[PATCH] ARM: kvm: round HYP section to page size instead of log2 upper bound

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Fri Mar 27 03:18:01 PDT 2015


Older binutils do not support expressions involving the values of
external symbols so just round up the HYP region to the page size.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 31 +------------------------------
 arch/arm/kvm/init.S           |  3 ---
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 33 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 808398ec024e..f2db429ea75d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -12,26 +12,6 @@
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 #endif
 
-/*
- * Poor man's version of LOG2CEIL(), which is
- * not available in binutils before v2.24.
- */
-#define LOG2_ROUNDUP(size) (		\
-	__LOG2_ROUNDUP(size,  2)	\
-	__LOG2_ROUNDUP(size,  3)	\
-	__LOG2_ROUNDUP(size,  4)	\
-	__LOG2_ROUNDUP(size,  5)	\
-	__LOG2_ROUNDUP(size,  6)	\
-	__LOG2_ROUNDUP(size,  7)	\
-	__LOG2_ROUNDUP(size,  8)	\
-	__LOG2_ROUNDUP(size,  9)	\
-	__LOG2_ROUNDUP(size, 10)	\
-	__LOG2_ROUNDUP(size, 11)	\
-	12)
-
-#define __LOG2_ROUNDUP(size, order)	\
-	(size) <= (1 << order) ? order :
-
 #define PROC_INFO							\
 	. = ALIGN(4);							\
 	VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__proc_info_begin) = .;				\
@@ -43,20 +23,11 @@
 	VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__idmap_text_start) = .;				\
 	*(.idmap.text)							\
 	VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__idmap_text_end) = .;				\
-	. = ALIGN(1 << LOG2_ROUNDUP(__hyp_idmap_size));			\
+	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);						\
 	VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__hyp_idmap_text_start) = .;			\
 	*(.hyp.idmap.text)						\
 	VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__hyp_idmap_text_end) = .;
 
-/*
- * If the HYP idmap .text section is populated, it needs to be positioned
- * such that it will not cross a page boundary in the final output image.
- * So align it to the section size rounded up to the next power of 2.
- * If __hyp_idmap_size is undefined, the section will be empty so define
- * it as 0 in that case.
- */
-PROVIDE(__hyp_idmap_size = 0);
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
 #define ARM_CPU_DISCARD(x)
 #define ARM_CPU_KEEP(x)		x
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/init.S b/arch/arm/kvm/init.S
index 11fb1d56f449..3988e72d16ff 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/init.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/init.S
@@ -157,6 +157,3 @@ target:	@ We're now in the trampoline code, switch page tables
 __kvm_hyp_init_end:
 
 	.popsection
-
-	.global	__hyp_idmap_size
-	.set	__hyp_idmap_size, __kvm_hyp_init_end - __kvm_hyp_init
-- 
1.8.3.2




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