Recently, some distros have started shipping versions of gcc which
default to -march=i686. This breaks building kernels for pre-i686
machines, even if they have been selected in Kconfig, due to the
generation of CMOV instructions.
There isn't enough benefit to try to preserve the generation of these
instructions even when selected, so simply force -march=i386 for the
decompressor when building a 32-bit kernel.
Reported-and-tested-by: Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <219280.97558.qm@web52907.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
* 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (29 commits)
net: fix for utsrelease.h moving to generated
gen_init_cpio: fixed fwrite warning
kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge
kbuild: generate modules.builtin
genksyms: properly consider EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}()
score: add asm/asm-offsets.h wrapper
unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190
kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope
kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig
scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if available
scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable
scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root
Kbuild: clean up marker
net: add net_tstamp.h to headers_install
kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated
kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
drop explicit include of autoconf.h
kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated
kbuild: drop include/asm
kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH
...
Fixed non-conflicting clean merge of modpost.c as per comments from
Stephen Rothwell (modpost.c had grown an include of linux/autoconf.h
that needed to be changed to generated/autoconf.h)
This adds a new category of symbols to the relocs program: symbols
which are known to be relative, even though the linker emits them as
absolute; this is the case for symbols that live in the linker script,
which currently applies to _end.
Unfortunately the previous workaround of putting _end in its own empty
section was defeated by newer binutils, which remove empty sections
completely.
This patch also changes the symbol matching to use regular expressions
instead of hardcoded C for specific patterns.
This is a decidedly non-minimal patch: a modified version of the
relocs program is used as part of the Syslinux build, and this is
basically a backport to Linux of some of those changes; they have
thus been well tested.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AF86211.3070103@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
* 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
vgacon: Add support for setting the default cursor state
vc: Add support for hiding the cursor when creating VTs
x86, setup: Store the boot cursor state
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (36 commits)
x86, mm: Correct the implementation of is_untracked_pat_range()
x86/pat: Trivial: don't create debugfs for memtype if pat is disabled
x86, mtrr: Fix sorting of mtrr after subtracting
x86: Move find_smp_config() earlier and avoid bootmem usage
x86, platform: Change is_untracked_pat_range() to bool; cleanup init
x86: Change is_ISA_range() into an inline function
x86, mm: is_untracked_pat_range() takes a normal semiclosed range
x86, mm: Call is_untracked_pat_range() rather than is_ISA_range()
x86: UV SGI: Don't track GRU space in PAT
x86: SGI UV: Fix BAU initialization
x86, numa: Use near(er) online node instead of roundrobin for NUMA
x86, numa, bootmem: Only free bootmem on NUMA failure path
x86: Change crash kernel to reserve via reserve_early()
x86: Eliminate redundant/contradicting cache line size config options
x86: When cleaning MTRRs, do not fold WP into UC
x86: remove "extern" from function prototypes in <asm/proto.h>
x86, mm: Report state of NX protections during boot
x86, mm: Clean up and simplify NX enablement
x86, pageattr: Make set_memory_(x|nx) aware of NX support
x86, sleep: Always save the value of EFER
...
Fix up conflicts (added both iommu_shutdown and is_untracked_pat_range)
to 'struct x86_platform_ops') in
arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h
arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c
Rather than having X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES and X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
(with inconsistent defaults), just having the latter suffices as
the former can be easily calculated from it.
To be consistent, also change X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES to
X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT, and set it to 7 (128 bytes) for NUMA
to account for last level cache line size (which here matters
more than L1 cache line size).
Finally, make sure the default value for X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT,
when X86_GENERIC is selected, is being seen before that for the
individual CPU model options (other than on x86-64, where
GENERIC_CPU is part of the choice construct, X86_GENERIC is a
separate option on ix86).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <4AFD5710020000780001F8F0@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add a field to store the boot cursor state and implement this for VGA on
x86. This can then be used to set the default policy for the boot console.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258142222-16092-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
A single 'movl' is shorter than the 'xorl'-'orl' pair.
No change in behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1256341043-4928-1-git-send-email-aspotashev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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:
0f8e2d62fa
("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>
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
cf06de7b9c
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>
Use .code16gcc to compile arch/x86/boot/bioscall.S rather than
.code16, since some older versions of binutils can't generate 32-bit
addressing expressions (67 prefixes) in .code16 mode, only in
.code16gcc mode.
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits)
x86, boot: add new generated files to the appropriate .gitignore files
x86, boot: correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE
x86-64: align __PHYSICAL_START, remove __KERNEL_ALIGN
x86, boot: correct sanity checks in boot/compressed/misc.c
x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version
x86, defconfig: update kernel position parameters
x86, defconfig: update to current, no material changes
x86: make CONFIG_RELOCATABLE the default
x86: default CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN to 16 MB
x86: document new bzImage fields
x86, boot: make kernel_alignment adjustable; new bzImage fields
x86, boot: remove dead code from boot/compressed/head_*.S
x86, boot: use LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on 64 bits
x86, boot: make symbols from the main vmlinux available
x86, boot: determine compressed code offset at compile time
x86, boot: use appropriate rep string for move and clear
x86, boot: zero EFLAGS on 32 bits
x86, boot: set up the decompression stack as early as possible
x86, boot: straighten out ranges to copy/zero in compressed/head*.S
x86, boot: stylistic cleanups for boot/compressed/head_64.S
...
Fixed trivial conflict in arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig manually
git status complains of untracked (generated) files in arch/x86/boot..
# Untracked files:
# (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
# ../../arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy
# ../../arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S
# ../../arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds
# ../../arch/x86/boot/voffset.h
# ../../arch/x86/boot/zoffset.h
..so adjust .gitignore files accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
For relocatable 32bit kernels, boot/compressed/relocs.c processes
relocation entries in the kernel image and appends it to the kernel
image such that boot/compressed/head_32.S can relocate the kernel.
The kernel image is one statically linked object and only uses two
relocation types - R_386_PC32 and R_386_32, of the two only the latter
needs massaging during kernel relocation and thus handled by relocs.
R_386_PC32 is ignored and all other relocation types are considered
error.
When the target of a relocation resides in a discarded section,
binutils doesn't throw away the relocation record but nullifies it by
changing it to R_386_NONE, which unfortunately makes relocs fail.
The problem was triggered by yet out-of-tree x86 stack unwind patches
but given the binutils behavior, ignoring R_386_NONE is the right
thing to do.
The problem has been tracked down to binutils behavior by Jan Beulich.
[ Impact: fix build with certain binutils by ignoring R_386_NONE ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <4A1B8150.40702@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Remove ACPI 3 E820 extended memory attributes support. At least one
vendor actively set all the flags to zero, but left ECX on return at
24. This bug may be present in other BIOSes.
The breakage functionally means the ACPI 3 flags are probably
completely useless, and that no OS any time soon is going to rely on
their existence. Therefore, drop support completely. We may want to
revisit this question in the future, if we find ourselves actually
needing the flags.
This reverts all or part of the following checkins:
cd670599b7c549e71d07
However, retain the part from the latter commit that copies e820 into
a temporary buffer; that is an unrelated BIOS workaround. Put in a
comment to explain that part.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499396 for some
additional information.
[ Impact: detect all memory on affected machines ]
Reported-by: Thomas J. Baker <tjb@unh.edu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <matt_domsch@dell.com>
Correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE (the amount of memory we need
during decompression). One symbol (ZO_startup_32) was missing from
zoffset.h, and another (ZO_z_extract_offset) was misspelled.
[ Impact: build fix ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c contains several sanity checks on the
output address. Correct constraints that are no longer correct:
- the alignment test should be MIN_KERNEL_ALIGN on both 32 and 64
bits.
- the 64 bit maximum address was set to 2^40, which was the limit of
one specific x86-64 implementation. Change the test to 2^46, the
current Linux limit, and at least try to test the end rather than
the beginning.
- for non-relocatable kernels, test against LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on both
32 and 64 bits.
[ Impact: fix potential boot failure due to invalid tests ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
A long ago, in days of yore, it all began with a god named Thor.
There were vikings and boats and some plans for a Linux kernel
header. Unfortunately, a single 8-bit field was used for bootloader
type and version. This has generally worked without *too* much pain,
but we're getting close to flat running out of ID fields.
Add extension fields for both type and version. The type will be
extended if it the old field is 0xE; the version is a simple MSB
extension.
Keep /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type containing
(type << 4) + (ver & 0xf) for backwards compatiblity, but also add
/proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_version which contains the full version
number.
[ Impact: new feature to support more bootloaders ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Make the kernel_alignment field adjustable; this allows us to set it
to a large value (intended to be 16 MB to avoid ZONE_DMA contention,
memory holes and other weirdness) while a smart bootloader can still
force a loading at a lesser alignment if absolutely necessary.
Also export pref_address (preferred loading address, corresponding to
the link-time address) and init_size, the total amount of linear
memory the kernel will require during initialization.
[ Impact: allows better kernel placement, gives bootloader more info ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Remove a couple of lines of dead code from
arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_*.S; all of these update registers that
are dead in the current code.
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Use LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR instead of CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START in the 64-bit
decompression code, for equivalence with the 32-bit code.
[ Impact: cleanup, increases code similarity ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Make symbols from the main vmlinux, as opposed to just
compressed/vmlinux, available to header.S. Also, export a few
additional symbols.
This will be used in a subsequent patch to export the total memory
footprint of the kernel.
[ Impact: enable future enhancement ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Determine the compressed code offset (from the kernel runtime address)
at compile time. This allows some minor optimizations in
arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_*.S, but more importantly it makes this
value available to the build process, which will enable a future patch
to export the necessary linear memory footprint into the bzImage
header.
[ Impact: cleanup, future patch enabling ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
In the pre-decompression code, use the appropriate largest possible
rep movs and rep stos to move code and clear bss, respectively. For
reverse copy, do note that the initial values are supposed to be the
address of the first (highest) copy datum, not one byte beyond the end
of the buffer.
rep strings are not necessarily the fastest way to perform these
operations on all current processors, but are likely to be in the
future, and perhaps more importantly, we want to encourage the
architecturally right thing to do here.
This also fixes a couple of trivial inefficiencies on 64 bits.
[ Impact: trivial performance enhancement, increase code similarity ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The 64-bit code already clears EFLAGS as soon as it has a stack. This
seems like a reasonable precaution, so do it on 32 bits as well.
[ Impact: extra paranoia ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Set up the decompression stack as soon as we know where it needs to
go. That way we have a full-service stack as soon as possible, rather
than relying on the BP_scratch field.
Note that the stack does need to be empty during bss zeroing (or
else the stack needs to be moved out of the bss segment, which is also
an option.)
[ Impact: cleanup, minor paranoia ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Both on 32 and 64 bits, we copy all the way up to the end of bss,
except that on 64 bits there is a hack to avoid copying on top of the
page tables. There is no point in copying bss at all, especially
since we are just about to zero it all anyway.
To clean up and unify the handling, we now do:
- copy from startup_32 to _bss.
- zero from _bss to _ebss.
- the _ebss symbol is aligned to an 8-byte boundary.
- the page tables are moved to a separate section.
Use _bss as the copy endpoint since _edata may be misaligned.
[ Impact: cleanup, trivial performance improvement ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Clean up style issues in arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S. This
file had a lot fewer style issues than its 32-bit cousin, but the ones
it has are worth fixing, especially since it makes the two files more
similar.
[ Impact: cleanup, no object code change ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reformat arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S to be closer to currently
preferred kernel assembly style, that is:
- opcode and operand separated by tab
- operands separated by ", "
- C-style comments
This also makes it more similar to head_64.S.
[ Impact: cleanup, no object code change ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
When generating the compression suffix in
arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile, follow standard Kbuild
conventions, that is:
- Use a dash not underscore before y/m/n endings
- Use := whenever possible.
Requested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Simplify the arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile, by using the new
capability of specifying multiple inputs to a compressor, and the
CONFIG_X86_NEED_RELOCS Kconfig symbol.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Aligning the .bss section makes it trivial to use large operation
sizes for moving the initialized sections and clearing the .bss.
The alignment chosen (L1 cache) is somewhat arbitrary, but should be
large enough to avoid all known performance traps and small enough to
not cause troubles.
[ Impact: trivial performance enhancement, future patch prep ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Look at the:
diff -u arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_*.lds
output and realize that they're basially exactly the same except for
trivial naming differences, and the fact that the 64-bit version has a
"pgtable" thing.
So unify them.
There's some trivial cleanup there (make the output format a Kconfig thing
rather than doing #ifdef's for it, and unify both 32-bit and 64-bit BSS
end to "_ebss", where 32-bit used to use the traditional "_end"), but
other than that it's really very mindless and straigt conversion.
For example, I think we should aim to remove "startup_32" vs "startup_64",
and just call it "startup", and get rid of one more difference. I didn't
do that.
Also, notice the comment in the unified vmlinux.lds.S talks about
"head_64" and "startup_32" which is an odd and incorrect mix, but that was
actually what the old 64-bit only lds file had, so the confusion isn't
new, and now that mixing is arguably more accurate thanks to the
vmlinux.lds.S file being shared between the two cases ;)
[ Impact: cleanup, unification ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Comment change only
The glove box is about avoiding problems with *registers* being
touched, not *memory*.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: BIOS proofing
"Glove box" off BIOS interrupts in the video code.
LKML-Reference: <49DE7F79.4030106@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
