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The original goal of this patchset is to fix the bug reported by https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53501 Now it has also been expanded to reduce common code used by memory initializion. Patch 1-7: 1) add comments for global variables exported by vmlinux.lds 2) normalize global variables exported by vmlinux.lds Patch 8: Introduce helper functions mem_init_print_info() and get_num_physpages() Patch 9: Avoid using global variable num_physpages at runtime Patch 10: Don't update num_physpages in memory_hotplug.c Patch 11-40: Modify arch mm initialization code to: 1) Simplify mem_init() by using mem_init_print_info() 2) Prepare for killing global variable num_physpages Patch 41: Kill the global variable num_physpages With all patches applied, mem_init(), free_initmem(), free_initrd_mem() could be as simple as below. This patch series has reduced about 1.2K lines of code in total. #ifndef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM void __init mem_init(void) { max_mapnr = max_low_pfn; free_all_bootmem(); high_memory = (void *) __va(max_low_pfn * PAGE_SIZE); mem_init_print_info(NULL); } #endif /* CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM */ void free_initmem(void) { free_initmem_default(-1); } #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD void free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) { free_reserved_area(start, end, -1, "initrd"); } #endif Due to hardware resource limitations, I have only tested this on x86_64. And the messages reported on an x86_64 system are: Log message before applying patches: Memory: 7745676k/8910848k available (6934k kernel code, 836024k absent, 329148k reserved, 6343k data, 1012k init) Log message after applying patches: Memory: 7744624K/8074824K available (6969K kernel code, 1011K data, 2828K rodata, 1016K init, 9640K bss, 330200K reserved) Great thanks to Vineet Gupta for testing on ARC. This patch: Document global variables exported from vmlinux.lds. 1) Add comments about usage guidelines for global variables exported from vmlinux.lds.S. 2) Remove unused __initdata_begin[] and __initdata_end[]. Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
62 lines
2 KiB
C
62 lines
2 KiB
C
#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_SECTIONS_H_
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#define _ASM_GENERIC_SECTIONS_H_
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/* References to section boundaries */
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/*
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* Usage guidelines:
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* _text, _data: architecture specific, don't use them in arch-independent code
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* [_stext, _etext]: contains .text.* sections, may also contain .rodata.*
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* and/or .init.* sections
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* [_sdata, _edata]: contains .data.* sections, may also contain .rodata.*
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* and/or .init.* sections.
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* [__start_rodata, __end_rodata]: contains .rodata.* sections
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* [__init_begin, __init_end]: contains .init.* sections, but .init.text.*
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* may be out of this range on some architectures.
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* [_sinittext, _einittext]: contains .init.text.* sections
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* [__bss_start, __bss_stop]: contains BSS sections
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*
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* Following global variables are optional and may be unavailable on some
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* architectures and/or kernel configurations.
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* _text, _data
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* __kprobes_text_start, __kprobes_text_end
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* __entry_text_start, __entry_text_end
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* __ctors_start, __ctors_end
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*/
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extern char _text[], _stext[], _etext[];
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extern char _data[], _sdata[], _edata[];
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extern char __bss_start[], __bss_stop[];
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extern char __init_begin[], __init_end[];
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extern char _sinittext[], _einittext[];
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extern char _end[];
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extern char __per_cpu_load[], __per_cpu_start[], __per_cpu_end[];
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extern char __kprobes_text_start[], __kprobes_text_end[];
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extern char __entry_text_start[], __entry_text_end[];
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extern char __start_rodata[], __end_rodata[];
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/* Start and end of .ctors section - used for constructor calls. */
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extern char __ctors_start[], __ctors_end[];
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/* function descriptor handling (if any). Override
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* in asm/sections.h */
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#ifndef dereference_function_descriptor
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#define dereference_function_descriptor(p) (p)
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#endif
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/* random extra sections (if any). Override
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* in asm/sections.h */
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#ifndef arch_is_kernel_text
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static inline int arch_is_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
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{
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return 0;
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}
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#endif
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#ifndef arch_is_kernel_data
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static inline int arch_is_kernel_data(unsigned long addr)
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{
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return 0;
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}
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#endif
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#endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_SECTIONS_H_ */
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