| Age | Commit message (Collapse) | Author | |
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| 2016-11-16 | ARM: Fix XIP kernels | Russell King | |
| Commit 7619751f8c90 ("ARM: 8595/2: apply more __ro_after_init") caused a regression with XIP kernels by moving the __ro_after_init data into the read-only section. With XIP kernels, the read-only section is located in read-only memory from the very beginning. Work around this by moving the __ro_after_init data back into the .data section, which will be in RAM, and hence will be writable. It should be noted that in doing so, this remains writable after init. Fixes: 7619751f8c90 ("ARM: 8595/2: apply more __ro_after_init") Reported-by: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com> Tested-by: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com> [ XIP stm32 ] Tested-by: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> | |||
| 2016-10-07 | nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus | Chris Metcalf | |
| When doing an nmi backtrace of many cores, most of which are idle, the output is a little overwhelming and very uninformative. Suppress messages for cpus that are idling when they are interrupted and just emit one line, "NMI backtrace for N skipped: idling at pc 0xNNN". We do this by grouping all the cpuidle code together into a new .cpuidle.text section, and then checking the address of the interrupted PC to see if it lies within that section. This commit suitably tags x86 and tile idle routines, and only adds in the minimal framework for other architectures. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472487169-14923-5-git-send-email-cmetcalf@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> [arm] Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | |||
| 2016-02-22 | ARM: 8537/1: drop unused DEBUG_RODATA from XIP_KERNEL | Kees Cook | |
| With CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA not being sensible under XIP_KERNEL, remove it from the XIP linker script. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | |||
| 2016-02-11 | ARM: 8518/1: Use correct symbols for XIP_KERNEL | Chris Brandt | |
| For an XIP build, _etext does not represent the end of the binary image that needs to stay mapped into the MODULES_VADDR area. Years ago, data came before text in the memory map. However, now that the order is text/init/data, an XIP_KERNEL needs to map up to the data location in order to keep from cutting off parts of the kernel that are needed. We only map up to the beginning of data because data has already been copied, so there's no reason to keep it around anymore. A new symbol is created to make it clear what it is we are referring to. This fixes the bug where you might lose the end of your kernel area after page table setup is complete. Signed-off-by: Chris Brandt <chris.brandt@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | |||
| 2016-02-11 | ARM: 8515/2: move .vectors and .stubs sections back into the kernel VMA | Ard Biesheuvel | |
| Commit b9b32bf70f2f ("ARM: use linker magic for vectors and vector stubs") updated the linker script to emit the .vectors and .stubs sections into a VMA range that is zero based and disjoint from the normal static kernel region. The reason for that was that this way, the sections can be placed exactly 4 KB apart, while the payload of the .vectors section is only 32 bytes. Since the symbols that are part of the .stubs section are emitted into the kallsyms table, they appear with zero based addresses as well, e.g., 00001004 t vector_rst 00001020 t vector_irq 000010a0 t vector_dabt 00001120 t vector_pabt 000011a0 t vector_und 00001220 t vector_addrexcptn 00001240 t vector_fiq 00001240 T vector_fiq_offset As this confuses perf when it accesses the kallsyms tables, commit 7122c3e9154b ("scripts/link-vmlinux.sh: only filter kernel symbols for arm") implemented a somewhat ugly special case for ARM, where the value of CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET is passed to scripts/kallsyms, and symbols whose addresses are below it are filtered out. Note that this special case only applies to CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL=n, not because the issue the patch addresses exists only in that case, but because finding a limit below which to apply the filtering is not entirely straightforward. Since the .vectors and .stubs sections contain position independent code that is never executed in place, we can emit it at its most likely runtime VMA (for more recent CPUs), which is 0xffff0000 for the vector table and 0xffff1000 for the stubs. Not only does this fix the perf issue with kallsyms, allowing us to drop the special case in scripts/kallsyms entirely, it also gives debuggers a more realistic view of the address space, and setting breakpoints or single stepping through code in the vector table or the stubs is more likely to work as expected on CPUs that use a high vector address. E.g., 00001240 A vector_fiq_offset ... c0c35000 T __init_begin c0c35000 T __vectors_start c0c35020 T __stubs_start c0c35020 T __vectors_end c0c352e0 T _sinittext c0c352e0 T __stubs_end ... ffff1004 t vector_rst ffff1020 t vector_irq ffff10a0 t vector_dabt ffff1120 t vector_pabt ffff11a0 t vector_und ffff1220 t vector_addrexcptn ffff1240 T vector_fiq (Note that vector_fiq_offset is now an absolute symbol, which kallsyms already ignores by default) The LMA footprint is identical with or without this change, only the VMAs are different: Before: Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn ... 14 .notes 00000024 c0c34020 c0c34020 00a34020 2**2 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE 15 .vectors 00000020 00000000 c0c35000 00a40000 2**1 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE 16 .stubs 000002c0 00001000 c0c35020 00a41000 2**5 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE 17 .init.text 0006b1b8 c0c352e0 c0c352e0 00a452e0 2**5 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE ... After: Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn ... 14 .notes 00000024 c0c34020 c0c34020 00a34020 2**2 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE 15 .vectors 00000020 ffff0000 c0c35000 00a40000 2**1 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE 16 .stubs 000002c0 ffff1000 c0c35020 00a41000 2**5 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE 17 .init.text 0006b1b8 c0c352e0 c0c352e0 00a452e0 2**5 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE ... Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Acked-by: Chris Brandt <chris.brandt@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | |||
| 2016-02-11 | ARM: 8513/1: xip: Move XIP linking to a separate file | Chris Brandt | |
| When building an XIP kernel, the linker script needs to be much different than a conventional kernel's script. Over time, it's been difficult to maintain both XIP and non-XIP layouts in one linker script. Therefore, this patch separates the two procedures into two completely different files. The new linker script is essentially a straight copy of the current script with all the non-CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL portions removed. Additionally, all CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL portions have been removed from the existing linker script...never to return again. It should be noted that this does not fix any current XIP issues, but rather is the first move in fixing them properly with subsequent patches. Signed-off-by: Chris Brandt <chris.brandt@renesas.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | |||
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