Skip to content
Snippets Groups Projects
  1. May 06, 2014
  2. Mar 04, 2014
    • Matt Fleming's avatar
      x86/efi: Firmware agnostic handover entry points · b8ff87a6
      Matt Fleming authored
      
      The EFI handover code only works if the "bitness" of the firmware and
      the kernel match, i.e. 64-bit firmware and 64-bit kernel - it is not
      possible to mix the two. This goes against the tradition that a 32-bit
      kernel can be loaded on a 64-bit BIOS platform without having to do
      anything special in the boot loader. Linux distributions, for one thing,
      regularly run only 32-bit kernels on their live media.
      
      Despite having only one 'handover_offset' field in the kernel header,
      EFI boot loaders use two separate entry points to enter the kernel based
      on the architecture the boot loader was compiled for,
      
          (1) 32-bit loader: handover_offset
          (2) 64-bit loader: handover_offset + 512
      
      Since we already have two entry points, we can leverage them to infer
      the bitness of the firmware we're running on, without requiring any boot
      loader modifications, by making (1) and (2) valid entry points for both
      CONFIG_X86_32 and CONFIG_X86_64 kernels.
      
      To be clear, a 32-bit boot loader will always use (1) and a 64-bit boot
      loader will always use (2). It's just that, if a single kernel image
      supports (1) and (2) that image can be used with both 32-bit and 64-bit
      boot loaders, and hence both 32-bit and 64-bit EFI.
      
      (1) and (2) must be 512 bytes apart at all times, but that is already
      part of the boot ABI and we could never change that delta without
      breaking existing boot loaders anyhow.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
      b8ff87a6
  3. Jan 22, 2014
  4. Dec 10, 2013
    • H. Peter Anvin's avatar
      x86, build: Pass in additional -mno-mmx, -mno-sse options · 8b3b005d
      H. Peter Anvin authored
      
      In checkin
      
          5551a34e x86-64, build: Always pass in -mno-sse
      
      we unconditionally added -mno-sse to the main build, to keep newer
      compilers from generating SSE instructions from autovectorization.
      However, this did not extend to the special environments
      (arch/x86/boot, arch/x86/boot/compressed, and arch/x86/realmode/rm).
      Add -mno-sse to the compiler command line for these environments, and
      add -mno-mmx to all the environments as well, as we don't want a
      compiler to generate MMX code either.
      
      This patch also removes a $(cc-option) call for -m32, since we have
      long since stopped supporting compilers too old for the -m32 option,
      and in fact hardcode it in other places in the Makefiles.
      
      Reported-by: default avatarKevin B. Smith <kevin.b.smith@intel.com>
      Cc: Sunil K. Pandey <sunil.k.pandey@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: H. J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-j21wzqv790q834n7yc6g80j1@git.kernel.org
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # build fix only
      8b3b005d
  5. Oct 13, 2013
  6. Sep 26, 2013
  7. Jan 28, 2013
    • David Woodhouse's avatar
      x86, build: Dynamically find entry points in compressed startup code · 99f857db
      David Woodhouse authored
      
      We have historically hard-coded entry points in head.S just so it's easy
      to build the executable/bzImage headers with references to them.
      
      Unfortunately, this leads to boot loaders abusing these "known" addresses
      even when they are *explicitly* told that they "should look at the ELF
      header to find this address, as it may change in the future". And even
      when the address in question *has* actually been changed in the past,
      without fanfare or thought to compatibility.
      
      Thus we have bootloaders doing stunningly broken things like jumping
      to offset 0x200 in the kernel startup code in 64-bit mode, *hoping*
      that startup_64 is still there (it has moved at least once
      before). And hoping that it's actually a 64-bit kernel despite the
      fact that we don't give them any indication of that fact.
      
      This patch should hopefully remove the temptation to abuse internal
      addresses in future, where sternly worded comments have not sufficed.
      Instead of having hard-coded addresses and saying "please don't abuse
      these", we actually pull the addresses out of the ELF payload into
      zoffset.h, and make build.c shove them back into the right places in
      the bzImage header.
      
      Rather than including zoffset.h into build.c and thus having to rebuild
      the tool for every kernel build, we parse it instead. The parsing code
      is small and simple.
      
      This patch doesn't actually move any of the interesting entry points, so
      any offending bootloader will still continue to "work" after this patch
      is applied. For some version of "work" which includes jumping into the
      compressed payload and crashing, if the bzImage it's given is a 32-bit
      kernel. No change there then.
      
      [ hpa: some of the issues in the description are addressed or
        retconned by the 2.12 boot protocol.  This patch has been edited to
        only remove fixed addresses that were *not* thus retconned. ]
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358513837.2397.247.camel@shinybook.infradead.org
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
      99f857db
  8. Oct 14, 2012
    • Matt Fleming's avatar
      x86, boot: Explicitly include autoconf.h for hostprogs · b6eea87f
      Matt Fleming authored
      
      The hostprogs need access to the CONFIG_* symbols found in
      include/generated/autoconf.h.  But commit abbf1590 ("UAPI: Partition
      the header include path sets and add uapi/ header directories") replaced
      $(LINUXINCLUDE) with $(USERINCLUDE) which doesn't contain the necessary
      include paths.
      
      This has the undesirable effect of breaking the EFI boot stub because
      the #ifdef CONFIG_EFI_STUB code in arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c is
      never compiled.
      
      It should also be noted that because $(USERINCLUDE) isn't exported by
      the top-level Makefile it's actually empty in arch/x86/boot/Makefile.
      
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b6eea87f
  9. Oct 02, 2012
  10. Aug 11, 2012
  11. Mar 22, 2012
  12. Feb 28, 2012
  13. May 25, 2011
  14. Aug 03, 2010
  15. Jun 18, 2009
    • Peter Oberparleiter's avatar
      gcov: enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL for x86_64 · 7bf99fb6
      Peter Oberparleiter authored
      
      Enable gcov profiling of the entire kernel on x86_64. Required changes
      include disabling profiling for:
      
      * arch/kernel/acpi/realmode and arch/kernel/boot/compressed:
        not linked to main kernel
      * arch/vdso, arch/kernel/vsyscall_64 and arch/kernel/hpet:
        profiling causes segfaults during boot (incompatible context)
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>
      Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
      Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7bf99fb6
  16. May 20, 2009
  17. May 11, 2009
  18. Apr 10, 2009
    • H. Peter Anvin's avatar
      x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS calls -- infrastructure · 7a734e7d
      H. Peter Anvin authored
      
      Impact: new interfaces (not yet used)
      
      For all the platforms out there, there is an infinite number of buggy
      BIOSes.  This adds infrastructure to treat BIOS interrupts more like
      toxic waste and "glove box" them -- we switch out the register set,
      perform the BIOS interrupt, and then restore the previous state.
      
      LKML-Reference: <49DE7F79.4030106@zytor.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
      Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      7a734e7d
  19. Apr 03, 2009
  20. Mar 12, 2009
  21. Mar 11, 2009
    • H. Peter Anvin's avatar
      x86: remove zImage support · 5e47c478
      H. Peter Anvin authored
      
      Impact: obsolete feature removal
      
      The zImage kernel format has been functionally unused for a very long
      time.  It is just barely possible to build a modern kernel that still
      fits within the zImage size limit, but it is highly unlikely that
      anyone ever uses it.  Furthermore, although it is still supported by
      most bootloaders, it has been at best poorly tested (or not tested at
      all); some bootloaders are even known to not support zImage at all and
      not having even noticed.
      
      Also remove some really obsolete constants that no longer have any
      meaning.
      
      LKML-Reference: <49B703D4.1000008@zytor.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      5e47c478
  22. Feb 23, 2009
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: remove the Voyager 32-bit subarch · 965c7eca
      Ingo Molnar authored
      
      Impact: remove unused/broken code
      
      The Voyager subarch last built successfully on the v2.6.26 kernel
      and has been stale since then and does not build on the v2.6.27,
      v2.6.28 and v2.6.29-rc5 kernels.
      
      No actual users beyond the maintainer reported this breakage.
      Patches were sent and most of the fixes were accepted but the
      discussion around how to do a few remaining issues cleanly
      fizzled out with no resolution and the code remained broken.
      
      In the v2.6.30 x86 tree development cycle 32-bit subarch support
      has been reworked and removed - and the Voyager code, beyond the
      build problems already known, needs serious and significant
      changes and probably a rewrite to support it.
      
      CONFIG_X86_VOYAGER has been marked BROKEN then. The maintainer has
      been notified but no patches have been sent so far to fix it.
      
      While all other subarchs have been converted to the new scheme,
      voyager is still broken. We'd prefer to receive patches which
      clean up the current situation in a constructive way, but even in
      case of removal there is no obstacle to add that support back
      after the issues have been sorted out in a mutually acceptable
      fashion.
      
      So remove this inactive code for now.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      965c7eca
  23. Oct 04, 2008
  24. Sep 06, 2008
  25. Apr 17, 2008
    • Pavel Machek's avatar
      x86: move suspend wakeup code to C · e44b7b75
      Pavel Machek authored
      
      Move wakeup code to .c, so that video mode setting code can be shared
      between boot and wakeup. Remove nasty assembly code in 64-bit case by
      re-using trampoline code. Stack setup was fixed to clear high 16bits
      of %esp, maybe that fixes some machines.
      
      .c code sharing and morse code was done H. Peter Anvin, Sam Ravnborg
      reviewed kbuild related stuff, and it seems okay to him. Rafael did
      some cleanups.
      
      [rjw:
      * Made the patch stop breaking compilation on x86-32
      * Added arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.h
      * Got rid of compiler warnings in arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c
      * Fixed 32-bit compilation on x86-64 systems
      * Added include/asm-x86/trampoline.h and fixed the non-SMP
        compilation on 64-bit x86
      * Removed arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep_32.c which was not used
      * Fixed some breakage caused by the integration of smpboot.c done
        under us in the meantime]
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      e44b7b75
    • Ian Campbell's avatar
      x86: use ELF format in compressed images. · 099e1377
      Ian Campbell authored
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
      Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
      Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
      Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
      Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      099e1377
  26. Feb 04, 2008
  27. Jan 30, 2008
  28. Nov 12, 2007
  29. Oct 17, 2007
  30. Oct 16, 2007
  31. Oct 15, 2007
    • Sam Ravnborg's avatar
      kbuild: enable 'make AFLAGS=...' to add additional options to AS · 222d394d
      Sam Ravnborg authored
      
      The variable AFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
      kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.
      On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to
      pass in additional flags to gcc.
      
      This patch replace use of AFLAGS with KBUILD_AFLAGS all over
      the tree.
      
      Patch was tested on following architectures:
      alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k, s390
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      222d394d
  32. Oct 14, 2007
    • Sam Ravnborg's avatar
      kbuild: enable 'make CFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CC · a0f97e06
      Sam Ravnborg authored
      
      The variable CFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
      kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.
      On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to
      pass in additional flags to gcc.
      
      This patch replace use of CFLAGS with KBUILD_CFLAGS all over the
      tree and enabling one to use:
      make CFLAGS=...
      to specify additional gcc commandline options.
      
      One usecase is when trying to find gcc bugs but other
      use cases has been requested too.
      
      Patch was tested on following architectures:
      alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k
      
      Test was simple to do a defconfig build, apply the patch and check
      that nothing got rebuild.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      a0f97e06
  33. Oct 11, 2007
  34. Jul 18, 2007
  35. Jul 12, 2007
  36. May 02, 2007
Loading