[PATCH 1/3] powerpc: Define empty_zero_page[] in C

From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Mon Jun 07 2021 - 06:56:15 EST


At the time being, empty_zero_page[] is defined in each
platform head.S.

Define it in mm/mem.c instead, and put it in BSS section instead
of the DATA section. Commit 5227cfa71f9e ("arm64: mm: place
empty_zero_page in bss") explains why it is interesting to have
it in BSS.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Applies on top of powerpc next-test with the Fixup for v3 "powerpc/nohash: Refactor update of BDI2000 pointers in switch_mmu_context()".
The last patch of this small series can be applied independently at the cost of a trivial conflict in asm-offsets.c

arch/powerpc/kernel/head_40x.S | 4 ----
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.S | 4 ----
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S | 5 -----
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S | 6 ------
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_book3s_32.S | 5 -----
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S | 4 ----
arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 3 +++
7 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_40x.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_40x.S
index 2717aa860cae..92b6c7356161 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_40x.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_40x.S
@@ -709,10 +709,6 @@ _GLOBAL(abort)
.align 12
.globl sdata
sdata:
- .globl empty_zero_page
-empty_zero_page:
- .space 4096
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_zero_page)
.globl swapper_pg_dir
swapper_pg_dir:
.space PGD_TABLE_SIZE
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.S
index 2c4ffec027a2..e037eb615757 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.S
@@ -1241,10 +1241,6 @@ head_start_common:
.align PAGE_SHIFT
.globl sdata
sdata:
- .globl empty_zero_page
-empty_zero_page:
- .space PAGE_SIZE
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_zero_page)

/*
* To support >32-bit physical addresses, we use an 8KB pgdir.
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
index ece7f97bafff..730838c7ca39 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -1012,8 +1012,3 @@ start_here_common:
.globl swapper_pg_dir
swapper_pg_dir:
.space PGD_TABLE_SIZE
-
- .globl empty_zero_page
-empty_zero_page:
- .space PAGE_SIZE
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_zero_page)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
index 817df9fe7fb3..5ce42dfac061 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
@@ -795,12 +795,6 @@ _GLOBAL(mmu_pin_tlb)
.data
.globl sdata
sdata:
- .globl empty_zero_page
- .align PAGE_SHIFT
-empty_zero_page:
- .space PAGE_SIZE
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_zero_page)
-
.globl swapper_pg_dir
swapper_pg_dir:
.space PGD_TABLE_SIZE
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_book3s_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_book3s_32.S
index 326262030279..79c744afc6b6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_book3s_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_book3s_32.S
@@ -1274,11 +1274,6 @@ setup_usbgecko_bat:
.data
.globl sdata
sdata:
- .globl empty_zero_page
-empty_zero_page:
- .space 4096
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_zero_page)
-
.globl swapper_pg_dir
swapper_pg_dir:
.space PGD_TABLE_SIZE
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S
index ab718fd5e2a2..f33bc5a8e73e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S
@@ -1221,10 +1221,6 @@ _GLOBAL(restore_to_as0)
.align 12
.globl sdata
sdata:
- .globl empty_zero_page
-empty_zero_page:
- .space 4096
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_zero_page)
.globl swapper_pg_dir
swapper_pg_dir:
.space PGD_TABLE_SIZE
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index 043bbeaf407c..b06e5d969051 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
unsigned long long memory_limit;
bool init_mem_is_free;

+unsigned long empty_zero_page[PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(unsigned long)] __page_aligned_bss;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_zero_page);
+
pgprot_t phys_mem_access_prot(struct file *file, unsigned long pfn,
unsigned long size, pgprot_t vma_prot)
{
--
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