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  1. 11 Jan, 2007 8 commits
    • Vivek Goyal's avatar
      [PATCH] x86-64: Modpost whitelist reference to more symbols (pattern 3) · ee6a8545
      Vivek Goyal authored 
      o MODPOST generates warning on i386 if kernel is compiled with
  CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.

WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__init_begin from .text between 'free_initmem' (at offset 0xc0114fd3) and 'do_test_wp_bit'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_sinittext from .text between 'core_kernel_text' (at offset 0xc012aeae) and 'kernel_text_address'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_einittext from .text between 'core_kernel_text' (at offset 0xc012aeb7) and 'kernel_text_address'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_sinittext from .text between 'get_symbol_pos' (at offset 0xc0135776) and 'reset_iter'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_einittext from .text between 'get_symbol_pos' (at offset 0xc013577d) and 'reset_iter'

o These symbols (__init_begin, _sinittext, _einittext) belong to init
  section and generally represent a section boundary. These are special
  symbols in the sense that their size is zero and no memory is allocated
  for them in init section. Their addr and value are same. So even if
  we free the init section, it is ok to reference them.

o Whitelist access to such select symbols in MODPOST.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      ee6a8545
    • Vivek Goyal's avatar
      [PATCH] x86-64: modpost add more symbols to whitelist pattern2 · 118c0ace
      Vivek Goyal authored 
      o MODPOST generates warning for i386 if compiled with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
  and serial console support is enabled.

o Serial console setup function, serial8250_console_setup(), is a non __init
  function and it calls functions which are of type __init().
  (uart_parse_options() and uart_set_options()). Assuming, setup will
  be called during init time, changing serial8250_console_setup() to __init.

o Adding one more pattern to modpost whitelist. Console drivers might
  have *_console structures containing references to setup functions which
  can be of __init type. Don't generate warnings for those.

WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'serial8250_console' (at offset 0xc05a33d8) and 'serial8250_reg'
Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      118c0ace
    • Vivek Goyal's avatar
      [PATCH] i386: make apic probe function non-init · e96763d6
      Vivek Goyal authored 
      o struct genapic contains pointer to probe() function which is of type
  __init. Hence MODPOST generates warning if kernel is compiled with
  CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y for i386.

WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'apic_summit' (at offset 0xc058b504) and 'apic_bigsmp'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'apic_bigsmp' (at offset 0xc058b5a4) and 'cpu.4471'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'apic_es7000' (at offset 0xc058b644) and 'apic_default'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'apic_default' (at offset 0xc058b6e4) and 'interrupt'

o One of the possible options is to put special case check in MODPOST to
  not emit warnings for this case but I think it is not a very good option
  in terms of maintenance.

o Another option is to make probe() function non __init. Anyway this function
  is really small so not freeing this memory after init is not a big deal.
  Secondly, from a programming perspective, probably genapic should not
  provide pointers to functions which have been freed as genapic is non
  __init and is used even after initialization is complete.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      e96763d6
    • Vivek Goyal's avatar
      [PATCH] i386: cpu hotplug/smpboot misc MODPOST warning fixes · 4a5d107a
      Vivek Goyal authored 
      o Misc smpboot/cpu hotplug path cleanups. I did those to supress the
  warnings generated by MODPOST. These warnings are visible only
  if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.

o CONFIG_RELOCATABLE compiles the kernel with --emit-relocs option. This
  option retains relocation information in vmlinux file and MODPOST
  is quick to spit out "Section mismatch" warnings.

o This patch fixes some of those warnings. Many of the functions in
  smpboot case are __devinit type and they in turn accesses text/data which
  if of type __cpuinit. Now if CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n
  then we end up in cases where a function in .text segment is calling
  another function in .init.text segment and MODPOST emits warning.

WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:identify_cpu from .text between 'smp_store_cpu_info' (at offset 0xc011020d) and 'do_boot_cpu'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:init_gdt from .text between 'do_boot_cpu' (at offset 0xc01102ca) and '__cpu_up'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:print_cpu_info from .text between 'do_boot_cpu' (at offset 0xc01105d0) and '__cpu_up'

o It also fixes the issues where CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y and start_secondary()
  is calling smp_callin() which in-turn calls synchronize_tsc_ap() which is
  of type __init. This should have meant broken CPU hotplug.

WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between 'start_secondary' (at offset 0xc011603f) and 'initialize_secondary'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between 'MP_processor_info' (at offset 0xc0116a4f) and 'mp_register_lapic'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between 'MP_processor_info' (at offset 0xc0116a4f) and 'mp_register_lapic'
Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      4a5d107a
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      [PATCH] x86-64: Use different constraint for gcc < 4.1 in bitops.h · 24420760
      Andi Kleen authored 
      +m is really correct for a RMW instruction, but some older gccs
error out. I finally gave in and ifdefed it.

This fixes compilation errors with some compiler version.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      24420760
    • Vivek Goyal's avatar
      [PATCH] x86-64: Make noirqdebug_setup function non init to fix modpost warning · 343cde51
      Vivek Goyal authored 
      o noirqdebug_setup() is __init but it is being called by
  quirk_intel_irqbalance() which if of type __devinit. If CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y,
  quirk_intel_irqbalance() is put into text section and it is wrong to
  call a function in __init section.

o MODPOST flags this on i386 if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y

WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:noirqdebug_setup from .text between 'quirk_intel_irqbalance' (at offset 0xc010969e) and 'i8237A_suspend'

o Make noirqdebug_setup() non-init.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      343cde51
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      [PATCH] i386: Update defconfig · 7c8809ae
      Andi Kleen authored 
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      7c8809ae
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      [PATCH] x86-64: Update defconfig · 03c3cc61
      Andi Kleen authored 
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      03c3cc61
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