linux.git/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S, branch v4.11

parisc: Move exception table into read-only section

2016-10-09T11:29:07+00:00

Since BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT is enabled, the exception table can move
into the read-only section.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

parisc: Fix kernel memory layout regarding position of __gp

2016-10-09T09:12:34+00:00

Architecturally we need to keep __gp below 0x1000000.

But because of ftrace and tracepoint support, the RO_DATA_SECTION now gets much
bigger than it was before. By moving the linkage tables before RO_DATA_SECTION
we can avoid that __gp gets positioned at a too high address.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2016-10-08T04:38:00+00:00

Merge updates from Andrew Morton:

 - fsnotify updates

 - ocfs2 updates

 - all of MM

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (127 commits)
  console: don't prefer first registered if DT specifies stdout-path
  cred: simpler, 1D supplementary groups
  CREDITS: update Pavel's information, add GPG key, remove snail mail address
  mailmap: add Johan Hovold
  .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files
  uprobes: remove function declarations from arch/{mips,s390}
  spelling.txt: "modeled" is spelt correctly
  nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus
  arch/tile: adopt the new nmi_backtrace framework
  nmi_backtrace: do a local dump_stack() instead of a self-NMI
  nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace() methods
  min/max: remove sparse warnings when they're nested
  Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: add more description for maps/smaps
  mm, proc: fix region lost in /proc/self/smaps
  proc: fix timerslack_ns CAP_SYS_NICE check when adjusting self
  proc: add LSM hook checks to /proc//timerslack_ns
  proc: relax /proc//timerslack_ns capability requirements
  meminfo: break apart a very long seq_printf with #ifdefs
  seq/proc: modify seq_put_decimal_[u]ll to take a const char *, not char
  proc: faster /proc/*/status
  ...

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

parisc: Drop bootmem and switch to memblock

2016-10-07T15:03:02+00:00

Memblock is the standard kernel boot-time memory tracker/allocator. Use it
instead of the bootmem allocator. This allows using kmemleak, CMA and
other features.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections

2016-03-25T23:37:42+00:00

KASAN needs to know whether the allocation happens in an IRQ handler.
This lets us strip everything below the IRQ entry point to reduce the
number of unique stack traces needed to be stored.

Move the definition of __irq_entry to  so that the
users don't need to pull in .  Also introduce the
__softirq_entry macro which is similar to __irq_entry, but puts the
corresponding functions to the .softirqentry.text section.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Andrey Konovalov 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany 
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

parisc: Map kernel text and data on huge pages

2015-11-22T11:23:19+00:00

Adjust the linker script and map_pages() to map kernel text and data on
physical 1MB huge/large pages.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

parisc: fix kernel memory layout in vmlinux.ld.S

2013-11-30T21:09:21+00:00

When building a 64bit kernel sometimes functions in the .init section were not
able to reach the standard kernel function. Main reason for this problem is,
that the linkage tables (.plt, .opd, .dlt) tend to become pretty huge and thus
the distance gets too big for short calls.

One option to avoid this is to use the -mlong-calls compiler option, but this
increases the binary size and introduces a performance penalty.

Instead, with this patch we just lay out the binary differently.  Init code is
stored first, followed by text, R/O and finally R/W data. This means, that init
and text code is now much closer to each other, which is sufficient to reach
each other by short calls.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

parisc: add kernel stack overflow check

2013-05-07T19:34:07+00:00

Add the CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW config option to enable checks to
detect kernel stack overflows.

Stack overflows can not be detected reliable since we do not want to
introduce too much overhead.

Instead, during irq processing in do_cpu_irq_mask() we check kernel
stack usage of the interrupted kernel process. Kernel threads can be
easily detected by checking the value of space register 7 (sr7) which
is zero when running inside the kernel.

Since THREAD_SIZE is 16k and PAGE_SIZE is 4k, reduce the alignment of
the init thread to the lower value (PAGE_SIZE) in the kernel
vmlinux.ld.S linker script.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

[PARISC] fix boot failure on 32-bit systems caused by branch stubs placed before .text

2012-05-25T09:52:17+00:00

In certain configurations, the resulting kernel becomes too large to boot
because the linker places the long branch stubs for the merged .text section
at the very start of the image.  As a result, the initial transfer of control
jumps to an unexpected location.  Fix this by placing the head text in a
separate section so the stubs for .text are not at the start of the image.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley