From 088af9a6e05d51e7c3dc85d45d8b7a52c3ee08d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Helge Deller Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:31:18 +0100 Subject: module: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules for parisc When creating the final layout of a kernel module in memory, allow the module loader to reserve some additional memory in front of a given section. This is currently only needed for the parisc port which needs to put the stub entries there to fulfill the 17/22bit PCREL relocations with large kernel modules like xfs. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell (renamed fn) --- include/linux/moduleloader.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/moduleloader.h b/include/linux/moduleloader.h index eb103395748..c1f40c2f7ff 100644 --- a/include/linux/moduleloader.h +++ b/include/linux/moduleloader.h @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ int module_frob_arch_sections(Elf_Ehdr *hdr, char *secstrings, struct module *mod); +/* Additional bytes needed by arch in front of individual sections */ +unsigned int arch_mod_section_prepend(struct module *mod, unsigned int section); + /* Allocator used for allocating struct module, core sections and init sections. Returns NULL on failure. */ void *module_alloc(unsigned long size); -- cgit v1.2.3 From 9ea09af3bd3090e8349ca2899ca2011bd94cda85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heiko Carstens Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:36:30 +0100 Subject: stop_machine: introduce stop_machine_create/destroy. Introduce stop_machine_create/destroy. With this interface subsystems that need a non-failing stop_machine environment can create the stop_machine machine threads before actually calling stop_machine. When the threads aren't needed anymore they can be killed with stop_machine_destroy again. When stop_machine gets called and the threads aren't present they will be created and destroyed automatically. This restores the old behaviour of stop_machine. This patch also converts cpu hotplug to the new interface since it is special: cpu_down calls __stop_machine instead of stop_machine. However the kstop threads will only be created when stop_machine gets called. Changing the code so that the threads would be created automatically on __stop_machine is currently not possible: when __stop_machine gets called we hold cpu_add_remove_lock, which is the same lock that create_rt_workqueue would take. So the workqueue needs to be created before the cpu hotplug code locks cpu_add_remove_lock. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- include/linux/stop_machine.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/stop_machine.h b/include/linux/stop_machine.h index 74d59a64136..baba3a23a81 100644 --- a/include/linux/stop_machine.h +++ b/include/linux/stop_machine.h @@ -35,6 +35,24 @@ int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus); * won't come or go while it's being called. Used by hotplug cpu. */ int __stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus); + +/** + * stop_machine_create: create all stop_machine threads + * + * Description: This causes all stop_machine threads to be created before + * stop_machine actually gets called. This can be used by subsystems that + * need a non failing stop_machine infrastructure. + */ +int stop_machine_create(void); + +/** + * stop_machine_destroy: destroy all stop_machine threads + * + * Description: This causes all stop_machine threads which were created with + * stop_machine_create to be destroyed again. + */ +void stop_machine_destroy(void); + #else static inline int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, @@ -46,5 +64,9 @@ static inline int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, local_irq_enable(); return ret; } + +static inline int stop_machine_create(void) { return 0; } +static inline void stop_machine_destroy(void) { } + #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */ #endif /* _LINUX_STOP_MACHINE */ -- cgit v1.2.3