linux/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
Fenghua Yu 5fb7dc37dc define new percpu interface for shared data
per cpu data section contains two types of data.  One set which is
exclusively accessed by the local cpu and the other set which is per cpu,
but also shared by remote cpus.  In the current kernel, these two sets are
not clearely separated out.  This can potentially cause the same data
cacheline shared between the two sets of data, which will result in
unnecessary bouncing of the cacheline between cpus.

One way to fix the problem is to cacheline align the remotely accessed per
cpu data, both at the beginning and at the end.  Because of the padding at
both ends, this will likely cause some memory wastage and also the
interface to achieve this is not clean.

This patch:

Moves the remotely accessed per cpu data (which is currently marked
as ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp) into a different section, where all the data
elements are cacheline aligned. And as such, this differentiates the local
only data and remotely accessed data cleanly.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00

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ArmAsm

/* ld script to make ARM Linux kernel
* taken from the i386 version by Russell King
* Written by Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
*/
#include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
#include <asm/thread_info.h>
#include <asm/memory.h>
OUTPUT_ARCH(arm)
ENTRY(stext)
#ifndef __ARMEB__
jiffies = jiffies_64;
#else
jiffies = jiffies_64 + 4;
#endif
SECTIONS
{
#ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
. = XIP_VIRT_ADDR(CONFIG_XIP_PHYS_ADDR);
#else
. = PAGE_OFFSET + TEXT_OFFSET;
#endif
.text.head : {
_stext = .;
_sinittext = .;
*(.text.head)
}
.init : { /* Init code and data */
*(.init.text)
_einittext = .;
__proc_info_begin = .;
*(.proc.info.init)
__proc_info_end = .;
__arch_info_begin = .;
*(.arch.info.init)
__arch_info_end = .;
__tagtable_begin = .;
*(.taglist.init)
__tagtable_end = .;
. = ALIGN(16);
__setup_start = .;
*(.init.setup)
__setup_end = .;
__early_begin = .;
*(.early_param.init)
__early_end = .;
__initcall_start = .;
INITCALLS
__initcall_end = .;
__con_initcall_start = .;
*(.con_initcall.init)
__con_initcall_end = .;
__security_initcall_start = .;
*(.security_initcall.init)
__security_initcall_end = .;
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
. = ALIGN(32);
__initramfs_start = .;
usr/built-in.o(.init.ramfs)
__initramfs_end = .;
#endif
. = ALIGN(4096);
__per_cpu_start = .;
*(.data.percpu)
*(.data.percpu.shared_aligned)
__per_cpu_end = .;
#ifndef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
__init_begin = _stext;
*(.init.data)
. = ALIGN(4096);
__init_end = .;
#endif
}
/DISCARD/ : { /* Exit code and data */
*(.exit.text)
*(.exit.data)
*(.exitcall.exit)
#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
*(.fixup)
*(__ex_table)
#endif
}
.text : { /* Real text segment */
_text = .; /* Text and read-only data */
__exception_text_start = .;
*(.exception.text)
__exception_text_end = .;
TEXT_TEXT
SCHED_TEXT
LOCK_TEXT
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
*(.fixup)
#endif
*(.gnu.warning)
*(.rodata)
*(.rodata.*)
*(.glue_7)
*(.glue_7t)
*(.got) /* Global offset table */
}
RODATA
_etext = .; /* End of text and rodata section */
#ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
__data_loc = ALIGN(4); /* location in binary */
. = PAGE_OFFSET + TEXT_OFFSET;
#else
. = ALIGN(THREAD_SIZE);
__data_loc = .;
#endif
.data : AT(__data_loc) {
__data_start = .; /* address in memory */
/*
* first, the init task union, aligned
* to an 8192 byte boundary.
*/
*(.data.init_task)
#ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
. = ALIGN(4096);
__init_begin = .;
*(.init.data)
. = ALIGN(4096);
__init_end = .;
#endif
. = ALIGN(4096);
__nosave_begin = .;
*(.data.nosave)
. = ALIGN(4096);
__nosave_end = .;
/*
* then the cacheline aligned data
*/
. = ALIGN(32);
*(.data.cacheline_aligned)
/*
* The exception fixup table (might need resorting at runtime)
*/
. = ALIGN(32);
__start___ex_table = .;
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
*(__ex_table)
#endif
__stop___ex_table = .;
/*
* and the usual data section
*/
DATA_DATA
CONSTRUCTORS
_edata = .;
}
_edata_loc = __data_loc + SIZEOF(.data);
.bss : {
__bss_start = .; /* BSS */
*(.bss)
*(COMMON)
_end = .;
}
/* Stabs debugging sections. */
.stab 0 : { *(.stab) }
.stabstr 0 : { *(.stabstr) }
.stab.excl 0 : { *(.stab.excl) }
.stab.exclstr 0 : { *(.stab.exclstr) }
.stab.index 0 : { *(.stab.index) }
.stab.indexstr 0 : { *(.stab.indexstr) }
.comment 0 : { *(.comment) }
}
/*
* These must never be empty
* If you have to comment these two assert statements out, your
* binutils is too old (for other reasons as well)
*/
ASSERT((__proc_info_end - __proc_info_begin), "missing CPU support")
ASSERT((__arch_info_end - __arch_info_begin), "no machine record defined")