kernel_optimize_test/arch/ppc/kernel
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 0909c8c2d5 [POWERPC] Support feature fixups in vdso's
This patch reworks the feature fixup mecanism so vdso's can be fixed up.
The main issue was that the construct:

        .long   label  (or .llong on 64 bits)

will not work in the case of a shared library like the vdso. It will
generate an empty placeholder in the fixup table along with a reloc,
which is not something we can deal with in the vdso.

The idea here (thanks Alan Modra !) is to instead use something like:

1:
        .long   label - 1b

That is, the feature fixup tables no longer contain addresses of bits of
code to patch, but offsets of such code from the fixup table entry
itself. That is properly resolved by ld when building the .so's. I've
modified the fixup mecanism generically to use that method for the rest
of the kernel as well.

Another trick is that the 32 bits vDSO included in the 64 bits kernel
need to have a table in the 64 bits format. However, gas does not
support 32 bits code with a statement of the form:

        .llong  label - 1b  (Or even just .llong label)

That is, it cannot emit the right fixup/relocation for the linker to use
to assign a 32 bits address to an .llong field. Thus, in the specific
case of the 32 bits vdso built as part of the 64 bits kernel, we are
using a modified macro that generates:

        .long   0xffffffff
        .llong  label - 1b

Note that is assumes that the value is negative which is enforced by
the .lds (those offsets are always negative as the .text is always
before the fixup table and gas doesn't support emiting the reloc the
other way around).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-10-25 11:54:07 +10:00
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asm-offsets.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
cpu_setup_power4.S Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
dma-mapping.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
entry.S Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
head_4xx.S Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
head_8xx.S Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
head_44x.S Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
head_booke.h [PATCH] ppc32: fix ppc44x fpu build 2005-11-10 11:24:06 +11:00
head_fsl_booke.S Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
head.S Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
machine_kexec.c Storage class should be first 2006-06-26 18:57:34 +02:00
Makefile powerpc: Don't compile in arch/ppc/kernel for 32-bit ARCH=powerpc 2006-03-27 20:17:06 +11:00
misc.S [POWERPC] Consolidate feature fixup code 2006-10-25 11:42:10 +10:00
pci.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
ppc_htab.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
ppc_ksyms.c [POWERPC] clean up ide io accessors 2006-09-20 14:06:18 +10:00
ppc-stub.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
relocate_kernel.S [PATCH] ppc32: use correct register names in arch/ppc/kernel/relocate_kernel.S 2005-06-30 08:45:09 -07:00
rio.c [PATCH] RapidIO support: ppc32 2005-11-07 07:53:47 -08:00
semaphore.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
setup.c [POWERPC] Support feature fixups in vdso's 2006-10-25 11:54:07 +10:00
smp-tbsync.c [POWERPC] Fix irq enable/disable in smp_generic_take_timebase 2006-08-30 16:10:47 +10:00
smp.c [POWERPC] ARCH=ppc pt_regs fixes 2006-10-10 11:55:25 +10:00
softemu8xx.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
time.c [POWERPC] ppc: Add missing calls to set_irq_regs 2006-10-16 15:52:14 +10:00
traps.c [PATCH] pidspace: is_init() 2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
vmlinux.lds.S [PATCH] vDSO hash-style fix 2006-07-31 13:28:43 -07:00