linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/include/asm/module.h, branch linux-3.4.y

powerpc/modules: Module CRC relocation fix causes perf issues

2013-08-04T08:25:55+00:00

commit 0e0ed6406e61434d3f38fb58aa8464ec4722b77e upstream.

Module CRCs are implemented as absolute symbols that get resolved by
a linker script. We build an intermediate .o that contains an
unresolved symbol for each CRC. genksysms parses this .o, calculates
the CRCs and writes a linker script that "resolves" the symbols to
the calculated CRC.

Unfortunately the ppc64 relocatable kernel sees these CRCs as symbols
that need relocating and relocates them at boot. Commit d4703aef
(module: handle ppc64 relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y)
added a hook to reverse the bogus relocations. Part of this patch
created a symbol at 0x0:

# head -2 /proc/kallsyms
0000000000000000 T reloc_start
c000000000000000 T .__start

This reloc_start symbol is causing lots of confusion to perf. It
thinks reloc_start is a massive function that stretches from 0x0 to
0xc000000000000000 and we get various cryptic errors out of perf,
including:

problem incrementing symbol count, skipping event

This patch removes the  reloc_start linker script label and instead
defines it as PHYSICAL_START. We also need to wrap it with
CONFIG_PPC64 because the ppc32 kernel can set a non zero
PHYSICAL_START at compile time and we wouldn't want to subtract
it from the CRCs in that case.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Acked-by: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

module: handle ppc64 relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y

2009-12-15T05:58:34+00:00

powerpc applies relocations to the kcrctab.  They're absolute symbols,
but it's not completely unreasonable: other archs may too, but the
relocation is often 0.

http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2009-November/077972.html

Inspired-by: Neil Horman 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Tested-by: Neil Horman 
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc/ppc32: ftrace, dynamic ftrace to handle modules

2008-11-20T18:52:53+00:00

Impact: add ability to trace modules on 32 bit PowerPC

This patch performs the necessary trampoline calls to handle
modules with dynamic ftrace on 32 bit PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

powerpc/ppc64: ftrace, handle module trampolines for dyn ftrace

2008-11-20T18:52:28+00:00

Impact: Allow 64 bit PowerPC to trace modules with dynamic ftrace

This adds code to handle the PPC64 module trampolines, and allows for
PPC64 to use dynamic ftrace.

Thanks to Paul Mackerras for these updates:

  - fix the mod and rec->arch.mod NULL checks.
  - fix to is_bl_op compare.

Thanks to Milton Miller for:

  - finding the nasty race with using two nops, and recommending
    instead that I use a branch 8 forward.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asm

2008-08-04T02:02:00+00:00

from include/asm-powerpc.  This is the result of a

mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm
git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm

Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places
where  was being used explicitly.  Of the latter only
one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras