Recently, some distros have started shipping versions of gcc which
default to -march=i686. This breaks building kernels for pre-i686
machines, even if they have been selected in Kconfig, due to the
generation of CMOV instructions.
There isn't enough benefit to try to preserve the generation of these
instructions even when selected, so simply force -march=i386 for the
decompressor when building a 32-bit kernel.
Reported-and-tested-by: Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <219280.97558.qm@web52907.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
This adds a new category of symbols to the relocs program: symbols
which are known to be relative, even though the linker emits them as
absolute; this is the case for symbols that live in the linker script,
which currently applies to _end.
Unfortunately the previous workaround of putting _end in its own empty
section was defeated by newer binutils, which remove empty sections
completely.
This patch also changes the symbol matching to use regular expressions
instead of hardcoded C for specific patterns.
This is a decidedly non-minimal patch: a modified version of the
relocs program is used as part of the Syslinux build, and this is
basically a backport to Linux of some of those changes; they have
thus been well tested.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AF86211.3070103@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
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>
A single 'movl' is shorter than the 'xorl'-'orl' pair.
No change in behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1256341043-4928-1-git-send-email-aspotashev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
The absence of vmlinux.lds here keeps .vmlinux.lds.cmd from being
included, which in turn leads to it and all its dependents always
getting rebuilt independent of whether they are already up-to-date.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A8D84670200007800010D31@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Enable gcov profiling of the entire kernel on x86_64. Required changes
include disabling profiling for:
* arch/kernel/acpi/realmode and arch/kernel/boot/compressed:
not linked to main kernel
* arch/vdso, arch/kernel/vsyscall_64 and arch/kernel/hpet:
profiling causes segfaults during boot (incompatible context)
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits)
x86, boot: add new generated files to the appropriate .gitignore files
x86, boot: correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE
x86-64: align __PHYSICAL_START, remove __KERNEL_ALIGN
x86, boot: correct sanity checks in boot/compressed/misc.c
x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version
x86, defconfig: update kernel position parameters
x86, defconfig: update to current, no material changes
x86: make CONFIG_RELOCATABLE the default
x86: default CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN to 16 MB
x86: document new bzImage fields
x86, boot: make kernel_alignment adjustable; new bzImage fields
x86, boot: remove dead code from boot/compressed/head_*.S
x86, boot: use LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on 64 bits
x86, boot: make symbols from the main vmlinux available
x86, boot: determine compressed code offset at compile time
x86, boot: use appropriate rep string for move and clear
x86, boot: zero EFLAGS on 32 bits
x86, boot: set up the decompression stack as early as possible
x86, boot: straighten out ranges to copy/zero in compressed/head*.S
x86, boot: stylistic cleanups for boot/compressed/head_64.S
...
Fixed trivial conflict in arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig manually
git status complains of untracked (generated) files in arch/x86/boot..
# Untracked files:
# (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
# ../../arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy
# ../../arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S
# ../../arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds
# ../../arch/x86/boot/voffset.h
# ../../arch/x86/boot/zoffset.h
..so adjust .gitignore files accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
For relocatable 32bit kernels, boot/compressed/relocs.c processes
relocation entries in the kernel image and appends it to the kernel
image such that boot/compressed/head_32.S can relocate the kernel.
The kernel image is one statically linked object and only uses two
relocation types - R_386_PC32 and R_386_32, of the two only the latter
needs massaging during kernel relocation and thus handled by relocs.
R_386_PC32 is ignored and all other relocation types are considered
error.
When the target of a relocation resides in a discarded section,
binutils doesn't throw away the relocation record but nullifies it by
changing it to R_386_NONE, which unfortunately makes relocs fail.
The problem was triggered by yet out-of-tree x86 stack unwind patches
but given the binutils behavior, ignoring R_386_NONE is the right
thing to do.
The problem has been tracked down to binutils behavior by Jan Beulich.
[ Impact: fix build with certain binutils by ignoring R_386_NONE ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <4A1B8150.40702@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c contains several sanity checks on the
output address. Correct constraints that are no longer correct:
- the alignment test should be MIN_KERNEL_ALIGN on both 32 and 64
bits.
- the 64 bit maximum address was set to 2^40, which was the limit of
one specific x86-64 implementation. Change the test to 2^46, the
current Linux limit, and at least try to test the end rather than
the beginning.
- for non-relocatable kernels, test against LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on both
32 and 64 bits.
[ Impact: fix potential boot failure due to invalid tests ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Make the kernel_alignment field adjustable; this allows us to set it
to a large value (intended to be 16 MB to avoid ZONE_DMA contention,
memory holes and other weirdness) while a smart bootloader can still
force a loading at a lesser alignment if absolutely necessary.
Also export pref_address (preferred loading address, corresponding to
the link-time address) and init_size, the total amount of linear
memory the kernel will require during initialization.
[ Impact: allows better kernel placement, gives bootloader more info ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Remove a couple of lines of dead code from
arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_*.S; all of these update registers that
are dead in the current code.
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Use LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR instead of CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START in the 64-bit
decompression code, for equivalence with the 32-bit code.
[ Impact: cleanup, increases code similarity ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Determine the compressed code offset (from the kernel runtime address)
at compile time. This allows some minor optimizations in
arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_*.S, but more importantly it makes this
value available to the build process, which will enable a future patch
to export the necessary linear memory footprint into the bzImage
header.
[ Impact: cleanup, future patch enabling ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
In the pre-decompression code, use the appropriate largest possible
rep movs and rep stos to move code and clear bss, respectively. For
reverse copy, do note that the initial values are supposed to be the
address of the first (highest) copy datum, not one byte beyond the end
of the buffer.
rep strings are not necessarily the fastest way to perform these
operations on all current processors, but are likely to be in the
future, and perhaps more importantly, we want to encourage the
architecturally right thing to do here.
This also fixes a couple of trivial inefficiencies on 64 bits.
[ Impact: trivial performance enhancement, increase code similarity ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The 64-bit code already clears EFLAGS as soon as it has a stack. This
seems like a reasonable precaution, so do it on 32 bits as well.
[ Impact: extra paranoia ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Set up the decompression stack as soon as we know where it needs to
go. That way we have a full-service stack as soon as possible, rather
than relying on the BP_scratch field.
Note that the stack does need to be empty during bss zeroing (or
else the stack needs to be moved out of the bss segment, which is also
an option.)
[ Impact: cleanup, minor paranoia ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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>
Clean up style issues in arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S. This
file had a lot fewer style issues than its 32-bit cousin, but the ones
it has are worth fixing, especially since it makes the two files more
similar.
[ Impact: cleanup, no object code change ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reformat arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S to be closer to currently
preferred kernel assembly style, that is:
- opcode and operand separated by tab
- operands separated by ", "
- C-style comments
This also makes it more similar to head_64.S.
[ Impact: cleanup, no object code change ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
When generating the compression suffix in
arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile, follow standard Kbuild
conventions, that is:
- Use a dash not underscore before y/m/n endings
- Use := whenever possible.
Requested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Simplify the arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile, by using the new
capability of specifying multiple inputs to a compressor, and the
CONFIG_X86_NEED_RELOCS Kconfig symbol.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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>
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>
Impact: code size reduction (possibly critical)
The x86 boot and decompression code has no use of the branch profiling
constructs, so disable them. This would bloat the setup code by as
much as 14K, eating up a fairly large chunk of the 32K area we are
guaranteed to have.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clenaup
Linker script will put startup_32 at predefined
address so using startup_32 will not bloat the
code size.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clenaup
Linker script will put startup_32 at predefined
address so using ENTRY will not bloat the code
size.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In general, the only definitions that assembly files can use
are in _types.S headers (where available), so convert them.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Impact: Replaces x86 kernel decompressor with new code
This is the third part of the bzip2/lzma patch
The bzip patch is based on an idea by Christian Ludwig, includes support for
compressing the kernel with bzip2 or lzma rather than gzip. Both
compressors give smaller sizes than gzip. Lzma's decompresses faster
than bzip2.
It also supports ramdisks and initramfs' compressed using these two
compressors.
The functionality has been successfully used for a couple of years by
the udpcast project
This version applies to "tip" kernel 2.6.28
This part contains:
- support for new bzip2 and lzma kernel compression for x86
Signed-off-by: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: segfault on build of a 32-bit relocatable kernel
When converting arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs.c to support unlimited
sections, the computation of sym_strtab in walk_relocs() was done
incorrectly. This causes a segfault for some people when building the
relocatable 32-bit kernel.
Pointed out by Anonymous <pageexec@freemail.hu>.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The Kbuild variable "targets" is supposed to be
configuration-independent and reflect "all possible targets". This is
required to make "make clean" work properly.
Therefore, move all manipulation of "targets" as well as custom rules
out of the x86-32 ifdef statement. Only leave inside the ifdefs the
things that are genuinely configuration-dependent.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Comments in arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S erroneously refer to the
real mode pointer as the second and the heap area as the third argument
to decompress_kernel(). In fact, these have been the first and second
argument, respectively, since v2.6.20.
This patch corrects the comments. It introduces no code changes.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Kohlbecher <xt28@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Inflate requires some dynamic memory allocation very early in the boot
process and this is provided with a set of four functions:
malloc/free/gzip_mark/gzip_release.
The old inflate code used a mark/release strategy rather than implement
free. This new version instead keeps a count on the number of outstanding
allocations and when it hits zero, it resets the malloc arena.
This allows removing all the mark and release implementations and unifying
all the malloc/free implementations.
The architecture-dependent code must define two addresses:
- free_mem_ptr, the address of the beginning of the area in which
allocations should be made
- free_mem_end_ptr, the address of the end of the area in which
allocations should be made. If set to 0, then no check is made on
the number of allocations, it just grows as much as needed
The architecture-dependent code can also provide an arch_decomp_wdog()
function call. This function will be called several times during the
decompression process, and allow to notify the watchdog that the system is
still running. If an architecture provides such a call, then it must
define ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG so that the generic inflate code calls
arch_decomp_wdog().
Work initially done by Matt Mackall, updated to a recent version of the
kernel and improved by me.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch consolidates the header guard names which are also used
externally, i.e. in .c files.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
This patch allows the disabling of decompression messages during
x86 bootup.
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <ben.collins@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
