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2010-01-11x86: add support for LZO-compressed kernelsAlbin Tonnerre
The necessary changes to the x86 Kconfig and boot/compressed to allow the use of this new compression method Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-28Merge branch 'iommu/fixes' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu into x86/urgent
2009-12-25x86, compress: Force i386 instructions for the decompressorH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-12-17Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuildLinus Torvalds
* '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)
2009-12-14x86: Regex support and known-movable symbols for relocs, fix _endH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-12-12kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generatedSam Ravnborg
Fix up all users of utsrelease.h Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-12kbuild: move compile.h to include/generatedSam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-08Merge branch 'x86-setup-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * '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
2009-12-08Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * '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
2009-11-19x86: Eliminate redundant/contradicting cache line size config optionsJan Beulich
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>
2009-11-13x86, setup: Store the boot cursor stateMatthew Garrett
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>
2009-10-24x86, boot: Simplify setting of the PAE bitAlexander Potashev
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>
2009-10-16x86: Document linker script ASSERT() quirkIngo Molnar
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>
2009-09-26Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * '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
2009-09-20kbuild: use INSTALLKERNEL to select customized installkernel scriptSam Ravnborg
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: 0f8e2d62fa04441cd12c08ce521e84e5bd3f8a46 ("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>
2009-09-18x86: convert compressed loader to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros.Tim Abbott
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>
2009-09-14Merge branch 'x86-setup-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, e820: Guard against array overflowed in __e820_add_region() x86, setup: remove obsolete pre-Kconfig CONFIG_VIDEO_ variables
2009-08-20x86: add vmlinux.lds to targets in arch/x86/boot/compressed/MakefileJan Beulich
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>
2009-07-04x86: fix usage of bios intcall()Akinobu Mita
Some intcall() misuses the input biosregs as output in cf06de7b9cdd3efee7a59dced1977b3c21d43732 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>
2009-06-26x86, setup: remove obsolete pre-Kconfig CONFIG_VIDEO_ variablesH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-06-20Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * '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
2009-06-18gcov: enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL for x86_64Peter Oberparleiter
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>
2009-06-16x86, boot: use .code16gcc instead of .code16H. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-06-10Merge branch 'x86-setup-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, setup: fix comment in the "glove box" code x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the video code x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the MCA code x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the EDD code x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the APM code x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the core boot code x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS calls -- infrastructure
2009-06-10Merge branch 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * '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
2009-06-02x86, boot: add new generated files to the appropriate .gitignore filesMike Galbraith
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>
2009-05-25x86, relocs: ignore R_386_NONE in kernel relocation entriesTejun Heo
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>
2009-05-23Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/setupH. Peter Anvin
Resolved conflicts: arch/x86/boot/memory.c Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-22x86, setup: revert ACPI 3 E820 extended attributes supportH. Peter Anvin
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: cd670599b7b00d9263f6f11a05c0edeb9cbedaf3 c549e71d073a6e9a4847497344db28a784061455 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>
2009-05-20x86, boot: correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZEH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-05-12x86, boot: correct sanity checks in boot/compressed/misc.cH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-05-11x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and versionH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-05-11x86, boot: make kernel_alignment adjustable; new bzImage fieldsH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-05-11x86, boot: remove dead code from boot/compressed/head_*.SH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-05-11x86, boot: use LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on 64 bitsH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-05-11x86, boot: make symbols from the main vmlinux availableH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-05-08x86, boot: determine compressed code offset at compile timeH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-05-08x86, boot: use appropriate rep string for move and clearH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-05-08x86, boot: zero EFLAGS on 32 bitsH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-05-08x86, boot: set up the decompression stack as early as possibleH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-05-08x86, boot: straighten out ranges to copy/zero in compressed/head*.SH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-05-08x86, boot: stylistic cleanups for boot/compressed/head_64.SH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-05-08x86, boot: stylistic cleanups for boot/compressed/head_32.SH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-05-08x86, boot: use BP_scratch in arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_*.SH. Peter Anvin
Use the BP_scratch symbol from asm-offsets.h instead of hard-coding the location. [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-08x86, boot: follow standard Kbuild style for compression suffixH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-05-08x86, boot: simplify arch/x86/boot/compressed/MakefileH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-05-08x86, boot: align the .bss section in the decompressorH. Peter Anvin
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>
2009-04-30x86: boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S: fix build of bzImage with 64 bit compilerSam Ravnborg
Jesper reported that he saw following build issue: > ld:arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds:9: syntax error > make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 1 > make[1]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2 > make: *** [bzImage] Error 2 CPP defines the symbol "i386" to "1". Undefine this to fix it. [ Impact: build fix with certain tool chains ] Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904260958190.3101@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-27x86: unify arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_*.ldsLinus Torvalds
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>
2009-04-11x86, setup: fix comment in the "glove box" codeH. Peter Anvin
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>