linux/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, branch v4.14

Merge tag 'for-linus-20170904' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd

2017-09-09T21:48:21Z

Pull MTD updates from Boris Brezillon: "General updates: - Constify pci_device_id in various drivers - Constify device_type - Remove pad control code from the Gemini driver - Use %pOF to print OF node full_name - Various fixes in the physmap_of driver - Remove unused vars in mtdswap - Check devm_kzalloc() return value in the spear_smi driver - Check clk_prepare_enable() return code in the st_spi_fsm driver - Create per MTD device debugfs enties NAND updates, from Boris Brezillon: - Fix memory leaks in the core - Remove unused NAND locking support - Rename nand.h into rawnand.h (preparing support for spi NANDs) - Use NAND_MAX_ID_LEN where appropriate - Fix support for 20nm Hynix chips - Fix support for Samsung and Hynix SLC NANDs - Various cleanup, improvements and fixes in the qcom driver - Fixes for bugs detected by various static code analysis tools - Fix mxc ooblayout definition - Add a new part_parsers to tmio and sharpsl platform data in order to define a custom list of partition parsers - Request the reset line in exclusive mode in the sunxi driver - Fix a build error in the orion-nand driver when compiled for ARMv4 - Allow 64-bit mvebu platforms to select the PXA3XX driver SPI NOR updates, from Cyrille Pitchen and Marek Vasut: - add support to the JEDEC JESD216B specification (SFDP tables). - add support to the Intel Denverton SPI flash controller. - fix error recovery for Spansion/Cypress SPI NOR memories. - fix 4-byte address management for the Aspeed SPI controller. - add support to some Microchip SST26 memory parts - remove unneeded pinctrl header Write a message for tag:" * tag 'for-linus-20170904' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (74 commits) mtd: nand: complain loudly when chip->bits_per_cell is not correctly initialized mtd: nand: make Samsung SLC NAND usable again mtd: nand: tmio: Register partitions using the parsers mfd: tmio: Add partition parsers platform data mtd: nand: sharpsl: Register partitions using the parsers mtd: nand: sharpsl: Add partition parsers platform data mtd: nand: qcom: Support for IPQ8074 QPIC NAND controller mtd: nand: qcom: support for IPQ4019 QPIC NAND controller dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: IPQ8074 QPIC NAND documentation dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: IPQ4019 QPIC NAND documentation dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: fix the ipq806x device tree example mtd: nand: qcom: support for different DEV_CMD register offsets mtd: nand: qcom: QPIC data descriptors handling mtd: nand: qcom: enable BAM or ADM mode mtd: nand: qcom: erased codeword detection configuration mtd: nand: qcom: support for read location registers mtd: nand: qcom: support for passing flags in DMA helper functions mtd: nand: qcom: add BAM DMA descriptor handling mtd: nand: qcom: allocate BAM transaction mtd: nand: qcom: DMA mapping support for register read buffer ...

Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2017-09-04T16:52:57Z

Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar: - Introduce the ORC unwinder, which can be enabled via CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y. The ORC unwinder is a lightweight, Linux kernel specific debuginfo implementation, which aims to be DWARF done right for unwinding. Objtool is used to generate the ORC unwinder tables during build, so the data format is flexible and kernel internal: there's no dependency on debuginfo created by an external toolchain. The ORC unwinder is almost two orders of magnitude faster than the (out of tree) DWARF unwinder - which is important for perf call graph profiling. It is also significantly simpler and is coded defensively: there has not been a single ORC related kernel crash so far, even with early versions. (knock on wood!) But the main advantage is that enabling the ORC unwinder allows CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS to be turned off - which speeds up the kernel measurably: With frame pointers disabled, GCC does not have to add frame pointer instrumentation code to every function in the kernel. The kernel's .text size decreases by about 3.2%, resulting in better cache utilization and fewer instructions executed, resulting in a broad kernel-wide speedup. Average speedup of system calls should be roughly in the 1-3% range - measurements by Mel Gorman [1] have shown a speedup of 5-10% for some function execution intense workloads. The main cost of the unwinder is that the unwinder data has to be stored in RAM: the memory cost is 2-4MB of RAM, depending on kernel config - which is a modest cost on modern x86 systems. Given how young the ORC unwinder code is it's not enabled by default - but given the performance advantages the plan is to eventually make it the default unwinder on x86. See Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt for more details. - Remove lguest support: its intended role was that of a temporary proof of concept for virtualization, plus its removal will enable the reduction (removal) of the paravirt API as well, so Rusty agreed to its removal. (Juergen Gross) - Clean up and fix FSGS related functionality (Andy Lutomirski) - Clean up IO access APIs (Andy Shevchenko) - Enhance the symbol namespace (Jiri Slaby) * 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits) objtool: Handle GCC stack pointer adjustment bug x86/entry/64: Use ENTRY() instead of ALIGN+GLOBAL for stub32_clone() x86/fpu/math-emu: Add ENDPROC to functions x86/boot/64: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_64() x86/boot/32: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_32() x86/lguest: Remove lguest support x86/paravirt/xen: Remove xen_patch() objtool: Fix objtool fallthrough detection with function padding x86/xen/64: Fix the reported SS and CS in SYSCALL objtool: Track DRAP separately from callee-saved registers objtool: Fix validate_branch() return codes x86: Clarify/fix no-op barriers for text_poke_bp() x86/switch_to/64: Rewrite FS/GS switching yet again to fix AMD CPUs selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test selectors 1, 2, and 3 x86/fsgsbase/64: Report FSBASE and GSBASE correctly in core dumps x86/fsgsbase/64: Fully initialize FS and GS state in start_thread_common x86/asm: Fix UNWIND_HINT_REGS macro for older binutils x86/asm/32: Fix regs_get_register() on segment registers x86/xen/64: Rearrange the SYSCALL entries x86/asm/32: Remove a bunch of '& 0xffff' from pt_regs segment reads ...

Merge tag 'v4.13-rc7' into mtd/next

2017-08-28T16:04:15Z

Merge v4.13-rc7 back to resolve merge conflicts in drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c and include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes

2017-08-25T09:01:05Z

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mtd: only use __xipram annotation when XIP_KERNEL is set

2017-08-15T12:00:44Z

When XIP_KERNEL is enabled, some functions are defined in the .data ELF section because we require them to be in RAM whenever we communicate with the flash chip. However this causes problems when FTRACE is enabled and gcc emits calls to __gnu_mcount_nc in the function prolog: drivers/built-in.o: In function `cfi_chip_setup': :(.data+0x272fc): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `__gnu_mcount_nc' defined in .text section in arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o drivers/built-in.o: In function `cfi_probe_chip': :(.data+0x27de8): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_CALL against symbol `__gnu_mcount_nc' defined in .text section in arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o /tmp/ccY172rP.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccY172rP.s:70: Warning: ignoring changed section attributes for .data /tmp/ccY172rP.s: Error: 1 warning, treating warnings as errors make[5]: *** [drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.o] Error 1 /tmp/ccK4rjeO.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccK4rjeO.s:421: Warning: ignoring changed section attributes for .data /tmp/ccK4rjeO.s: Error: 1 warning, treating warnings as errors make[5]: *** [drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_util.o] Error 1 /tmp/ccUvhCYR.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccUvhCYR.s:1895: Warning: ignoring changed section attributes for .data /tmp/ccUvhCYR.s: Error: 1 warning, treating warnings as errors Specifically, this does not work because the .data section is not marked executable, which leads LD to not generate trampolines for long calls. This moves the __xipram functions into their own .xiptext section instead. The section is still placed next to .data and located in RAM but is marked executable, which avoids the build errors. Also, we only need to place the XIP functions into a separate section if both CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL and CONFIG_MTD_XIP are set: When only MTD_XIP is used, the whole kernel is still in RAM and we do not need to worry about pulling out the rug under it. When only XIP_KERNEL but not MTD_XIP is set, the kernel is in some form of ROM, but we never write to it. Note that MTD_XIP has been broken on ARM since around 2011 or 2012. I have sent another patch[2] to fix compilation, which I plan to merge through arm-soc unless there are objections. The obvious alternative to that would be to completely rip out the MTD_XIP support from the kernel, since obviously nobody has been using it in a long while. Link: [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8109771/ Link: [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9855225/ Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon

irq: Make the irqentry text section unconditional

2017-08-10T14:28:53Z

Generate irqentry and softirqentry text sections without any Kconfig dependencies. This will add extra sections, but there should be no performace impact. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: David S . Miller Cc: Francis Deslauriers Cc: Jesper Nilsson Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Mikael Starvik Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Yoshinori Sato Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/150172789110.27216.3955739126693102122.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kbuild: linker script do not match C names unless LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION is configured

2017-08-09T15:57:42Z

The .data and .bss sections were modified in the generic linker script to pull in sections named .data., which are generated by gcc with -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections options. The problem with this pattern is it can also match section names that Linux defines explicitly, e.g., .data.unlikely. This can cause Linux sections to get moved into the wrong place. The way to avoid this is to use ".." separators for explicit section names (the dot character is valid in a section name but not a C identifier). However currently there are sections which don't follow this rule, so for now just disable the wild card by default. Example: http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=150106824024221&w=2 Cc: # 4.9 Fixes: b67067f1176df ("kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination") Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

x86/unwind: Add the ORC unwinder

2017-07-26T11:18:20Z

Add the new ORC unwinder which is enabled by CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y. It plugs into the existing x86 unwinder framework. It relies on objtool to generate the needed .orc_unwind and .orc_unwind_ip sections. For more details on why ORC is used instead of DWARF, see Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt - but the short version is that it's a simplified, fundamentally more robust debugninfo data structure, which also allows up to two orders of magnitude faster lookups than the DWARF unwinder - which matters to profiling workloads like perf. Thanks to Andy Lutomirski for the performance improvement ideas: splitting the ORC unwind table into two parallel arrays and creating a fast lookup table to search a subset of the unwind table. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a6cbfb40f8da99b7a45a1a8302dc6aef16ec812.1500938583.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com [ Extended the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'powerpc-4.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

2017-07-07T20:55:45Z

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Highlights include: - Support for STRICT_KERNEL_RWX on 64-bit server CPUs. - Platform support for FSP2 (476fpe) board - Enable ZONE_DEVICE on 64-bit server CPUs. - Generic & powerpc spin loop primitives to optimise busy waiting - Convert VDSO update function to use new update_vsyscall() interface - Optimisations to hypercall/syscall/context-switch paths - Improvements to the CPU idle code on Power8 and Power9. As well as many other fixes and improvements. Thanks to: Akshay Adiga, Andrew Donnellan, Andrew Jeffery, Anshuman Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter, Gautham R. Shenoy, Hari Bathini, Ian Munsie, Ivan Mikhaylov, Javier Martinez Canillas, Madhavan Srinivasan, Masahiro Yamada, Matt Brown, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pavel Machek, Russell Currey, Santosh Sivaraj, Stephen Rothwell, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Yang Li" * tag 'powerpc-4.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (158 commits) powerpc/Kconfig: Enable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX for some configs powerpc/mm/radix: Implement STRICT_RWX/mark_rodata_ro() for Radix powerpc/mm/hash: Implement mark_rodata_ro() for hash powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Align __init_begin to 16M powerpc/lib/code-patching: Use alternate map for patch_instruction() powerpc/xmon: Add patch_instruction() support for xmon powerpc/kprobes/optprobes: Use patch_instruction() powerpc/kprobes: Move kprobes over to patch_instruction() powerpc/mm/radix: Fix execute permissions for interrupt_vectors powerpc/pseries: Fix passing of pp0 in updatepp() and updateboltedpp() powerpc/64s: Blacklist rtas entry/exit from kprobes powerpc/64s: Blacklist functions invoked on a trap powerpc/64s: Un-blacklist system_call() from kprobes powerpc/64s: Move system_call() symbol to just after setting MSR_EE powerpc/64s: Blacklist system_call() and system_call_common() from kprobes powerpc/64s: Convert .L__replay_interrupt_return to a local label powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols cxl: Export library to support IBM XSL powerpc/dts: Use #include "..." to include local DT powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Aggregate result elements on POWER9 SMT8 ...

Merge tag 'trace-v4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2017-07-07T02:45:45Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "The new features of this release: - Added TRACE_DEFINE_SIZEOF() which allows trace events that use sizeof() it the TP_printk() to be converted to the actual size such that trace-cmd and perf can parse them correctly. - Some rework of the TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() such that the above TRACE_DEFINE_SIZEOF() could reuse the same code. - Recording of tgid (Thread Group ID). This is similar to how task COMMs are recorded (cached at sched_switch), where it is in a table and used on output of the trace and trace_pipe files. - Have ":mod:" be cached when written into set_ftrace_filter. Then the functions of the module will be traced at module load. - Some random clean ups and small fixes" * tag 'trace-v4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (26 commits) ftrace: Test for NULL iter->tr in regex for stack_trace_filter changes ftrace: Decrement count for dyn_ftrace_total_info for init functions ftrace: Unlock hash mutex on failed allocation in process_mod_list() tracing: Add support for display of tgid in trace output tracing: Add support for recording tgid of tasks ftrace: Decrement count for dyn_ftrace_total_info file ftrace: Remove unused function ftrace_arch_read_dyn_info() sh/ftrace: Remove only user of ftrace_arch_read_dyn_info() ftrace: Have cached module filters be an active filter ftrace: Implement cached modules tracing on module load ftrace: Have the cached module list show in set_ftrace_filter ftrace: Add :mod: caching infrastructure to trace_array tracing: Show address when function names are not found ftrace: Add missing comment for FTRACE_OPS_FL_RCU tracing: Rename update the enum_map file tracing: Add TRACE_DEFINE_SIZEOF() macros tracing: define TRACE_DEFINE_SIZEOF() macro to map sizeof's to their values tracing: Rename enum_replace to eval_replace trace: rename enum_map functions trace: rename trace.c enum functions ...