linux/arch/arm/kernel/module.c, branch v4.9

ARM: 8518/1: Use correct symbols for XIP_KERNEL

2016-02-11T15:43:14Z

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 Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8220/1: allow modules outside of bl range

2015-05-08T09:42:34Z

Loading modules far away from the kernel in memory is problematic because the 'bl' instruction only has limited reach, and modules are not built with PLTs. Instead of using the -mlong-calls option (which affects all compiler emitted bl instructions, but not the ones in assembler), this patch allocates some additional space at module load time, and populates it with PLT like veneers when encountering relocations that are out of range. This should work with all relocations against symbols exported by the kernel, including those resulting from GCC generated implicit function calls for ftrace etc. The module memory size increases by about 5% on average, regardless of whether any PLT entries were actually needed. However, due to the page based rounding that occurs when allocating module memory, the average memory footprint increase is negligible. Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8219/1: handle interworking and out-of-range relocations separately

2015-02-23T14:43:58Z

Currently, interworking calls on module boundaries are not supported, and are handled by the same error handling code path as non-interworking calls whose targets are simply out of range. Before modifying the handling of those out-of-range jump and call relocations in a subsequent patch, move the handling of interworking restrictions out of it. Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Russell King

mm: vmalloc: pass additional vm_flags to __vmalloc_node_range()

2015-02-14T05:21:42Z

For instrumenting global variables KASan will shadow memory backing memory for modules. So on module loading we will need to allocate memory for shadow and map it at address in shadow that corresponds to the address allocated in module_alloc(). __vmalloc_node_range() could be used for this purpose, except it puts a guard hole after allocated area. Guard hole in shadow memory should be a problem because at some future point we might need to have a shadow memory at address occupied by guard hole. So we could fail to allocate shadow for module_alloc(). Now we have VM_NO_GUARD flag disabling guard page, so we need to pass into __vmalloc_node_range(). Add new parameter 'vm_flags' to __vmalloc_node_range() function. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Konstantin Serebryany Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Yuri Gribov Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ARM: convert printk(KERN_* to pr_*

2014-11-21T15:24:50Z

Convert many (but not all) printk(KERN_* to pr_* to simplify the code. We take the opportunity to join some printk lines together so we don't split the message across several lines, and we also add a few levels to some messages which were previously missing them. Tested-by: Andrew Lunn Tested-by: Felipe Balbi Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8127/1: module: add support for R_ARM_TARGET1 relocations

2014-08-27T14:40:11Z

Kernel module build with GCOV profiling fails to load with the following error: $ insmod test_module.ko test_module: unknown relocation: 38 insmod: can't insert 'test_module.ko': invalid module format This happens because constructor pointers in the .init_array section have not supported R_ARM_TARGET1 relocation type. Documentation (ELF for the ARM Architecture) says: "The relocation must be processed either in the same way as R_ARM_REL32 or as R_ARM_ABS32: a virtual platform must specify which method is used." Since kernel expects to see absolute addresses in .init_array R_ARM_TARGET1 relocation type should be treated the same way as R_ARM_ABS32. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin Signed-off-by: Russell King

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm

2013-11-13T23:51:29Z

Pull ARM updates from Russell King: "Included in this series are: 1. BE8 (modern big endian) changes for ARM from Ben Dooks 2. big.Little support from Nicolas Pitre and Dave Martin 3. support for LPAE systems with all system memory above 4GB 4. Perf updates from Will Deacon 5. Additional prefetching and other performance improvements from Will. 6. Neon-optimised AES implementation fro Ard. 7. A number of smaller fixes scattered around the place. There is a rather horrid merge conflict in tools/perf - I was never notified of the conflict because it originally occurred between Will's tree and other stuff. Consequently I have a resolution which Will forwarded me, which I'll forward on immediately after sending this mail. The other notable thing is I'm expecting some build breakage in the crypto stuff on ARM only with Ard's AES patches. These were merged into a stable git branch which others had already pulled, so there's little I can do about this. The problem is caused because these patches have a dependency on some code in the crypto git tree - I tried requesting a branch I can pull to resolve these, and all I got each time from the crypto people was "we'll revert our patches then" which would only make things worse since I still don't have the dependent patches. I've no idea what's going on there or how to resolve that, and since I can't split these patches from the rest of this pull request, I'm rather stuck with pushing this as-is or reverting Ard's patches. Since it should "come out in the wash" I've left them in - the only build problems they seem to cause at the moment are with randconfigs, and since it's a new feature anyway. However, if by -rc1 the dependencies aren't in, I think it'd be best to revert Ard's patches" I resolved the perf conflict roughly as per the patch sent by Russell, but there may be some differences. Any errors are likely mine. Let's see how the crypto issues work out.. * 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (110 commits) ARM: 7868/1: arm/arm64: remove atomic_clear_mask() in "include/asm/atomic.h" ARM: 7867/1: include: asm: use 'int' instead of 'unsigned long' for 'oldval' in atomic_cmpxchg(). ARM: 7866/1: include: asm: use 'long long' instead of 'u64' within atomic.h ARM: 7871/1: amba: Extend number of IRQS ARM: 7887/1: Don't smp_cross_call() on UP devices in arch_irq_work_raise() ARM: 7872/1: Support arch_irq_work_raise() via self IPIs ARM: 7880/1: Clear the IT state independent of the Thumb-2 mode ARM: 7878/1: nommu: Implement dummy early_paging_init() ARM: 7876/1: clear Thumb-2 IT state on exception handling ARM: 7874/2: bL_switcher: Remove cpu_hotplug_driver_{lock,unlock}() ARM: footbridge: fix build warnings for netwinder ARM: 7873/1: vfp: clear vfp_current_hw_state for dying cpu ARM: fix misplaced arch_virt_to_idmap() ARM: 7848/1: mcpm: Implement cpu_kill() to synchronise on powerdown ARM: 7847/1: mcpm: Factor out logical-to-physical CPU translation ARM: 7869/1: remove unused XSCALE_PMU Kconfig param ARM: 7864/1: Handle 64-bit memory in case of 32-bit phys_addr_t ARM: 7863/1: Let arm_add_memory() always use 64-bit arguments ARM: 7862/1: pcpu: replace __get_cpu_var_uses ARM: 7861/1: cacheflush: consolidate single-CPU ARMv7 cache disabling code ...

mm/arch: use NUMA_NO_NODE

2013-11-13T03:09:05Z

Use more appropriate NUMA_NO_NODE instead of -1 in all archs' module_alloc() Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ARM: module: correctly relocate instructions in BE8

2013-10-19T19:46:35Z

When in BE8 mode, our instructions are not in the same ordering as the data, so use to take this into account. Note, also requires modules to be built --be8 Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks Reviewed-by: Dave Martin

ARM: 7829/1: Add ".text.unlikely" and ".text.hot" to arm unwind tables

2013-09-02T12:49:47Z

It appears that gcc may put some code in ".text.unlikely" or ".text.hot" sections. Right now those aren't accounted for in unwind tables. Add them. I found some docs about this at: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.6.2/gcc.pdf Without this, if you have slub_debug turned on, you can get messages that look like this: unwind: Index not found 7f008c50 Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson Acked-by: Mike Frysinger Signed-off-by: Russell King