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Message-ID: <20090508075516.GF12808@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 09:55:16 +0200
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vgoyal@...hat.com, hbabu@...ibm.com,
kexec@...ts.infradead.org, ying.huang@...el.com, mingo@...e.hu,
tglx@...utronix.de, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/14] x86, boot: add new runtime_address and runtime_size bzImage fields
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 03:26:57PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
>
> Make the (minimum) runtime address and the required amount of linear
> address space available to the boot loader. A relocating boot loader
> can use this information to select a kernel location; furthermore, it
> is permitted to modify the minimum runtime address field in order for
> the boot loader to force a specific location for the kernel (as long
> as it fits the alignment constraints.)
>
> This means that the address space layout for the kernel compressor has
> to be determined at compile time. Since we have to do that, we might
> as well reap the benefit and remove some runtime calculations in
> assembly.
>
> Note: bounding the amount of linear address space (not necessarily
> bounding the amount of memory needed, but the amount that has to be
> linearly contiguous before the memory map is consulted) was only
> possible since Jeremy Fitzhardinge's brk support work.
>
> [ Impact: new feature; simplication of compressed/head_*.S ]
>
> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
> ---
> arch/x86/boot/Makefile | 24 ++++++---
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 14 ++++--
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S | 54 ++++++-------------
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 52 +++++-------------
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr | 10 ----
> arch/x86/boot/header.S | 19 +++++--
> arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam.h | 2 +
> arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c | 1 +
> arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_64.c | 1 +
> 10 files changed, 173 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c
> delete mode 100644 arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
> index 6633b6e..3332d22 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
> @@ -86,19 +86,27 @@ $(obj)/vmlinux.bin: $(obj)/compressed/vmlinux FORCE
>
> SETUP_OBJS = $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(setup-y))
>
> -sed-offsets := -e 's/^00*/0/' \
> - -e 's/^\([0-9a-fA-F]*\) . \(input_data\|input_data_end\)$$/\#define \2 0x\1/p'
> +sed-voffset := -e 's/^\([0-9a-fA-F]*\) . \(_text\|_end\)$$/\#define VO_\2 0x\1/p'
>
> -quiet_cmd_offsets = OFFSETS $@
> - cmd_offsets = $(NM) $< | sed -n $(sed-offsets) > $@
> +quiet_cmd_voffset = VOFFSET $@
> + cmd_voffset = $(NM) $< | sed -n $(sed-voffset) > $@
>
> -$(obj)/offsets.h: $(obj)/compressed/vmlinux FORCE
> - $(call if_changed,offsets)
> +targets += voffset.h
> +$(obj)/voffset.h: vmlinux FORCE
> + $(call if_changed,voffset)
> +
> +sed-zoffset := -e 's/^\([0-9a-fA-F]*\) . \(input_data\|_ebss\|z_.*\)$$/\#define ZO_\2 0x\1/p'
> +
> +quiet_cmd_zoffset = ZOFFSET $@
> + cmd_zoffset = $(NM) $< | sed -n $(sed-zoffset) > $@
> +
> +targets += zoffset.h
> +$(obj)/zoffset.h: $(obj)/compressed/vmlinux FORCE
> + $(call if_changed,zoffset)
>
> -targets += offsets.h
>
> AFLAGS_header.o += -I$(obj)
> -$(obj)/header.o: $(obj)/offsets.h
> +$(obj)/header.o: $(obj)/voffset.h $(obj)/zoffset.h
>
> LDFLAGS_setup.elf := -T
> $(obj)/setup.elf: $(src)/setup.ld $(SETUP_OBJS) FORCE
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
> index b35c3bb..6f4d7ba 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
> @@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
> # create a compressed vmlinux image from the original vmlinux
> #
>
> -targets := vmlinux vmlinux.bin vmlinux.bin.gz vmlinux.bin.bz2 vmlinux.bin.lzma head_$(BITS).o misc.o piggy.o
> +targets := vmlinux vmlinux.bin vmlinux.bin.gz vmlinux.bin.bz2 \
> + vmlinux.bin.lzma head_$(BITS).o misc.o
You still have a piggy.o target.
>
> KBUILD_CFLAGS := -m$(BITS) -D__KERNEL__ $(LINUX_INCLUDE) -O2
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC
> @@ -19,6 +20,8 @@ KBUILD_AFLAGS := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
> LDFLAGS := -m elf_$(UTS_MACHINE)
> LDFLAGS_vmlinux := -T
>
> +hostprogs-y := mkpiggy
> +
> $(obj)/vmlinux: $(obj)/vmlinux.lds $(obj)/head_$(BITS).o $(obj)/misc.o $(obj)/piggy.o FORCE
> $(call if_changed,ld)
> @:
> @@ -50,6 +53,9 @@ suffix_$(CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP) = gz
> suffix_$(CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2) = bz2
> suffix_$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA) = lzma
No need for a recursive assignment here. Use ":="
Ann we usually uses "-y" not "_y".
>
> -LDFLAGS_piggy.o := -r --format binary --oformat $(CONFIG_OUTPUT_FORMAT) -T
> -$(obj)/piggy.o: $(obj)/vmlinux.scr $(obj)/vmlinux.bin.$(suffix_y) FORCE
> - $(call if_changed,ld)
> +quiet_cmd_mkpiggy = MKPIGGY $@
> + cmd_mkpiggy = $(obj)/mkpiggy $< > $@
> + cmd_mkpiggy = $(obj)/mkpiggy $< > $@ || (rm -f $@; false)
So we delete the file on error.
> +
> +targets += piggy.S
> +$(obj)/piggy.S: $(obj)/vmlinux.bin.$(suffix_y) $(obj)/mkpiggy FORCE
> + $(call if_changed,mkpiggy)
Sam
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