ARMv6 and greater introduced a new instruction ("bx") which can be used
to return from function calls. Recent CPUs perform better when the
"bx lr" instruction is used rather than the "mov pc, lr" instruction,
and this sequence is strongly recommended to be used by the ARM
architecture manual (section A.4.1.1).
We provide a new macro "ret" with all its variants for the condition
code which will resolve to the appropriate instruction.
Rather than doing this piecemeal, and miss some instances, change all
the "mov pc" instances to use the new macro, with the exception of
the "movs" instruction and the kprobes code. This allows us to detect
the "mov pc, lr" case and fix it up - and also gives us the possibility
of deploying this for other registers depending on the CPU selection.
Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> # Tegra Jetson TK1
Tested-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr> # mioa701_bootresume.S
Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> # Kirkwood
Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@freescale.com>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> # OMAPs
Tested-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> # Armada XP, 375, 385
Acked-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com> # DaVinci
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> # kvm/hyp
Acked-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com> # PXA3xx
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> # Xen
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> # ARMv7M
Tested-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au> # Shmobile
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The Undef abort handler in the kernel reads the undefined instruction
from user space. If the page table was modified from another CPU, the
user access could fail and do_page_fault() will be executed with
interrupts disabled. This can potentially deadlock on ARM11MPCore or on
Cortex-A15 with erratum 798181 workaround enabled (both implying IPI for
TLB maintenance with page table lock held).
This patch enables the IRQs in __und_usr before attempting to read the
instruction from user space.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Arun KS <getarunks@gmail.com>
Cc: Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The patch adds asm macros for inc_preempt_count and dec_preempt_count_ti
(which also gets the current thread_info) instead of open-coding them in
arch/arm/vfp/*.S files.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Arun KS <getarunks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
asm/assembler.h is a better place for this macro since it is used by
asm files outside arch/arm/kernel/
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Arun KS <getarunks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Commit d3f79584a8 ("ARM: cleanup undefined instruction entry code")
improved the register scheduling when handling undefined instructions.
A side effect of this is that r5 is now used as a temporary, whilst the
VFP probing code relies on r5 containing a non-zero value when VFP is
not supported.
This patch fixes the VFP detection code so that we don't rely on the
contents of r5. Without this patch, Linux dies loudly on CPUs without
VFP support.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patrik Kluba reports that the preempt count becomes invalid due
to the preempt_enable() call being unbalanced with a
preempt_disable() call in the vfp assembly routines. This happens
because preempt_enable() and preempt_disable() update preempt
counts under PREEMPT_COUNT=y but the vfp assembly routines do so
under PREEMPT=y. In a configuration where PREEMPT=n and
DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y, PREEMPT_COUNT=y and so the preempt_enable()
call in VFP_bounce() keeps subtracting from the preempt count
until it goes negative.
Fix this by always using PREEMPT_COUNT to decided when to update
preempt counts in the ARM assembly code.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Reported-by: Patrik Kluba <pkluba@dension.com>
Tested-by: Patrik Kluba <pkluba@dension.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 2.6.30
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
While trying to get a v3.5 kernel booted on the cubox, I noticed that
VFP does not work correctly with VFP bounce handling. This is because
of the confusion over 16-bit vs 32-bit instructions, and where PC is
supposed to point to.
The rule is that FP handlers are entered with regs->ARM_pc pointing at
the _next_ instruction to be executed. However, if the exception is
not handled, regs->ARM_pc points at the faulting instruction.
This is easy for ARM mode, because we know that the next instruction and
previous instructions are separated by four bytes. This is not true of
Thumb2 though.
Since all FP instructions are 32-bit in Thumb2, it makes things easy.
We just need to select the appropriate adjustment. Do this by moving
the adjustment out of do_undefinstr() into the assembly code, as only
the assembly code knows whether it's dealing with a 32-bit or 16-bit
instruction.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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>
We've observed that ARM VFP state can be corrupted during VFP exception
handling when PREEMPT is enabled. The exact conditions are difficult
to reproduce but appear to occur during VFP exception handling when a
task causes a VFP exception which is handled via VFP_bounce and is then
preempted by yet another task which in turn causes yet another VFP
exception. Since the VFP_bounce code is not preempt safe, VFP state then
becomes corrupt. In order to prevent preemption from occuring while
handling a VFP exception, this patch disables preemption while handling
VFP exceptions.
Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.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>
Fix a real section mismatch issue; the test code is thrown away after
initialisation, but if we do not detect the VFP hardware, it is left
hooked into the exception handler. Any VFP instructions which are
subsequently executed risk calling the discarded exception handler.
Introduce a new "null" handler which returns to the "unrecognised
fault" return address.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The current lazy saving of the VFP registers is no longer possible
with thread migration on SMP. This patch implements a per-CPU
vfp-state pointer and the saving of the VFP registers at every context
switch. The registers restoring is still performed in a lazy way.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
5d25ac038a broke VFP builds due to
enable_irq not being defined as an assembly macro. Move it to
assembler.h so everyone can use it.
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>
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!
Russell King