Impact: Allow 64 bit PowerPC to trace modules with dynamic ftrace
This adds code to handle the PPC64 module trampolines, and allows for
PPC64 to use dynamic ftrace.
Thanks to Paul Mackerras for these updates:
- fix the mod and rec->arch.mod NULL checks.
- fix to is_bl_op compare.
Thanks to Milton Miller for:
- finding the nasty race with using two nops, and recommending
instead that I use a branch 8 forward.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Commit deac93df26 ("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>
It was introduced by "vsprintf: add support for '%pS' and '%pF' pointer
formats" in commit 0fe1ef24f7. 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>
A bunch of code has hard-coded the value for a "nop" instruction, it
would be nice to have a #define for it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Refactor common code between ppc32 and ppc64 module handling into a
shared filed.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
When a module has relocation sections with tens of thousands of
entries, counting the distinct/unique entries only (i.e. no
duplicates) at load time can take tens of seconds and up to minutes.
The sore point is the count_relocs() function which is called as part
of the architecture specific module loading processing path:
-> load_module() generic
-> module_frob_arch_sections() arch specific
-> get_plt_size() 32-bit
-> get_stubs_size() 64-bit
-> count_relocs()
Here count_relocs is being called to find out how many distinct
targets of R_PPC_REL24 relocations there are, since each distinct
target needs a PLT entry or a stub created for it.
The previous counting algorithm has O(n^2) complexity. Basically two
solutions were proposed on the e-mail list: a hash based approach and
a sort based approach.
The hash based approach is the fastest (O(n)) but the has it needs
additional memory and for certain corner cases it could take lots of
memory due to the degeneration of the hash. One such proposal was
submitted here:
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-June/037641.html
The sort based approach is slower (O(n * log n + n)) but if the
sorting is done "in place" it doesn't need additional memory.
This has O(n + n * log n) complexity with no additional memory
requirements.
This commit implements the in-place sort option.
Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This makes powerpc use the generic BUG machinery. The biggest reports the
function name, since it is redundant with kallsyms, and not needed in general.
There is an overall reduction of code, since module_32/64 duplicated several
functions.
Unfortunately there's no way to tell gcc that BUG won't return, so the BUG
macro includes a goto loop. This will generate a real jmp instruction, which
is never used.
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[paulus@samba.org: remove infinite loop in BUG_ON]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickens <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This patch adds support for feature fixups in modules. This involves
adding support for R_PPC64_REL64 relocs to the 64 bits module loader.
It also modifies modpost.c to ignore the powerpc fixup sections (or it
would warn when used in .init.text).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Normally, ppc64 module .ko files contain a table-of-contents (.toc)
section, but if the module doesn't reference any static or external
data or external procedures, it is possible for gcc/binutils to
generate a .ko that doesn't have a .toc. Currently the module
loader refuses to load such a module, since it needs the address
of the .toc section to use in relocations.
This patch fixes the problem by using the address of the .stubs
section instead, which is an acceptable substitute in this situation.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Also deletes files in arch/ppc64 that are no longer used now that
we don't compile with ARCH=ppc64 any more.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Newer gcc's are generating this relocation, so the module loader needs to
handle it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Steven Rostedt