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Currently we generate the module stub for ftrace_caller() at the bottom
of apply_relocate_add(). However apply_relocate_add() is potentially
called more than once per module, which means we will try to generate
the ftrace_caller() stub multiple times.
Although the current code deals with that correctly, ie. it only
generates a stub the first time, it would be clearer to only try to
generate the stub once.
Note also on first reading it may appear that we generate a different
stub for each section that requires relocation, but that is not the
case. The code in stub_for_addr() that searches for an existing stub
uses sechdrs[me->arch.stubs_section], ie. the single stub section for
this module.
A cleaner approach is to only generate the ftrace_caller() stub once,
from module_finalize(). Although the original code didn't check to see
if the stub was actually generated correctly, it seems prudent to add a
check, so do that. And an additional benefit is we can clean the ifdefs
up a little.
Finally we must propagate the const'ness of some of the pointers passed
to module_finalize(), but that is also an improvement.
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Makes it easier to handle init vs core cleanly, though the change is
fairly invasive across random architectures.
It simplifies the rbtree code immediately, however, while keeping the
core data together in the same cachline (now iff the rbtree code is
enabled).
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Use pr_fmt to give some context to the error messages in the
module code, and convert open coded debug printk to pr_debug.
Use pr_err for error messages.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Move the few declarations from arch/powerpc/kernel/setup.h
into arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h. This resolves a
sparse warning for arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c which defines
do_init_bootmem() but can't include the setup.h header
in the prior path.
Resolves:
arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c:998:13:
warning: symbol 'do_init_bootmem' was not declared.
Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Robert C Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This fixes a problem which can causes kernel oopses while loading
a kernel module.
According to the PowerPC EABI specification, GPR r11 is assigned
the dedicated function to point to the previous stack frame.
In the powerpc-specific kernel module loader, do_plt_call()
(in arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c), GPR r11 is also used
to generate trampoline code.
This combination crashes the kernel, in the case where the compiler
chooses to use a helper function for saving GPRs on entry, and the
module loader has placed the .init.text section far away from the
.text section, meaning that it has to generate a trampoline for
functions in the .init.text section to call the GPR save helper.
Because the trampoline trashes r11, references to the stack frame
using r11 can cause an oops.
The fix just uses GPR r12 instead of GPR r11 for generating the
trampoline code. According to the statements from Freescale, this is
safe from an EABI perspective.
I've tested the fix for kernel 2.6.33 on MPC8541.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steffen Rumler <steffen.rumler.ext@nsn.com>
[paulus@samba.org: reworded the description]
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This patch removes all the module loader hook implementations in the
architecture specific code where the functionality is the same as that
now provided by the recently added default hooks.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Impact: add ability to trace modules on 32 bit PowerPC
This patch performs the necessary trampoline calls to handle
modules with dynamic ftrace on 32 bit PowerPC.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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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>
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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>
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apply_relocate_add() does not support R_PPC_ADDR16_HI relocations, which
prevents some non gcc-built modules to be loaded.
Signed-off-by: Simon Vallet <svallet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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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>
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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>
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... and rename it to module_32.c since it is the 32-bit version.
The 32-bit and 64-bit ABIs are sufficiently different that having
a merged version isn't really practical.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Michael Ellerman
Rusty Russell
Anton Blanchard
Robert Jennings
Steffen Rumler
Jonas Bonn
Steven Rostedt
Kumar Gala
Emil Medve
Simon Vallet
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Paul Mackerras