objtool/idle: Validate __cpuidle code as noinstr

Idle code is very like entry code in that RCU isn't available. As
such, add a little validation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infra

objtool/idle: Validate __cpuidle code as noinstr

Idle code is very like entry code in that RCU isn't available. As
such, add a little validation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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vmlinux.lds.h: Split ELF_DETAILS from STABS_DEBUG

The .comment section doesn't belong in STABS_DEBUG. Split it out into a
new macro named ELF_DETAILS. This will gain other non-debug sections
that ne

vmlinux.lds.h: Split ELF_DETAILS from STABS_DEBUG

The .comment section doesn't belong in STABS_DEBUG. Split it out into a
new macro named ELF_DETAILS. This will gain other non-debug sections
that need to be accounted for when linking with --orphan-handling=warn.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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alpha: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment

Since the EXCEPTION_TABLE is read-only, collapse it into RO_DATA.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@

alpha: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment

Since the EXCEPTION_TABLE is read-only, collapse it into RO_DATA.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Rick Edgecombe <[email protected]>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RW_DATA_SECTION with RW_DATA

Rename RW_DATA_SECTION to RW_DATA. (Calling this a "section" is a lie,
since it's multiple sections and section flags cannot be applied to
the mac

vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RW_DATA_SECTION with RW_DATA

Rename RW_DATA_SECTION to RW_DATA. (Calling this a "section" is a lie,
since it's multiple sections and section flags cannot be applied to
the macro.)

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]> # s390
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> # m68k
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: Rick Edgecombe <[email protected]>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: x86-ml <[email protected]>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RODATA with RO_DATA

There's no reason to keep the RODATA macro: replace the callers with
the expected RO_DATA macro.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-o

vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RODATA with RO_DATA

There's no reason to keep the RODATA macro: replace the callers with
the expected RO_DATA macro.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: Rick Edgecombe <[email protected]>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: x86-ml <[email protected]>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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vmlinux.lds.h: Move NOTES into RO_DATA

The .notes section should be non-executable read-only data. As such,
move it to the RO_DATA macro instead of being per-architecture defined.

Signed-off-by: Ke

vmlinux.lds.h: Move NOTES into RO_DATA

The .notes section should be non-executable read-only data. As such,
move it to the RO_DATA macro instead of being per-architecture defined.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]> # s390
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: Rick Edgecombe <[email protected]>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: x86-ml <[email protected]>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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vmlinux.lds.h: Move Program Header restoration into NOTES macro

In preparation for moving NOTES into RO_DATA, make the Program Header
assignment restoration be part of the NOTES macro itself.

Signe

vmlinux.lds.h: Move Program Header restoration into NOTES macro

In preparation for moving NOTES into RO_DATA, make the Program Header
assignment restoration be part of the NOTES macro itself.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]> # s390
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: Rick Edgecombe <[email protected]>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: x86-ml <[email protected]>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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vmlinux.lds.h: Provide EMIT_PT_NOTE to indicate export of .notes

In preparation for moving NOTES into RO_DATA, provide a mechanism for
architectures that want to emit a PT_NOTE Program Header to do

vmlinux.lds.h: Provide EMIT_PT_NOTE to indicate export of .notes

In preparation for moving NOTES into RO_DATA, provide a mechanism for
architectures that want to emit a PT_NOTE Program Header to do so.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]> # s390
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: Rick Edgecombe <[email protected]>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: x86-ml <[email protected]>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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alpha: Rename PT_LOAD identifier "kernel" to "text"

In preparation for moving NOTES into RO_DATA, rename the linker script
internal identifier for the PT_LOAD Program Header from "kernel" to
"text"

alpha: Rename PT_LOAD identifier "kernel" to "text"

In preparation for moving NOTES into RO_DATA, rename the linker script
internal identifier for the PT_LOAD Program Header from "kernel" to
"text" to match other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Rick Edgecombe <[email protected]>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: x86-ml <[email protected]>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus

When doing an nmi backtrace of many cores, most of which are idle, the
output is a little overwhelming and very uninformative. Suppress
messag

nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus

When doing an nmi backtrace of many cores, most of which are idle, the
output is a little overwhelming and very uninformative. Suppress
messages for cpus that are idling when they are interrupted and just
emit one line, "NMI backtrace for N skipped: idling at pc 0xNNN".

We do this by grouping all the cpuidle code together into a new
.cpuidle.text section, and then checking the address of the interrupted
PC to see if it lies within that section.

This commit suitably tags x86 and tile idle routines, and only adds in
the minimal framework for other architectures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Daniel Thompson <[email protected]> [arm]
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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Disintegrate asm/system.h for Alpha

Disintegrate asm/system.h for Alpha.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
cc: [email protected]

extable, core_kernel_data(): Make sure all archs define _sdata

A new utility function (core_kernel_data()) is used to determine if a
passed in address is part of core kernel data or not. It may or m

extable, core_kernel_data(): Make sure all archs define _sdata

A new utility function (core_kernel_data()) is used to determine if a
passed in address is part of core kernel data or not. It may or may not
return true for RO data, but this utility must work for RW data.

Thus both _sdata and _edata must be defined and continuous,
without .init sections that may later be freed and replaced by
volatile memory (memory that can be freed).

This utility function is used to determine if data is safe from
ever being freed. Thus it should return true for all RW global
data that is not in a module or has been allocated, or false
otherwise.

Also change core_kernel_data() back to the more precise _sdata condition
and document the function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hirokazu Takata <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Cc: Roman Zippel <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Kyle McMartin <[email protected]>
Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Cc: JamesE.J.Bottomley <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
----
arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
arch/m32r/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-std.lds | 2 ++
arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-sun3.lds | 1 +
arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 +++
kernel/extable.c | 12 +++++++++++-
7 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE

Percpu allocator honors alignment request upto PAGE_SIZE and both the
percpu addresses in the percpu address space and the translated kernel
a

percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE

Percpu allocator honors alignment request upto PAGE_SIZE and both the
percpu addresses in the percpu address space and the translated kernel
addresses should be aligned accordingly. The calculation of the
former depends on the alignment of percpu output section in the kernel
image.

The linker script macros PERCPU_VADDR() and PERCPU() are used to
define this output section and the latter takes @align parameter.
Several architectures are using @align smaller than PAGE_SIZE breaking
percpu memory alignment.

This patch removes @align parameter from PERCPU(), renames it to
PERCPU_SECTION() and makes it always align to PAGE_SIZE. While at it,
add PCPU_SETUP_BUG_ON() checks such that alignment problems are
reliably detected and remove percpu alignment comment recently added
in workqueue.c as the condition would trigger BUG way before reaching
there.

For um, this patch raises the alignment of percpu area. As the area
is in .init, there shouldn't be any noticeable difference.

This problem was discovered by David Howells while debugging boot
failure on mn10300.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]

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alpha: use L1_CACHE_BYTES for cacheline size in the linker script

Currently the linker script uses 64 for cacheline size which isn't
optimal for all cases. Include asm/cache.h and use L1_CACHE_BYTE

alpha: use L1_CACHE_BYTES for cacheline size in the linker script

Currently the linker script uses 64 for cacheline size which isn't
optimal for all cases. Include asm/cache.h and use L1_CACHE_BYTES
instead as suggested by Sam Ravnborg.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>

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percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline

Currently percpu readmostly subsection may share cachelines with other
percpu subsections which may result in unnecessary cacheline bounce
and

percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline

Currently percpu readmostly subsection may share cachelines with other
percpu subsections which may result in unnecessary cacheline bounce
and performance degradation.

This patch adds @cacheline parameter to PERCPU() and PERCPU_VADDR()
linker macros, makes each arch linker scripts specify its cacheline
size and use it to align percpu subsections.

This is based on Shaohua's x86 only patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Shaohua Li <[email protected]>

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alpha: Fix duplicate <asm/thread_info.h> include

.. duplicated by merging the same fix twice, for details see commit
0d9df2515dbceb67d343c0f10fd3ff218380d524 ("Merge
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/lin

alpha: Fix duplicate <asm/thread_info.h> include

.. duplicated by merging the same fix twice, for details see commit
0d9df2515dbceb67d343c0f10fd3ff218380d524 ("Merge
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes")

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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alpha: fix build after vmlinux.lds.S cleanup

Add include to get missing THREAD_SIZE definition

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Abbott <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysk

alpha: fix build after vmlinux.lds.S cleanup

Add include to get missing THREAD_SIZE definition

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Abbott <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>

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alpha: Clean up linker script using new linker script macros.

Note that .data.page_aligned and .data.cacheline_aligned are now after
_data; it was probably a bug that they were before it.

Also, som

alpha: Clean up linker script using new linker script macros.

Note that .data.page_aligned and .data.cacheline_aligned are now after
_data; it was probably a bug that they were before it.

Also, some explicit ALIGN(8)'s between various initcall sections were
removed; this should be harmless as the implicit alignment of
initcall_t was already 8.

Signed-off-by: Geoffrey Thomas <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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alpha: use .data.init_task instead of .data.init_thread.

alpha is the only architecture that uses the section name
.data.init_thread instead of .data.init_task. So convert alpha to use
.data.init_t

alpha: use .data.init_task instead of .data.init_thread.

alpha is the only architecture that uses the section name
.data.init_thread instead of .data.init_task. So convert alpha to use
.data.init_task like everything else.

.data.init_task does not need a separate output section; this change
also moves it into the .data output section.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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linker script: unify usage of discard definition

Discarded sections in different archs share some commonality but have
considerable differences. This led to linker script for each arch
implementing

linker script: unify usage of discard definition

Discarded sections in different archs share some commonality but have
considerable differences. This led to linker script for each arch
implementing its own /DISCARD/ definition, which makes maintaining
tedious and adding new entries error-prone.

This patch makes all linker scripts to move discard definitions to the
end of the linker script and use the common DISCARDS macro. As ld
uses the first matching section definition, archs can include default
discarded sections by including them earlier in the linker script.

ia64 is notable because it first throws away some ia64 specific
subsections and then include the rest of the sections into the final
image, so those sections must be discarded before the inclusion.

defconfig compile tested for x86, x86-64, powerpc, powerpc64, ia64,
alpha, sparc, sparc64 and s390. Michal Simek tested microblaze.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>

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linker script: throw away .discard section

x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do. Also,
.discard is not thrown away while linking modules. Make every arch
and module linking throw

linker script: throw away .discard section

x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do. Also,
.discard is not thrown away while linking modules. Make every arch
and module linking throw it away. This will be used to define dummy
variables for percpu declarations and definitions.

This patch is based on Ivan Kokshaysky's alpha percpu patch.

[ Impact: always throw away everything in .discard ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <[email protected]>
Cc: Bryan Wu <[email protected]>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <[email protected]>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <[email protected]>
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <[email protected]>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Zankel <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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alpha: convert to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros.

This has the consequence of changing the section name use for head
code from ".text.head" to ".head.text". Since this commit changes all
users in

alpha: convert to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros.

This has the consequence of changing the section name use for head
code from ".text.head" to ".head.text". Since this commit changes all
users in the architecture, this change should be harmless.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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Alpha Linux kernel fails with inconsistent kallsyms data

The build of the Alpha Linux kernel currently fails[1] with inconsistent
kallsyms data. As I never saw that before, I thought about hardware

Alpha Linux kernel fails with inconsistent kallsyms data

The build of the Alpha Linux kernel currently fails[1] with inconsistent
kallsyms data. As I never saw that before, I thought about hardware
problems. But in fact it is a bug in the Linux kernel.

The end of the rodata section is marked with the "__end_rodata" symbol.
This symbol have different aligning constraints than the inittext parts
and therefor the start marked "_sinittext". Because of that the
__end_rodata symbol shifts between < _sinittext and == _sinittext. The
later variant is seen as a code symbol and recorded in the kallsyms data.

On fix would be to move the exception table a little bit and get some
space between that two areas.

[1]: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=linux-2.6&arch=alpha&ver=2.6.25-5&stamp=1213919009&file=log&as=raw

Cc: maximilian attems <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h

This patch consolidate all definitions of .init.text, .init.data
and .exit.text, .exit.data section definitions in
the generic vmlinux.

all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h

This patch consolidate all definitions of .init.text, .init.data
and .exit.text, .exit.data section definitions in
the generic vmlinux.lds.h.

This is a preparational patch - alone it does not buy
us much good.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>

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