sh: Align .bss section padding to 8-byte boundary

J2-based devices expect to find a device tree blob at the end of the
.bss section. As of a77725a9a3c5 ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream
version v1.6

sh: Align .bss section padding to 8-byte boundary

J2-based devices expect to find a device tree blob at the end of the
.bss section. As of a77725a9a3c5 ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream
version v1.6.1-19-g0a3a9d3449c8"), libfdt enforces 8-byte alignment
for the DTB, causing J2 devices to fail early in sh_fdt_init().

As the J2 loader firmware calculates the DTB location based on the kernel
image .bss section size rather than the __bss_stop symbol offset, the
required alignment can't be enforced with BSS_SECTION(0, PAGE_SIZE, 8).

To fix this, inline a modified version of the above macro which grows
.bss by the required size. While this change affects all existing SH
boards, it should be benign on platforms which don't need this alignment.

Signed-off-by: Artur Rojek <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Rob Landley <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>

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sh: define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT

sh vmlinux fails to link with GNU ld < 2.40 (likely < 2.36) since
commit 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv").

This is similar to fixes for

sh: define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT

sh vmlinux fails to link with GNU ld < 2.40 (likely < 2.36) since
commit 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv").

This is similar to fixes for powerpc and s390:
commit 4b9880dbf3bd ("powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT").
commit a494398bde27 ("s390: define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT to fix link error
with GNU ld < 2.36").

$ sh4-linux-gnu-ld --version | head -n1
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.2

$ make ARCH=sh CROSS_COMPILE=sh4-linux-gnu- microdev_defconfig
$ make ARCH=sh CROSS_COMPILE=sh4-linux-gnu-

`.exit.text' referenced in section `__bug_table' of crypto/algboss.o:
defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of crypto/algboss.o
`.exit.text' referenced in section `__bug_table' of
drivers/char/hw_random/core.o: defined in discarded section
`.exit.text' of drivers/char/hw_random/core.o
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.vmlinux:34: vmlinux] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1252: vmlinux] Error 2

arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S keeps EXIT_TEXT:

/*
* .exit.text is discarded at runtime, not link time, to deal with
* references from __bug_table
*/
.exit.text : AT(ADDR(.exit.text)) { EXIT_TEXT }

However, EXIT_TEXT is thrown away by
DISCARD(include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h) because
sh does not define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT.

GNU ld 2.40 does not have this issue and builds fine.
This corresponds with Masahiro's comments in a494398bde27:
"Nathan [Chancellor] also found that binutils
commit 21401fc7bf67 ("Duplicate output sections in scripts") cured this
issue, so we cannot reproduce it with binutils 2.36+, but it is better
to not rely on it."

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9166a8abdc0f979e50377e61780a4bba1dfa2f52.1674518464.git.tom.saeger@oracle.com
Fixes: 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <[email protected]>
Tested-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Cc: Naresh Kamboju <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]>
Cc: Rich Felker <[email protected]>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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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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sh: remove sh5 support

sh5 never became a product and has probably never really worked.

Remove it by recursively deleting all associated Kconfig options
and all corresponding files.

Reviewed-by: G

sh: remove sh5 support

sh5 never became a product and has probably never really worked.

Remove it by recursively deleting all associated Kconfig options
and all corresponding files.

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rich Felker <[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: 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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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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arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections

KASAN needs to know whether the allocation happens in an IRQ handler.
This lets us strip everything below the IRQ entry point

arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections

KASAN needs to know whether the allocation happens in an IRQ handler.
This lets us strip everything below the IRQ entry point to reduce the
number of unique stack traces needed to be stored.

Move the definition of __irq_entry to <linux/interrupt.h> so that the
users don't need to pull in <linux/ftrace.h>. Also introduce the
__softirq_entry macro which is similar to __irq_entry, but puts the
corresponding functions to the .softirqentry.text section.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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mtd/uclinux: Use generic __bss_stop instead of _ebss

The standard (see BSS_SECTION() in <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h> and
<asm-generic/sections.h>) symbol for the end of BSS is __bss_stop.
This allows

mtd/uclinux: Use generic __bss_stop instead of _ebss

The standard (see BSS_SECTION() in <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h> and
<asm-generic/sections.h>) symbol for the end of BSS is __bss_stop.
This allows to remove all local declarations that have been added to
several architectures just to please CONFIG_MTD_UCLINUX.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <[email protected]>

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sh: kexec: Add PHYSICAL_START

Add PHYSICAL_START kernel configuration parameter to set the address at
which the kernel should be loaded.

It has been observed on an sh7757lcr that simply modifying M

sh: kexec: Add PHYSICAL_START

Add PHYSICAL_START kernel configuration parameter to set the address at
which the kernel should be loaded.

It has been observed on an sh7757lcr that simply modifying MEMORY_START
does not achieve this goal for 32bit sh. This is due to MEMORY_OFFSET in
arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S bot being based on MEMORY_START on such
systems.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>

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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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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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sh: Kill off some superfluous legacy PMB special casing.

The __va()/__pa() offsets and the boot memory offsets are consistent for
all PMB users, so there is no need to special case these for legacy

sh: Kill off some superfluous legacy PMB special casing.

The __va()/__pa() offsets and the boot memory offsets are consistent for
all PMB users, so there is no need to special case these for legacy PMB.
Kill the special casing off and depend on CONFIG_PMB across the board.
This also fixes up yet another addressing bug for sh64.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>

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sh: Fix up legacy PMB mode offset calculation.

The change for fixing up sh64 inadvertently inverted the logic for legacy
PMB, fix that back up.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>

sh64: fix up memory offset calculation.

The linker script offsets were broken by the recent 29/32-bit
integration, so this fixes it up for sh64.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>

sh: kmemleak support.

Enables support for kmemleak on sh.

Signed-off-by: Chris Smith <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>

sh: Kill off the special uncached section and fixmap.

Now that cached_to_uncached works as advertized in 32-bit mode and we're
never going to be able to map < 16MB anyways, there's no need for the
s

sh: Kill off the special uncached section and fixmap.

Now that cached_to_uncached works as advertized in 32-bit mode and we're
never going to be able to map < 16MB anyways, there's no need for the
special uncached section. Kill it off.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>

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sh: fixed PMB mode refactoring.

This introduces some much overdue chainsawing of the fixed PMB support.
fixed PMB was introduced initially to work around the fact that dynamic
PMB mode was relativel

sh: fixed PMB mode refactoring.

This introduces some much overdue chainsawing of the fixed PMB support.
fixed PMB was introduced initially to work around the fact that dynamic
PMB mode was relatively broken, though they were never intended to
converge. The main areas where there are differences are whether the
system is booted in 29-bit mode or 32-bit mode, and whether legacy
mappings are to be preserved. Any system booting in true 32-bit mode will
not care about legacy mappings, so these are roughly decoupled.

Regardless of the entry point, PMB and 32BIT are directly related as far
as the kernel is concerned, so we also switch back to having one select
the other.

With legacy mappings iterated through and applied in the initialization
path it's now possible to finally merge the two implementations and
permit dynamic remapping overtop of remaining entries regardless of
whether boot mappings are crafted by hand or inherited from the boot
loader.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>

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sh: dwarf unwinder support.

This is a first cut at a generic DWARF unwinder for the kernel. It's
still lacking DWARF64 support and the DWARF expression support hasn't
been tested very well but it is

sh: dwarf unwinder support.

This is a first cut at a generic DWARF unwinder for the kernel. It's
still lacking DWARF64 support and the DWARF expression support hasn't
been tested very well but it is generating proper stacktraces on SH for
WARN_ON() and NULL dereferences.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>

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sh: Clean up linker script using new BSS_SECTION macro.

Updated to use the fixed BSS linker script macros from this
thread:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg913238.html

Signed-off-by: Tim A

sh: Clean up linker script using new BSS_SECTION macro.

Updated to use the fixed BSS linker script macros from this
thread:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg913238.html

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

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

This patch converts the sh architecture to use the new linker script
macros in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbot

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

This patch converts the sh architecture to use the new linker script
macros in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.

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