[PATCH] allow bug table entries to use relative pointers (and use it on x86-64)

[Jan Beulich]

This allows reducing the bug table size by half. Perhaps there are
other 64-bit architectures that could also make use of this.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
 arch/x86/Kconfig           |    4 ++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h |    2 +-
 include/asm-generic/bug.h  |    8 ++++++++
 lib/bug.c                  |   19 +++++++++++++++++--
 4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.28-rc8/arch/x86/Kconfig	2008-12-11 14:45:37.000000000 +0100
+++ 2.6.28-rc8-x86_64-bug-rel-addr/arch/x86/Kconfig	2008-12-01 14:10:32.000000000 +0100
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ config GENERIC_IOMAP
 config GENERIC_BUG
 	def_bool y
 	depends on BUG
+	select GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS if X86_64
+
+config GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS
+	bool
 
 config GENERIC_HWEIGHT
 	def_bool y
--- linux-2.6.28-rc8/arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h	2008-12-11 14:45:37.000000000 +0100
+++ 2.6.28-rc8-x86_64-bug-rel-addr/arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h	2008-12-01 14:12:17.000000000 +0100
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 # define __BUG_C0	"2:\t.long 1b, %c0\n"
 #else
-# define __BUG_C0	"2:\t.quad 1b, %c0\n"
+# define __BUG_C0	"2:\t.long 1b - 2b, %c0 - 2b\n"
 #endif
 
 #define BUG()							\
--- linux-2.6.28-rc8/include/asm-generic/bug.h	2008-12-11 14:46:04.000000000 +0100
+++ 2.6.28-rc8-x86_64-bug-rel-addr/include/asm-generic/bug.h	2008-12-01 14:13:35.000000000 +0100
@@ -8,9 +8,17 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 struct bug_entry {
+#ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS
 	unsigned long	bug_addr;
+#else
+	signed int	bug_addr_disp;
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
+#ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS
 	const char	*file;
+#else
+	signed int	file_disp;
+#endif
 	unsigned short	line;
 #endif
 	unsigned short	flags;
--- linux-2.6.28-rc8/lib/bug.c	2008-07-13 23:51:29.000000000 +0200
+++ 2.6.28-rc8-x86_64-bug-rel-addr/lib/bug.c	2008-12-01 14:18:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 
   CONFIG_BUG - emit BUG traps.  Nothing happens without this.
   CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG - enable this code.
+  CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS - use 32-bit pointers relative to
+	the containing struct bug_entry for bug_addr and file.
   CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE - emit full file+line information for each BUG
 
   CONFIG_BUG and CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE are potentially user-settable
@@ -43,6 +45,15 @@
 
 extern const struct bug_entry __start___bug_table[], __stop___bug_table[];
 
+static inline unsigned long bug_addr(const struct bug_entry *bug)
+{
+#ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS
+	return bug->bug_addr;
+#else
+	return (unsigned long)bug + bug->bug_addr_disp;
+#endif
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
 static LIST_HEAD(module_bug_list);
 
@@ -55,7 +66,7 @@ static const struct bug_entry *module_fi
 		unsigned i;
 
 		for (i = 0; i < mod->num_bugs; ++i, ++bug)
-			if (bugaddr == bug->bug_addr)
+			if (bugaddr == bug_addr(bug))
 				return bug;
 	}
 	return NULL;
@@ -108,7 +119,7 @@ const struct bug_entry *find_bug(unsigne
 	const struct bug_entry *bug;
 
 	for (bug = __start___bug_table; bug < __stop___bug_table; ++bug)
-		if (bugaddr == bug->bug_addr)
+		if (bugaddr == bug_addr(bug))
 			return bug;
 
 	return module_find_bug(bugaddr);
@@ -133,7 +144,11 @@ enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned l
 
 	if (bug) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
+#ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS
 		file = bug->file;
+#else
+		file = (const char *)bug + bug->file_disp;
+#endif
 		line = bug->line;
 #endif
 		warning = (bug->flags & BUGFLAG_WARNING) != 0;



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