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>

This reverts commit e9a63a4e559fbdc522072281d05e6b13c1022f4b.

This breaks older binutils, where sink-less asserts are broken.

See this commit for further details:

  d2ba8b2: x86: Fix assert syntax in vmlinux.lds.S

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

The linker scripts grew some use of weirdly wrong linker script syntax.
It happens to work, but it's not what the syntax is documented to be.
Clean it up to use the official syntax.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
CC: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>

Merge reason: The linker script cleanups are ready for upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

While these don't get actively used (afaict), it still doesn't hurt
for them to properly reflect what how respective segments will get
mapped/ accessed.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AA0E95F0200007800013707@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

The .data.idt section is just squashed into the .data.page_aligned
output section by the linker script anyway, so it might as well be in
the .data.page_aligned section.

This eliminates all references to .data.idt on x86.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

This has the consequence of changing the section name use for head
code from ".text.head" to ".head.text".  It also eliminates the
".text.head" output section (instead placing head code at the start of
the .text output section), which should be harmless.

This patch only changes the sections in the actual kernel, not those
in the compressed boot loader.

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

Previously, the address of the vsyscall page (VSYSCALL_PHYS_ADDR,
VSYSCALL_VIRT_ADDR) was computed by arithmetic on the address of the
last section.  This leads to bugs when new sections are inserted, such
as the one fixed by commit d312ceda567ab91acd756cde95ac5fbc6b40ed40.
Let's compute it from the current address instead.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
  powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
  sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
  percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
  x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
  percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
  percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
  vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
  vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
  percpu: add chunk->base_addr
  percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
  percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
  percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
  percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
  percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
  percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
  percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
  percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
  percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
  percpu: improve boot messages
  percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
  ...

Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c