Older binutils breaks if ASSERT() is used without a sink
for the output.

For example 2.14.90.0.6 is known to be broken, the link
fails with:

  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
  ld:arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds:678: parse error

Document this quirk in all three files that use it.

  See:    http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=124930110427870&w=2
  See[2]: d2ba8b2 ("x86: Fix assert syntax in vmlinux.lds.S")

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AD6523D.5030909@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Remove redundant non-NUMA topology functions
  x86: early_printk: Protect against using the same device twice
  x86: Reduce verbosity of "PAT enabled" kernel message
  x86: Reduce verbosity of "TSC is reliable" message
  x86: mce: Use safer ways to access MCE registers
  x86: mce, inject: Use real inject-msg in raise_local
  x86: mce: Fix thermal throttling message storm
  x86: mce: Clean up thermal throttling state tracking code
  x86: split NX setup into separate file to limit unstack-protected code
  xen: check EFER for NX before setting up GDT mapping
  x86: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros.
  x86: Use section .data.page_aligned for the idt_table.
  x86: convert to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros.
  x86: convert compressed loader to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros.
  x86: fix fragile computation of vsyscall address

Replace the use of CROSS_COMPILE to select a customized
installkernel script with the possibility to set INSTALLKERNEL
to select a custom installkernel script when running make:

    make INSTALLKERNEL=arm-installkernel install

With this patch we are now more consistent across
different architectures - they did not all support use
of CROSS_COMPILE.

The use of CROSS_COMPILE was a hack as this really belongs
to gcc/binutils and the installkernel script does not change
just because we change toolchain.

The use of CROSS_COMPILE caused troubles with an upcoming patch
that saves CROSS_COMPILE when a kernel is built - it would no
longer be installable.
[Thanks to Peter Z. for this hint]

This patch undos what Ian did in commit:

  0f8e2d62fa04441cd12c08ce521e84e5bd3f8a46
  ("use ${CROSS_COMPILE}installkernel in arch/*/boot/install.sh")

The patch has been lightly tested on x86 only - but all changes
looks obvious.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [blackfin]
Acked-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> [arm]
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> [sh]
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> [x86]
Cc: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [ia64]
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> [ia64]
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> [m32r]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> [parisc]
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [powerpc]
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390]
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [x86]
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> [x86]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

This has the consequence of changing the section name use for head
code from ".text.head" to ".head.text".

Linus suggested that we merge the ".text.head" section with ".text"
(presumably while preserving the fact that the head code starts at 0).
When I tried this it caused the kernel to not boot.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

* 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, e820: Guard against array overflowed in __e820_add_region()
  x86, setup: remove obsolete pre-Kconfig CONFIG_VIDEO_ variables

The absence of vmlinux.lds here keeps .vmlinux.lds.cmd from being
included, which in turn leads to it and all its dependents always
getting rebuilt independent of whether they are already up-to-date.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A8D84670200007800010D31@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

Some intcall() misuses the input biosregs as output in
cf06de7b9cdd3efee7a59dced1977b3c21d43732

This fixes the problem vga=ask boot option doesn't show enough modes.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090701021307.GA3127@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

There were a set of pre-Kconfig configuration variables defined in the
video code.  There is absolutely no evidence that they have been
tweaked by anybody in modern history, so just get rid of them and hope
nobody notices.  If someone does complain, these should be made real
Kconfig variables.

Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (45 commits)
  x86, mce: fix error path in mce_create_device()
  x86: use zalloc_cpumask_var for mce_dev_initialized
  x86: fix duplicated sysfs attribute
  x86: de-assembler-ize asm/desc.h
  i386: fix/simplify espfix stack switching, move it into assembly
  i386: fix return to 16-bit stack from NMI handler
  x86, ioapic: Don't call disconnect_bsp_APIC if no APIC present
  x86: Remove duplicated #include's
  x86: msr.h linux/types.h is only required for __KERNEL__
  x86: nmi: Add Intel processor 0x6f4 to NMI perfctr1 workaround
  x86, mce: mce_intel.c needs <asm/apic.h>
  x86: apic/io_apic.c: dmar_msi_type should be static
  x86, io_apic.c: Work around compiler warning
  x86: mce: Don't touch THERMAL_APIC_VECTOR if no active APIC present
  x86: mce: Handle banks == 0 case in K7 quirk
  x86, boot: use .code16gcc instead of .code16
  x86: correct the conversion of EFI memory types
  x86: cap iomem_resource to addressable physical memory
  x86, mce: rename _64.c files which are no longer 64-bit-specific
  x86, mce: mce.h cleanup
  ...

Manually fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/mm/fault.c

Enable gcov profiling of the entire kernel on x86_64. Required changes
include disabling profiling for:

* arch/kernel/acpi/realmode and arch/kernel/boot/compressed:
  not linked to main kernel
* arch/vdso, arch/kernel/vsyscall_64 and arch/kernel/hpet:
  profiling causes segfaults during boot (incompatible context)

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>