Because the command line is increased to 2048 characters after 2.6.21, it's
not possible for boot loaders and userspace tools to determine the length
of the command line the kernel can understand. The benefit of knowing the
length is that users can be warned if the command line size is too long
which prevents surprise if things don't work after bootup.
This patch updates the boot protocol to contain a field called
"cmdline_size" that contain the length of the command line (excluding the
terminating zero).
The patch also adds missing fields (of protocol version 2.05) to the x86_64
setup code.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
VBE1.2 doesn't support function 15h (DDC) resulting in a 'hang' whilst
uncompressing kernel with some video cards. Make sure we check VBE version
before fiddling around with DDC.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458
Opened: 2003-10-30 09:12 Last update: 2007-02-13 22:03
Much thanks to Tobias Hain for help in testing and investigating the bug.
Tested on;
i386, Chips & Technologies 65548 VESA VBE 1.2
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=Y
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=Y
Untested on x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Change the explicit code in the relocs.c file to use ARRAY_SIZE()
and add a definition of ARRAY_SIZE() since this is a userspace program
and wouldn't include kernel.h.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
i386 boot/compressed/relocs checks for absolute symbols and warns about
unexpected ones. If you build with modversions, you get ~2500 warnings
about __crc_<symbol>. These suckers are really absolute symbols - we
do _not_ want to modify them on relocation.
They are generated by genksyms - EXPORT_... generates a weak alias, then
genksyms produces an ld script with __crc_<symbol> = <checksum> and it's
fed to ld to produce the final object file. Their only use is to match
kernel and module at modprobe time; they _must_ be absolute.
boot/compressed/relocs has a whitelist of known absolute symbols, but
it doesn't know about __crc_... stuff. As the result, we get shitloads
of false positives on any ld(1) version.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 968de4f026 ("i386: Relocatable
kernel support") caused problems for people with old binutils versions
that didn't mark ".text.*" sections automatically allocated.
So we should use .section command to specifically mark .text.head
section as AX (allocatable and executable) to solve the problem.
This should be unnecessary with binutils 2.15 and later, which is
already three years old, but it doesn't hurt supporting older toolchains
where possible.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Due to the changes to make the kernel relocateable a new file is created
during the build process.
[jirislaby@gmail.com: The .gitigonre was intended to be in arch/ subtree]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Create a paravirt.h header for all the critical operations which need to be
replaced with hypervisor calls, and include that instead of defining native
operations, when CONFIG_PARAVIRT.
This patch does the dumbest possible replacement of paravirtualized
instructions: calls through a "paravirt_ops" structure. Currently these are
function implementations of native hardware: hypervisors will override the ops
structure with their own variants.
All the pv-ops functions are declared "fastcall" so that a specific
register-based ABI is used, to make inlining assember easier.
And:
+From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
The paravirt ops introduce a 'weak' attribute onto memory_setup().
Code ordering leads to the following warnings on x86:
arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:651: warning: weak declaration of
`memory_setup' after first use results in unspecified behavior
Move memory_setup() to avoid this.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Extend bzImage protocol to enable bootloaders to load a completely relocatable
bzImage. Now protected mode component of kernel is also relocatable and a
boot-loader can load the protected mode component at a differnt physical
address than 1MB. (If kernel was built with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE)
Kexec can make use of it to load this kernel at a different physical address
to capture kernel crash dumps.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
o Now CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is being replaced with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN.
Hardcoding the kernel physical start value creates a problem in relocatable
kernel context due to boot loader limitations. For ex, if somebody
compiles a relocatable kernel to be run from address 4MB, but this kernel
will run from location 1MB as grub loads the kernel at physical address
1MB. Kernel thinks that I am a relocatable kernel and I should run from
the address I have been loaded at. So somebody wanting to run kernel
from 4MB alignment location (for improved performance regions) can't do
that.
o Hence, Eric proposed that probably CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN will make
more sense in relocatable kernel context. At run time kernel will move
itself to a physical addr location which meets user specified alignment
restrictions.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
o Relocations generated w.r.t absolute symbols are not processed as by
definition, absolute symbols are not to be relocated. Explicitly warn
user about absolutions relocations present at compile time.
o These relocations get introduced either due to linker optimizations or
some programming oversights.
o Also create a list of symbols which have been audited to be safe and
don't emit warnings for these.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
This patch modifies the i386 kernel so that if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is
selected it will be able to be loaded at any 4K aligned address below
1G. The technique used is to compile the decompressor with -fPIC and
modify it so the decompressor is fully relocatable. For the main
kernel relocations are generated. Resulting in a kernel that is relocatable
with no runtime overhead and no need to modify the source code.
A reserved 32bit word in the parameters has been assigned
to serve as a stack so we figure out where are running.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Defining __PHYSICAL_START and __KERNEL_START in asm-i386/page.h works but
it triggers a full kernel rebuild for the silliest of reasons. This
modifies the users to directly use CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and linux/config.h
which prevents the full rebuild problem, which makes the code much
more maintainer and hopefully user friendly.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
During tracking down a PAE compile failure, I found that config.h was being
included in a bunch of places in i386 code. It is no longer necessary, so
drop it.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The EDD code would scan the command line as a fixed array, without
taking account of either whitespace, null-termination, the old
command-line protocol, late overrides early, or the fact that the
command line may not be reachable from INITSEG.
This should fix those problems, and enable us to use a longer command
line.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Bugzilla #6552 says:
"In arch/i386/boot/setup.S, movw is used instead of movb for PS/2 mouse
information, although it is unsigned char. This does not harm, because
the jmp instruction overwritten by movw is used before executing movw,
and never be used again"
I've no idea if this is a real bug or how it gets fixed, so I'm submitting
it for review instead of letting it die of boredom in bugzilla. Aditionally
to i386, I've changed x86-64, which mirrors the same code.
Credits to Yoshinori K. Okuji, who found the problem and suggested a fix.
Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
include/linux/version.h contained both actual KERNEL version
and UTS_RELEASE that contains a subset from git SHA1 for when
kernel was compiled as part of a git repository.
This had the unfortunate side-effect that all files including version.h
would be recompiled when some git changes was made due to changes SHA1.
Split it out so we keep independent parts in separate files.
Also update checkversion.pl script to no longer check for UTS_RELEASE.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Clean up arch/{i386,x86_64}/boot/compressed/misc.c a bit to reduce their
differences. Should have zero effect on code generation.
Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- make firmware edid independent from framebuffer (No need to choose
framebuffer just to disable this option
- enable this option in X86_64
- check if VBE/DDC function is implemented before calling actual function
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Bugzilla Bug 6299:
A pixel size of 8 bits produces wrong logo colors in x86_64.
The driver has 2 methods for setting the color map, using the protected
mode interface provided by the video BIOS and directly writing to the VGA
registers. The former is not supported in x86_64 and the latter is enabled
only in i386.
Fix by enabling the latter method in x86_64 only if supported by the BIOS.
If both methods are unsupported, change the visual of vesafb to
STATIC_PSEUDOCOLOR.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
DDC reading via the Video BIOS may take several tens of seconds with some
combination of display cards and monitors.
Make this option configurable. It defaults to `y' to minimise disruption.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a "make isoimage" to i386 and x86-64, which allows the automatic
creation of a bootable CD image. It also adds an option FDINITRD= to
include an initrd of the user's choice in generated floppy- or CD boot
images. Finally, some minor cleanups of the image generation code.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Some BIOSes do not always set CF on error before return from int13. The
patch adds additional check for status being zero (AH == 0).
Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add some more gitignore files for i386 architecture. This files are
created during the build process of a i386 kernel.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Removing the dependency on the boot image build was good, but it also
meant that the $< expansion by make needed to be done explicitly.
Noted by Stephen Hemminger.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
From: Bugzilla Bug 5351
"After resuming from S3 (suspended while in X), the LCD panel stays black .
However, the laptop is up again, and I can SSH into it from another
machine.
I can get the panel working again, when I first direct video output to the
CRT output of the laptop, and then back to LCD (done by repeatedly hitting
Fn+F5 buttons on the Toshiba, which directs output to either LCD, CRT or
TV) None of this ever happened with older kernels."
This bug is due to the recently added vesafb_blank() method in vesafb. It
works with CRT displays, but has a high incidence of problems in laptop
users. Since CRT users don't really get that much benefit from hardware
blanking, drop support for this.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This removes the dependency from vmlinux to install, thus avoiding the
current situation where "make install" has a nasty tendency to leave
root-turds in the working directory.
It also updates x86-64 to be in sync with i386.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This makes it possible for boot code to use screen_info without dragging in
all of tty.h.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
For the i386, code is already present in video.S that gets the EDID from the
video BIOS. Make this visible so drivers can also use this data as fallback
when i2c does not work.
To ensure that the EDID block is returned for the primary graphics adapter
only, by check if the IORESOURCE_ROM_SHADOW flag is set.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add rudimentary support by manipulating the VGA registers. However, not
all vesa modes are VGA compatible, so VGA compatiblity is checked first.
Only 2 levels are supported, powerup and powerdown.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Variable "c" was declared as an unsigned int, but used in:
125 for (i=0 ; (c=read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)))>0 ; i+=c )
126 if (write(1, buf, c) != c)
127 die("Write call failed");
(akpm: read() can return -1. If it does, we fill the disk up with garbage).
Signed-off-by: Zaur Kambarov <zkambarov@coverity.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove some of the unnecessary differences between arch/i386 and
arch/x86_64. This patch fixes more whitespace issues, some miscellaneous
typos, a wrong URL and a factually incorrect statement about the current
boot sector code.
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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>
The attached patch causes the various arch specific install.sh scripts to
look for ${CROSS_COMPILE}installkernel rather than just installkernel (in
both /sbin/ and ~/bin/ where the script already did this). This allows you
to have e.g. arm-linux-installkernel as a handy way to install on your
cross target. It also prevents the script picking up on the host
/sbin/installkernel which causes the script to fall through and do the
install itself (which is what I actually use myself, with $INSTALL_PATH
set).
I don't believe it causes back-compatibility problems since calling the
host installkernel was never likely to work or be what you wanted when
cross compiling anyway. If $CROSS_COMPILE isn't set then nothing changes.
I only use ARM and i386 myself but I figured it couldn't hurt to do the
whole lot. I've cc'd those who I hope are the arch maintainers for files
that I've touched.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I am always trying to make sure I've booted the right kernel after a new
install. Too paranoid maybe. But I guess there're other people like me.
So let's make kbuild display the compile version number at the end to give
us a hint. I know we may be booting vmlinux someday, but don't care about
it for now.
Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When I do a "diff -Nur arch/i386 arch/x86_64" to see what is different between these two
architectures, I see some differences due to whitespace issues only. The attached patch removes
some of the noise by fixing up the following files:
- arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S
- arch/i386/boot/video.S
- arch/x86_64/boot/bootsect.S
Signed-off-by: Daniel Dickman <didickman@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The specifications that talk about E820 map doesn't have an upper limit on
the number of e820 entries. But, today's kernel has a hard limit of 32.
With increase in memory size, we are seeing the number of E820 entries
reaching close to 32. Patch below bumps the number upto 128.
The patch changes the location of EDDBUF in zero-page (as it comes after E820).
As, EDDBUF is not used by boot loaders, this patch should not have any effect
on bootloader-setup code interface.
Patch covers both i386 and x86-64.
Tested on:
* grub booting bzImage
* lilo booting bzImage with EDID info enabled
* pxeboot of bzImage
Side-effect:
bss increases by ~ 2K and init.data increases by ~7.5K
on all systems, due to increase in size of static arrays.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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!
