALIGN() moved out of output section for .data.cacheline_aligned
- ALIGN() moved out of output section for .data.page_aligned
Notice that 32 bit and 64 bit has different location of _edata.
.data_nosave is 32 bit only as 64 bit is special due to PERCPU.
[ Impact: 32-bit: cleanup, 64-bit: use 32-bit linker script ]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
32 bit x86 had a dedicated .text.head output section,
whereas 64 bit had it all in a single output section.
In the unified version the dedicated .text.head output section
was kept to have full control over the head code.
32 bit:
- Moved definition of _stext to the linker script.
The definition is located _after_ .text.page_aligned as this
is what 32 bit did before.
The ALIGN(8) was introduced so we hit the exact same address
(on the tested config) before and after the move.
I assume that it is a bug that _stext did not cover the
.text.page_aligned section - if this is true it can be fixed
in a follow-up patch (and the ugly ALIGN() can be dropped).
[ Impact: 64-bit: cleanup, 32-bit: use the 64-bit linker script ]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
PHDRS are not equal for the two - so
use ifdefs to cover up for that.
On the assumption that they may become equal the ifdef
is inside the PHDRS definiton.
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1240991249-27117-3-git-send-email-sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Suresh Siddha