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Centralize i386 Constants

PATCH In review Rusty Russell 2 participants 2 messages Aug 16, 2004

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PATCH 1/1 Centralize i386 Constants

Name: Centralize i386 Constants
Status: Tested on 2.6.5-rc2-bk1

__FIXADDR_TOP and PAGE_OFFSET are hardcoded in various places. I had to change it to run the kernel under qemu-fast, so I wanted to centralize them.

To do this, we rename vsyscall.lds to vsyscall.lds.s, and generate it from vsyscall.lds.S.

arch/i386/kernel/Makefile +4 -2
diff -urpN --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/devel/kernel/kernel-patches/current-dontdiff --minimal .9001-linux-2.6.5-rc2-bk1/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile .9001-linux-2.6.5-rc2-bk1.updated/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile
@@ -47,12 +47,14 @@ quiet_cmd_syscall = SYSCALL $@
       cmd_syscall = $(CC) -nostdlib $(SYSCFLAGS_$(@F)) \
 		          -Wl,-T,$(filter-out FORCE,$^) -o $@
 
+export AFLAGS_vsyscall.lds.o += -P -C -U$(ARCH)
+
 vsyscall-flags = -shared -s -Wl,-soname=linux-gate.so.1
 SYSCFLAGS_vsyscall-sysenter.so	= $(vsyscall-flags)
 SYSCFLAGS_vsyscall-int80.so	= $(vsyscall-flags)
 
 $(obj)/vsyscall-int80.so $(obj)/vsyscall-sysenter.so: \
-$(obj)/vsyscall-%.so: $(src)/vsyscall.lds $(obj)/vsyscall-%.o FORCE
+$(obj)/vsyscall-%.so: $(src)/vsyscall.lds.s $(obj)/vsyscall-%.o FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,syscall)
 
 # We also create a special relocatable object that should mirror the symbol
@@ -63,5 +65,5 @@ $(obj)/built-in.o: $(obj)/vsyscall-syms.
 $(obj)/built-in.o: ld_flags += -R $(obj)/vsyscall-syms.o
 
 SYSCFLAGS_vsyscall-syms.o = -r
-$(obj)/vsyscall-syms.o: $(src)/vsyscall.lds $(obj)/vsyscall-sysenter.o FORCE
+$(obj)/vsyscall-syms.o: $(src)/vsyscall.lds.s $(obj)/vsyscall-sysenter.o FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,syscall)
arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +2 -1
diff -urpN --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/devel/kernel/kernel-patches/current-dontdiff --minimal .9001-linux-2.6.5-rc2-bk1/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S .9001-linux-2.6.5-rc2-bk1.updated/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 #include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
 #include <asm/thread_info.h>
+#include <asm/page.h>
 
 OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf32-i386", "elf32-i386", "elf32-i386")
 OUTPUT_ARCH(i386)
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ ENTRY(startup_32)
 jiffies = jiffies_64;
 SECTIONS
 {
-  . = 0xC0000000 + 0x100000;
+  . = __PAGE_OFFSET + 0x100000;
   /* read-only */
   _text = .;			/* Text and read-only data */
   .text : {
arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall.lds +0 -67

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arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall.lds.S +67 -0

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include/asm-i386/fixmap.h +12 -7
diff -urpN --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/devel/kernel/kernel-patches/current-dontdiff --minimal .9001-linux-2.6.5-rc2-bk1/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h .9001-linux-2.6.5-rc2-bk1.updated/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h
@@ -14,6 +14,15 @@
 #define _ASM_FIXMAP_H
 
 #include <linux/config.h>
+
+/* used by vmalloc.c, vsyscall.lds.S.
+ *
+ * Leave one empty page between vmalloc'ed areas and
+ * the start of the fixmap.
+ */
+#define __FIXADDR_TOP	0xfffff000
+
+#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <asm/acpi.h>
 #include <asm/apicdef.h>
@@ -97,13 +110,8 @@ extern void __set_fixmap (enum fixed_add
 #define clear_fixmap(idx) \
 		__set_fixmap(idx, 0, __pgprot(0))
 
-/*
- * used by vmalloc.c.
- *
- * Leave one empty page between vmalloc'ed areas and
- * the start of the fixmap.
- */
-#define FIXADDR_TOP	(0xfffff000UL)
+#define FIXADDR_TOP	((unsigned long)__FIXADDR_TOP)
+
 #define __FIXADDR_SIZE	(__end_of_permanent_fixed_addresses << PAGE_SHIFT)
 #define FIXADDR_START	(FIXADDR_TOP - __FIXADDR_SIZE)
 
@@ -148,4 +156,5 @@ static inline unsigned long virt_to_fix(
 	return __virt_to_fix(vaddr);
 }
 
+#endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
 #endif
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Rusty> __FIXADDR_TOP and PAGE_OFFSET are hardcoded in various Rusty> places. I had to change it to run the kernel under Rusty> qemu-fast, so I wanted to centralize them.

I like this patch -- I recently built a kernel with PAGE_OFFSET 0xb0000000 to avoid highmem on my box with 1G of RAM, based on recent discussion, and I made the same change to vmlinux.lds.S (although since <asm-i386/thread_info.h> includes <asm-i386/page.h>, I didn't bother adding the "#include <asm/page.h>" line).

In any case it seems there is at least one more place where 0xc0000000 is hardcoded in arch/i386. The patch below uses PAGE_OFFSET instead of 0xc0000000 in doublefault.c's ptr_ok() macro.

- Roland

arch/i386/kernel/doublefault.c +1 -1
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 static unsigned long doublefault_stack[DOUBLEFAULT_STACKSIZE];
 #define STACK_START (unsigned long)(doublefault_stack+DOUBLEFAULT_STACKSIZE)
 
-#define ptr_ok(x) ((x) > 0xc0000000 && (x) < 0xc1000000)
+#define ptr_ok(x) ((x) > PAGE_OFFSET && (x) < PAGE_OFFSET + 0x1000000)
 
 static void doublefault_fn(void)
 {