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Paul Bolle 395cf9691d doc: fix broken references
There are numerous broken references to Documentation files (in other
Documentation files, in comments, etc.). These broken references are
caused by typo's in the references, and by renames or removals of the
Documentation files. Some broken references are simply odd.

Fix these broken references, sometimes by dropping the irrelevant text
they were part of.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
Michal Marek 079f85e624 x86, build: Do not set the root_dev field in bzImage
This has been obsoleted by the root= commandline and the rdev utility
for many, many years.  People who still depend on this will surely
have a copy of the rdev utility around, the rest of the world gets rid
of another piece of buildhost-dependent data in the build. Thanks to
Paul Bolle for the build.c cleanup.

Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302607824-24699-1-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-05-25 12:46:05 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin 39b68976ac x86, setup: When probing memory with e801, use ax/bx as a pair
When we use BIOS function e801 to probe memory, we should use ax/bx
(or cx/dx) as a pair, not mix and match.  This was a typo during the
translation from assembly code, and breaks at least one set of
machines in the field (which return cx = dx = 0).

Reported-and-tested-by: Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org>
Fix-proposed-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303566747.12067.10.camel@localhost.localdomain
2011-04-25 14:52:37 -07:00
Daniel J Blueman 6670e9cdaf x86, build: Make sure mkpiggy fails on read error
Ensure build doesn't silently continue despite read failure,
addressing a warning due to the unchecked call.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTimxxTMU3=4ry-_zbY6v1xiDi+hW9y1RegTr8vLK@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-03-01 16:32:03 -08:00
Lasse Collin 303148045a x86: support XZ-compressed kernel
This integrates the XZ decompression code to the x86 pre-boot code.

mkpiggy.c is updated to reserve about 32 KiB more buffer safety margin for
kernel decompression.  It is done unconditionally for all decompressors to
keep the code simpler.

The XZ decompressor needs around 30 KiB of heap, so the heap size is
increased to 32 KiB on both x86-32 and x86-64.

Documentation/x86/boot.txt is updated to list the XZ magic number.

With the x86 BCJ filter in XZ, XZ-compressed x86 kernel tends to be a few
percent smaller than the equivalent LZMA-compressed kernel.

Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:25 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 37d9a8c5ea Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Fix included-by file reference comments
  x86, cpu: Only CPU features determine NX capabilities
  x86, cpu: Call verify_cpu during 32bit CPU startup
  x86, cpu: Clear XD_DISABLED flag on Intel to regain NX
  x86, cpu: Rename verify_cpu_64.S to verify_cpu.S
2011-01-06 10:56:02 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin 147dd5610c x86-32: Make sure we can map all of lowmem if we need to
A relocatable kernel can be anywhere in lowmem -- and in the case of a
kdump kernel, is likely to be fairly high.  Since the early page
tables map everything from address zero up we need to make sure we
allocate enough brk that we can map all of lowmem if we need to.

Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4D0AD3ED.8070607@kernel.org>
2010-12-16 19:11:09 -08:00
Kees Cook c5cbac6942 x86, cpu: Rename verify_cpu_64.S to verify_cpu.S
The code is 32bit already, and can be used in 32bit routines.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
LKML-Reference: <1289414154-7829-2-git-send-email-kees.cook@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-11-10 15:42:42 -08:00
Zhao Yakui 68f4d5a00a x86, setup: Use string copy operation to optimze copy in kernel compression
The kernel decompression code parses the ELF header and then copies
the segment to the corresponding destination.  Currently it uses slow
byte-copy code.  This patch makes it use the string copy operations
instead.

In the test the copy performance can be improved very significantly after using
the string copy operation mechanism.
        1. The copy time can be reduced from 150ms to 20ms on one Atom machine
	2. The copy time can be reduced about 80% on another machine
		The time is reduced from 7ms to 1.5ms when using 32-bit kernel.
		The time is reduced from 10ms to 2ms when using 64-bit kernel.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1286502453-7043-1-git-send-email-yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-10-07 21:23:09 -07:00
Yinghai Lu 74b3c444a9 x86, setup: Fix earlyprintk=serial,0x3f8,115200
earlyprintk can take and I/O port, so we need to handle this case in
the setup code too, otherwise 0x3f8 will be treated as a baud rate.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4C7B05A6.4010801@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-09-21 10:18:33 -07:00
Yinghai Lu 83d9f65bda x86, setup: Fix earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200
Torsten reported that there is garbage output,
after commit 8fee13a48e (x86,
setup: enable early console output from the decompressor)

It turns out we missed the offset for that case.

Reported-by: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4C7B0578.8090807@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-09-21 10:18:14 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin 6238b47b58 x86, setup: move isdigit.h to ctype.h, header files on top.
It is a subset of <ctype.h> functionality, so name it ctype.h.  Also,
reorganize header files so #include statements are clustered near the
top as they should be.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C5752F2.8030206@kernel.org>
2010-08-02 21:07:20 -07:00
Yinghai Lu 8fee13a48e x86, setup: enable early console output from the decompressor
This enables the decompressor output to be seen on the serial console.
Most of the code is shared with the regular boot code.

We could add printf to the decompressor if needed, but currently there
is no sufficiently compelling user.

-v2: define BOOT_BOOT_H to avoid include boot.h
-v3: early_serial_base need to be static in misc.c ?
-v4: create seperate string.c printf.c cmdline.c early_serial_console.c
     after hpa's patch that allow global variables in compressed/misc stage
-v5: remove printf.c related

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-08-02 20:32:20 -07:00
Yinghai Lu f4ed2877b1 x86, setup: reorganize the early console setup
Separate early_serial_console from tty.c

This allows for reuse of
early_serial_console.c/string.c/printf.c/cmdline.c in boot/compressed/.

-v2: according to hpa, don't include string.c etc
-v3: compressed/misc.c must have early_serial_base as static, so move it back to tty.c
     for setup code

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4C568D2B.205@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-08-02 15:51:56 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin 22a57f5896 x86, setup: Allow global variables and functions in the decompressor
In order for global variables and functions to work in the
decompressor, we need to fix up the GOT in assembly code.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C57382E.8050501@zytor.com>
2010-08-02 15:34:44 -07:00
Yinghai Lu 70b0d22d58 x86, setup: Only set early_serial_base after port is initialized
putchar is using early_serial_base to check if port is initialized.

So we only assign it after early_serial_init() is called,
in case we need use VGA to debug early serial console.

Also add display for port addr and baud.

-v2: update to current tip

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4C3E0171.6050008@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-07-14 12:07:16 -07:00
Yinghai Lu ce0aa5dd20 x86, setup: Make the setup code also accept console=uart8250
Make the boot code also accept the console=uart8250,io,0x2f8,115200n
form of early console.

Also add back simple_guess_base(), otherwise those simple_strtoull(,,0)
are not going to work.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4C3CCE05.4090505@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-07-13 14:08:12 -07:00
Pekka Enberg fa97bdf927 x86, setup: Early-boot serial I/O support
This patch adds serial I/O support to the real-mode setup (very early
boot) printf(). It's useful for debugging boot code when running Linux
under KVM, for example. The actual code was lifted from early printk.

Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <1278835617-11368-1-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-07-12 14:46:00 -07:00
Andi Kleen cf3bdc29fc x86, setup: Set ax register in boot vga query
Catch missing conversion to the register structure "glove box" scheme.

Found by gcc 4.6's new warnings.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100610111040.F1781B1A2B@basil.firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-06-10 15:24:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1f73897861 Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild
* 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (81 commits)
  kbuild: Revert part of e8d400a to resolve a conflict
  kbuild: Fix checking of scm-identifier variable
  gconfig: add support to show hidden options that have prompts
  menuconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts
  gconfig: remove show_debug option
  gconfig: remove dbg_print_ptype() and dbg_print_stype()
  kconfig: fix zconfdump()
  kconfig: some small fixes
  add random binaries to .gitignore
  kbuild: Include gen_initramfs_list.sh and the file list in the .d file
  kconfig: recalc symbol value before showing search results
  .gitignore: ignore *.lzo files
  headerdep: perlcritic warning
  scripts/Makefile.lib: Align the output of LZO
  kbuild: Generate modules.builtin in make modules_install
  Revert "kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope"
  kbuild: Do not unnecessarily regenerate modules.builtin
  headers_install: use local file handles
  headers_check: fix perl warnings
  export_report: fix perl warnings
  ...
2010-06-01 08:55:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 13da9e200f Revert "endian: #define __BYTE_ORDER"
This reverts commit b3b77c8cae, which was
also totally broken (see commit 0d2daf5cc8 that reverted the crc32
version of it).  As reported by Stephen Rothwell, it causes problems on
big-endian machines:

> In file included from fs/jfs/jfs_types.h:33,
>                  from fs/jfs/jfs_incore.h:26,
>                  from fs/jfs/file.c:22:
> fs/jfs/endian24.h:36:101: warning: "__LITTLE_ENDIAN" is not defined

The kernel has never had that crazy "__BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN"
model.  It's not how we do things, and it isn't how we _should_ do
things.  So don't go there.

Requested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26 08:30:15 -07:00
Joakim Tjernlund b3b77c8cae endian: #define __BYTE_ORDER
Linux does not define __BYTE_ORDER in its endian header files which makes
some header files bend backwards to get at the current endian.  Lets
#define __BYTE_ORDER in big_endian.h/litte_endian.h to make it easier for
header files that are used in user space too.

In userspace the convention is that

  1. _both_ __LITTLE_ENDIAN and __BIG_ENDIAN are defined,
  2. you have to test for e.g. __BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN.

Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:07:02 -07:00
Denys Vlasenko 041d5f94c4 Rename .rodata.compressed to .rodata..compressed.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-03-03 11:26:00 +01:00
Linus Torvalds f6a0b5cd34 Merge branch 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, setup: Don't skip mode setting for the standard VGA modes
  x86-64, setup: Inhibit decompressor output if video info is invalid
  x86, setup: When restoring the screen, update boot_params.screen_info
2010-02-28 10:43:53 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 85fe20bfd4 Merge branch 'x86-io-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-io-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Merge io.h
  x86: Simplify flush_write_buffers()
  x86: Clean up mem*io functions.
  x86-64: Use BUILDIO in io_64.h
  x86-64: Reorganize io_64.h
  x86-32: Remove _local variants of in/out from io_32.h
  x86-32: Move XQUAD definitions to numaq.h
2010-02-28 10:37:40 -08:00