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2013-01-10powerpc: Relocate prom_init.c on 64bitAnton Blanchard1-0/+3
The ppc64 kernel can get loaded at any address which means our very early init code in prom_init.c must be relocatable. We do this with a pretty nasty RELOC() macro that we wrap accesses of variables with. It is very fragile and sometimes we forget to add a RELOC() to an uncommon path or sometimes a compiler change breaks it. 32bit has a much more elegant solution where we build prom_init.c with -mrelocatable and then process the relocations manually. Unfortunately we can't do the equivalent on 64bit and we would have to build the entire kernel relocatable (-pie), resulting in a large increase in kernel footprint (megabytes of relocation data). The relocation data will be marked __initdata but it still creates more pressure on our already tight memory layout at boot. Alan Modra pointed out that the 64bit ABI is relocatable even if we don't build with -pie, we just need to relocate the TOC. This patch implements that idea and relocates the TOC entries of prom_init.c. An added bonus is there are very few relocations to process which helps keep boot times on simulators down. gcc does not put 64bit integer constants into the TOC but to be safe we may want a build time script which passes through the prom_init.c TOC entries to make sure everything looks reasonable. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-11-16powerpc: Copy down exception vectors after feature fixupsAnton Blanchard1-1/+1
kdump fails because we try to execute an HV only instruction. Feature fixups are being applied after we copy the exception vectors down to 0 so they miss out on any updates. We have always had this issue but it only became critical in v3.0 when we added CFAR support (breaks POWER5) and v3.1 when we added POWERNV (breaks everyone). Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [v3.0+] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-10-15Merge commit 'origin'Benjamin Herrenschmidt1-1/+11
Manual fixup of conflicts on: arch/powerpc/include/asm/dcr-regs.h drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.h
2008-09-17Fix compile failure with non modular buildsJames Bottomley1-1/+11
Commit deac93df26b20cf8438339b5935b5f5643bc30c9 ("lib: Correct printk %pF to work on all architectures") broke the non modular builds by moving an essential function into modules.c. Fix this by moving it out again and into asm/sections.h as an inline. To do this, the definition of struct ppc64_opd_entry has been lifted out of modules.c and put in asm/elf.h where it belongs. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-09-15powerpc: Make the 64-bit kernel as a position-independent executablePaul Mackerras1-0/+6
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>
2008-09-09lib: Correct printk %pF to work on all architecturesJames Bottomley1-0/+3
It was introduced by "vsprintf: add support for '%pS' and '%pF' pointer formats" in commit 0fe1ef24f7bd0020f29ffe287dfdb9ead33ca0b2. However, the current way its coded doesn't work on parisc64. For two reasons: 1) parisc isn't in the #ifdef and 2) parisc has a different format for function descriptors Make dereference_function_descriptor() more accommodating by allowing architecture overrides. I put the three overrides (for parisc64, ppc64 and ia64) in arch/kernel/module.c because that's where the kernel internal linker which knows how to deal with function descriptors sits. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-04powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asmStephen Rothwell1-0/+22
from include/asm-powerpc. This is the result of a mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly. Of the latter only one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>