kernel/linux.git/include/linux/linkage.h, branch linux-2.6.28.y

ftrace: move notrace to compiler.h

2008-10-14T08:35:08+00:00

The notrace define belongs in compiler.h so that it can be used in init.h Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'auto-ftrace-next' into tracing/for-linus

2008-07-14T14:11:52+00:00

Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c arch/x86/lib/Makefile include/asm-x86/irqflags.h kernel/Makefile kernel/sched.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

build: add __page_aligned_data and __page_aligned_bss

2008-07-08T10:48:13+00:00

Making a variable page-aligned by using __attribute__((section(".data.page_aligned"))) is fragile because if sizeof(variable) is not also a multiple of page size, it leaves variables in the remainder of the section unaligned. This patch introduces two new qualifiers, __page_aligned_data and __page_aligned_bss to set the section *and* the alignment of variables. This makes page-aligned variables more robust because the linker will make sure they're aligned properly. Unfortunately it requires *all* page-aligned data to use these macros... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing: add notrace to linkage.h

2008-05-23T18:31:27+00:00

notrace signals that a function should not be traced. Most of the time this is used by tracers to annotate code that cannot be traced - it's in a volatile state (such as in user vdso context or NMI context) or it's in the tracer internals. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Fix "$(AS) -traditional" compile breakage caused by asmlinkage_protect

2008-04-11T15:29:13+00:00

git commit 54a015104136974262afa4b8ddd943ea70dec8a2 ("asmlinkage_protect replaces prevent_tail_call") causes this build failure on s390: AS arch/s390/kernel/entry64.o In file included from arch/s390/kernel/entry64.S:14: include/linux/linkage.h:34: error: syntax error in macro parameter list make[1]: *** [arch/s390/kernel/entry64.o] Error 1 make: *** [arch/s390/kernel] Error 2 and some other architectures. The reason is that some architectures add the "-traditional" flag to the invocation of $(AS), which disables variadic macro argument support. So just surround the new define with an #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ to prevent any side effects on asm code. Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Add commentary about the new "asmlinkage_protect()" macro

2008-04-11T00:35:23+00:00

It's really a pretty ugly thing to need, and some day it will hopefully be obviated by teaching gcc about the magic calling conventions for the low-level system call code, but in the meantime we can at least add big honking comments about why we need these insane and strange macros. I took my comments from my version of the macro, but I ended up deciding to just pick Roland's version of the actual code instead (with his prettier syntax that uses vararg macros). Thus the previous two commits that actually implement it. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

asmlinkage_protect replaces prevent_tail_call

2008-04-11T00:28:26+00:00

The prevent_tail_call() macro works around the problem of the compiler clobbering argument words on the stack, which for asmlinkage functions is the caller's (user's) struct pt_regs. The tail/sibling-call optimization is not the only way that the compiler can decide to use stack argument words as scratch space, which we have to prevent. Other optimizations can do it too. Until we have new compiler support to make "asmlinkage" binding on the compiler's own use of the stack argument frame, we have work around all the manifestations of this issue that crop up. More cases seem to be prevented by also keeping the incoming argument variables live at the end of the function. This makes their original stack slots attractive places to leave those variables, so the compiler tends not clobber them for something else. It's still no guarantee, but it handles some observed cases that prevent_tail_call() did not. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Final removal of FASTCALL()/fastcall

2008-02-14T00:21:18+00:00

All users are gone, remove definitions and comments referring to them. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison Acked-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86: add ENDPROC() markers

2008-01-30T12:33:13+00:00

The ENDPROCs() were not used everywhere. Some code used just END() instead, while other code used nothing. um/sys-i386/checksum.S didn't #include . I also got confused because gcc puts the .type near the ENTRY, while ENDPROC puts it on the opposite end. Signed off by: John Reiser Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

x86: fix UML and -regparm=3

2008-01-30T12:33:00+00:00

introduce the "asmregparm" calling convention: for functions implemented in assembly with a fixed regparm input parameters calling convention. mark the semaphore and rwsem slowpath functions with that. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner