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Author SHA1 Message Date
Paul Brook 6896eec029 [ARM] 3420/1: Missing clobber in example code
Patch from Paul Brook

The example code in the source documentation for __kernel_dmb
clobbers r0 but doesn't list it the asm clobber list.

Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-28 22:19:29 +01:00
Russell King ae574a5d7a Merge nommu tree 2006-03-28 22:05:10 +01:00
Lennert Buytenhek c471307437 [ARM] 3388/1: ixp23xx: add core ixp23xx support
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek

This patch adds support for the Intel ixp23xx series of CPUs.  The
ixp23xx is an XSC3 based CPU with 512K of L2 cache, a 64bit 66MHz PCI
interface, two DDR RAM interfaces, QDR RAM interfaces, two gigabit
MACs, two 10/100 MACs, expansion bus, four microengines, a Media and
Switch Fabric unit almost identical to the one on the ixp2400, two
xscale (8250ish) UARTs and a bunch of other stuff.

This patch adds the core ixp23xx support code, and support for the
ADI Engineering Roadrunner, Intel IXDP2351, and IP Fabrics Double
Espresso platforms.

Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-28 21:18:54 +01:00
Lennert Buytenhek e9937d4b0a [ARM] 3417/1: add support for logicpd pxa270 card engine
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek

Add support for the LogicPD PXA270 Card Engine.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-28 21:08:13 +01:00
Lennert Buytenhek fa5ebfccf3 [ARM] 3387/1: ixp23xx: add defconfig
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek

Add ixp23xx defconfig.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-28 21:02:26 +01:00
Lennert Buytenhek 23bdf86aa0 [ARM] 3377/2: add support for intel xsc3 core
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek

This patch adds support for the new XScale v3 core.  This is an
ARMv5 ISA core with the following additions:

- L2 cache
- I/O coherency support (on select chipsets)
- Low-Locality Reference cache attributes (replaces mini-cache)
- Supersections (v6 compatible)
- 36-bit addressing (v6 compatible)
- Single instruction cache line clean/invalidate
- LRU cache replacement (vs round-robin)

I attempted to merge the XSC3 support into proc-xscale.S, but XSC3
cores have separate errata and have to handle things like L2, so it
is simpler to keep it separate.

L2 cache support is currently a build option because the L2 enable
bit must be set before we enable the MMU and there is no easy way to
capture command line parameters at this point.

There are still optimizations that can be done such as using LLR for
copypage (in theory using the exisiting mini-cache code) but those
can be addressed down the road.

Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-28 21:00:40 +01:00
Russell King de4533a04e [ARM] Move ice-dcc code into misc.c
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-28 10:34:05 +01:00
Russell King a081568d70 [ARM] Fix decompressor serial IO to give CRLF not LFCR
As per the corresponding change to the serial drivers, arrange
for ARM decompressors to give CRLF.  Move the common putstr code
into misc.c such that machines only need to supply "putc" and
"flush" functions.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-28 10:24:33 +01:00
Russell King 3747b36eea [ARM] proc-v6: mark page table walks outer-cacheable, shared. Enable NX.
Mark page table walks with outer-cacheable attribute, and enable no-execute
in page tables.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-27 16:59:07 +01:00
Hyok S. Choi 4682adcfb0 [ARM] nommu: trivial patch for arch/arm/lib/Makefile
ifeq ($CONFIG_PREEMPT,y) -> ifeq ($(CONFIG_PREEMPT),y)

Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-27 15:46:06 +01:00
Erik Mouw c8c4b939e8 [ARM] 3416/1: Update LART site URL
Patch from Erik Mouw

The LART website moved to http://www.lartmaker.nl/. This patch
updates the URL in ARM specific files.

Signed-off-by: Erik Mouw <erik@bitwizard.nl>
Acked-by: Jan-Derk Bakker <jdb@lartmaker.nl>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-27 15:32:30 +01:00
Hyok S. Choi c760fc1997 [ARM] nommu: fixups for the exception vectors
The high page vector (0xFFFF0000) does not supported in nommu mode.
This patch allows the vectors to be 0x00000000 or the begining of DRAM
in nommu mode.

Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-27 15:18:50 +01:00
Hyok S. Choi f8c07de6be [ARM] nommu: add nommu specific Kconfig and MMUEXT variable in Makefile
This patch adds Kconfig-nommu for noMMU specific configurations
and MMUEXT variable into Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-27 15:14:19 +01:00
Hyok S. Choi 75d90832d5 [ARM] nommu: start-up code
This patch adds nommu version start-up code head-nommu.S.
The common part of the start-up codes is moved to head-common.S.

Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-27 14:58:25 +01:00
Hyok S. Choi 10c2df6506 [ARM] nommu: MPU support in boot/compressed/head.S
This patch adds MPU support in boot/compressed/head.S.

Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-27 10:21:34 +01:00
Richard Purdie bd8f103efe [ARM] 3415/1: Akita: Add missing EXPORT_SYMBOL
Patch from Richard Purdie

Add an EXPORT_SYMBOL for the Akita IO Expander Device.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-26 21:40:27 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 36ddf5bbde Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial:
  [ARM] 3383/3: ixp2000: ixdp2x01 platform serial conversion
  [SERIAL] amba-pl010: Remove accessor macros
  [SERIAL] remove 8250_acpi (replaced by 8250_pnp and PNPACPI)
  [SERIAL] icom: select FW_LOADER
2006-03-25 20:31:32 -08:00
Linus Torvalds a41622eaa9 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  [ARM] 3030/2: fix permission check in the obscur cmpxchg syscall
  [ARM] nommu: rename compressed/head.S symbols to a new style
  [ARM] select TLS_REG_EMUL and NEEDS_SYSCALL_FOR_CMPXCHG
  [ARM] nommu: Move hardware page table definitions to pgtable-hwdef.h
  [ARM] Move read of processor ID out of lookup_processor_type()
  [ARM] Fix typo in tlbflush.h
  [ARM] noMMU: removes TLB codes in nommu mode
  [ARM] noMMU: block sys_fork in nommu mode
  [ARM] 3399/1: Fix link problem when CONFIG_PRINTK is disabled
  [ARM] 3398/1: Fix the VFP registers loading/storing base address
  [ARM] 3397/1: AT91RM9200 Header update
  [ARM] 3385/1: Battery support for sharp zaurus sl-5500 (collie)
  [ARM] SMP: don't set cpu_*_map in smp_prepare_boot_cpu
  include/linux/clk.h is betraying its ARM origins
  [ARM] Move enable_irq and disable_irq to assembler.h
  [ARM] 3391/1: use PLAT8250_DEV_PLATFORM{,1} for platform device id instead of 0/1
2006-03-25 20:29:54 -08:00
Lennert Buytenhek 104c7b03ea [ARM] 3383/3: ixp2000: ixdp2x01 platform serial conversion
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek

Add a PLAT8250_DEV_PLATFORM2, and convert the two ixdp2x01 CPLD serial
ports to use platform serial devices with ids PLAT8250_DEV_PLATFORM[12].
(The on-chip xscale UART is PLAT8250_DEV_PLATFORM, id #0.)

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-25 23:03:13 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre 2ce9804fbd [ARM] 3030/2: fix permission check in the obscur cmpxchg syscall
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

Quoting RMK:

|pte_write() just says that the page _may_ be writable. It doesn't say
|that the MMU is programmed to allow writes. If pte_dirty() doesn't
|return true, that means that the page is _not_ writable from userspace.
|If you write to it from kernel mode (without using put_user) you'll
|bypass the MMU read-only protection and may end up writing to a page
|owned by two separate processes.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-25 22:44:05 +00:00
Russell King 0003cedfc5 Merge nommu tree
Fix merge conflict in arch/arm/mm/proc-xscale.S

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-25 22:08:55 +00:00
Malcolm Parsons 3ee357f0f3 [ARM] 3399/1: Fix link problem when CONFIG_PRINTK is disabled
Patch from Malcolm Parsons

Printking a backtrace requires printk, so disable backtrace code
when printk is disabled.

Without this patch, a kernel with CONFIG_PRINTK disabled does not link:

arch/arm/lib/lib.a(backtrace.o): In function `c_backtrace':
arch/arm/lib/backtrace.S:(.text+0x108): undefined reference to `printk'
arch/arm/lib/backtrace.S:(.text+0x11c): undefined reference to `printk'
arch/arm/lib/lib.a(backtrace.o):(.fixup+0x8): undefined reference to `printk'

Signed-off-by: Malcolm Parsons <malcolm.parsons@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-25 21:58:03 +00:00
Catalin Marinas 80ed354725 [ARM] 3398/1: Fix the VFP registers loading/storing base address
Patch from Catalin Marinas

The current VFP code corrupts the VFP registers (including the control
ones) if more than one floating point application is executed at the same
time. This patch fixes the updating of the load/store base addresses for
the VFP registers.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-25 21:58:00 +00:00
Pavel Machek 48a03ae863 [ARM] 3385/1: Battery support for sharp zaurus sl-5500 (collie)
Patch from Pavel Machek

This adds support for battery reading on collie. Collie slowly charges
battery even with charging disabled, so I did not yet enable fast
charge.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-25 21:57:57 +00:00
Russell King 091c539f08 [ARM] SMP: don't set cpu_*_map in smp_prepare_boot_cpu
The recent addition of boot_cpu_init() implements the initialisation
of the online, present and possible cpu maps for the boot CPU, so
there is no reason to duplicate this in the architecture
smp_prepare_boot_cpu() hook.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-25 21:37:29 +00:00
David S. Miller 7d3aee9a96 [SPARC64]: Keep cpu_present_map in sync with phys_cpu_present_map.
Don't rely on fixup_cpu_present_map() to do this as that function
is about to be removed.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-25 13:00:17 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 3cbb90a9cb powerpc: fix strncasecmp prototype
It takes a size_t, not an int, as its third argument.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:41:40 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 1b9a391736 Merge branch 'audit.b3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current
* 'audit.b3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: (22 commits)
  [PATCH] fix audit_init failure path
  [PATCH] EXPORT_SYMBOL patch for audit_log, audit_log_start, audit_log_end and audit_format
  [PATCH] sem2mutex: audit_netlink_sem
  [PATCH] simplify audit_free() locking
  [PATCH] Fix audit operators
  [PATCH] promiscuous mode
  [PATCH] Add tty to syscall audit records
  [PATCH] add/remove rule update
  [PATCH] audit string fields interface + consumer
  [PATCH] SE Linux audit events
  [PATCH] Minor cosmetic cleanups to the code moved into auditfilter.c
  [PATCH] Fix audit record filtering with !CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
  [PATCH] Fix IA64 success/failure indication in syscall auditing.
  [PATCH] Miscellaneous bug and warning fixes
  [PATCH] Capture selinux subject/object context information.
  [PATCH] Exclude messages by message type
  [PATCH] Collect more inode information during syscall processing.
  [PATCH] Pass dentry, not just name, in fsnotify creation hooks.
  [PATCH] Define new range of userspace messages.
  [PATCH] Filter rule comparators
  ...

Fixed trivial conflict in security/selinux/hooks.c
2006-03-25 09:24:53 -08:00
Andi Kleen c36cd16f78 [PATCH] x86_64: Add cpu_relax() to busy loops in PM timer code
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:14:39 -08:00
Andi Kleen 3076a492a5 [PATCH] x86_64: Report SIGSEGV for IRET faults
tcsh is not happy with the -9999 error code.

Suggested by Ernie Petrides

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:14:39 -08:00
Andi Kleen ad90573f93 [PATCH] x86_64: Initialize powernow_data[] for all siblings
I got an oops on a dual core system because the lost tick handler
called cpufreq_get() on core 1 and powernow tried to follow
a NULL powernow_data[] pointer there.

Initialize powernow_data for all cores of a CPU.

Cc: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:14:39 -08:00
Andi Kleen 0085979006 [PATCH] x86_64: Remove bogus special case in AMD core parsing.
No need to restrict to power of two here.

TBD needs more double checking

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:14:39 -08:00
Eric Dumazet dcf36bfa5d [PATCH] x86_64: group memnodemap and memnodeshift in a memnode structure
pfn_to_page() and others need to access both memnode_shift and the very
first bytes of memnodemap[]. If we force memnode_shift to be just before the
memnodemap array, we can reduce the memory footprint to one cache line
instead of two for most setups. This patch introduce a 'memnode' structure
where shift and map[] are carefully placed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:14:38 -08:00
Kevin Winchester 40caa88465 [PATCH] x86_64: Eliminate register_die_notifier symbol exported
register_die_notifier is exported twice, once in traps.c and once in
x8664_ksyms.c.  This results in a warning on build.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester <kwin@ns.sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:14:38 -08:00
Navin Boppuri 9c01dda02f [PATCH] x86_64: Search K8 devices on more devices.
arch/x86_64/kernel/aperture.c: The search for the AGP bridge has been
extended to search for all the 256 buses instead of the first 32. This
is required since on a some systems, the bridge may be located on a bus
much farther than the first 32. By searching all 256 buses, we guarantee
that the search succeeds on such systems.

arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c: The search for the Northbridge is not
limited to just bus 0 anymore. This is required because on certain
systems, we may not find one on bus 0.

Signed-off-by: Navin Boppuri <navin.boppuri@newisys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:14:38 -08:00
Jon Mason 5d05f4de41 [PATCH] x86_64: Make GART_IOMMU kconfig help text more specific (trivial)
Have the GART_IOMMU help text specify that this is the hardware IOMMU in
amd64 processors.  This will be significant if/when other IOMMUs are
added to the x86-64 architecture. :-)

Also, note that the previous help text stated that IOMMU was needed for
>3GB memory instead of >4GB.  This is fixed in the newer version.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:14:38 -08:00
Andi Kleen ba22f13563 [PATCH] x86_64: Remove CONFIG_UNORDERED_IO
It was a failed experiment - all benchmarks done with it on both AMD
and Intel showed it was a loss. That was probably because the store
buffers of the CPUs for write combining traffic weren't large enough.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:14:38 -08:00
Andi Kleen 9d95dd849c [PATCH] i386/x86-64: List Intel LaGrange AKA SMX in /proc/cpuinfo
Spec just got published so we know the CPUID bit.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:57 -08:00
Jon Mason c912c2db2f [PATCH] x86_64: free_bootmem_node needs __pa in allocate_aperture
free_bootmem_node expects a physical address to be passed in, but
__alloc_bootmem_node returns a virtual one.  That address needs to be
translated to physical.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:57 -08:00
Vivek Goyal da7ed9f98f [PATCH] x86_64: timer interrupt lockup due to pending interrupt
o check_timer() routine fails while second kernel is booting after a crash
  on an opetron box. Problem happens because timer vector (0x31) seems to be
  locked.

o After a system crash, it is not safe to service interrupts any more, hence
  interrupts are disabled. This leads to pending interrupts at LAPIC. LAPIC
  sends these interrupts to the CPU during early boot of second kernel. Other
  pending interrupts are discarded saying unexpected trap but timer interrupt
  is serviced and CPU does not issue an LAPIC EOI because it think this
  interrupt came from i8259 and sends ack to 8259. This leads to vector 0x31
  locking as LAPIC does not clear respective ISR and keeps on waiting for
  EOI.

o This patch issues extra EOI for the pending interrupts who have ISR set.

o Though today only timer seems to be the special case because in early
  boot it thinks interrupts are coming from i8259 and uses
  mask_and_ack_8259A() as ack handler and does not issue LAPIC EOI. But
  probably doing it in generic manner for all vectors makes sense.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:57 -08:00
Brian Gerst b1fc513d81 [PATCH] x86_64: Use cpumask bitops for cpu_vm_mask
cpu_vm_mask is of type cpumask_t, so use the proper bitops.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:56 -08:00
Andi Kleen 267b48014a [PATCH] x86_64: Try to allocate node memmap near the end of node
This fixes problems with very large nodes (over 128GB) filling up all of
the first 4GB with their mem_map and not leaving enough space for the
swiotlb.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:56 -08:00
Andi Kleen 7682968b7d [PATCH] x86_64: Change default setting for noexec32 to match i386 kernel
This means i386 processes compiled with a recent compiler will get non
executable heap by default now.  This is the same default as a 32bit PAE
kernel would use on a NX enabled CPU.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:56 -08:00
Andi Kleen 01d4bed417 [PATCH] x86_64: Limit max number of CPUs to 255
Because 256 causes overflows in some code that stores them in 8 bit
fields and the x86 APIC architecture cannot handle more than 255
anyways.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:56 -08:00
Chuck Ebbert 5b922cd429 [PATCH] x86_64: fix orphaned bits of timer init messages
When x86_64 timer init messages were changed to use apic verbosity
levels, two messages were missed and one got the wrong level.  This
causes the last word of a suppressed message to print on a line by
itself.  Fix that so either the entire message prints or none of it
does.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:56 -08:00
Andi Kleen 2ab7f1833b [PATCH] x86_64: Quieten down microcode update driver
Only log data in microcode driver when something is changed Otherwise it
was far too noisy on large systems.

Also remove the printk when it is unloaded.

Cc: tigran@veritas.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:56 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven 4bdc3b7f1b [PATCH] x86_64: Basic reorder infrastructure
This patch puts the infrastructure in place to allow for a reordering of
functions based inside the vmlinux. The general idea is that it is possible
to put all "common" functions into the first 2Mb of the code, so that they
are covered by one TLB entry. This as opposed to the current situation where
a typical vmlinux covers about 3.5Mb (on x86-64) and thus 2 TLB entries.

This is done by enabling the -ffunction-sections flag in gcc, which puts
each function in its own ELF section, so that the linker can then order them
in a way defined by the linker script.

As per previous discussions, Linus said he wanted a "static" list for this,
eg a list provided by the kernel tarbal, so that most people have the same
ordering at least. A script is provided to create this list based on
readprofile(1) output. The included list is provisional, and entirely biased
on my own testbox and me running a few kernel compiles and some other
things.

I think that to get to a better list we need to invite people to submit
their own profiles, and somehow add those all up and base the final list on
that. I'm willing to do that effort if this is ends up being the prefered
approach. Such an effort probably needs to be repeated like once a year or
so to adopt to the changing nature of the kernel.

Made it a CONFIG with default n because it increases link times
dramatically.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:56 -08:00
Andi Kleen 9b2a13b963 [PATCH] x86_64: Always use IO-APIC routing for timer.
I tested it on a couple of chipsets and it worked everywhere so it
should be ok as default for now.

So far I haven't done the great purge of the useless old check_timer
code yet though.

Can be overwritten with enable_8254_timer in the worst case

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:55 -08:00
Andi Kleen 3056d6be19 [PATCH] x86_64: Don't invoke OOM killer during dma_alloc_coherent()
There is a fallback logic, so it's better to not use the OOM killer
in the allocations.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:55 -08:00
Andi Kleen 28456edeff [PATCH] x86_64: Reename CMOS update warning
Was disabled due to an old bug, long gone.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:55 -08:00