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<title>frv: convert frv to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros.</title>
<updated>2009-04-26T16:20:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tim Abbott</name>
<email>tabbott@MIT.EDU</email>
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<published>2009-04-26T02:10:59+00:00</published>
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This has the consequence of changing the section name use for head
code from ".text.head" to ".head.text".  Since this commit changes all
users in the architecture, this change should be harmless.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This has the consequence of changing the section name use for head
code from ".text.head" to ".head.text".  Since this commit changes all
users in the architecture, this change should be harmless.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>FRV: Drop the .data.idt section for FRV</title>
<updated>2008-02-21T03:58:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-20T18:11:39+00:00</published>
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There is no .data.idt section for FRV, so drop it from the linker script.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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There is no .data.idt section for FRV, so drop it from the linker script.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>FRV: Fix up parse error in linker script</title>
<updated>2008-02-13T16:26:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2008-02-13T16:10:08+00:00</published>
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Fix up parse error in FRV linker script, presumably introduced through changes
to the INIT_TEXT and EXIT_TEXT macros.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Fix up parse error in FRV linker script, presumably introduced through changes
to the INIT_TEXT and EXIT_TEXT macros.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>FRV: permit the memory to be located elsewhere in NOMMU mode</title>
<updated>2008-02-05T17:44:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-05T06:29:53+00:00</published>
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Permit the memory to be located somewhere other than address 0xC0000000 in
NOMMU mode.  The configuration options are already present, it just
requires wiring up in the linker script.

Note that only a limited set of locations of runtime addresses are available
because of the way the CPU protection registers work.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Permit the memory to be located somewhere other than address 0xC0000000 in
NOMMU mode.  The configuration options are already present, it just
requires wiring up in the linker script.

Note that only a limited set of locations of runtime addresses are available
because of the way the CPU protection registers work.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h</title>
<updated>2008-01-28T22:21:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Ravnborg</name>
<email>sam@ravnborg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-01-20T13:15:03+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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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 &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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<title>FRV: arrange things such that BRA can reach from the trap table</title>
<updated>2007-11-29T17:24:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-29T00:22:05+00:00</published>
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Arrange the sections in the FRV arch so that a BRA instruction with a
16-bit displacement can always reach from the trap table to entry.S,
tlb-miss.S and break.S.

The problem otherwise is that the linker can insert sufficient code between
the slots in the trap table and the targets of the branch instructions in
those slots that the displacement field in the instruction isn't
sufficiently large.  This is because the branch targets were in the .text
section along with most of the other code in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Arrange the sections in the FRV arch so that a BRA instruction with a
16-bit displacement can always reach from the trap table to entry.S,
tlb-miss.S and break.S.

The problem otherwise is that the linker can insert sufficient code between
the slots in the trap table and the targets of the branch instructions in
those slots that the displacement field in the instruction isn't
sufficiently large.  This is because the branch targets were in the .text
section along with most of the other code in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>define new percpu interface for shared data</title>
<updated>2007-07-19T17:04:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fenghua Yu</name>
<email>fenghua.yu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-19T08:48:12+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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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 &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>all-archs: consolidate .data section definition in asm-generic</title>
<updated>2007-05-19T07:11:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Ravnborg</name>
<email>sam@ravnborg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-17T11:38:44+00:00</published>
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With this consolidation we can now modify the .data
section definition in one spot for all archs.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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With this consolidation we can now modify the .data
section definition in one spot for all archs.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>all-archs: consolidate .text section definition in asm-generic</title>
<updated>2007-05-19T07:11:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Ravnborg</name>
<email>sam@ravnborg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-12T22:31:33+00:00</published>
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Move definition of .text section to asm-generic.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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Move definition of .text section to asm-generic.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] x86: Allow percpu variables to be page-aligned</title>
<updated>2007-05-02T17:27:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Fitzhardinge</name>
<email>jeremy@goop.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-02T17:27:12+00:00</published>
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Let's allow page-alignment in general for per-cpu data (wanted by Xen, and
Ingo suggested KVM as well).

Because larger alignments can use more room, we increase the max per-cpu
memory to 64k rather than 32k: it's getting a little tight.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Let's allow page-alignment in general for per-cpu data (wanted by Xen, and
Ingo suggested KVM as well).

Because larger alignments can use more room, we increase the max per-cpu
memory to 64k rather than 32k: it's getting a little tight.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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