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Linus Torvalds bb0fd7ab09 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm
Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "Included in this update are both some long term fixes and some new
  features.

  Fixes:

   - An integer overflow in the calculation of ELF_ET_DYN_BASE.

   - Avoiding OOMs for high-order IOMMU allocations

   - SMP requires the data cache to be enabled for synchronisation
     primitives to work, so prevent the CPU_DCACHE_DISABLE option being
     visible on SMP builds.

   - A bug going back 10+ years in the noMMU ARM94* CPU support code,
     where it corrupts registers.  Found by folk getting Linux running
     on their cameras.

   - Versatile Express needs an errata workaround enabled for CPU
     hot-unplug to work.

  Features:

   - Clean up module linker by handling out of range relocations
     separately from relocation cases we don't handle.

   - Fix a long term bug in the pci_mmap_page_range() code, which we
     hope won't impact userspace (we hope there's no users of the
     existing broken interface.)

   - Don't map DMA coherent allocations when we don't have a MMU.

   - Drop experimental status for SMP_ON_UP.

   - Warn when DT doesn't specify ePAPR mandatory cache properties.

   - Add documentation concerning how we find the start of physical
     memory for AUTO_ZRELADDR kernels, detailing why we have chosen the
     mask and the implications of changing it.

   - Updates from Ard Biesheuvel to address some issues with large
     kernels (such as allyesconfig) failing to link.

   - Allow hibernation to work on modern (ARMv7) CPUs - this appears to
     have never worked in the past on these CPUs.

   - Enable IRQ_SHOW_LEVEL, which changes the /proc/interrupts output
     format (hopefully without userspace breaking...  let's hope that if
     it causes someone a problem, they tell us.)

   - Fix tegra-ahb DT offsets.

   - Rework ARM errata 643719 code (and ARMv7 flush_cache_louis()/
     flush_dcache_all()) code to be more efficient, and enable this
     errata workaround by default for ARMv7+SMP CPUs.  This complements
     the Versatile Express fix above.

   - Rework ARMv7 context code for errata 430973, so that only Cortex A8
     CPUs are impacted by the branch target buffer flush when this
     errata is enabled.  Also update the help text to indicate that all
     r1p* A8 CPUs are impacted.

   - Switch ARM to the generic show_mem() implementation, it conveys all
     the information which we were already reporting.

   - Prevent slow timer sources being used for udelay() - timers running
     at less than 1MHz are not useful for this, and can cause udelay()
     to return immediately, without any wait.  Using such a slow timer
     is silly.

   - VDSO support for 32-bit ARM, mainly for gettimeofday() using the
     ARM architected timer.

   - Perf support for Scorpion performance monitoring units"

vdso semantic conflict fixed up as per linux-next.

* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (52 commits)
  ARM: update errata 430973 documentation to cover Cortex A8 r1p*
  ARM: ensure delay timer has sufficient accuracy for delays
  ARM: switch to use the generic show_mem() implementation
  ARM: proc-v7: avoid errata 430973 workaround for non-Cortex A8 CPUs
  ARM: enable ARM errata 643719 workaround by default
  ARM: cache-v7: optimise test for Cortex A9 r0pX devices
  ARM: cache-v7: optimise branches in v7_flush_cache_louis
  ARM: cache-v7: consolidate initialisation of cache level index
  ARM: cache-v7: shift CLIDR to extract appropriate field before masking
  ARM: cache-v7: use movw/movt instructions
  ARM: allow 16-bit instructions in ALT_UP()
  ARM: proc-arm94*.S: fix setup function
  ARM: vexpress: fix CPU hotplug with CT9x4 tile.
  ARM: 8276/1: Make CPU_DCACHE_DISABLE depend on !SMP
  ARM: 8335/1: Documentation: DT bindings: Tegra AHB: document the legacy base address
  ARM: 8334/1: amba: tegra-ahb: detect and correct bogus base address
  ARM: 8333/1: amba: tegra-ahb: fix register offsets in the macros
  ARM: 8339/1: Enable CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW_LEVEL
  ARM: 8338/1: kexec: Relax SMP validation to improve DT compatibility
  ARM: 8337/1: mm: Do not invoke OOM for higher order IOMMU DMA allocations
  ...
2015-04-14 21:03:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2481bc7528 Power management and ACPI updates for v4.1-rc1
- Generic PM domains support update including new PM domain
    callbacks to handle device initialization better (Russell King,
    Rafael J Wysocki, Kevin Hilman).
 
  - Unified device properties API update including a new mechanism
    for accessing data provided by platform initialization code
    (Rafael J Wysocki, Adrian Hunter).
 
  - ARM cpuidle update including ARM32/ARM64 handling consolidation
    (Daniel Lezcano).
 
  - intel_idle update including support for the Silvermont Core in
    the Baytrail SOC and for the Airmont Core in the Cherrytrail and
    Braswell SOCs (Len Brown, Mathias Krause).
 
  - New cpufreq driver for Hisilicon ACPU (Leo Yan).
 
  - intel_pstate update including support for the Knights Landing
    chip (Dasaratharaman Chandramouli, Kristen Carlson Accardi).
 
  - QorIQ cpufreq driver update (Tang Yuantian, Arnd Bergmann).
 
  - powernv cpufreq driver update (Shilpasri G Bhat).
 
  - devfreq update including Tegra support changes (Tomeu Vizoso,
    MyungJoo Ham, Chanwoo Choi).
 
  - powercap RAPL (Running-Average Power Limit) driver update
    including support for Intel Broadwell server chips (Jacob Pan,
    Mathias Krause).
 
  - ACPI device enumeration update related to the handling of the
    special PRP0001 device ID allowing DT-style 'compatible' property
    to be used for ACPI device identification (Rafael J Wysocki).
 
  - ACPI EC driver update including limited _DEP support (Lan Tianyu,
    Lv Zheng).
 
  - ACPI backlight driver update including a new mechanism to allow
    native backlight handling to be forced on non-Windows 8 systems
    and a new quirk for Lenovo Ideapad Z570 (Aaron Lu, Hans de Goede).
 
  - New Windows Vista compatibility quirk for Sony VGN-SR19XN (Chen Yu).
 
  - Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups (Aaron Lu, Martin Kepplinger,
    Masanari Iida, Mika Westerberg, Nan Li, Rafael J Wysocki).
 
  - Fixes related to suspend-to-idle for the iTCO watchdog driver and
    the ACPI core system suspend/resume code (Rafael J Wysocki, Chen Yu).
 
  - PM tracing support for the suspend phase of system suspend/resume
    transitions (Zhonghui Fu).
 
  - Configurable delay for the system suspend/resume testing facility
    (Brian Norris).
 
  - PNP subsystem cleanups (Peter Huewe, Rafael J Wysocki).
 
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Merge tag 'pm+acpi-4.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These are mostly fixes and cleanups all over, although there are a few
  items that sort of fall into the new feature category.

  First off, we have new callbacks for PM domains that should help us to
  handle some issues related to device initialization in a better way.

  There also is some consolidation in the unified device properties API
  area allowing us to use that inferface for accessing data coming from
  platform initialization code in addition to firmware-provided data.

  We have some new device/CPU IDs in a few drivers, support for new
  chips and a new cpufreq driver too.

  Specifics:

   - Generic PM domains support update including new PM domain callbacks
     to handle device initialization better (Russell King, Rafael J
     Wysocki, Kevin Hilman)

   - Unified device properties API update including a new mechanism for
     accessing data provided by platform initialization code (Rafael J
     Wysocki, Adrian Hunter)

   - ARM cpuidle update including ARM32/ARM64 handling consolidation
     (Daniel Lezcano)

   - intel_idle update including support for the Silvermont Core in the
     Baytrail SOC and for the Airmont Core in the Cherrytrail and
     Braswell SOCs (Len Brown, Mathias Krause)

   - New cpufreq driver for Hisilicon ACPU (Leo Yan)

   - intel_pstate update including support for the Knights Landing chip
     (Dasaratharaman Chandramouli, Kristen Carlson Accardi)

   - QorIQ cpufreq driver update (Tang Yuantian, Arnd Bergmann)

   - powernv cpufreq driver update (Shilpasri G Bhat)

   - devfreq update including Tegra support changes (Tomeu Vizoso,
     MyungJoo Ham, Chanwoo Choi)

   - powercap RAPL (Running-Average Power Limit) driver update including
     support for Intel Broadwell server chips (Jacob Pan, Mathias Krause)

   - ACPI device enumeration update related to the handling of the
     special PRP0001 device ID allowing DT-style 'compatible' property
     to be used for ACPI device identification (Rafael J Wysocki)

   - ACPI EC driver update including limited _DEP support (Lan Tianyu,
     Lv Zheng)

   - ACPI backlight driver update including a new mechanism to allow
     native backlight handling to be forced on non-Windows 8 systems and
     a new quirk for Lenovo Ideapad Z570 (Aaron Lu, Hans de Goede)

   - New Windows Vista compatibility quirk for Sony VGN-SR19XN (Chen Yu)

   - Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups (Aaron Lu, Martin Kepplinger,
     Masanari Iida, Mika Westerberg, Nan Li, Rafael J Wysocki)

   - Fixes related to suspend-to-idle for the iTCO watchdog driver and
     the ACPI core system suspend/resume code (Rafael J Wysocki, Chen Yu)

   - PM tracing support for the suspend phase of system suspend/resume
     transitions (Zhonghui Fu)

   - Configurable delay for the system suspend/resume testing facility
     (Brian Norris)

   - PNP subsystem cleanups (Peter Huewe, Rafael J Wysocki)"

* tag 'pm+acpi-4.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (74 commits)
  ACPI / scan: Fix NULL pointer dereference in acpi_companion_match()
  ACPI / scan: Rework modalias creation when "compatible" is present
  intel_idle: mark cpu id array as __initconst
  powercap / RAPL: mark rapl_ids array as __initconst
  powercap / RAPL: add ID for Broadwell server
  intel_pstate: Knights Landing support
  intel_pstate: remove MSR test
  cpufreq: fix qoriq uniprocessor build
  ACPI / scan: Take the PRP0001 position in the list of IDs into account
  ACPI / scan: Simplify acpi_match_device()
  ACPI / scan: Generalize of_compatible matching
  device property: Introduce firmware node type for platform data
  device property: Make it possible to use secondary firmware nodes
  PM / watchdog: iTCO: stop watchdog during system suspend
  cpufreq: hisilicon: add acpu driver
  ACPI / EC: Call acpi_walk_dep_device_list() after installing EC opregion handler
  cpufreq: powernv: Report cpu frequency throttling
  intel_idle: Add support for the Airmont Core in the Cherrytrail and Braswell SOCs
  intel_idle: Update support for Silvermont Core in Baytrail SOC
  PM / devfreq: tegra: Register governor on module init
  ...
2015-04-14 20:21:54 -07:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 0c564a538a tracing: Add TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro to map enums to their values
Several tracepoints use the helper functions __print_symbolic() or
__print_flags() and pass in enums that do the mapping between the
binary data stored and the value to print. This works well for reading
the ASCII trace files, but when the data is read via userspace tools
such as perf and trace-cmd, the conversion of the binary value to a
human string format is lost if an enum is used, as userspace does not
have access to what the ENUM is.

For example, the tracepoint trace_tlb_flush() has:

 __print_symbolic(REC->reason,
    { TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, "flush on task switch" },
    { TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN, "remote shootdown" },
    { TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, "local shootdown" },
    { TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN, "local mm shootdown" })

Which maps the enum values to the strings they represent. But perf and
trace-cmd do no know what value TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN is, and would
not be able to map it.

With TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(), developers can place these in the event header
files and ftrace will convert the enums to their values:

By adding:

 TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH);
 TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN);
 TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN);
 TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN);

 $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/tlb/tlb_flush/format
[...]
 __print_symbolic(REC->reason,
    { 0, "flush on task switch" },
    { 1, "remote shootdown" },
    { 2, "local shootdown" },
    { 3, "local mm shootdown" })

The above is what userspace expects to see, and tools do not need to
be modified to parse them.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150403013802.220157513@goodmis.org

Cc: Guilherme Cox <cox@computer.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Cc: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-04-08 09:39:56 -04:00
Ard Biesheuvel 779c88c94c ARM: 8321/1: asm-generic: introduce .text.fixup input section
This introduces a new .text.fixup input section that gets emitted
together with the .text section for each input object file.

Note that

  *(.text)
  *(.text.fixup)

is not the same as

  *(.text .text.fixup)

and we are looking for the latter, to ensure that fixup snippets that
are assembled into a separate section in the object file do not end
up out of range for the relative branch instructions it contains if
the .text section itself grows very large.

This helps prevent linker failures on large ARM kernels.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2015-03-29 23:11:55 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano 449e056c76 ARM: cpuidle: Add a cpuidle ops structure to be used for DT
The current state of the different cpuidle drivers is the different PM
operations are passed via the platform_data using the platform driver
paradigm.

This approach allowed to split the low level PM code from the arch specific
and the generic cpuidle code.

Unfortunately there are complaints about this approach as, in the context of the
single kernel image, we have multiple drivers loaded in memory for nothing and
the platform driver is not adequate for cpuidle.

This patch provides a common interface via cpuidle ops for all new cpuidle
driver and a definition for the device tree.

It will allow with the next patches to a have a common definition with ARM64
and share the same cpuidle driver.

The code is optimized to use the __init section intensively in order to reduce
the memory footprint after the driver is initialized and unify the function
names with ARM64.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
2015-03-24 10:16:01 +01:00
Andrey Ryabinin 9ddf82521c kernel: add support for .init_array.* constructors
KASan uses constructors for initializing redzones for global variables.
Globals instrumentation in GCC 4.9.2 produces constructors with priority
(.init_array.00099)

Currently kernel ignores such constructors.  Only constructors with
default priority supported (.init_array)

This patch adds support for constructors with priorities.  For kernel
image we put pointers to constructors between __ctors_start/__ctors_end
and do_ctors() will call them on start up.  For modules we merge
.init_array.* sections into resulting .init_array.  Module code properly
handles constructors in .init_array section.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-13 21:21:42 -08:00
Will Deacon 1cd076bf67 iommu: provide early initialisation hook for IOMMU drivers
IOMMU drivers must be initialised before any of their upstream devices,
otherwise the relevant iommu_ops won't be configured for the bus in
question. To solve this, a number of IOMMU drivers use initcalls to
initialise the driver before anything has a chance to be probed.

Whilst this solves the immediate problem, it leaves the job of probing
the IOMMU completely separate from the iommu_ops to configure the IOMMU,
which are called on a per-bus basis and require the driver to figure out
exactly which instance of the IOMMU is being requested. In particular,
the add_device callback simply passes a struct device to the driver,
which then has to parse firmware tables or probe buses to identify the
relevant IOMMU instance.

This patch takes the first step in addressing this problem by adding an
early initialisation pass for IOMMU drivers, giving them the ability to
store some per-instance data in their iommu_ops structure and store that
in their of_node. This can later be used when parsing OF masters to
identify the IOMMU instance in question.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2014-12-01 16:47:46 +00:00
Yalin Wang 562c85cadb ARM: 8168/1: extend __init_end to a page align address
This patch changes the __init_end address to a
page align address, so that free_initmem() can
free the whole .init section, because if the end
address is not page aligned, it will round down to
a page align address, then the tail unligned page
will not be freed.

Signed-off-by: wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2014-10-02 21:28:16 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 9f48c89862 Merge 3.16-rc5 into char-misc-next
This resolves a number of merge issues with changes in this tree and
Linus's tree at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-07-13 15:26:47 -07:00
Zhengyu He 330d282216 core: fix typo in percpu read_mostly section
This fixes a typo that named the read_mostly section of percpu as
readmostly. It works fine with SMP because the linker script specifies
.data..percpu..readmostly. However, UP kernel builds don't have percpu
sections defined and the non-percpu version of the section is called
data..read_mostly, so .data..readmostly will float around and may break
things unexpectedly.

Looking at the original change that introduced data..percpu..readmostly
(commit c957ef2c59), it looks like this
was the original intention.

Tested: Built UP kernel and confirmed the sections got merged.

- Before the patch:
$ objdump -h vmlinux.o  | grep '\.data\.\.read.*mostly'
38 .data..read_mostly 00004418  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  00431ac0  2**6
50 .data..readmostly 00000014  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  00444000  2**3

- After the patch:
$ objdump -h vmlinux.o  | grep '\.data\.\.read.*mostly'
38 .data..read_mostly 00004438  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  00431ac0  2**6

Signed-off-by: Zhengyu He <hzy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-07-01 16:45:22 -04:00
Andreas Noever 7d2a01b87f PCI: Add pci_fixup_suspend_late quirk pass
Add pci_fixup_suspend_late as a new pci_fixup_pass. The pass is called
from suspend_noirq and poweroff_noirq. Using the same pass for suspend
and hibernate is consistent with resume_early which is called by
resume_noirq and restore_noirq.

The new quirk pass is required for Thunderbolt support on Apple
hardware.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-06-19 14:08:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 3737a12761 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull more perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "A second round of perf updates:

   - wide reaching kprobes sanitization and robustization, with the hope
     of fixing all 'probe this function crashes the kernel' bugs, by
     Masami Hiramatsu.

   - uprobes updates from Oleg Nesterov: tmpfs support, corner case
     fixes and robustization work.

   - perf tooling updates and fixes from Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Ki, Arnaldo
     et al:
        * Add support to accumulate hist periods (Namhyung Kim)
        * various fixes, refactorings and enhancements"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits)
  perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events
  perf: Fix perf_event_comm() vs. exec() assumption
  uprobes/x86: Rename arch_uprobe->def to ->defparam, minor comment updates
  perf/documentation: Add description for conditional branch filter
  perf/x86: Add conditional branch filtering support
  perf/tool: Add conditional branch filter 'cond' to perf record
  perf: Add new conditional branch filter 'PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND'
  uprobes: Teach copy_insn() to support tmpfs
  uprobes: Shift ->readpage check from __copy_insn() to uprobe_register()
  perf/x86: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code
  perf/ARM: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code
  perf: Disable sampled events if no PMU interrupt
  perf: Fix use after free in perf_remove_from_context()
  perf tools: Fix 'make help' message error
  perf record: Fix poll return value propagation
  perf tools: Move elide bool into perf_hpp_fmt struct
  perf tools: Remove elide setup for SORT_MODE__MEMORY mode
  perf tools: Fix "==" into "=" in ui_browser__warning assignment
  perf tools: Allow overriding sysfs and proc finding with env var
  perf tools: Consider header files outside perf directory in tags target
  ...
2014-06-12 19:18:49 -07:00
Rob Herring b0b6abd34c serial: earlycon: add DT support
This adds the infrastructure to generic earlycon for earlycon setup
using DT. The actual setup is not enabled until a following commit to
add the FDT parsing.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
2014-05-20 15:19:25 -05:00
Rob Herring 0630928830 vmlinuz.lds: define OF table sections with macros
OF table sections all have the same pattern, so create a macro to define
them and insure consistency.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
2014-05-20 14:24:41 -05:00
Rob Herring 9a721c4111 ARM: align cpu_method_of_table naming
The cpu_method_of_table is the oddball of the various OF linker sections.
In preparation to have common linker section definitions, align the
cpu_method_of_table with the other definitions for the naming and ending
with a blank struct.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
2014-05-20 14:24:41 -05:00
Rob Herring 735e0da7fc irqchip: align irqchip OF match table section naming
Make the irqchip OF match table section naming aligned with other
OF match table sections in preparation to have a common definition.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
2014-05-20 14:24:40 -05:00
Vineet Gupta 69902c718c kprobes: Ensure blacklist data is aligned
ARC Linux (not supporting native unaligned access) was failing
to boot because __start_kprobe_blacklist was not aligned.

This was because per generated vmlinux.lds it was emitted right
next to .rodata with strings etc hence could be randomly
unaligned.

Fix that by ensuring a word alignment. While 4 would suffice for
32bit arches and problem at hand, it is probably better to put 8.

| Path: (null) CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted
| 3.15.0-rc3-next-20140430 #2
| task: 8f044000 ti: 8f01e000 task.ti: 8f01e000
|
| [ECR   ]: 0x00230400 => Misaligned r/w from 0x800fb0d3
| [EFA   ]: 0x800fb0d3
| [BLINK ]: do_one_initcall+0x86/0x1bc
| [ERET  ]: init_kprobes+0x52/0x120

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Cc: <sparse@chrisli.org>
Cc: <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5361DB14.7010406@synopsys.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-05-07 21:04:57 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu 376e242429 kprobes: Introduce NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() macro to maintain kprobes blacklist
Introduce NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() macro which builds a kprobes
blacklist at kernel build time.

The usage of this macro is similar to EXPORT_SYMBOL(),
placed after the function definition:

  NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(function);

Since this macro will inhibit inlining of static/inline
functions, this patch also introduces a nokprobe_inline macro
for static/inline functions. In this case, we must use
NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() for the inline function caller.

When CONFIG_KPROBES=y, the macro stores the given function
address in the "_kprobe_blacklist" section.

Since the data structures are not fully initialized by the
macro (because there is no "size" information),  those
are re-initialized at boot time by using kallsyms.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140417081705.26341.96719.stgit@ltc230.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jan-Simon Möller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-04-24 10:02:56 +02:00
Linus Torvalds ff050ad12c ARM: SoC specific changes
Lots of changes specific to one of the SoC families. Some that
 stick out are:
 
 * mach-qcom gains new features, most importantly SMP support for
   the newer chips (Stephen Boyd, Rohit Vaswani)
 * mvebu gains support for three new SoCs: Armada 375, 380 and 385
   (Thomas Petazzoni and Free-electrons team)
 * SMP support for Rockchips (Heiko Stübner)
 * Lots of i.MX changes (Shawn Guo)
 * Added support for BCM5301x SoC (Hauke Mehrtens)
 * Multiplatform support for Marvell Kirkwood and Dove
   (Andrew Lunn and Sebastian Hesselbarth doing the final part
   of a long journey)
 * Unify davinci platforms and remove obsolete ones (Sekhar Nori,
   Arnd Bergmann)
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Merge tag 'soc-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

Pull ARM SoC specific changes from Arnd Bergmann:
 "Lots of changes specific to one of the SoC families.  Some that stick
  out are:

   - mach-qcom gains new features, most importantly SMP support for the
     newer chips (Stephen Boyd, Rohit Vaswani)
   - mvebu gains support for three new SoCs: Armada 375, 380 and 385
     (Thomas Petazzoni and Free-electrons team)
   - SMP support for Rockchips (Heiko Stübner)
   - Lots of i.MX changes (Shawn Guo)
   - Added support for BCM5301x SoC (Hauke Mehrtens)
   - Multiplatform support for Marvell Kirkwood and Dove (Andrew Lunn
     and Sebastian Hesselbarth doing the final part of a long journey)
   - Unify davinci platforms and remove obsolete ones (Sekhar Nori, Arnd
     Bergmann)"

* tag 'soc-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (126 commits)
  ARM: sunxi: Select HAVE_ARM_ARCH_TIMER
  ARM: cache-tauros2: remove ARMv6 code
  ARM: mvebu: don't select CONFIG_NEON
  ARM: davinci: fix DT booting with default defconfig
  ARM: configs: bcm_defconfig: enable bcm590xx regulator support
  ARM: davinci: remove tnetv107x support
  MAINTAINERS: Update ARM STi maintainers
  ARM: restrict BCM_KONA_UART to ARCH_BCM_MOBILE
  ARM: bcm21664: Add board support.
  ARM: sunxi: Add the new watchog compatibles to the reboot code
  ARM: enable ARM_HAS_SG_CHAIN for multiplatform
  ARM: davinci: remove da8xx_omapl_defconfig
  ARM: davinci: da8xx: fix multiple watchdog device registration
  ARM: davinci: add da8xx specific configs to davinci_all_defconfig
  ARM: davinci: enable da8xx build concurrently with older devices
  ARM: BCM5301X: workaround suppress fault
  ARM: BCM5301X: add early debugging support
  ARM: BCM5301X: initial support for the BCM5301X/BCM470X SoCs with ARM CPU
  ARM: mach-bcm: Remove GENERIC_TIME
  ARM: shmobile: APMU: Fix warnings due to improper printk formats
  ...
2014-04-05 14:19:54 -07:00
Marek Szyprowski f618c4703a drivers: of: add support for custom reserved memory drivers
Add support for custom reserved memory drivers. Call their init() function
for each reserved region and prepare for using operations provided by them
with by the reserved_mem->ops array.

Based on previous code provided by Josh Cartwright <joshc@codeaurora.org>

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
2014-03-11 17:27:12 +00:00
Stephen Boyd 6c3ff8b11a ARM: Introduce CPU_METHOD_OF_DECLARE() for cpu hotplug/smp
The goal of multi-platform kernels is to remove the need for mach
directories and machine descriptors. To further that goal,
introduce CPU_METHOD_OF_DECLARE() to allow cpu hotplug/smp
support to be separated from the machine descriptors.
Implementers should specify an enable-method property in their
cpus node and then implement a matching set of smp_ops in their
hotplug/smp code, wiring it up with the CPU_METHOD_OF_DECLARE()
macro. When the kernel is compiled we'll collect all the
enable-method smp_ops into one section for use at boot.

At boot time we'll look for an enable-method in each cpu node and
try to match that against all known CPU enable methods in the
kernel. If there are no enable-methods in the cpu nodes we
fallback to the cpus node and try to use any enable-method found
there. If that doesn't work we fall back to the old way of using
the machine descriptor.

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
2014-02-11 15:00:37 -06:00
Frantisek Hrbata eb3057df73 kernel: add support for init_array constructors
This adds the .init_array section as yet another section with constructors. This
is needed because gcc could add __gcov_init calls to .init_array or .ctors
section, depending on gcc (and binutils) version .

v2: - reuse mod->ctors for .init_array section for modules, because gcc uses
      .ctors or .init_array, but not both at the same time
v3: - fail to load if that does happen somehow.

Signed-off-by: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-10-17 15:05:17 +10:30
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 102c9323c3 tracing: Add __tracepoint_string() to export string pointers
There are several tracepoints (mostly in RCU), that reference a string
pointer and uses the print format of "%s" to display the string that
exists in the kernel, instead of copying the actual string to the
ring buffer (saves time and ring buffer space).

But this has an issue with userspace tools that read the binary buffers
that has the address of the string but has no access to what the string
itself is. The end result is just output that looks like:

 rcu_dyntick:          ffffffff818adeaa 1 0
 rcu_dyntick:          ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000
 rcu_dyntick:          ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000
 rcu_utilization:      ffffffff8184333b
 rcu_utilization:      ffffffff8184333b

The above is pretty useless when read by the userspace tools. Ideally
we would want something that looks like this:

 rcu_dyntick:          Start 1 0
 rcu_dyntick:          End 0 140000000000000
 rcu_dyntick:          Start 140000000000000 0
 rcu_callback:         rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880037aff710 func=put_cred_rcu 0/4
 rcu_callback:         rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880078961980 func=file_free_rcu 0/5
 rcu_dyntick:          End 0 1

The trace_printk() which also only stores the address of the string
format instead of recording the string into the buffer itself, exports
the mapping of kernel addresses to format strings via the printk_format
file in the debugfs tracing directory.

The tracepoint strings can use this same method and output the format
to the same file and the userspace tools will be able to decipher
the address without any modification.

The tracepoint strings need its own section to save the strings because
the trace_printk section will cause the trace_printk() buffers to be
allocated if anything exists within the section. trace_printk() is only
used for debugging and should never exist in the kernel, we can not use
the trace_printk sections.

Add a new tracepoint_str section that will also be examined by the output
of the printk_format file.

Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-26 13:39:44 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 8dce5f3dee Merge branch 'cpuinit-delete' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
Pull first stage of __cpuinit removal from Paul Gortmaker:
 "The two commits here 1) dummy out all the __cpuinit macros so that we
  no longer generate such sections, and then 2) remove all the section
  processing that we used to do for those sections.

  This makes all the __cpuinit and friends no-ops, so that we can remove
  the use cases of it at our leisure.  Expect stage 2, which does the
  tree wide removal sweep at the end of the merge window."

* 'cpuinit-delete' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  modpost: remove all traces of cpuinit/cpuexit sections
  init.h: remove __cpuinit sections from the kernel
2013-07-07 11:01:19 -07:00
Alexandre Bounine 2ec3ba69fa rapidio: convert switch drivers to modules
Rework RapidIO switch drivers to add an option to build them as loadable
kernel modules.

This patch removes RapidIO-specific vmlinux section and converts switch
drivers to be compatible with LDM driver registration method.  To simplify
registration of device-specific callback routines this patch introduces
rio_switch_ops data structure.  The sw_sysfs() callback is removed from
the list of device-specific operations because under the new structure its
functions can be handled by switch driver's probe() and remove() routines.

If a specific switch device driver is not loaded the RapidIO subsystem
core will use default standard-based operations to configure a switch.
Because the current implementation of RapidIO enumeration/discovery method
relies on availability of device-specific operations for error management,
switch device drivers must be loaded before the RapidIO
enumeration/discovery starts.

This patch also moves several common routines from enumeration/discovery
module into the RapidIO core code to make switch-specific operations
accessible to all components of RapidIO subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andre van Herk <andre.van.herk@Prodrive.nl>
Cc: Micha Nelissen <micha.nelissen@Prodrive.nl>
Cc: Stef van Os <stef.van.os@Prodrive.nl>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03 16:08:04 -07:00
Paul Gortmaker e24f662881 modpost: remove all traces of cpuinit/cpuexit sections
Delete all audit rules that were checking how the .cpuXYZ
related sections were inter-operating with other __init
like sections, now that __cpuinit is gone.  Update the linker
script to not have any knowledge of .cpuinit sections.

[lds.h update courtesy of Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-06-26 12:17:06 -04:00
Stephen Rothwell 40b313608a Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG
Ever since commit 45f035ab9b ("CONFIG_HOTPLUG should be always on"),
it has been basically impossible to build a kernel with CONFIG_HOTPLUG
turned off.  Remove all the remaining references to it.

Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-03 14:20:18 -07:00
Rusty Russell b92021b09d CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX: cleanup.
We have CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX, which three archs define to the string
"_".  But Al Viro broke this in "consolidate cond_syscall and
SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations" (in linux-next), and he's not the first to
do so.

Using CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is awkward, since we usually just want to
prefix it so something.  So various places define helpers which are
defined to nothing if CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX isn't set:

1) include/asm-generic/unistd.h defines __SYMBOL_PREFIX.
2) include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h defines VMLINUX_SYMBOL(sym)
3) include/linux/export.h defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX.
4) include/linux/kernel.h defines SYMBOL_PREFIX (which differs from #7)
5) kernel/modsign_certificate.S defines ASM_SYMBOL(sym)
6) scripts/modpost.c defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
7) scripts/Makefile.lib defines SYMBOL_PREFIX on the commandline if
   CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is set, so that we have a non-string version
   for pasting.

(arch/h8300/include/asm/linkage.h defines SYMBOL_NAME(), too).

Let's solve this properly:
1) No more generic prefix, just CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX.
2) Make linux/export.h usable from asm.
3) Define VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR().
4) Make everyone use them.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> (metag)
2013-03-15 15:09:43 +10:30
Linus Torvalds b274776c54 arm-soc: cleanups
A large number of cleanups, all over the platforms. This is dominated
 largely by the Samsung platforms (s3c, s5p, exynos) and a few of the
 others moving code out of arch/arm into more appropriate subsystems.
 The clocksource and irqchip drivers are now abstracted to the point
 where platforms that are already cleaned up do not need to even specify
 the driver they use, it can all get configured from the device tree
 as we do for normal device drivers. The clocksource changes basically
 touch every single platform in the process.
 
 We further clean up the use of platform specific header files here,
 with the goal of turning more of the platforms over to being
 "multiplatform" enabled, which implies that they cannot expose
 their headers to architecture independent code any more.
 
 It is expected that no functional changes are part of the cleanup.
 The overall reduction in total code lines is mostly the result of
 removing broken and obsolete code.
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Merge tag 'cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

Pull ARM SoC cleanups from Arnd Bergmann:
 "A large number of cleanups, all over the platforms.  This is dominated
  largely by the Samsung platforms (s3c, s5p, exynos) and a few of the
  others moving code out of arch/arm into more appropriate subsystems.

  The clocksource and irqchip drivers are now abstracted to the point
  where platforms that are already cleaned up do not need to even
  specify the driver they use, it can all get configured from the device
  tree as we do for normal device drivers.  The clocksource changes
  basically touch every single platform in the process.

  We further clean up the use of platform specific header files here,
  with the goal of turning more of the platforms over to being
  "multiplatform" enabled, which implies that they cannot expose their
  headers to architecture independent code any more.

  It is expected that no functional changes are part of the cleanup.
  The overall reduction in total code lines is mostly the result of
  removing broken and obsolete code."

* tag 'cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (133 commits)
  ARM: mvebu: correct gated clock documentation
  ARM: kirkwood: add missing include for nsa310
  ARM: exynos: move exynos4210-combiner to drivers/irqchip
  mfd: db8500-prcmu: update resource passing
  drivers/db8500-cpufreq: delete dangling include
  ARM: at91: remove NEOCORE 926 board
  sunxi: Cleanup the reset code and add meaningful registers defines
  ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-mem.h local
  ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-power.h local
  ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-s3c2412-mem.h local
  ARM: S3C24XX: Remove plat-s3c24xx directory in arch/arm/
  ARM: S3C24XX: transform s3c2443 subirqs into new structure
  ARM: S3C24XX: modify s3c2443 irq init to initialize all irqs
  ARM: S3C24XX: move s3c2443 irq code to irq.c
  ARM: S3C24XX: transform s3c2416 irqs into new structure
  ARM: S3C24XX: modify s3c2416 irq init to initialize all irqs
  ARM: S3C24XX: move s3c2416 irq init to common irq code
  ARM: S3C24XX: Modify s3c_irq_wake to use the hwirq property
  ARM: S3C24XX: Move irq syscore-ops to irq-pm
  clocksource: always define CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE
  ...
2013-02-21 14:58:40 -08:00
Prashant Gaikwad f2f6c2556d clk: add common of_clk_init() function
Modify of_clk_init function so that it will determine which
driver to initialize based on device tree instead of each driver
registering to it.

Based on a similar patch for drivers/irqchip by Thomas Petazzoni and
drivers/clocksource by Stephen Warren.

Signed-off-by: Prashant Gaikwad <pgaikwad@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Tony Prisk <linux@prisktech.co.nz>
Tested-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Tested-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Tested-by: Josh Cartwright <josh.cartwright@ni.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Cartwright <josh.cartwright@ni.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@anandra.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>
[mturquette@linaro.org: merge conflict from missing CLKSRC_OF_TABLES()]

Signed-off-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>
2013-01-24 11:09:28 -08:00
Olof Johansson f8060f5446 Initial irqchip init infrastructure and GIC and VIC clean-ups
This creates irqchip initialization infrastructure from Thomas
 Petazzoni. The VIC and GIC irqchip code is moved to drivers/irqchips
 and adapted to use the new infrastructure. All DT enabled platforms
 using GIC and VIC are converted over to use the new irqchip_init.
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Merge tag 'gic-vic-to-irqchip' of git://sources.calxeda.com/kernel/linux into next/cleanup

From Rob Herring:

Initial irqchip init infrastructure and GIC and VIC clean-ups

This creates irqchip initialization infrastructure from Thomas
Petazzoni. The VIC and GIC irqchip code is moved to drivers/irqchips
and adapted to use the new infrastructure. All DT enabled platforms
using GIC and VIC are converted over to use the new irqchip_init.

* tag 'gic-vic-to-irqchip' of git://sources.calxeda.com/kernel/linux:
  irqchip: Move ARM vic.h to include/linux/irqchip/arm-vic.h
  ARM: picoxcell: use common irqchip_init function
  ARM: spear: use common irqchip_init function
  irqchip: Move ARM VIC to drivers/irqchip
  ARM: samsung: remove unused tick.h
  ARM: remove unneeded vic.h includes
  ARM: remove mach .handle_irq for VIC users
  ARM: VIC: set handle_arch_irq in VIC initialization
  ARM: VIC: shrink down vic.h
  irqchip: Move ARM gic.h to include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h
  ARM: use common irqchip_init for GIC init
  irqchip: Move ARM GIC to drivers/irqchip
  ARM: remove mach .handle_irq for GIC users
  ARM: GIC: set handle_arch_irq in GIC initialization
  ARM: GIC: remove direct use of gic_raise_softirq
  ARM: GIC: remove assembly ifdefs from gic.h
  ARM: mach-ux500: use SGI0 to wake up the other core
  arm: add set_handle_irq() to register the parent IRQ controller handler function
  irqchip: add basic infrastructure
  irqchip: add to the directories part of the IRQ subsystem in MAINTAINERS

Fixed up massive merge conflicts with the timer cleanup due to adjacent changes:

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/mach-bcm/board_bcm.c
	arch/arm/mach-cns3xxx/cns3420vb.c
	arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/adssphere.c
	arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/edb93xx.c
	arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/gesbc9312.c
	arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/micro9.c
	arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/simone.c
	arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/snappercl15.c
	arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/ts72xx.c
	arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/vision_ep9307.c
	arch/arm/mach-highbank/highbank.c
	arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-imx6q.c
	arch/arm/mach-msm/board-dt-8960.c
	arch/arm/mach-netx/nxdb500.c
	arch/arm/mach-netx/nxdkn.c
	arch/arm/mach-netx/nxeb500hmi.c
	arch/arm/mach-nomadik/board-nhk8815.c
	arch/arm/mach-picoxcell/common.c
	arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_eb.c
	arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pb1176.c
	arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pb11mp.c
	arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pba8.c
	arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pbx.c
	arch/arm/mach-socfpga/socfpga.c
	arch/arm/mach-spear13xx/spear1310.c
	arch/arm/mach-spear13xx/spear1340.c
	arch/arm/mach-spear13xx/spear13xx.c
	arch/arm/mach-spear3xx/spear300.c
	arch/arm/mach-spear3xx/spear310.c
	arch/arm/mach-spear3xx/spear320.c
	arch/arm/mach-spear3xx/spear3xx.c
	arch/arm/mach-spear6xx/spear6xx.c
	arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-dt-tegra20.c
	arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-dt-tegra30.c
	arch/arm/mach-u300/core.c
	arch/arm/mach-ux500/board-mop500.c
	arch/arm/mach-ux500/cpu-db8500.c
	arch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile_ab.c
	arch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile_dt.c
	arch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile_pb.c
	arch/arm/mach-vexpress/v2m.c
	include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
2013-01-14 19:55:03 -08:00
Thomas Petazzoni f6e916b820 irqchip: add basic infrastructure
With the recent creation of the drivers/irqchip/ directory, it is
desirable to move irq controller drivers here. At the moment, the only
driver here is irq-bcm2835, the driver for the irq controller found in
the ARM BCM2835 SoC, present in Rasberry Pi systems. This irq
controller driver was exporting its initialization function and its
irq handling function through a header file in
<linux/irqchip/bcm2835.h>.

When proposing to also move another irq controller driver in
drivers/irqchip, Rob Herring raised the very valid point that moving
things to drivers/irqchip was good in order to remove more stuff from
arch/arm, but if it means adding gazillions of headers files in
include/linux/irqchip/, it would not be very nice.

So, upon the suggestion of Rob Herring and Arnd Bergmann, this commit
introduces a small infrastructure that defines a central
irqchip_init() function in drivers/irqchip/irqchip.c, which is meant
to be called as the ->init_irq() callback of ARM platforms. This
function calls of_irq_init() with an array of match strings and init
functions generated from a special linker section.

Note that the irq controller driver initialization function is
responsible for setting the global handle_arch_irq() variable, so that
ARM platforms no longer have to define the ->handle_irq field in their
DT_MACHINE structure.

A global header, <linux/irqchip.h> is also added to expose the single
irqchip_init() function to the reset of the kernel.

A further commit moves the BCM2835 irq controller driver to this new
small infrastructure, therefore removing the include/linux/irqchip/
directory.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
[rob.herring: reword commit message to reflect use of linker sections.]
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
2013-01-10 11:44:38 -06:00
Stephen Warren ae278a935f clocksource: add common of_clksrc_init() function
It is desirable to move all clocksource drivers to drivers/clocksource,
yet each requires its own initialization function. We'd rather not
pollute <linux/> with a header for each function. Instead, create a
single of_clksrc_init() function which will determine which clocksource
driver to initialize based on device tree.

Based on a similar patch for drivers/irqchip by Thomas Petazzoni.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
2013-01-02 11:07:43 -07:00
David Daney c87728ca82 vmlinux.lds.h: Allow architectures to add sections to the front of .bss
Follow-on MIPS patch will put an object here that needs 64K alignment
to minimize padding.

For those architectures that don't define BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS, there is
no change.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4221/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2012-10-11 11:02:37 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 9fd49328fc ftrace: Sort all function addresses, not just per page
Instead of just sorting the ip's of the functions per ftrace page,
sort the entire list before adding them to the ftrace pages.

This will allow the bsearch algorithm to be sped up as it can
also sort by pages, not just records within a page.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-05-16 19:58:44 -04:00
Pawel Moll 026cee0086 params: <level>_initcall-like kernel parameters
This patch adds a set of macros that can be used to declare
kernel parameters to be parsed _before_ initcalls at a chosen
level are executed.  We rename the now-unused "flags" field of
struct kernel_param as the level.  It's signed, for when we
use this for early params as well, in future.

Linker macro collating init calls had to be modified in order
to add additional symbols between levels that are later used
by the init code to split the calls into blocks.

Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-03-26 12:50:51 +10:30
Jan Beulich 7ccaba5314 consolidate WARN_...ONCE() static variables
Due to the alignment of following variables, these typically consume
more than just the single byte that 'bool' requires, and as there are a
few hundred instances, the cache pollution (not so much the waste of
memory) sums up.  Put these variables into their own section, outside of
any half way frequently used memory range.

Do the same also to the __warned variable of rcu_lockdep_assert().
(Don't, however, include the ones used by printk_once() and alike, as
they can potentially be hot.)

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23 16:58:31 -07:00
Kirill Tkhai bc74ee9769 m68k: Finally remove leftover markers sections
Markers have removed already twice:

1: fc5377668c
2: eb878b3bc0

But a little bit is still here.

Signed-off-by: Tkhai Kirill <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
2011-10-24 21:00:34 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 5129df03d0 Merge branch 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: Unify input section names
  percpu: Avoid extra NOP in percpu_cmpxchg16b_double
  percpu: Cast away printk format warning
  percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE

Fix up fairly trivial conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h as per Tejun
2011-05-24 11:53:42 -07:00
Tejun Heo 6988f20fe0 Merge branch 'fixes-2.6.39' into for-2.6.40 2011-05-24 09:59:36 +02:00
Linus Torvalds df48d8716e Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (107 commits)
  perf stat: Add more cache-miss percentage printouts
  perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events
  ftrace/kbuild: Add recordmcount files to force full build
  ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users
  ftrace: Modify ftrace_set_filter/notrace to take ops
  ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracers
  ftrace: Implement separate user function filtering
  ftrace: Free hash with call_rcu_sched()
  ftrace: Have global_ops store the functions that are to be traced
  ftrace: Add ops parameter to ftrace_startup/shutdown functions
  ftrace: Add enabled_functions file
  ftrace: Use counters to enable functions to trace
  ftrace: Separate hash allocation and assignment
  ftrace: Create a global_ops to hold the filter and notrace hashes
  ftrace: Use hash instead for FTRACE_FL_FILTER
  ftrace: Replace FTRACE_FL_NOTRACE flag with a hash of ignored functions
  perf bench, x86: Add alternatives-asm.h wrapper
  x86, 64-bit: Fix copy_[to/from]_user() checks for the userspace address limit
  x86, mem: memset_64.S: Optimize memset by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
  x86, mem: memmove_64.S: Optimize memmove by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
  ...
2011-05-19 17:36:08 -07:00
Alessio Igor Bogani f02e8a6596 module: Sort exported symbols
This patch places every exported symbol in its own section
(i.e. "___ksymtab+printk").  Thus the linker will use its SORT() directive
to sort and finally merge all symbol in the right and final section
(i.e. "__ksymtab").

The symbol prefixed archs use an underscore as prefix for symbols.
To avoid collision we use a different character to create the temporary
section names.

This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.

Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (folded in '+' fixup)
Tested-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>
2011-05-19 16:55:27 +09:30
Ingo Molnar 32673822e4 Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/perf_event.h

Merge reason: pick up the latest jump-label enhancements, they are cooked ready.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-27 10:40:21 +02:00
Jason Baron d430d3d7e6 jump label: Introduce static_branch() interface
Introduce:

static __always_inline bool static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key);

instead of the old JUMP_LABEL(key, label) macro.

In this way, jump labels become really easy to use:

Define:

        struct jump_label_key jump_key;

Can be used as:

        if (static_branch(&jump_key))
                do unlikely code

enable/disale via:

        jump_label_inc(&jump_key);
        jump_label_dec(&jump_key);

that's it!

For the jump labels disabled case, the static_branch() becomes an
atomic_read(), and jump_label_inc()/dec() are simply atomic_inc(),
atomic_dec() operations. We show testing results for this change below.

Thanks to H. Peter Anvin for suggesting the 'static_branch()' construct.

Since we now require a 'struct jump_label_key *key', we can store a pointer into
the jump table addresses. In this way, we can enable/disable jump labels, in
basically constant time. This change allows us to completely remove the previous
hashtable scheme. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for this re-write.

Testing:

I ran a series of 'tbench 20' runs 5 times (with reboots) for 3
configurations, where tracepoints were disabled.

jump label configured in
avg: 815.6

jump label *not* configured in (using atomic reads)
avg: 800.1

jump label *not* configured in (regular reads)
avg: 803.4

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110316212947.GA8792@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-04-04 12:48:08 -04:00
Mike Frysinger 6ea0c34dac percpu: Unify input section names
The two percpu helper macros have the section names duplicated.  So create
a new define to merge the two.  This also allows arches who need to link
things more directly themselves to avoid duplicating the input sections in
their linker script.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-04-04 01:41:32 +02:00
Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Tejun Heo 0415b00d17 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 <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
2011-03-24 18:50:09 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 79d8a8f736 Merge branch 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu, x86: Add arch-specific this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() support
  percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_cmpxchg_double()
  alpha: use L1_CACHE_BYTES for cacheline size in the linker script
  percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S due to the
percpu alignment having changed ("x86: Reduce back the alignment of the
per-CPU data section")
2011-03-16 08:22:41 -07:00
Jiri Olsa ea7145477a x86: Separate out entry text section
Put x86 entry code into a separate link section: .entry.text.

Separating the entry text section seems to have performance
benefits - caused by more efficient instruction cache usage.

Running hackbench with perf stat --repeat showed that the change
compresses the icache footprint. The icache load miss rate went
down by about 15%:

 before patch:
         19417627  L1-icache-load-misses      ( +-   0.147% )

 after patch:
         16490788  L1-icache-load-misses      ( +-   0.180% )

The motivation of the patch was to fix a particular kprobes
bug that relates to the entry text section, the performance
advantage was discovered accidentally.

Whole perf output follows:

 - results for current tip tree:

  Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs):

         19417627  L1-icache-load-misses      ( +-   0.147% )
       2676914223  instructions             #      0.497 IPC     ( +- 0.079% )
       5389516026  cycles                     ( +-   0.144% )

      0.206267711  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.138% )

 - results for current tip tree with the patch applied:

  Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs):

         16490788  L1-icache-load-misses      ( +-   0.180% )
       2717734941  instructions             #      0.502 IPC     ( +- 0.079% )
       5414756975  cycles                     ( +-   0.148% )

      0.206747566  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.137% )

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com
Cc: ananth@in.ibm.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference: <20110307181039.GB15197@jolsa.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-08 17:22:11 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 3d56e331b6 tracing: Replace syscall_meta_data struct array with pointer array
Currently the syscall_meta structures for the syscall tracepoints are
placed in the __syscall_metadata section, and at link time, the linker
makes one large array of all these syscall metadata structures. On boot
up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the syscall
data is processed.

The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.

A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).

Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the __syscall_metadata section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).

By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.

The __syscall_metadata section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.

Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-03 09:29:06 -05:00