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<title>ARM: use unified discard definition in linker script</title>
<updated>2009-12-15T05:58:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Jenkins</name>
<email>alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk</email>
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<published>2009-11-07T21:03:52+00:00</published>
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Commit 023bf6f "linker script: unify usage of discard definition"
changed the linker scripts for all architectures except for ARM.
I can find no discussion about this ommision, so here are the changes
for ARM.

These changes are exactly parallel to the ia64 case.

"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."

Not boot-tested.  In build testing, the modified linker script generated
an identical vmlinux file.

[I would like to be able to rely on this unified discard definition.
 I want to sort the kernel symbol tables to allow faster symbol
 resolution during module loading. The simplest way appears to be
 to generate sorted versions from vmlinux.o, link them in to vmlinux,
 _and discard the original unsorted tables_.

 This work is driven by my x86 netbook, but it is implemented at a
 generic level. It is possible it will benefit some ARM systems also.]

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins &lt;alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by-without-testing: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Commit 023bf6f "linker script: unify usage of discard definition"
changed the linker scripts for all architectures except for ARM.
I can find no discussion about this ommision, so here are the changes
for ARM.

These changes are exactly parallel to the ia64 case.

"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."

Not boot-tested.  In build testing, the modified linker script generated
an identical vmlinux file.

[I would like to be able to rely on this unified discard definition.
 I want to sort the kernel symbol tables to allow faster symbol
 resolution during module loading. The simplest way appears to be
 to generate sorted versions from vmlinux.o, link them in to vmlinux,
 _and discard the original unsorted tables_.

 This work is driven by my x86 netbook, but it is implemented at a
 generic level. It is possible it will benefit some ARM systems also.]

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins &lt;alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by-without-testing: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>ARM: Clean up linker script using new linker script macros.</title>
<updated>2009-11-23T20:33:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nelson Elhage</name>
<email>nelhage@ksplice.com</email>
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<published>2009-10-02T20:32:47+00:00</published>
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This patch is mostly a straightforward translation. The primary side
effect to the resulting vmlinux should be to increase the alignment on
the initramfs to the standard PAGE_SIZE from 32 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage &lt;nelhage@ksplice.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@ksplice.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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This patch is mostly a straightforward translation. The primary side
effect to the resulting vmlinux should be to increase the alignment on
the initramfs to the standard PAGE_SIZE from 32 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage &lt;nelhage@ksplice.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@ksplice.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: convert to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros.</title>
<updated>2009-11-23T20:33:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tim Abbott</name>
<email>tabbott@ksplice.com</email>
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<published>2009-10-02T20:32:46+00:00</published>
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This has the consequence of changing the section name used for head
code from ".text.head" to ".head.text".  Since this commit changes all
users in the architecture, this change should be harmless.

The .text.head output section is eliminated and the head text code is
included at the start of the .init output section.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@ksplice.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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This has the consequence of changing the section name used for head
code from ".text.head" to ".head.text".  Since this commit changes all
users in the architecture, this change should be harmless.

The .text.head output section is eliminated and the head text code is
included at the start of the .init output section.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@ksplice.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2009-09-22T20:01:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-22T19:54:53+00:00</published>
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<title>ARM: 5580/2: ARM TCM (Tightly-Coupled Memory) support v3</title>
<updated>2009-09-15T21:11:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Walleij</name>
<email>linus.walleij@stericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-15T16:30:37+00:00</published>
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This adds the TCM interface to Linux, when active, it will
detect and report TCM memories and sizes early in boot if
present, introduce generic TCM memory handling, provide a
generic TCM memory pool and select TCM memory for the U300
platform.

See the Documentation/arm/tcm.txt for documentation.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@stericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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This adds the TCM interface to Linux, when active, it will
detect and report TCM memories and sizes early in boot if
present, introduce generic TCM memory handling, provide a
generic TCM memory pool and select TCM memory for the U300
platform.

See the Documentation/arm/tcm.txt for documentation.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@stericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' into for-next</title>
<updated>2009-07-03T22:13:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-03T22:13:18+00:00</published>
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Pull linus#master to merge PER_CPU_DEF_ATTRIBUTES and alpha build fix
changes.  As alpha in percpu tree uses 'weak' attribute instead of
inline assembly, there's no need for __used attribute.

Conflicts:
	arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h
	arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
	include/linux/percpu-defs.h
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Pull linus#master to merge PER_CPU_DEF_ATTRIBUTES and alpha build fix
changes.  As alpha in percpu tree uses 'weak' attribute instead of
inline assembly, there's no need for __used attribute.

Conflicts:
	arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h
	arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
	include/linux/percpu-defs.h
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<title>[ARM] 5565/2: Use PAGE_SIZE and RO_DATA() in link script</title>
<updated>2009-06-25T13:00:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Walleij</name>
<email>linus.walleij@stericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-24T22:38:56+00:00</published>
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Update the link script for ARM to use PAGE_SIZE instead of hard-
coded 4096. Also the old RODATA macro is deprecated
for the RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE) macro. As a consequence the PAGE_SIZE
was changed from (1UL &lt;&lt; PAGE_SHIFT) to (_AC(1,UL) &lt;&lt; PAGE_SHIFT)
because the linker does not understand the "UL" suffix to numeric
constants.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@stericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Update the link script for ARM to use PAGE_SIZE instead of hard-
coded 4096. Also the old RODATA macro is deprecated
for the RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE) macro. As a consequence the PAGE_SIZE
was changed from (1UL &lt;&lt; PAGE_SHIFT) to (_AC(1,UL) &lt;&lt; PAGE_SHIFT)
because the linker does not understand the "UL" suffix to numeric
constants.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@stericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>linker script: throw away .discard section</title>
<updated>2009-06-24T06:13:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-24T06:13:38+00:00</published>
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x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do.  Also,
.discard is not thrown away while linking modules.  Make every arch
and module linking throw it away.  This will be used to define dummy
variables for percpu declarations and definitions.

This patch is based on Ivan Kokshaysky's alpha percpu patch.

[ Impact: always throw away everything in .discard ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@atmel.com&gt;
Cc: Bryan Wu &lt;cooloney@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hirokazu Takata &lt;takata@linux-m32r.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do.  Also,
.discard is not thrown away while linking modules.  Make every arch
and module linking throw it away.  This will be used to define dummy
variables for percpu declarations and definitions.

This patch is based on Ivan Kokshaysky's alpha percpu patch.

[ Impact: always throw away everything in .discard ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@atmel.com&gt;
Cc: Bryan Wu &lt;cooloney@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hirokazu Takata &lt;takata@linux-m32r.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<title>[ARM] 5557/1: Discard some ARM.ex*.*exit.text sections when !HOTPLUG or !HOTPLUG_CPU</title>
<updated>2009-06-19T15:44:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-19T15:39:29+00:00</published>
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Not discarding these sections when hotplug isn't available prevents the
kernel from building.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Not discarding these sections when hotplug isn't available prevents the
kernel from building.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm: Provide _sdata and __bss_stop in the vmlinux.lds.S file</title>
<updated>2009-05-30T13:00:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-30T13:00:17+00:00</published>
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_sdata and __bss_stop are common symbols defined by many architectures
and made available to the kernel via asm-generic/sections.h. Kmemleak
uses these symbols when scanning the data sections.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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_sdata and __bss_stop are common symbols defined by many architectures
and made available to the kernel via asm-generic/sections.h. Kmemleak
uses these symbols when scanning the data sections.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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