linux.git/arch/avr32/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S, branch master

avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture

2017-05-01T07:27:15+00:00

This patch drops support for AVR32 architecture from the Linux kernel.

The AVR32 architecture is not keeping up with the development of the
kernel, and since it shares so much of the drivers with Atmel ARM SoC,
it is starting to hinder these drivers to develop swiftly.

Also, all AVR32 AP7 SoC processors are end of lifed from Atmel (now
Microchip).

Finally, the GCC toolchain is stuck at version 4.2.x, and has not
received any patches since the last release from Atmel;
4.2.4-atmel.1.1.3.avr32linux.1. When building kernel v4.10, this
toolchain is no longer able to properly link the network stack.

Haavard and I have came to the conclusion that we feel keeping AVR32 on
life support offers more obstacles for Atmel ARMs, than it gives joy to
AVR32 users. I also suspect there are very few AVR32 users left today,
if anybody at all.

Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt 
Signed-off-by: Håvard Skinnemoen 
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre 
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko 
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon

nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus

2016-10-08T01:46:30+00:00

When doing an nmi backtrace of many cores, most of which are idle, the
output is a little overwhelming and very uninformative.  Suppress
messages for cpus that are idling when they are interrupted and just
emit one line, "NMI backtrace for N skipped: idling at pc 0xNNN".

We do this by grouping all the cpuidle code together into a new
.cpuidle.text section, and then checking the address of the interrupted
PC to see if it lies within that section.

This commit suitably tags x86 and tile idle routines, and only adds in
the minimal framework for other architectures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472487169-14923-5-git-send-email-cmetcalf@mellanox.com
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: Daniel Thompson  [arm]
Tested-by: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Aaron Tomlin 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

avr32: normalize global variables exported by vmlinux.lds

2013-07-03T23:07:34+00:00

Normalize global variables exported by vmlinux.lds to conform usage
guidelines from include/asm-generic/sections.h.

Use _text to mark the start of the kernel image including the head text,
and _stext to mark the start of the .text section.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu 
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

avr32: clean up linker script using standard macros.

2009-10-06T15:39:22+00:00

As a side effect, this patch changes the .init.ramfs data to be
PAGE_SIZE-aligned, instead of 32-byte aligned.  Also, the init data is
moved into its own output sections rather than the .init output
section.

There should be no other changes to the resulting vmlinux as a result
of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage 
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen

linker script: unify usage of discard definition

2009-07-09T02:27:40+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Paul Mundt 
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger 
Tested-by: Michal Simek 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Tony Luck

linker script: throw away .discard section

2009-06-24T06:13:38+00:00

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 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Bryan Wu 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: Jesper Nilsson 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Hirokazu Takata 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'core/rodata' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2008-07-14T22:28:10+00:00

* 'core/rodata' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  move BUG_TABLE into RODATA

avr32: Store virtual addresses in the PGD

2008-07-02T09:01:28+00:00

Instead of storing physical addresses along with page flags in the
PGD, store virtual addresses and use NULL to indicate a not present
second-level page table. A non-page-aligned page table indicates a bad
PMD.

This simplifies the TLB miss handler since it no longer has to check
the Present bit and no longer has to convert the PGD entry from
physical to virtual address. Instead, it has to check for a NULL
entry, which is slightly cheaper than either.

Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen

avr32: Kill special exception handler sections

2008-06-27T15:48:06+00:00

Kill the special exception handler sections .tlbx.ex.text,
.tlbr.ex.text, tlbw.ex.text and .scall.text. Use .org instead to place
the handlers at the required offsets from EVBA.

Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen

move BUG_TABLE into RODATA

2008-05-25T05:06:08+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner