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2009-03-14x86-32: use brk segment for allocating initial kernel pagetableJeremy Fitzhardinge
Impact: use new interface instead of previous ad hoc implementation Rather than having special purpose init_pg_table_start/end variables to delimit the kernel pagetable built by head_32.S, just use the brk mechanism to extend the bss for the new pagetable. This patch removes init_pg_table_start/end and pg0, defines __brk_base (which is page-aligned and immediately follows _end), initializes the brk region to start there, and uses it for the 32-bit pagetable. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-03-14x86: add brk allocation for very, very early allocationsJeremy Fitzhardinge
Impact: new interface Add a brk()-like allocator which effectively extends the bss in order to allow very early code to do dynamic allocations. This is better than using statically allocated arrays for data in subsystems which may never get used. The space for brk allocations is in the bss ELF segment, so that the space is mapped properly by the code which maps the kernel, and so that bootloaders keep the space free rather than putting a ramdisk or something into it. The bss itself, delimited by __bss_stop, ends before the brk area (__brk_base to __brk_limit). The kernel text, data and bss is reserved up to __bss_stop. Any brk-allocated data is reserved separately just before the kernel pagetable is built, as that code allocates from unreserved spaces in the e820 map, potentially allocating from any unused brk memory. Ultimately any unused memory in the brk area is used in the general kernel memory pool. Initially the brk space is set to 1MB, which is probably much larger than any user needs (the largest current user is i386 head_32.S's code to build the pagetables to map the kernel, which can get fairly large with a big kernel image and no PSE support). So long as the system has sufficient memory for the bootloader to reserve the kernel+1MB brk, there are no bad effects resulting from an over-large brk. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-08x86: change static allocation of trampoline areaRafael J. Wysocki
Impact: fix trampoline sizing bug, save space While debugging a suspend-to-RAM related issue it occured to me that if the trampoline code had grown past 4 KB, we would have been allocating too little memory for it, since the 4 KB size of the trampoline is hardcoded into arch/x86/kernel/e820.c . Change that by making the kernel compute the trampoline size and allocate as much memory as necessary. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-05x86: extract common part of head32.c and head64.c into head.cHuang, Ying
This patch extracts the common part of head32.c and head64.c into head.c. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Cc: mingo@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-31x86: extend e820 early_res support 32bit -fix #3Yinghai Lu
introduce init_pg_table_start, so xen PV could specify the value. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-25x86: extend e820 ealy_res support 32bitYinghai Lu
move early_res related from e820_64.c to e820.c make edba detection to be done in head32.c remove smp_alloc_memory, because we have fixed trampoline address now. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 214 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/e820_64.c | 196 -------------------------------- arch/x86/kernel/head32.c | 76 ++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c | 109 +++--------------- arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 17 -- arch/x86/kernel/trampoline.c | 2 arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c | 9 - include/asm-x86/e820.h | 6 + include/asm-x86/e820_64.h | 9 - include/asm-x86/smp.h | 1 arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 214 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/e820_64.c | 196 -------------------------------- arch/x86/kernel/head32.c | 76 ++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c | 109 +++--------------- arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 17 -- arch/x86/kernel/trampoline.c | 2 arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c | 9 - include/asm-x86/e820.h | 6 + include/asm-x86/e820_64.h | 9 - include/asm-x86/smp.h | 1 arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 214 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/e820_64.c | 196 -------------------------------- arch/x86/kernel/head32.c | 76 ++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c | 109 +++--------------- arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 17 -- arch/x86/kernel/trampoline.c | 2 arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c | 9 - include/asm-x86/e820.h | 6 + include/asm-x86/e820_64.h | 9 - include/asm-x86/smp.h | 1 10 files changed, 320 insertions(+), 319 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17x86: introduce kernel/head32.cEric W. Biederman
Copy x86_64 and add a head32.c so we can start moving early architecture initialization out of assembly. [ Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>: updated it to x86 ] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>