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* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds2006-03-251-1/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (46 commits) kbuild: remove obsoleted scripts/reference_* files kbuild: fix make help & make *pkg kconfig: fix time ordering of writes to .kconfig.d and include/linux/autoconf.h Kconfig: remove the CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_* options kbuild: add -fverbose-asm to i386 Makefile kbuild: clean-up genksyms kbuild: Lindent genksyms.c kbuild: fix genksyms build error kbuild: in makefile.txt note that Makefile is preferred name for kbuild files kbuild: replace PHONY with FORCE kbuild: Fix bug in crc symbol generating of kernel and modules kbuild: change kbuild to not rely on incorrect GNU make behavior kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user this is the problem kbuild: fix make dir/file.xx when asm symlink is missing kbuild: in the section mismatch check try harder to find symbols kbuild: fix section mismatch check for unwind on IA64 kbuild: kill false positives from section mismatch warnings for powerpc kbuild: kill trailing whitespace in modpost & friends kbuild: small update of allnoconfig description kbuild: make namespace.pl CROSS_COMPILE happy ... Trivial conflict in arch/ppc/boot/Makefile manually fixed up
| * x86: align per-cpu section to configured cache bytesZach Brown2006-02-191-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This matches the fix for a bug seen on x86-64. Test booted on old hardware that had 32 byte cachelines to begin with. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* | [PATCH] x86: SMP alternativesGerd Hoffmann2006-03-231-0/+20
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement SMP alternatives, i.e. switching at runtime between different code versions for UP and SMP. The code can patch both SMP->UP and UP->SMP. The UP->SMP case is useful for CPU hotplug. With CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG enabled the code switches to UP at boot time and when the number of CPUs goes down to 1, and switches to SMP when the number of CPUs goes up to 2. Without CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG or on non-SMP-capable systems the code is patched once at boot time (if needed) and the tables are released afterwards. The changes in detail: * The current alternatives bits are moved to a separate file, the SMP alternatives code is added there. * The patch adds some new elf sections to the kernel: .smp_altinstructions like .altinstructions, also contains a list of alt_instr structs. .smp_altinstr_replacement like .altinstr_replacement, but also has some space to save original instruction before replaving it. .smp_locks list of pointers to lock prefixes which can be nop'ed out on UP. The first two are used to replace more complex instruction sequences such as spinlocks and semaphores. It would be possible to deal with the lock prefixes with that as well, but by handling them as special case the table sizes become much smaller. * The sections are page-aligned and padded up to page size, so they can be free if they are not needed. * Splitted the code to release init pages to a separate function and use it to release the elf sections if they are unused. Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386 / uml: add dwarf sections to static link scriptPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2005-09-101-8/+3Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Inside the linker script, insert the code for DWARF debug info sections. This may help GDB'ing a Uml binary. Actually, it seems that ld is able to guess what I added correctly, but normal linker scripts include this section so it should be correct anyway adding it. On request by Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, I've added it to asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.s. I've also moved there the stabs debug section, used the new macro in i386 linker script and added DWARF debug section to that. In the truth, I've not been able to verify the difference in GDB behaviour after this change (I've seen large improvements with another patch). This may depend on my binutils version, older one may have worse defaults. However, this section is present in normal linker script, so add it at least for the sake of cleanness. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kprobes: prevent possible race conditions i386 changesPrasanna S Panchamukhi2005-09-081-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | This patch contains the i386 architecture specific changes to prevent the possible race conditions. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mostly_read data sectionChristoph Lameter2005-07-081-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new section called ".data.read_mostly" for data items that are read frequently and rarely written to like cpumaps etc. If these maps are placed in the .data section then these frequenly read items may end up in cachelines with data is is frequently updated. In that case all processors in an SMP system must needlessly reload the cachelines again and again containing elements of those frequently used variables. The ability to share these cachelines will allow each cpu in an SMP system to keep local copies of those shared cachelines thereby optimizing performance. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kexec: x86: add CONFIG_PYSICAL_STARTEric W. Biederman2005-06-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For one kernel to report a crash another kernel has created we need to have 2 kernels loaded simultaneously in memory. To accomplish this the two kernels need to built to run at different physical addresses. This patch adds the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option to the x86 kernel so we can do just that. You need to know what you are doing and the ramifications are before changing this value, and most users won't care so I have made it depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED bzImage kernels will work and run at a different address when compiled with this option but they will still load at 1MB. If you need a kernel loaded at a different address as well you need to boot a vmlinux. Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kexec: x86: vmlinux: fix physical addressesEric W. Biederman2005-06-261-21/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The vmlinux on i386 does not report the correct physical address of the kernel. Instead in the physical address field it currently reports the virtual address of the kernel. This is patch is a bug fix that corrects vmlinux to report the proper physical addresses. This is potentially a help for crash dump analysis tools. This definitiely allows bootloaders that load vmlinux as a standard ELF executable. Bootloaders directly loading vmlinux become of practical importance when we consider the kexec on panic case. Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-171-0/+134
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!