| 4f8cf36f48b4648a5231e9fc8e49faea377246f4 |
|
28-Feb-2012 |
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> |
powerpc: Remove legacy iSeries bits from assembly files
This removes the various bits of assembly in the kernel entry,
exception handling and SLB management code that were specific
to running under the legacy iSeries hypervisor which is no
longer supported.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
|
| 9c5f7d39a86316cd13baf973c90ed27f9f1cc979 |
|
14-Dec-2011 |
Suzuki Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com> |
powerpc: Process dynamic relocations for kernel
The following patch implements the dynamic relocation processing for
PPC32 kernel. relocate() accepts the target virtual address and relocates
the kernel image to the same.
Currently the following relocation types are handled :
R_PPC_RELATIVE
R_PPC_ADDR16_LO
R_PPC_ADDR16_HI
R_PPC_ADDR16_HA
The last 3 relocations in the above list depends on value of Symbol indexed
whose index is encoded in the Relocation entry. Hence we need the Symbol
Table for processing such relocations.
Note: The GNU ld for ppc32 produces buggy relocations for relocation types
that depend on symbols. The value of the symbols with STB_LOCAL scope
should be assumed to be zero. - Alan Modra
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
|
| 0415b00d175e0d8945e6785aad21b5f157976ce0 |
|
24-Mar-2011 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
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
|
| 19df0c2fef010e94e90df514aaf4e73f6b80145c |
|
25-Jan-2011 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline
Currently percpu readmostly subsection may share cachelines with other
percpu subsections which may result in unnecessary cacheline bounce
and performance degradation.
This patch adds @cacheline parameter to PERCPU() and PERCPU_VADDR()
linker macros, makes each arch linker scripts specify its cacheline
size and use it to align percpu subsections.
This is based on Shaohua's x86 only patch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
|
| 54cb27a71f51d304342c79e62fd7667f2171062b |
|
20-Feb-2010 |
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> |
Rename .data.read_mostly to .data..read_mostly.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
|
| 75b134837263eb919d91678f7fcf3d54cd088c8d |
|
20-Feb-2010 |
Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> |
Rename .data.page_aligned to .data..page_aligned.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
|
| 2af7687f1ad2c4571b9835f9bb2e3db9a738d258 |
|
20-Feb-2010 |
Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> |
Rename .data.init_task to .data..init_task.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
|
| 4af57b787b4be09419a2bb48aa705fa87ef41cca |
|
20-Feb-2010 |
Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> |
Rename .data.cacheline_aligned to .data..cacheline_aligned.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
|
| d4703aefdbc8f9f347f6dcefcddd791294314eb7 |
|
15-Dec-2009 |
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> |
module: handle ppc64 relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
powerpc applies relocations to the kcrctab. They're absolute symbols,
but it's not completely unreasonable: other archs may too, but the
relocation is often 0.
http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2009-November/077972.html
Inspired-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
|
| 5be2a213b172bb65b21a6f7271b335832d88793c |
|
29-Sep-2009 |
Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com> |
powerpc: warning: allocated section `.data_nosave' not in segment
We need to align before the output section. Having the align inside
the output section causes the linker to put some filler in there,
which makes it a non-empty section, but this section isn't assigned to
a segment so you get a warning from the linker.
Signed-off-by: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
|
| 62bef288588bee976b753f7168716621d7a984e2 |
|
24-Sep-2009 |
Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> |
powerpc: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
|
| 142597dbbd8a1d516af3dacfa00037f21612e865 |
|
22-Sep-2009 |
Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> |
powerpc: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
|
| 903444e4297264ec0959e886695911659edb425c |
|
09-Aug-2009 |
Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> |
powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Move _edata down
Currently _edata does not include several data sections, this causes
the kernel's report of memory usage at boot to not match reality, and
also prevents kmemleak from working - because it scan between _sdata
and _edata for pointers to allocated memory.
This mirrors a similar change made recently to the x86 linker script.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
|
| 023bf6f1b8bf58dc4da7f0dc1cf4787b0d5297c1 |
|
09-Jul-2009 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
linker script: unify usage of discard definition
Discarded sections in different archs share some commonality but have
considerable differences. This led to linker script for each arch
implementing its own /DISCARD/ definition, which makes maintaining
tedious and adding new entries error-prone.
This patch makes all linker scripts to move discard definitions to the
end of the linker script and use the common DISCARDS macro. As ld
uses the first matching section definition, archs can include default
discarded sections by including them earlier in the linker script.
ia64 is notable because it first throws away some ia64 specific
subsections and then include the rest of the sections into the final
image, so those sections must be discarded before the inclusion.
defconfig compile tested for x86, x86-64, powerpc, powerpc64, ia64,
alpha, sparc, sparc64 and s390. Michal Simek tested microblaze.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
|
| 405d967dc70002991f8fc35c20e0d3cbc7614f63 |
|
24-Jun-2009 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
linker script: throw away .discard section
x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do. Also,
.discard is not thrown away while linking modules. Make every arch
and module linking throw it away. This will be used to define dummy
variables for percpu declarations and definitions.
This patch is based on Ivan Kokshaysky's alpha percpu patch.
[ Impact: always throw away everything in .discard ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
|
| 0e337b42d620ca7c45fe64e64dd71957c56216c9 |
|
17-May-2009 |
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> |
powerpc: Explicit alignment for .data.cacheline_aligned
I don't think anything guarantees that the objects in data.page_aligned
are a multiple of PAGE_SIZE, thus the section may end on any boundary.
So the following section, .data.cacheline_aligned needs an explicit
alignment.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
|
| 13beadd91f148933f47947a88ab2c97a1ca9768d |
|
28-Apr-2009 |
Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU> |
powerpc: Revert switch to TEXT_TEXT in linker script
Commit edada399 broke the build on 64-bit powerpc because it moved the
__ftr_alt_* sections of a file away from the .text section, causing
link failures due to relative conditional branch targets being too far
away from the branch instructions. This happens on pretty much all
64-bit powerpc configs.
This change reverts commit edada399 while preserving the update from
the *.refok sections to .ref.text that has happened since.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Requested-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
|
| edada399e81303e85a1090b3cf0f3c5b13ff5f53 |
|
27-Apr-2009 |
Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU> |
powerpc: Use TEXT_TEXT macro in linker script.
Rather than adding .ref.text to the powerpc linker script so that we
can use __REF on the powerpc architecture, it seems simpler to switch
to using the generic TEXT_TEXT macro.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
|
| e70398458738fd26f96adc95eea8efe908809f08 |
|
26-Apr-2009 |
Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU> |
powerpc: convert 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". Since this commit changes all
users in the architecture, this change should be harmless.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
|
| 19390c4d03688b9940a1836f06b76ec622b9cd6f |
|
10-Mar-2009 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
linker script: define __per_cpu_load on all SMP capable archs
Impact: __per_cpu_load available on all SMP capable archs
Percpu now requires three symbols to be defined - __per_cpu_load,
__per_cpu_start and __per_cpu_end. There were three archs which
didn't have it. Update them as follows.
* powerpc: can use generic PERCPU() macro. Compile tested for
powerpc32, compile/boot tested for powerpc64.
* ia64: can use generic PERCPU_VADDR() macro. __phys_per_cpu_start is
identical to __per_cpu_load. Compile tested and symbol table looks
identical after the change except for the additional __per_cpu_load.
* arm: added explicit __per_cpu_load definition. Currently uses
unified .init output section so can't use the generic macro. Dunno
whether the unified .init ouput section is required by arch
peculiarity so I left it alone. Please break it up and use PERCPU()
if possible.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
|
| 6794c78243bfda020ab184d6d578944f8e90d26c |
|
10-Feb-2009 |
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> |
powerpc64: port of the function graph tracer
This is a port of the function graph tracer that was written by
Frederic Weisbecker for the x86.
This only works for PPC64 at the moment and only for static tracing.
PPC32 and dynamic function graph tracing support will come later.
The trace produces a visual calling of functions:
# tracer: function_graph
#
# CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | | |
0) 2.224 us | }
0) ! 271.024 us | }
0) ! 320.080 us | }
0) ! 324.656 us | }
0) ! 329.136 us | }
0) | .put_prev_task_fair() {
0) | .update_curr() {
0) 2.240 us | .update_min_vruntime();
0) 6.512 us | }
0) 2.528 us | .__enqueue_entity();
0) + 15.536 us | }
0) | .pick_next_task_fair() {
0) 2.032 us | .__pick_next_entity();
0) 2.064 us | .__clear_buddies();
0) | .set_next_entity() {
0) 2.672 us | .__dequeue_entity();
0) 6.864 us | }
Geoff Lavand tested on PS3.
Tested-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
|
| 74e7904559a10cbb9fbf9139c5c42fc87c0f62a4 |
|
17-Jan-2009 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
linker script: add missing .data.percpu.page_aligned
arm, arm/mach-integrator and powerpc were missing
.data.percpu.page_aligned in their percpu output section definitions.
Add it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
|
| e16459c6b7e9c1390020a3e2a033b5383d1c4f3b |
|
02-Jan-2009 |
Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> |
powerpc: Make dummy section a valid note header
We are declaring the dummy section (used to work around a binutils
bug) as PT_NOTE, but we don't have enough bytes for it to be a valid
note header, and kexec userspace complains:
Warning: Elf Note name is not null terminated
Warning: append= option is not passed. Using the first kernel root partition
Warning: Elf Note name is not null terminated
Instead of using the arbitray value 0xf177 (aka "fill"), declare a
no-name no-description note of type 0.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
|
| 7c03d653cd257793dc40520c94e229b5fd0578e7 |
|
18-Dec-2008 |
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> |
powerpc/mm: Introduce MMU features
We're soon running out of CPU features and I need to add some new
ones for various MMU related bits, so this patch separates the MMU
features from the CPU features. I moved over the 32-bit MMU related
ones, added base features for MMU type families, but didn't move
over any 64-bit only feature yet.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
|
| 5663a1232bd557b4b2141ad345dd56785fa51c2a |
|
31-Oct-2008 |
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> |
Revert "powerpc: Sync RPA note in zImage with kernel's RPA note"
This reverts commit 91a00302959545a9ae423e99732b1e46eb19e877, plus
commit 0dcd440120ef12879ff34fc78d7e4abf171c79e4 ("powerpc: Revert CHRP
boot wrapper to real-base = 12MB on 32-bit") which depended on it.
Commit 91a00302 was causing NVRAM corruption on some pSeries machines,
for as-yet unknown reasons, so this reverts it until the cause is
identified.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
|
| 2a4b9c5af82035c591adca951a9af1665ad1a2b0 |
|
22-Oct-2008 |
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> |
powerpc: Work around ld bug in older binutils
Commit 549e8152de8039506f69c677a4546e5427aa6ae7 ("powerpc: Make the
64-bit kernel as a position-independent executable") added lines to
vmlinux.lds.S to add the extra sections needed to implement a
relocatable kernel. However, those lines seem to trigger a bug in
older versions of GNU ld (such as 2.16.1) when building a
non-relocatable kernel. Since ld 2.16.1 is still a popular choice for
cross-toolchains, this adds an #ifdef to vmlinux.lds.S so the added
lines are only included when building a relocatable kernel.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
|
| 91a00302959545a9ae423e99732b1e46eb19e877 |
|
08-Oct-2008 |
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> |
powerpc: Sync RPA note in zImage with kernel's RPA note
Commit 9b09c6d909dfd8de96b99b9b9c808b94b0a71614 ("powerpc: Change the
default link address for pSeries zImage kernels") changed the
real-base value in the CHRP note added by the addnote program from
12MB to 32MB to give more space for Open Firmware to load the zImage.
(The real-base value says where we want OF to position itself in
memory.) However, this change was ineffective on most pSeries
machines, because the RPA note added by addnote has the "ignore me"
flag set to 1. This was intended to tell OF to ignore just the RPA
note, but has the side effect of also making OF ignore the CHRP note
(at least on most pSeries machines).
To solve this we have to set the "ignore me" flag to 0 in the RPA
note. (We can't just omit the RPA note because that is equivalent to
having an RPA note with default values, and the default values are not
what we want.) However, then we have to make sure the values in the
zImage's RPA note match up with the values that the kernel supplies
later in prom_init.c with either the ibm,client-architecture-support
call or the process-elf-header call in prom_send_capabilities().
So this sets the "ignore me" flag in the RPA note in addnote to 0, and
adjusts the RPA note values in addnote.c and in prom_init.c to be
consistent with each other and with the values in ibm_architecture_vec.
However, since the wrapper is independent of the kernel, this doesn't
ensure that the notes will stay consistent. To ensure that, this adds
code to addnote.c so that it can extract the kernel's RPA note from
the kernel binary and put that in the zImage. To that end, we put the
kernel's fake ELF header (which contains the kernel's RPA note) into
its own section, and arrange for wrapper to pull out that section with
objcopy and pass it to addnote, which then extracts the RPA note from
it and transfers it to the zImage.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
|
| 549e8152de8039506f69c677a4546e5427aa6ae7 |
|
30-Aug-2008 |
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> |
powerpc: Make the 64-bit kernel as a position-independent executable
This implements CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for 64-bit by making the kernel as
a position-independent executable (PIE) when it is set. This involves
processing the dynamic relocations in the image in the early stages of
booting, even if the kernel is being run at the address it is linked at,
since the linker does not necessarily fill in words in the image for
which there are dynamic relocations. (In fact the linker does fill in
such words for 64-bit executables, though not for 32-bit executables,
so in principle we could avoid calling relocate() entirely when we're
running a 64-bit kernel at the linked address.)
The dynamic relocations are processed by a new function relocate(addr),
where the addr parameter is the virtual address where the image will be
run. In fact we call it twice; once before calling prom_init, and again
when starting the main kernel. This means that reloc_offset() returns
0 in prom_init (since it has been relocated to the address it is running
at), which necessitated a few adjustments.
This also changes __va and __pa to use an equivalent definition that is
simpler. With the relocatable kernel, PAGE_OFFSET and MEMORY_START are
constants (for 64-bit) whereas PHYSICAL_START is a variable (and
KERNELBASE ideally should be too, but isn't yet).
With this, relocatable kernels still copy themselves down to physical
address 0 and run there.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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| 303996dace16894710a5291327eeb79afdb8ed12 |
|
02-Sep-2008 |
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> |
powerpc: Make sure _etext is after all kernel text
This makes core_kernel_text() (and therefore kernel_text_address())
return the correct result. Currently all the __devinit routines (at
least) will not be considered to be kernel text.
This is just a quick fix for 2.6.27 - hopefully we will be able to fix
this better in 2.6.28.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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| 80c60bf9b96f6108c630d90efc073cd520801e6c |
|
25-Jul-2008 |
Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> |
powerpc: Fix compile error with binutils 2.15
My previous patch to fix compilation with binutils-2.17 causes
a "file truncated" build error from ld with binutils 2.15 (and
possibly older), and a warning with 2.16 and 2.17.
This fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Chuck Meade <chuckmeade@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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| c69cccc95fe4b90dde5fe33e6a3b77880b534fa4 |
|
22-Jul-2008 |
Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> |
powerpc: Fix build bug with binutils < 2.18 and GCC < 4.2
binutils < 2.18 has a bug that makes it misbehave when taking an
ELF file with all segments at load address 0 as input. This
happens when running "strip" on vmlinux, because of the AT() magic
in this linker script. People using GCC >= 4.2 won't run into
this problem, because the "build-id" support will put some data
into the "notes" segment (at a non-zero load address).
To work around this, we force some data into both the "dummy"
segment and the kernel segment, so the dummy segment will get a
non-zero load address. It's not enough to always create the
"notes" segment, since if nothing gets assigned to it, its load
address will be zero.
Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-By: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
|
| 2d1b2027626d5151fff8ef7c06ca8e7876a1a510 |
|
01-Jul-2008 |
Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> |
powerpc: Fixup lwsync at runtime
To allow for a single kernel image on e500 v1/v2/mc we need to fixup lwsync
at runtime. On e500v1/v2 lwsync causes an illop so we need to patch up
the code. We default to 'sync' since that is always safe and if the cpu
is capable we will replace 'sync' with 'lwsync'.
We introduce CPU_FTR_LWSYNC as a way to determine at runtime if this is
needed. This flag could be moved elsewhere since we dont really use it
for the normal CPU_FTR purpose.
Finally we only store the relative offset in the fixup section to keep it
as small as possible rather than using a full fixup_entry.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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| fac23fe4be23259a8eaa9bad822f5b14dd07d15c |
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24-Jun-2008 |
Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> |
powerpc: Introduce infrastructure for feature sections with alternatives
The current feature section logic only supports nop'ing out code, this means
if you want to choose at runtime between instruction sequences, one or both
cases will have to execute the nop'ed out contents of the other section, eg:
BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
or 1,1,1
END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(FOO)
BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
or 2,2,2
END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(FOO)
and the resulting code will be either,
or 1,1,1
nop
or,
nop
or 2,2,2
For small code segments this is fine, but for larger code blocks and in
performance criticial code segments, it would be nice to avoid the nops.
This commit starts to implement logic to allow the following:
BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
or 1,1,1
FTR_SECTION_ELSE
or 2,2,2
ALT_FTR_SECTION_END_IFSET(FOO)
and the resulting code will be:
or 1,1,1
or,
or 2,2,2
We achieve this by extending the existing FTR macros. The current feature
section semantic just becomes a special case, ie. if the else case is empty
we nop out the default case.
The key limitation is that the size of the else case must be less than or
equal to the size of the default case. If the else case is smaller the
remainder of the section is nop'ed.
We let the linker put the else case code in with the rest of the text,
so that relative branches from the else case are more likley to link,
this has the disadvantage that we can't free the unused else cases.
This commit introduces the required macro and linker script changes, but
does not enable the patching of the alternative sections.
We also need to update two hand-made section entries in reg.h and timex.h
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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| 6360b1fbb4a939efd34fc770c2ebd927c55506e0 |
|
12-May-2008 |
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> |
move BUG_TABLE into RODATA
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
|
| 366234f657879aeb7a1e2ca582f2f24f3fae9269 |
|
15-Apr-2008 |
Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> |
[POWERPC] Update linker script to properly set physical addresses
We can set LOAD_OFFSET and use the AT attribute on sections and the
linker will properly set the physical address of the LOAD program
header for us.
This allows us to know how the PHYSICAL_START the user configured a
kernel with by just looking at the resulting vmlinux ELF.
This is pretty much stolen from how x86 does things in their linker
scripts.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
|
| 4846c5deb9776a7306d0f656ade7505278ac39ba |
|
15-Apr-2008 |
Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> |
[POWERPC] Clean up some linker and symbol usage
* PAGE_OFFSET is not always the start of code, use _stext instead.
* grab PAGE_SIZE and KERNELBASE from asm/page.h like ppc64 does. Makes the
code a bit more common and provide a single place to manipulate the
defines for things like kdump.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
|
| 01ba2bdc6b639764745ff678caf3fb9e5bcd745a |
|
20-Jan-2008 |
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> |
all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h
This patch consolidate all definitions of .init.text, .init.data
and .exit.text, .exit.data section definitions in
the generic vmlinux.lds.h.
This is a preparational patch - alone it does not buy
us much good.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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| e95c91821fa56b489d7beb74103a419466c5ec10 |
|
04-Nov-2007 |
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> |
[POWERPC] Fix link errors for allyesconfig
An allyesconfig build creates a .text section that is so big that the
.text.init.refok and .fixup sections are too far away for the relocations
to be fixed up correctly. This patch fixes that by linking all the
relevent text sections for each file together.
Suggested by Paul Mackerras.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
|
| 748a768384e05c021ea6be221b80c62a83d7b520 |
|
13-Sep-2007 |
Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> |
[POWERPC] Fix modpost warnings from head*.S on ppc32
We get warnings like the following from the various ppc32 head*.S files:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x358): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:early_init (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x380): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:machine_init (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x384): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:MMU_init (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3aa): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_kernel (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x3ae): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_kernel (between 'skpinv' and 'interrupt_base')
Added a .text.head section simliar to what other architectures do since
modpost already excludes this from its warnings.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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| 8fb775ee582999ea45503f0c4e9393c2df065a81 |
|
19-Jul-2007 |
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> |
powerpc: Put allocated ELF notes in read-only data segment
This changes the powerpc linker script to use the asm-generic NOTES macro so
that ELF note sections with SHF_ALLOC set are linked into the kernel image
along with other read-only data. The PT_NOTE also points to their location.
This paves the way for putting useful build-time information into ELF notes
that can be found easily later in a kernel memory dump.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
|
| 5fb7dc37dc16fbc8b80d81318a582201ef7e280d |
|
19-Jul-2007 |
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> |
define new percpu interface for shared data
per cpu data section contains two types of data. One set which is
exclusively accessed by the local cpu and the other set which is per cpu,
but also shared by remote cpus. In the current kernel, these two sets are
not clearely separated out. This can potentially cause the same data
cacheline shared between the two sets of data, which will result in
unnecessary bouncing of the cacheline between cpus.
One way to fix the problem is to cacheline align the remotely accessed per
cpu data, both at the beginning and at the end. Because of the padding at
both ends, this will likely cause some memory wastage and also the
interface to achieve this is not clean.
This patch:
Moves the remotely accessed per cpu data (which is currently marked
as ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp) into a different section, where all the data
elements are cacheline aligned. And as such, this differentiates the local
only data and remotely accessed data cleanly.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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| 3ae0aa9f45c69055294b6514ddbb5bd07d2535c2 |
|
17-Jun-2007 |
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> |
powerpc: add missing DATA_DATA to powerpc
* Sam Ravnborg (sam@ravnborg.org) wrote:
> From your patch it looks like I originally missed out
> powerpc + xtensa when introducing DATA_DATA - would be nice if
> you could fix that.
>
> Sam
Add missing DATA_DATA in powerpc
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
--
arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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| bd67fcf9ba8474e8eef649a79aba5b3479b01272 |
|
04-Jul-2007 |
Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> |
[POWERPC] Add __read_mostly support for powerpc
Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
|
| 832a791c580a86cbeea5bb12a984d95b1f458539 |
|
22-May-2007 |
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> |
[POWERPC] Fix powerpc vmlinux.lds.S
Sam's recent change in 7664709b44a13e2e0b545e2dd8e7b8797a1748dc
broke things for us because we ended up with *(.text.*) before
*(.text), whereas previously *(.text) was first. This was
important because the start of the text section contains the
kernel entry point.
In fact, we don't need that *(.text.*) thing anymore and it
incorrectly matched .text.init.refok, thus putting it before
.text. .. ouch !
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
|
| ca967258b69eb65dcb07bbab90fdf964c6d2ec45 |
|
17-May-2007 |
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> |
all-archs: consolidate .data section definition in asm-generic
With this consolidation we can now modify the .data
section definition in one spot for all archs.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
|
| 7664709b44a13e2e0b545e2dd8e7b8797a1748dc |
|
13-May-2007 |
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> |
all-archs: consolidate .text section definition in asm-generic
Move definition of .text section to asm-generic.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
|
| b6e3590f8145c77b8fcef3247e2412335221412f |
|
02-May-2007 |
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> |
[PATCH] x86: Allow percpu variables to be page-aligned
Let's allow page-alignment in general for per-cpu data (wanted by Xen, and
Ingo suggested KVM as well).
Because larger alignments can use more room, we increase the max per-cpu
memory to 64k rather than 32k: it's getting a little tight.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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| 67d38229dfa64cf9a75f83746dde345f47bbd8dc |
|
10-Feb-2007 |
Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman@nxp.com> |
[PATCH] disable init/initramfs.c: architectures
Update all arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S to not include space for initramfs
when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRAMFS is not selected. This saves another 4 kbytes
on most platfoms (some reserve PAGE_SIZE for initramfs).
Signed-off-by: Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman@nxp.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
|
| 73c9ceab40b1269d6195e556773167c078ac8311 |
|
08-Dec-2006 |
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> |
[POWERPC] Generic BUG for powerpc
This makes powerpc use the generic BUG machinery. The biggest reports the
function name, since it is redundant with kallsyms, and not needed in general.
There is an overall reduction of code, since module_32/64 duplicated several
functions.
Unfortunately there's no way to tell gcc that BUG won't return, so the BUG
macro includes a goto loop. This will generate a real jmp instruction, which
is never used.
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[paulus@samba.org: remove infinite loop in BUG_ON]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickens <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
|
| fd593d12770d4a0d1ff095d44b96436c18479ee8 |
|
07-Dec-2006 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
[PATCH] relocatable kernel: Kallsyms generate relocatable symbols
Print the addresses of non-absolute symbols relative to _text
so that ld will generate relocations. Allowing a relocatable
kernel to relocate them. We can't actually use the symbol names
because kallsyms includes static symbols that are not exported
from their object files.
Add the _text symbol definitions to the architectures which don't
define it otherwise linker will fail.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
|
| 61ce1efe6e40233663d27ab8ac9ba9710eebcaad |
|
27-Oct-2006 |
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> |
[PATCH] vmlinux.lds: consolidate initcall sections
Add a vmlinux.lds.h helper macro for defining the eight-level initcall table,
teach all the architectures to use it.
This is a prerequisite for a patch which performs initcall synchronisation for
multithreaded-probing.
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
[ Added AVR32 as well ]
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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| 3f639ee8c52c187d8c95db430ac6f485bffbe5af |
|
25-Sep-2006 |
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> |
[POWERPC] implement BEGIN/END_FW_FTR_SECTION
and use it an all the obvious places in assembler code.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
|
| 6ab3d5624e172c553004ecc862bfeac16d9d68b7 |
|
30-Jun-2006 |
Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> |
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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| c4e3ea2553308ba65fea582dc9a42221ef8b49e5 |
|
19-May-2006 |
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> |
[PATCH] powerpc: make iSeries flattened device tree dynamic
First we capture all the strings from dt.c statically by noting that gcc
puts them in a special section of their own. Idea from Michael Ellerman.
Then we move the flattened device tree to klimit.
Still to come, making the values blob grow as needed.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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| e8222502ee6157e2713da9e0792c21f4ad458d50 |
|
28-Mar-2006 |
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> |
[PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbers
This removes statically assigned platform numbers and reworks the
powerpc platform probe code to use a better mechanism. With this,
board support files can simply declare a new machine type with a
macro, and implement a probe() function that uses the flattened
device-tree to detect if they apply for a given machine.
We now have a machine_is() macro that replaces the comparisons of
_machine with the various PLATFORM_* constants. This commit also
changes various drivers to use the new macro instead of looking at
_machine.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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| c51e3a417bb0f295e13a5bad86302b5212eafdf3 |
|
05-Nov-2005 |
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> |
powerpc: Fix vmlinux.lds.S for 32-bit
We can't currently use asm-ppc/page.h in vmlinux.lds.S, so until
we have a merged page.h, define PAGE_SIZE and KERNELBASE locally.
Also gets rid of some dynamic executable cruft that we had for
32-bit. With -Ttext=$(KERNELBASE) this didn't cause any problem,
but when we changed to putting . = KERNELBASE in the vmlinux.lds.S
this cruft caused the text to get linked at 0xa0 instead of
0xc0000000. Oops.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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| e19e4ab4154a831788365c07e7a10d9114bba46c |
|
03-Nov-2005 |
Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> |
powerpc: Set entry point and text address in linker script
Currently we set the kernel entry point and the address of the text
section in the Makefile, using CONFIG_KERNEL_START.
But we've already got <asm/page.h> in the linker script, so we can just
use KERNELBASE directly. That means if we ever change KERNELBASE there's
one less place to change it.
And we can set the entry point with ENTRY().
There are zero differences from "readelf -a vmlinux" with or without this
patch.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
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| 4a2885630bc0735e573bced7001dae9750cb80d5 |
|
10-Oct-2005 |
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> |
powerpc: Reduce the 32/64-bit diffs in vmlinux.lds.S
Also adds the definition of the _sdata symbol to the ppc64 vmlinux.lds.S.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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| c16ff7e44883afc05cbf6fde0e6913bb10c66885 |
|
06-Oct-2005 |
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> |
powerpc: Define a _sdata symbol
This is needed by arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c now.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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| cabb558714945e92000f627dda562aa5e86a31af |
|
30-Sep-2005 |
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> |
powerpc: make iSeries build
Merge vmlinux.lds.S.
Also remove arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds which is a
generated file.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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| 14cf11af6cf608eb8c23e989ddb17a715ddce109 |
|
26-Sep-2005 |
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> |
powerpc: Merge enough to start building in arch/powerpc.
This creates the directory structure under arch/powerpc and a bunch
of Kconfig files. It does a first-cut merge of arch/powerpc/mm,
arch/powerpc/lib and arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac. This is enough
to build a 32-bit powermac kernel with ARCH=powerpc.
For now we are getting some unmerged files from arch/ppc/kernel and
arch/ppc/syslib, or arch/ppc64/kernel. This makes some minor changes
to files in those directories and files outside arch/powerpc.
The boot directory is still not merged. That's going to be interesting.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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