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<title>xtensa: Fix linker script to include .literal sections</title>
<updated>2009-05-12T06:40:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Zankel</name>
<email>chris@zankel.net</email>
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<published>2009-04-21T07:34:15+00:00</published>
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Fix resembles implementation from Marc Gauthier and Piet Denaly:

In the Xtensa architecture, assembly generates literals which must always
precede the code (the L32R instruction that loads them only uses negative
PC-relative offsets).  For any *.text section, literals are placed in a
corresponding *.literal section.  The linker script (vmlinux.lds) must
place these in the correct order.  It must also combine them, when the
*.text section can be larger than L32R's 256 kB range.

For example, this doesn't work:  *(.literal) *(.text) because L32R
instructions at the end of .text can't reach the literals.

The linker can solve this if they are combined in parentheses, like this:
       *(.literal .text)
because it is now allowed mix literals in .text to bring them in range.

None of this is done by standard vmlinux.lds.h macros such as TEXT_TEXT
and INIT_TEXT.  To avoid replicating the logic of that header file, we
instead post-process the generated linker script to convert *(xxx.text)
to *(xxx.literal xxx.text) for the following text sections:
       .text .ref.text .*init.text .*exit.text .text.*
using a sed script.  To do this we must override the default rule for
vmlinux.lds (see scripts/Makefile.build and the top-level Makefile)
to insert this extra step.

Signed-off-by: Marc Gauthier &lt;marc@tensilica.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pete Delaney &lt;piet@tensilica.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
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Fix resembles implementation from Marc Gauthier and Piet Denaly:

In the Xtensa architecture, assembly generates literals which must always
precede the code (the L32R instruction that loads them only uses negative
PC-relative offsets).  For any *.text section, literals are placed in a
corresponding *.literal section.  The linker script (vmlinux.lds) must
place these in the correct order.  It must also combine them, when the
*.text section can be larger than L32R's 256 kB range.

For example, this doesn't work:  *(.literal) *(.text) because L32R
instructions at the end of .text can't reach the literals.

The linker can solve this if they are combined in parentheses, like this:
       *(.literal .text)
because it is now allowed mix literals in .text to bring them in range.

None of this is done by standard vmlinux.lds.h macros such as TEXT_TEXT
and INIT_TEXT.  To avoid replicating the logic of that header file, we
instead post-process the generated linker script to convert *(xxx.text)
to *(xxx.literal xxx.text) for the following text sections:
       .text .ref.text .*init.text .*exit.text .text.*
using a sed script.  To do this we must override the default rule for
vmlinux.lds (see scripts/Makefile.build and the top-level Makefile)
to insert this extra step.

Signed-off-by: Marc Gauthier &lt;marc@tensilica.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pete Delaney &lt;piet@tensilica.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
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<title>xtensa: convert 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>2009-04-26T02:10:57+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&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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Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&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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<title>xtensa: let platform override KERNELOFFSET</title>
<updated>2009-04-03T06:43:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>jw@emlix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-04T15:21:32+00:00</published>
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The linker script should not assume a fix offset in memory for the
kernel, this is platform-specific, so let the platform set it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;jw@emlix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
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The linker script should not assume a fix offset in memory for the
kernel, this is platform-specific, so let the platform set it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;jw@emlix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
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<title>xtensa: move headers files to arch/xtensa/include</title>
<updated>2008-11-06T18:25:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Zankel</name>
<email>chris@zankel.net</email>
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<published>2008-11-06T14:40:46+00:00</published>
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Move all header files for xtensa to arch/xtensa/include and platform and
variant header files to the appropriate arch/xtensa/platforms/ and
arch/xtensa/variants/ directories.

Moving the files gets also rid of all uses of symlinks in the Makefile.

This has been completed already for the majority of the architectures
and xtensa is one out of six missing.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
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Move all header files for xtensa to arch/xtensa/include and platform and
variant header files to the appropriate arch/xtensa/platforms/ and
arch/xtensa/variants/ directories.

Moving the files gets also rid of all uses of symlinks in the Makefile.

This has been completed already for the majority of the architectures
and xtensa is one out of six missing.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
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<title>[XTENSA] Add missing RELOCATE_ENTRY for debug vector</title>
<updated>2008-02-14T01:25:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Gauthier</name>
<email>marc@gums.hq.tensilica.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-12-31T06:00:54+00:00</published>
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We also need to relocate the debug vector if in RAM.

Signed-off-by: Marc Gauthier &lt;marc@tensilica.com&gt;
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We also need to relocate the debug vector if in RAM.

Signed-off-by: Marc Gauthier &lt;marc@tensilica.com&gt;
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<title>[XTENSA] Add .literal sections for various init sectiont to linker script</title>
<updated>2008-02-14T00:44:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Zankel</name>
<email>chris@zankel.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-14T00:44:19+00:00</published>
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Xtensa requires separate .literal section for each .text section.
Adding addition init sections for cpuinit, meminit, and devinit,
broke the Xtensa linker script, so, add these literal sections
manually for now.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
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Xtensa requires separate .literal section for each .text section.
Adding addition init sections for cpuinit, meminit, and devinit,
broke the Xtensa linker script, so, add these literal sections
manually for now.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&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>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild</title>
<updated>2007-07-19T21:28:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-19T21:28:19+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (33 commits)
  xtensa: use DATA_DATA in xtensa
  powerpc: add missing DATA_DATA to powerpc
  cris: use DATA_DATA in cris
  kallsyms: remove usage of memmem and _GNU_SOURCE from scripts/kallsyms.c
  kbuild: use -fno-optimize-sibling-calls unconditionally
  kconfig: reset generated values only if Kconfig and .config agree.
  kbuild: fix the warning when running make tags
  kconfig: strip 'CONFIG_' automatically in kernel configuration search
  kbuild: use POSIX BRE in headers install target
  Whitelist references from __dbe_table to .init
  modpost white list pattern adjustment
  kbuild: do section mismatch check on full vmlinux
  kbuild: whitelist references from variables named _timer to .init.text
  kbuild: remove hardcoded _logo names from modpost
  kbuild: remove hardcoded apic_es7000 from modpost
  kbuild: warn about references from .init.text to .exit.text
  kbuild: consolidate section checks
  kbuild: refactor code in modpost to improve maintainability
  kbuild: ignore section mismatch warnings originating from .note section
  kbuild: .paravirtprobe section is obsolete, so modpost doesn't need to handle it
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (33 commits)
  xtensa: use DATA_DATA in xtensa
  powerpc: add missing DATA_DATA to powerpc
  cris: use DATA_DATA in cris
  kallsyms: remove usage of memmem and _GNU_SOURCE from scripts/kallsyms.c
  kbuild: use -fno-optimize-sibling-calls unconditionally
  kconfig: reset generated values only if Kconfig and .config agree.
  kbuild: fix the warning when running make tags
  kconfig: strip 'CONFIG_' automatically in kernel configuration search
  kbuild: use POSIX BRE in headers install target
  Whitelist references from __dbe_table to .init
  modpost white list pattern adjustment
  kbuild: do section mismatch check on full vmlinux
  kbuild: whitelist references from variables named _timer to .init.text
  kbuild: remove hardcoded _logo names from modpost
  kbuild: remove hardcoded apic_es7000 from modpost
  kbuild: warn about references from .init.text to .exit.text
  kbuild: consolidate section checks
  kbuild: refactor code in modpost to improve maintainability
  kbuild: ignore section mismatch warnings originating from .note section
  kbuild: .paravirtprobe section is obsolete, so modpost doesn't need to handle it
  ...
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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>xtensa: use DATA_DATA in xtensa</title>
<updated>2007-07-17T12:55:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathieu Desnoyers</name>
<email>mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2007-06-17T02:29:39+00:00</published>
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* Sam Ravnborg (sam@ravnborg.org) wrote:
&gt; From your patch it looks like I originally missed out
&gt; powerpc + xtensa when introducing DATA_DATA - would be nice if
&gt; you could fix that.
&gt;
&gt; 	Sam

Use DATA_DATA in xtensa

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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* Sam Ravnborg (sam@ravnborg.org) wrote:
&gt; From your patch it looks like I originally missed out
&gt; powerpc + xtensa when introducing DATA_DATA - would be nice if
&gt; you could fix that.
&gt;
&gt; 	Sam

Use DATA_DATA in xtensa

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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