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>
UP systems do not implement all the instructions that SMP systems have,
so in order to boot a SMP kernel on a UP system, we need to rewrite
parts of the kernel.
Do this using an 'alternatives' scheme, where the kernel code and data
is modified prior to initialization to replace the SMP instructions,
thereby rendering the problematical code ineffectual. We use the linker
to generate a list of 32-bit word locations and their replacement values,
and run through these replacements when we detect a UP system.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:3145 check_flags+0xcc/0x1dc()
Modules linked in:
[<c0035120>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xf8) from [<c0355374>] (dump_stack+0x20/0x24)
[<c0355374>] (dump_stack+0x20/0x24) from [<c0060c04>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x58/0x70)
[<c0060c04>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x58/0x70) from [<c0060c3c>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x20/0x24)
[<c0060c3c>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x20/0x24) from [<c008f224>] (check_flags+0xcc/0x1dc)
[<c008f224>] (check_flags+0xcc/0x1dc) from [<c00945dc>] (lock_acquire+0x50/0x140)
[<c00945dc>] (lock_acquire+0x50/0x140) from [<c0358434>] (_raw_spin_lock+0x50/0x88)
[<c0358434>] (_raw_spin_lock+0x50/0x88) from [<c00fd114>] (set_task_comm+0x2c/0x60)
[<c00fd114>] (set_task_comm+0x2c/0x60) from [<c007e184>] (kthreadd+0x30/0x108)
[<c007e184>] (kthreadd+0x30/0x108) from [<c0030104>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)
---[ end trace 1b75b31a2719ed1c ]---
possible reason: unannotated irqs-on.
irq event stamp: 3
hardirqs last enabled at (2): [<c0059bb0>] finish_task_switch+0x48/0xb0
hardirqs last disabled at (3): [<c002f0b0>] ret_slow_syscall+0xc/0x1c
softirqs last enabled at (0): [<c005f3e0>] copy_process+0x394/0xe5c
softirqs last disabled at (0): [<(null)>] (null)
Fix this by ensuring that the lockdep interrupt state is manipulated in
the appropriate places. We essentially treat userspace as an entirely
separate environment which isn't relevant to lockdep (lockdep doesn't
monitor userspace.) We don't tell lockdep that IRQs will be enabled
in that environment.
Instead, when creating kernel threads (which is a rare event compared
to entering/leaving userspace) we have to update the lockdep state. Do
this by starting threads with IRQs disabled, and in the kthread helper,
tell lockdep that IRQs are enabled, and enable them.
This provides lockdep with a consistent view of the current IRQ state
in kernel space.
This also revert portions of 0d928b0b61
which didn't fix the problem.
Tested-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The TLS register is only available on ARM1136 r1p0 and later.
Set HWCAP_TLS flags if hardware TLS is available and test for
it if CONFIG_CPU_32v6K is not set for V6.
Note that we set the TLS instruction in __kuser_get_tls
dynamically as suggested by Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>.
Also the __switch_to code is optimized out in most cases as
suggested by Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>.
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
A new random value for the canary is stored in the task struct whenever
a new task is forked. This is meant to allow for different canary values
per task. On ARM, GCC expects the canary value to be found in a global
variable called __stack_chk_guard. So this variable has to be updated
with the value stored in the task struct whenever a task switch occurs.
Because the variable GCC expects is global, this cannot work on SMP
unfortunately. So, on SMP, the same initial canary value is kept
throughout, making this feature a bit less effective although it is still
useful.
One way to overcome this GCC limitation would be to locate the
__stack_chk_guard variable into a memory page of its own for each CPU,
and then use TLB locking to have each CPU see its own page at the same
virtual address for each of them.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
With CONFIG_KPROBES enabled two section are getting created which
leads to below build break.
LOG:
AS arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.o
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S: Assembler messages:
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S:431: Error: symbol ret_from_exception is in a different section
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S:490: Error: symbol ret_from_exception is in a different section
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S:491: Error: symbol __und_usr_unknown is in a different section
This was introduced by commit 4260415f6a
Reported-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
/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>
The __kuser_cmpxchg code uses an ARMv6 dmb instruction, rather than
one based upon the architecture being built for. Switch to using
the macro provided for this purpose, which also eliminates the
need for an ifdef.
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Use a definition for the cmpxchg SWI instead of hard-coding the number.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
The 32-bit wide variant of "mov pc, reg" in Thumb-2 is unpredictable
causing improper handling of the undefined instructions not caught by
the kernel. This patch adds a movw_pc macro for such situations
(currently only used in call_fpe).
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Instruction fault status register, IFSR, was introduced on ARMv6 to
provide status information about the last insturction fault. It
needed for proper prefetch abort handling.
Now we have three prefetch abort model:
* legacy - for CPUs before ARMv6. They doesn't provide neither
IFSR nor IFAR. We simulate IFSR with section translation fault
status for them to generalize code;
* ARMv6 - provides IFSR, but not IFAR;
* ARMv7 - provides both IFSR and IFAR.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
VFP instructions in the kernel may trigger undefined exceptions if VFP
hardware is not present. This patch corrects the loading of such Thumb-2
instructions. It also marks the "no_fp" label as a function so that the
linker generate a Thumb address.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
The patch adds a CLREX or dummy STREX to the exception return path. This
is needed because several atomic/locking operations use a pair of
LDREX/STREXEQ and the EQ condition may not always be satisfied. This
would leave the exclusive monitor status set and may cause problems with
atomic/locking operations in the interrupted code.
With this patch, the atomic_set() operation can be a simple STR
instruction (on SMP systems, the global exclusive monitor is cleared by
STR anyway). Clearing the exclusive monitor during context switch is no
longer needed as this is handled by the exception return path anyway.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Before this patch enabling and disabling irqs in assembler code and by
the hardware wasn't tracked completly.
I had to transpose two instructions in arch/arm/lib/bitops.h because
restore_irqs doesn't preserve the flags with CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS=y
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Since the Thumb-2 instructions can be 16-bit wide, data in the .text
sections may not be aligned to a 32-bit word and this leads to unaligned
exceptions. This patch does not affect the ARM code generation.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Starting with ARMv6, the CPUs support the BE-8 variant of big-endian
(byte-invariant). This patch adds the core support:
- setting of the BE-8 mode via the CPSR.E register for both kernel and
user threads
- big-endian page table walking
- REV used to rotate instructions read from memory during fault
processing as they are still little-endian format
- Kconfig and Makefile support for BE-8. The --be8 option must be passed
to the final linking stage to convert the instructions to
little-endian
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Mathieu Desnoyers pointed out that the ARM barriers were lacking:
- cmpxchg, xchg and atomic add return need memory barriers on
architectures which can reorder the relative order in which memory
read/writes can be seen between CPUs, which seems to include recent
ARM architectures. Those barriers are currently missing on ARM.
- test_and_xxx_bit were missing SMP barriers.
So put these barriers in. Provide separate atomic_add/atomic_sub
operations which do not require barriers.
Reported-Reviewed-and-Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This is needed to allow or stop the unwinding at certain points in the
kernel like exception entries.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Aaro says:
> With spinlock debugs enabled I get might_sleep() warnings when using
> ptrace.
tracked down to a missing enable_irq before calling do_undefinstr().
Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This declaration specifies the "function" type and size for various
assembly functions, mainly needed for generating the correct branch
instructions in Thumb-2.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch implements Thumb-2 application support in Linux. Original
implementation by Paul Brook with fixes for VFP and Neon by Catalin
Marinas.
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
This patch adds a prefetch abort handler similar to the data abort one
and renames the latter for consistency. Initial implementation by Paul
Brook with some renaming by Catalin Marinas.
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
If kprobes installs a breakpoint on a "stmdb sp!, {...}" instruction,
and then single-step it by simulation from the exception context, it will
corrupt the saved regs on the stack from the previous context.
To avoid this, let's add an optional parameter to the svc_entry macro
allowing for a hole to be created on the stack before saving the
interrupted context, and use it in the undef_svc handler when kprobes
is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
This patch enables the use of the Advanced SIMD (NEON) extension on
ARMv7. The NEON technology is a 64/128-bit hybrid SIMD architecture
for accelerating the performance of multimedia and signal processing
applications. The extension shares the registers with the VFP unit and
enabling/disabling and saving/restoring follow the same rules. In
addition, there are instructions that do not have the appropriate CP
number encoded, the checks being made in the call_fpe function.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The ARM __kuser_cmpxchg routine is meant to implement an atomic cmpxchg
in user space. It however can produce spurious false negative if a
processor exception occurs in the middle of the operation. Normally
this is not a problem since cmpxchg is typically called in a loop until
it succeeds to implement an atomic increment for example.
Some use cases which don't involve a loop require that the operation be
100% reliable though. This patch changes the implementation so to
reattempt the operation after an exception has occurred in the critical
section rather than abort it.
Here's a simple program to test the fix (don't use CONFIG_NO_HZ in your
kernel as this depends on a sufficiently high interrupt rate):
#include <stdio.h>
typedef int (__kernel_cmpxchg_t)(int oldval, int newval, int *ptr);
#define __kernel_cmpxchg (*(__kernel_cmpxchg_t *)0xffff0fc0)
int main()
{
int i, x = 0;
for (i = 0; i < 100000000; i++) {
int v = x;
if (__kernel_cmpxchg(v, v+1, &x))
printf("failed at %d: %d vs %d\n", i, v, x);
}
printf("done with %d vs %d\n", i, x);
return 0;
}
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
get_irqnr_preamble allows machines to take some action before entering the
get_irqnr_and_base loop. On iop we enable cp6 access.
arch_ret_to_user is added to the userspace return path to allow individual
architectures to take actions, like disabling coprocessor access, before
the final return to userspace.
Per Nicolas Pitre's note, there is no need to cp_wait on the return to user
as the latency to return is sufficient.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
bad_mode() currently prints the mode which caused the exception, and
then causes an oops dump to be printed which again displays this
information (since the CPSR in the struct pt_regs is correct.) This
leads to processor_modes[] being shared between traps.c and process.c
with a local declaration of it.
We can clean this up by moving processor_modes[] to process.c and
removing the duplication, resulting in processor_modes[] becoming
static.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
If the kernel attempts to execute a CP1 or CP2 instruction and it
aborts, and a FP emulator is not loaded, we try to return as if to
a user context, instead of the proper kernel context. Since the
fault came from kernel mode, we must use the kernel return paths.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
XScale cores either have a DSP coprocessor (which contains a single
40 bit accumulator register), or an iWMMXt coprocessor (which contains
eight 64 bit registers.)
Because of the small amount of state in the DSP coprocessor, access to
the DSP coprocessor (CP0) is always enabled, and DSP context switching
is done unconditionally on every task switch. Access to the iWMMXt
coprocessor (CP0/CP1) is enabled only when an iWMMXt instruction is
first issued, and iWMMXt context switching is done lazily.
CONFIG_IWMMXT is supposed to mean 'the cpu we will be running on will
have iWMMXt support', but boards are supposed to select this config
symbol by hand, and at least one pxa27x board doesn't get this right,
so on that board, proc-xscale.S will incorrectly assume that we have a
DSP coprocessor, enable CP0 on boot, and we will then only save the
first iWMMXt register (wR0) on context switches, which is Bad.
This patch redefines CONFIG_IWMMXT as 'the cpu we will be running on
might have iWMMXt support, and we will enable iWMMXt context switching
if it does.' This means that with this patch, running a CONFIG_IWMMXT=n
kernel on an iWMMXt-capable CPU will no longer potentially corrupt iWMMXt
state over context switches, and running a CONFIG_IWMMXT=y kernel on a
non-iWMMXt capable CPU will still do DSP context save/restore.
These changes should make iWMMXt work on PXA3xx, and as a side effect,
enable proper acc0 save/restore on non-iWMMXt capable xsc3 cores such
as IOP13xx and IXP23xx (which will not have CONFIG_CPU_XSCALE defined),
as well as setting and using HWCAP_IWMMXT properly.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
The userspace helpers in clean/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S are called
directly in/from userspace. They need to cope with being called from
Thumb code.
Patch below uses the bx interworking instruction when
CONFIG_ARM_THUMB=y.
Based on an earlier patch from Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (44 commits)
[ARM] 3541/2: workaround for PXA27x erratum E7
[ARM] nommu: provide a way for correct control register value selection
[ARM] 3705/1: add supersection support to ioremap()
[ARM] 3707/1: iwmmxt: use the generic thread notifier infrastructure
[ARM] 3706/2: ep93xx: add cirrus logic edb9315a support
[ARM] 3704/1: format IOP Kconfig with tabs, create more consistency
[ARM] 3703/1: Add help description for ARCH_EP80219
[ARM] 3678/1: MMC: Make OMAP MMC work
[ARM] 3677/1: OMAP: Update H2 defconfig
[ARM] 3676/1: ARM: OMAP: Fix dmtimers and timer32k to compile on OMAP1
[ARM] Add section support to ioremap
[ARM] Fix sa11x0 SDRAM selection
[ARM] Set bit 4 on section mappings correctly depending on CPU
[ARM] 3666/1: TRIZEPS4 [1/5] core
ARM: OMAP: Multiplexing for 24xx GPMC wait pin monitoring
ARM: OMAP: Fix SRAM to use MT_MEMORY instead of MT_DEVICE
ARM: OMAP: Update dmtimers
ARM: OMAP: Make clock variables static
ARM: OMAP: Fix GPMC compilation when DEBUG is defined
ARM: OMAP: Mux updates for external DMA and GPIO
...
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
This patch makes the iWMMXt context switch hook use the generic
thread notifier infrastructure that was recently merged in commit
d6551e884c.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
Add the necessary kernel bits for crunch task switching.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Some machine classes need to allow VFP support to be built into the
kernel, but still allow the kernel to run even though VFP isn't
present. Unfortunately, the kernel hard-codes VFP instructions
into the thread switch, which prevents this being run-time selectable.
Solve this by introducing a notifier which things such as VFP can
hook into to be informed of events which affect the VFP subsystem
(eg, creation and destruction of threads, switches between threads.)
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Paul Brook
The example code in the source documentation for __kernel_dmb
clobbers r0 but doesn't list it the asm clobber list.
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Allow the individual coprocessor handlers to decide when to enable
interrupts, rather than unconditionally enabling them.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
negative
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
The pre ARMv5 implementation can be aborted if an exception occurs in
the middle of it. Because of that, the ARMv6 implementation doesn't
re-attempt the operation on a failed strex either. Let's make this
transient nature of such a false positive more explicit in the
definition.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
The cmpxchg emulation on pre-ARMv5 relies on user code executed from a
kernel address. If the operation cannot complete atomically, it is
aborted from the usr_entry macro by clearing the Z flag. This clearing
of the Z flag is done whenever the user pc is above TASK_SIZE.
However this "pc >= TASK_SIZE" test cannot work in the non MMU case.
Worse: the current code will corrupt the Z flag on every entry to the
kernel.
Let's disable it in the non MMU case for now. Using NPTL on non MMU
targets needs to be worked out anyway.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
This is kernel provided user space code.
Since a syscall is used, it has to be updated to work with EABI.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
The ARM EABI says that the stack pointer has to be 64-bit aligned for
reasons already mentioned in patch #3101 when calling C functions.
We therefore must verify and adjust sp accordingly when taking an
exception from kernel mode since sp might not necessarily be 64-bit
aligned if the exception occurs in the middle of a kernel function.
If the exception occurs while in user mode then no sp fixup is needed as
long as sizeof(struct pt_regs) as well as any additional syscall data
stack space remain multiples of 8.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch adds register switch support in nommu mode.
Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S has contained a comment suggesting
that asm/hardware.h and asm/arch/irqs.h should be moved into the
asm/arch/entry-macro.S include. So move the includes to these
two files as required.
Add missing includes (asm/hardware.h, asm/io.h) to asm/arch/system.h
includes which use those facilities, and remove asm/io.h from
kernel/process.c.
Remove other unnecessary includes from arch/arm/kernel, arch/arm/mm
and arch/arm/mach-footbridge.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
Strictly speaking, the NPTL kernel helpers are required for pre ARMv6
only. They are available on ARMv6+ as well for obvious compatibility
reasons. However there are cases where extra memory barriers are needed
when using an SMP ARMv6 machine but not on pre-ARMv6.
This patch adds a memory barrier kernel helper that glibc can use as
needed for pre-ARMv6 binaries to be forward compatible with an SMP
kernel on ARMv6, as well as the necessary dmb instructions to the
cmpxchg helper.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Add infrastructure for supporting per-cpu local timers to update
the profiling information and update system time accounting.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
Since we know the value of cpsr on entry, we can replace the bic+orr with
a single eor. Also remove a possible result delay (at least on XScale).
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
This patch allows for assorted type of cleanups by letting assembly code
use the same set of defines for constant values and avoid duplicated
definitions that might not always be in sync, or that might simply be
confusing due to the different names for the same thing.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
We accidentally corrupted the TLS value when clearing out the ARMv6
exclusive monitor. Avoid doing so.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
Not that there might be many of them on the planet, but at least RMK
apparently has one.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The current vector entry system does not allow for SMP. In
order to work around this, we need to eliminate our reliance
on the fixed save areas, which breaks the way we enable
alignment traps. This patch changes the way we handle the
save areas such that we can have one per CPU.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
The current vector entry system does not allow for SMP. In
order to work around this, we need to eliminate our reliance
on the fixed save areas, which breaks the way we enable
alignment traps. This patch makes the alignment trap enable
code independent of the way we handle the save areas.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
By changing r9 -> r8 and r8 to 'tsk' (r9) we are able to remove
one instruction from the preempt path.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
This better express things, and should cover RMK's weird SMP toys.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
This patch entirely reworks the kernel assistance for NPTL on ARM.
In particular this provides an efficient way to retrieve the TLS
value and perform atomic operations without any instruction emulation
nor special system call. This even allows for pre ARMv6 binaries to
be forward compatible with SMP systems without any penalty.
The problematic and performance critical operations are performed
through segment of kernel provided user code reachable from user space
at a fixed address in kernel memory. Those fixed entry points are
within the vector page so we basically get it for free as no extra
memory page is required and nothing else may be mapped at that
location anyway.
This is different from (but doesn't preclude) a full blown VDSO
implementation, however a VDSO would prevent some assembly tricks with
constants that allows for efficient branching to those code segments.
And since those code segments only use a few cycles before returning to
user code, the overhead of a VDSO far call would add a significant
overhead to such minimalistic operations.
The ARM_NR_set_tls syscall also changed number. This is done for two
reasons:
1) this patch changes the way the TLS value was previously meant to be
retrieved, therefore we ensure whatever library using the old way
gets fixed (they only exist in private tree at the moment since the
NPTL work is still progressing).
2) the previous number was allocated in a range causing an undefined
instruction trap on kernels not supporting that syscall and it was
determined that allocating it in a range returning -ENOSYS would be
much nicer for libraries trying to determine if the feature is
present or not.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
SVC_MODE reflects the MODE_SVC definition in asm/ptrace.h. Use
the asm/ptrace.h definition instead, and remove SVC_MODE.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Catalin Marinas