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2013-09-09ARM: 7835/2: fix modular build of xor_blocks() with NEON enabledArd Biesheuvel
Commit 0195659 introduced a NEON accelerated version of the xor_blocks() function, but it needs the changes in this patch to allow it to be built as a module rather than statically into the kernel. This patch creates a separate module xor-neon.ko which exports the NEON inner xor_blocks() functions depended upon by the regular xor.ko if it is built with CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON=y Reported-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2013-07-22Pull branch 'for-rmk' of git://git.linaro.org/people/ardbiesheuvel/linux-arm ↵Russell King
into devel-stable Comments from Ard Biesheuvel: I have included two use cases that I have been using, XOR and RAID-6 checksumming. The former gets a 60% performance boost on the NEON, the latter over 400%. ARM: add support for kernel mode NEON Adds kernel_neon_begin/end (renamed from kernel_vfp_begin/end in the previous version to de-emphasize the VFP part as VFP code that needs software assistance is not supported currently.) Introduces <asm/neon.h> and the Kconfig symbol KERNEL_MODE_NEON. This has been aligned with Catalin for arm64, so any NEON code that does not use assembly but intrinsics or the GCC vectorizer (such as my examples) can potentially be shared between arm and arm64 archs. ARM: move VFP init to an earlier boot stage This is needed so the NEON is enabled when the XOR and RAID-6 algo boot time benchmarks are run. ARM: be strict about FP exceptions in kernel mode This adds a check to vfp_support_entry() to flag unsupported uses of the NEON/VFP in kernel mode. FP exceptions (bounces) are flagged as a bug, this is because of their potentially intermittent nature. Exceptions caused by the fact that kernel_neon_begin has not been called are just routed through the undef handler. ARM: crypto: add NEON accelerated XOR implementation This is the xor_blocks() implementation built with -ftree-vectorize, 60% faster than optimized ARM code. It calls in_interrupt() to check whether the NEON flavor can be used: this should really not be necessary, but due to xor_blocks'squite generic nature, there is no telling how exactly people may be using it in the real world. lib/raid6: add ARM-NEON accelerated syndrome calculation This is a port of the RAID-6 checksumming code in altivec.uc ported to use NEON intrinsics. It is about 4x faster than the sequential code.
2013-07-14arm: delete __cpuinit/__CPUINIT usage from all ARM usersPaul Gortmaker
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time") is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created with improper use of the various __init prefixes. After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone, we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h. Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c) and are flagged as __cpuinit -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from the arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings. As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit related content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid of these warnings. In any case, they are temporary and harmless. This removes all the ARM uses of the __cpuinit macros from C code, and all __CPUINIT from assembly code. It also had two ".previous" section statements that were paired off against __CPUINIT (aka .section ".cpuinit.text") that also get removed here. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589 Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-07-08ARM: crypto: add NEON accelerated XOR implementationArd Biesheuvel
Add a source file xor-neon.c (which is really just the reference C implementation passed through the GCC vectorizer) and hook it up to the XOR framework. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
2013-04-03ARM: 7685/1: delay: use private ticks_per_jiffy field for timer-based delay opsWill Deacon
Commit 70264367a243 ("ARM: 7653/2: do not scale loops_per_jiffy when using a constant delay clock") fixed a problem with our timer-based delay loop, where loops_per_jiffy is scaled by cpufreq yet used directly by the timer delay ops. This patch fixes the problem in a more elegant way by keeping a private ticks_per_jiffy field in the delay ops, independent of loops_per_jiffy and therefore not subject to scaling. The loop-based delay continues to use loops_per_jiffy directly, as it should. Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2013-03-12ARM: 7670/1: fix the memset fixNicolas Pitre
Commit 455bd4c430b0 ("ARM: 7668/1: fix memset-related crashes caused by recent GCC (4.7.2) optimizations") attempted to fix a compliance issue with the memset return value. However the memset itself became broken by that patch for misaligned pointers. This fixes the above by branching over the entry code from the misaligned fixup code to avoid reloading the original pointer. Also, because the function entry alignment is wrong in the Thumb mode compilation, that fixup code is moved to the end. While at it, the entry instructions are slightly reworked to help dual issue pipelines. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Tested-by: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2013-03-07ARM: 7668/1: fix memset-related crashes caused by recent GCC (4.7.2) ↵Ivan Djelic
optimizations Recent GCC versions (e.g. GCC-4.7.2) perform optimizations based on assumptions about the implementation of memset and similar functions. The current ARM optimized memset code does not return the value of its first argument, as is usually expected from standard implementations. For instance in the following function: void debug_mutex_lock_common(struct mutex *lock, struct mutex_waiter *waiter) { memset(waiter, MUTEX_DEBUG_INIT, sizeof(*waiter)); waiter->magic = waiter; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&waiter->list); } compiled as: 800554d0 <debug_mutex_lock_common>: 800554d0: e92d4008 push {r3, lr} 800554d4: e1a00001 mov r0, r1 800554d8: e3a02010 mov r2, #16 ; 0x10 800554dc: e3a01011 mov r1, #17 ; 0x11 800554e0: eb04426e bl 80165ea0 <memset> 800554e4: e1a03000 mov r3, r0 800554e8: e583000c str r0, [r3, #12] 800554ec: e5830000 str r0, [r3] 800554f0: e5830004 str r0, [r3, #4] 800554f4: e8bd8008 pop {r3, pc} GCC assumes memset returns the value of pointer 'waiter' in register r0; causing register/memory corruptions. This patch fixes the return value of the assembly version of memset. It adds a 'mov' instruction and merges an additional load+store into existing load/store instructions. For ease of review, here is a breakdown of the patch into 4 simple steps: Step 1 ====== Perform the following substitutions: ip -> r8, then r0 -> ip, and insert 'mov ip, r0' as the first statement of the function. At this point, we have a memset() implementation returning the proper result, but corrupting r8 on some paths (the ones that were using ip). Step 2 ====== Make sure r8 is saved and restored when (! CALGN(1)+0) == 1: save r8: - str lr, [sp, #-4]! + stmfd sp!, {r8, lr} and restore r8 on both exit paths: - ldmeqfd sp!, {pc} @ Now <64 bytes to go. + ldmeqfd sp!, {r8, pc} @ Now <64 bytes to go. (...) tst r2, #16 stmneia ip!, {r1, r3, r8, lr} - ldr lr, [sp], #4 + ldmfd sp!, {r8, lr} Step 3 ====== Make sure r8 is saved and restored when (! CALGN(1)+0) == 0: save r8: - stmfd sp!, {r4-r7, lr} + stmfd sp!, {r4-r8, lr} and restore r8 on both exit paths: bgt 3b - ldmeqfd sp!, {r4-r7, pc} + ldmeqfd sp!, {r4-r8, pc} (...) tst r2, #16 stmneia ip!, {r4-r7} - ldmfd sp!, {r4-r7, lr} + ldmfd sp!, {r4-r8, lr} Step 4 ====== Rewrite register list "r4-r7, r8" as "r4-r8". Signed-off-by: Ivan Djelic <ivan.djelic@parrot.com> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-21ARM: 7653/2: do not scale loops_per_jiffy when using a constant delay clockNicolas Pitre
When udelay() is implemented using an architected timer, it is wrong to scale loops_per_jiffy when changing the CPU clock frequency since the timer clock remains constant. The lpj should probably become an implementation detail relevant to the CPU loop based delay routine only and more confined to it. In the mean time this is the minimal fix needed to have expected delays with the timer based implementation when cpufreq is also in use. Reported-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Tested-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Acked-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-09ARM: export default read_current_timerArnd Bergmann
read_current_timer is used by get_cycles since "ARM: 7538/1: delay: add registration mechanism for delay timer sources", and get_cycles can be used by device drivers in loadable modules, so it has to be exported. Without this patch, building imote2_defconfig fails with ERROR: "read_current_timer" [crypto/tcrypt.ko] undefined! Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-04Merge branch 'arch-timers' into for-linusRussell King
Conflicts: arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h arch/arm/lib/delay.c
2012-09-26ARM: 7538/1: delay: add registration mechanism for delay timer sourcesJonathan Austin
The current timer-based delay loop relies on the architected timer to initiate the switch away from the polling-based implementation. This is unfortunate for platforms without the architected timers but with a suitable delay source (that is, constant frequency, always powered-up and ticking as long as the CPUs are online). This patch introduces a registration mechanism for the delay timer (which provides an unconditional read_current_timer implementation) and updates the architected timer code to use the new interface. Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-09ARM: 7529/1: delay: set loops_per_jiffy when moving to timer-based loopWill Deacon
The delay functions may be called by some platforms between switching to the timer-based delay loop but before calibration. In this case, the initial loops_per_jiffy may not be suitable for the timer (although a compromise may be achievable) and delay times may be considered too inaccurate. This patch updates loops_per_jiffy when switching to the timer-based delay loop so that delays are consistent prior to calibration. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-09ARM: 7527/1: uaccess: explicitly check __user pointer when !CPU_USE_DOMAINSRussell King
The {get,put}_user macros don't perform range checking on the provided __user address when !CPU_HAS_DOMAINS. This patch reworks the out-of-line assembly accessors to check the user address against a specified limit, returning -EFAULT if is is out of range. [will: changed get_user register allocation to match put_user] [rmk: fixed building on older ARM architectures] Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-08-13ARM: Bring back ARMv3 IO and user access codeRussell King
This partially reverts 357c9c1f07d4546bc3fbc0fd1044d96b114d14ed (ARM: Remove support for ARMv3 ARM610 and ARM710 CPUs). Although we only support StrongARM on the RiscPC, we need to keep the ARMv3 user access code for this platform because the bus does not understand half-word load/stores. Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-30arch: remove direct definitions of KERN_<LEVEL> usesJoe Perches
Add #include <linux/kern_levels.h> so that the #define KERN_<LEVEL> macros don't have to be duplicated. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-27Merge branches 'audit', 'delay', 'fixes', 'misc' and 'sta2x11' into for-linusRussell King
2012-07-09ARM: 7452/1: delay: allow timer-based delay implementation to be selectedWill Deacon
This patch allows a timer-based delay implementation to be selected by switching the delay routines over to use get_cycles, which is implemented in terms of read_current_timer. This further allows us to skip the loop calibration and have a consistent delay function in the face of core frequency scaling. To avoid the pain of dealing with memory-mapped counters, this implementation uses the co-processor interface to the architected timers when they are available. The previous loop-based implementation is kept around for CPUs without the architected timers and we retain both the maximum delay (2ms) and the corresponding conversion factors for determining the number of loops required for a given interval. Since the indirection of the timer routines will only work when called from C, the sa1100 sleep routines are modified to branch to the loop-based delay functions directly. Tested-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi.px@renesas.com> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-09ARM: 7449/1: use generic strnlen_user and strncpy_from_user functionsWill Deacon
This patch implements the word-at-a-time interface for ARM using the same algorithm as x86. We use the fls macro from ARMv5 onwards, where we have a clz instruction available which saves us a mov instruction when targetting Thumb-2. For older CPUs, we use the magic 0x0ff0001 constant. Big-endian configurations make use of the implementation from asm-generic. With this implemented, we can replace our byte-at-a-time strnlen_user and strncpy_from_user functions with the optimised generic versions. Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-05-05ARM: Remove support for ARMv3 ARM610 and ARM710 CPUsRussell King
This patch removes support for ARMv3 CPUs, which haven't worked properly for quite some time (see the FIXME comment in arch/arm/mm/fault.c). The only V3 parts left is the cache model for ARMv3, which is needed for some odd reason by ARM740T CPUs, and being able to build with -march=armv3, which is required for the RiscPC platform due to its bus structure. Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-25ARM: 7301/1: Rename the T() macro to TUSER() to avoid namespace conflictsCatalin Marinas
This macro is used to generate unprivileged accesses (LDRT/STRT) to user space. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-12-12ARM: lib: add call_with_stack function for safely changing stackWill Deacon
When disabling the MMU, it is necessary to take out a 1:1 identity map of the reset code so that it can safely be executed with and without the MMU active. To avoid the situation where the physical address of the reset code aliases with the virtual address of the active stack (which cannot be included in the 1:1 mapping), it is desirable to change to a new stack at a location which is less likely to alias. This code adds a new lib function, call_with_stack: void call_with_stack(void (*fn)(void *), void *arg, void *sp); which changes the stack to point at the sp parameter, before invoking fn(arg) with the new stack selected. Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2011-11-26ARM: 7171/1: unwind: add unwind directives to bitops assembly macrosWill Deacon
The bitops functions (e.g. _test_and_set_bit) on ARM do not have unwind annotations and therefore the kernel cannot backtrace out of them on a fatal error (for example, NULL pointer dereference). This patch annotates the bitops assembly macros with UNWIND annotations so that we can produce a meaningful backtrace on error. Callers of the macros are modified to pass their function name as a macro parameter, enforcing that the macros are used as standalone function implementations. Acked-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-10-25Merge branch 'misc' into for-linusRussell King
Conflicts: arch/arm/mach-integrator/integrator_ap.c
2011-10-17ARM: 7125/1: Add unwinding annotations for 64bit division functionsLaura Abbott
The 64bit division functions never had unwinding annotations added. This prevents a backtrace from being printed within the function and if a division by 0 occurs. Add the annotations. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-10-17ARM: 7068/1: process: change from __backtrace to dump_stack in show_regsLaura Abbott
Currently, show_regs calls __backtrace which does nothing if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is not set. Switch to dump_stack which handles both CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER and CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND correctly. __backtrace is now superseded by dump_stack in general and show_regs was the last caller so remove __backtrace as well. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-10-02ARM: include linux/highmem.h in uaccess functionsArnd Bergmann
When highpte support is enabled, this is required to build the kernel. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2011-08-07arm: remove "optimized" SHA1 routinesLinus Torvalds
Since commit 1eb19a12bd22 ("lib/sha1: use the git implementation of SHA-1"), the ARM SHA1 routines no longer work. The reason? They depended on the larger 320-byte workspace, and now the sha1 workspace is just 16 words (64 bytes). So the assembly version would overwrite the stack randomly. The optimized asm version is also probably slower than the new improved C version, so there's no reason to keep it around. At least that was the case in git, where what appears to be the same assembly language version was removed two years ago because the optimized C BLK_SHA1 code was faster. Reported-and-tested-by: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@gmail.com> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-12ARM: remove unnecessary mach/hardware.h includesRob Herring
Remove some includes of mach/hardware.h which are not needed. hardware.h will be removed completely for tegra and cns3xxx in follow on patch. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2011-05-27ARM: 6945/1: Add unwinding support for division functionsLaura Abbott
The software division functions never had unwinding annotations added. Currently, when a division by zero occurs the backtrace shown will stop at Ldiv0 or some completely unrelated function. Add unwinding annotations in hopes of getting a more useful backtrace when a division by zero occurs. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-20Merge branches 'fixes', 'pgt-next' and 'versatile' into develRussell King
2011-02-21ARM: pgtable: add pud-level codeRussell King
Add pud_offset() et.al. between the pgd and pmd code in preparation of using pgtable-nopud.h rather than 4level-fixup.h. This incorporates a fix from Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com> for uaccess_with_memcpy.c. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-02-19ARM: 6653/1: bitops: Use BX instead of MOV PC,LRDave Martin
The kernel doesn't officially need to interwork, but using BX wherever appropriate will help educate people into good assembler coding habits. BX is appropriate here because this code is predicated on __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6 Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-02-02ARM: bitops: switch set/clear/change bitops to use ldrex/strexRussell King
Switch the set/clear/change bitops to use the word-based exclusive operations, which are only present in a wider range of ARM architectures than the byte-based exclusive operations. Tested record: - Nicolas Pitre: ext3,rw,le - Sourav Poddar: nfs,le - Will Deacon: ext3,rw,le - Tony Lindgren: ext3+nfs,le Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Tested-by: Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar@ti.com> Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-02-02ARM: bitops: ensure set/clear/change bitops take a word-aligned pointerRussell King
Add additional instructions to our assembly bitops functions to ensure that they only operate on word-aligned pointers. This will be necessary when we switch these operations to use the word-based exclusive operations. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-10ARM: udelay: prevent math rounding resulting in short udelaysRussell King
We perform the microseconds to loops calculation using a number of multiplies and shift rights. Each shift right rounds down the resulting value, which can result in delays shorter than requested. Ensure that we always round up. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-06Merge branch 'smp' into miscRussell King
Conflicts: arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c
2010-11-24ARM: 6482/2: Fix find_next_zero_bit and related assemblyJames Jones
The find_next_bit, find_first_bit, find_next_zero_bit and find_first_zero_bit functions were not properly clamping to the maxbit argument at the bit level. They were instead only checking maxbit at the byte level. To fix this, add a compare and a conditional move instruction to the end of the common bit-within-the- byte code used by all the functions and be sure not to clobber the maxbit argument before it is used. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: James Jones <jajones@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-11-04ARM: 6384/1: Remove the domain switching on ARMv6k/v7 CPUsCatalin Marinas
This patch removes the domain switching functionality via the set_fs and __switch_to functions on cores that have a TLS register. Currently, the ioremap and vmalloc areas share the same level 1 page tables and therefore have the same domain (DOMAIN_KERNEL). When the kernel domain is modified from Client to Manager (via the __set_fs or in the __switch_to function), the XN (eXecute Never) bit is overridden and newer CPUs can speculatively prefetch the ioremap'ed memory. Linux performs the kernel domain switching to allow user-specific functions (copy_to/from_user, get/put_user etc.) to access kernel memory. In order for these functions to work with the kernel domain set to Client, the patch modifies the LDRT/STRT and related instructions to the LDR/STR ones. The user pages access rights are also modified for kernel read-only access rather than read/write so that the copy-on-write mechanism still works. CPU_USE_DOMAINS gets disabled only if the hardware has a TLS register (CPU_32v6K is defined) since writing the TLS value to the high vectors page isn't possible. The user addresses passed to the kernel are checked by the access_ok() function so that they do not point to the kernel space. Tested-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-03Merge branch 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (291 commits) ARM: AMBA: Add pclk support to AMBA bus infrastructure ARM: 6278/2: fix regression in RealView after the introduction of pclk ARM: 6277/1: mach-shmobile: Allow users to select HZ, default to 128 ARM: 6276/1: mach-shmobile: remove duplicate NR_IRQS_LEGACY ARM: 6246/1: mmci: support larger MMCIDATALENGTH register ARM: 6245/1: mmci: enable hardware flow control on Ux500 variants ARM: 6244/1: mmci: add variant data and default MCICLOCK support ARM: 6243/1: mmci: pass power_mode to the translate_vdd callback ARM: 6274/1: add global control registers definition header file for nuc900 mx2_camera: fix type of dma buffer virtual address pointer mx2_camera: Add soc_camera support for i.MX25/i.MX27 arm/imx/gpio: add spinlock protection ARM: Add support for the LPC32XX arch ARM: LPC32XX: Arch config menu supoport and makefiles ARM: LPC32XX: Phytec 3250 platform support ARM: LPC32XX: Misc support functions ARM: LPC32XX: Serial support code ARM: LPC32XX: System suspend support ARM: LPC32XX: GPIO, timer, and IRQ drivers ARM: LPC32XX: Clock driver ...
2010-07-26ARM: Fix csum_partial_copy_from_user()Russell King
Using the parent functions frame pointer to access our arguments is completely wrong, whether or not we're building with frame pointers or not. What we should be using is the stack pointer to get at the word above the registers we stacked ourselves. Reported-by: Bosko Radivojevic <bosko.radivojevic@gmail.com> Tested-by: Bosko Radivojevic <bosko.radivojevic@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-06-24ARM: Remove support for LinkUp Systems L7200 SDP.Russell King
This hasn't been actively maintained for a long time, only receiving the occasional build update when things break. I doubt anyone has one of these on their desks anymore. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-08ARM: 6110/1: Fix Thumb-2 kernel builds when UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY is enabledCatalin Marinas
The patch adds the ENDPROC declarations for the __copy_to_user_std and __clear_user_std functions. Without these, the compiler generates BXL to ARM when compiling the kernel in Thumb-2 mode. Reported-by: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org> Tested-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-04-21ARM: fix build error in arch/arm/kernel/process.cRussell King
/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s:1952: Error: can't resolve `.text' {.text section} - `.LFB1077' This is caused because: .section .data .section .text .section .text .previous does not return us to the .text section, but the .data section; this makes use of .previous dangerous if the ordering of previous sections is not known. Fix up the other users of .previous; .pushsection and .popsection are a safer pairing to use than .section and .previous. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-04-05Merge branch 'master' into export-slabhTejun Heo
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-29ARM: 6006/1: ARM: Use the correct NOP size in memmove for Thumb-2 kernel buildsCatalin Marinas
When compiling the kernel to Thumb-2, using a 16-bit NOP in the memmove() implementation causes the preceding ADD PC instruction to branch incorrectly in the middle of a 32-bit LDR or STR instruction. The memmove() code is now similar to the memcpy() template. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-19Merge branch 'for-rmk' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6Russell King
2009-09-15ARM: 5701/1: ARM: copy_page.S: take into account the size of the cache lineKirill A. Shutemov
Optimized version of copy_page() was written with assumption that cache line size is 32 bytes. On Cortex-A8 cache line size is 64 bytes. This patch tries to generalize copy_page() to work with any cache line size if cache line size is multiple of 16 and page size is multiple of two cache line size. After this optimization we've got ~25% speedup on OMAP3(tested in userspace). There is test for kernelspace which trigger copy-on-write after fork(): #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <unistd.h> #define BUF_SIZE (10000*4096) #define NFORK 200 int main(int argc, char **argv) { char *buf = malloc(BUF_SIZE); int i; memset(buf, 0, BUF_SIZE); for(i = 0; i < NFORK; i++) { if (fork()) { wait(NULL); } else { int j; for(j = 0; j < BUF_SIZE; j+= 4096) buf[j] = (j & 0xFF) + 1; break; } } free(buf); return 0; } Before optimization this test takes ~66 seconds, after optimization takes ~56 seconds. Signed-off-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-15Nicolas Pitre has a new email addressNicolas Pitre
Due to problems at cam.org, my nico@cam.org email address is no longer valid. FRom now on, nico@fluxnic.net should be used instead. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-15Merge branch 'for-rmk-2.6.32' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/ukl/linux-2.6 ↵Russell King
into devel-stable