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H. Peter Anvin
22a57f5896 x86, setup: Allow global variables and functions in the decompressor
In order for global variables and functions to work in the
decompressor, we need to fix up the GOT in assembly code.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C57382E.8050501@zytor.com>
2010-08-02 15:34:44 -07:00
Denys Vlasenko
041d5f94c4 Rename .rodata.compressed to .rodata..compressed.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-03-03 11:26:00 +01:00
Jan Beulich
350f8f5631 x86: Eliminate redundant/contradicting cache line size config options
Rather than having X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES and X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
(with inconsistent defaults), just having the latter suffices as
the former can be easily calculated from it.

To be consistent, also change X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES to
X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT, and set it to 7 (128 bytes) for NUMA
to account for last level cache line size (which here matters
more than L1 cache line size).

Finally, make sure the default value for X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT,
when X86_GENERIC is selected, is being seen before that for the
individual CPU model options (other than on x86-64, where
GENERIC_CPU is part of the choice construct, X86_GENERIC is a
separate option on ix86).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <4AFD5710020000780001F8F0@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-19 04:58:34 +01:00
Tim Abbott
1dc818c1c5 x86: convert compressed loader to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros.
This has the consequence of changing the section name use for head
code from ".text.head" to ".head.text".

Linus suggested that we merge the ".text.head" section with ".text"
(presumably while preserving the fact that the head code starts at 0).
When I tried this it caused the kernel to not boot.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-09-18 10:21:49 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
5b11f1cee5 x86, boot: straighten out ranges to copy/zero in compressed/head*.S
Both on 32 and 64 bits, we copy all the way up to the end of bss,
except that on 64 bits there is a hack to avoid copying on top of the
page tables.  There is no point in copying bss at all, especially
since we are just about to zero it all anyway.

To clean up and unify the handling, we now do:

  - copy from startup_32 to _bss.
  - zero from _bss to _ebss.
  - the _ebss symbol is aligned to an 8-byte boundary.
  - the page tables are moved to a separate section.

Use _bss as the copy endpoint since _edata may be misaligned.

[ Impact: cleanup, trivial performance improvement ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-08 17:18:10 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
0b4eb462da x86, boot: align the .bss section in the decompressor
Aligning the .bss section makes it trivial to use large operation
sizes for moving the initialized sections and clearing the .bss.
The alignment chosen (L1 cache) is somewhat arbitrary, but should be
large enough to avoid all known performance traps and small enough to
not cause troubles.

[ Impact: trivial performance enhancement, future patch prep	]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-08 17:16:21 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
83c4832683 x86: boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S: fix build of bzImage with 64 bit compiler
Jesper reported that he saw following build issue:

 > ld:arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds:9: syntax error
 > make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 1
 > make[1]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
 > make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

CPP defines the symbol "i386" to "1".
Undefine this to fix it.

[ Impact: build fix with certain tool chains ]

Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904260958190.3101@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-30 12:36:50 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
51b26ada79 x86: unify arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_*.lds
Look at the:

	diff -u arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_*.lds

output and realize that they're basially exactly the same except for
trivial naming differences, and the fact that the 64-bit version has a
"pgtable" thing.

So unify them.

There's some trivial cleanup there (make the output format a Kconfig thing
rather than doing #ifdef's for it, and unify both 32-bit and 64-bit BSS
end to "_ebss", where 32-bit used to use the traditional "_end"), but
other than that it's really very mindless and straigt conversion.

For example, I think we should aim to remove "startup_32" vs "startup_64",
and just call it "startup", and get rid of one more difference. I didn't
do that.

Also, notice the comment in the unified vmlinux.lds.S talks about
"head_64" and "startup_32" which is an odd and incorrect mix, but that was
actually what the old 64-bit only lds file had, so the confusion isn't
new, and now that mixing is arguably more accurate thanks to the
vmlinux.lds.S file being shared between the two cases ;)

[ Impact: cleanup, unification ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-27 06:35:24 +02:00
Renamed from arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_64.lds (Browse further)