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<title>ARC: Add support for irqflags tracing and lockdep</title>
<updated>2013-11-06T05:11:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
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<published>2013-09-06T08:48:17+00:00</published>
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Lockdep required a small fix to stacktrace API which was incorrectly
unwindign out of __switch_to for the current call frame.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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Lockdep required a small fix to stacktrace API which was incorrectly
unwindign out of __switch_to for the current call frame.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<title>ARC: Reduce #ifdef'ery for unaligned access emulation</title>
<updated>2013-11-06T05:11:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
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<published>2013-09-18T12:38:01+00:00</published>
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Emulation not enabled is treated as if the fixup failed, so no need for
special #ifdef checks.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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Emulation not enabled is treated as if the fixup failed, so no need for
special #ifdef checks.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: Change calling convention of do_page_fault()</title>
<updated>2013-11-06T05:11:39+00:00</updated>
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<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
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<published>2013-09-18T10:55:40+00:00</published>
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switch the args (address, pt_regs) to match with all the other "C"
exception handlers.

This removes the awkwardness in EV_ProtV for page fault vs. unaligned
access.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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switch the args (address, pt_regs) to match with all the other "C"
exception handlers.

This removes the awkwardness in EV_ProtV for page fault vs. unaligned
access.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: Entry Handler tweaks: Optimize away redundant IRQ_DISABLE_SAVE</title>
<updated>2013-08-26T04:10:25+00:00</updated>
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<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
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<published>2013-07-09T11:36:40+00:00</published>
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In the exception return path, for both U/K cases, intr are already
disabled (for various existing reasons). So when we drop down to
@restore_regs, we need not redo that.

There was subtle issue - when intr were NOT being disabled for
ret-to-kernel-but-no-preemption case - now fixed by moving the
IRQ_DISABLE further up in @resume_kernel_mode.

So what do we gain:

* Shaves off a few insn in return path.

* Eliminates the need for IRQ_DISABLE_SAVE assembler macro for ARCv2
  hence allows for entry code sharing.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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In the exception return path, for both U/K cases, intr are already
disabled (for various existing reasons). So when we drop down to
@restore_regs, we need not redo that.

There was subtle issue - when intr were NOT being disabled for
ret-to-kernel-but-no-preemption case - now fixed by moving the
IRQ_DISABLE further up in @resume_kernel_mode.

So what do we gain:

* Shaves off a few insn in return path.

* Eliminates the need for IRQ_DISABLE_SAVE assembler macro for ARCv2
  hence allows for entry code sharing.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<title>ARC: Exception Handlers Code consolidation</title>
<updated>2013-08-26T04:10:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
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<published>2013-07-09T09:37:13+00:00</published>
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After the recent cleanups, all the exception handlers now have same
boilerplate prologue code. Move that into common macro.

This reduces readability but helps greatly with sharing / duplicating
entry code with ARCv2 ISA where the handlers are pretty much the same,
just the entry prologue is different (due to hardware assist).

Also while at it, add the missing FAKE_RET_FROM_EXCPN calls in couple of
places to drop down to pure kernel mode (from exception mode) before
jumping off into "C" code.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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After the recent cleanups, all the exception handlers now have same
boilerplate prologue code. Move that into common macro.

This reduces readability but helps greatly with sharing / duplicating
entry code with ARCv2 ISA where the handlers are pretty much the same,
just the entry prologue is different (due to hardware assist).

Also while at it, add the missing FAKE_RET_FROM_EXCPN calls in couple of
places to drop down to pure kernel mode (from exception mode) before
jumping off into "C" code.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: Remove explicit passing around of ECR</title>
<updated>2013-06-26T10:00:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-12T09:43:40+00:00</published>
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With ECR now part of pt_regs

* No need to propagate from lowest asm handlers as arg
* No need to save it in tsk-&gt;thread.cause_code
* Avoid bit chopping to access the bit-fields

More code consolidation, cleanup

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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With ECR now part of pt_regs

* No need to propagate from lowest asm handlers as arg
* No need to save it in tsk-&gt;thread.cause_code
* Avoid bit chopping to access the bit-fields

More code consolidation, cleanup

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: pt_regs update #5: Use real ECR for pt_regs-&gt;event vs. synth values</title>
<updated>2013-06-26T08:34:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-11T13:26:54+00:00</published>
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pt_regs-&gt;event was set with artificial values to identify the low level
system event (syscall trap / breakpoint trap / exceptions / interrupts)

With r8 saving out of the way, the full word can be used to save real
ECR (Exception Cause Register) which helps idenify the event naturally,
including additional info such as cause code, param.
Only for Interrupts, where ECR is not applicable, do we resort to
synthetic non ECR values.

SAVE_ALL_TRAP/EXCEPTIONS can now be merged as they both use ECR with
different runtime values.

The ptrace helpers now use the sub-fields of ECR to distinguish the
events (e.g. vector 0x25 is trap, param 0 is syscall...)

The following benefits will follow:

(1) This centralizes the location of where ECR is saved and will allow
    the cleanup of task-&gt;thread.cause_code ECR placeholder which is set
    in non-uniform way. Then ARC VM code can safely rely on it being
    there for purpose of finer grained VM_EXEC dcache flush (based on
    exec fault: I-TLB Miss)

(2) Further, ECR being passed around from low level handlers as arg can
    be eliminated as it is part of standard reg-file in pt_regs

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pt_regs-&gt;event was set with artificial values to identify the low level
system event (syscall trap / breakpoint trap / exceptions / interrupts)

With r8 saving out of the way, the full word can be used to save real
ECR (Exception Cause Register) which helps idenify the event naturally,
including additional info such as cause code, param.
Only for Interrupts, where ECR is not applicable, do we resort to
synthetic non ECR values.

SAVE_ALL_TRAP/EXCEPTIONS can now be merged as they both use ECR with
different runtime values.

The ptrace helpers now use the sub-fields of ECR to distinguish the
events (e.g. vector 0x25 is trap, param 0 is syscall...)

The following benefits will follow:

(1) This centralizes the location of where ECR is saved and will allow
    the cleanup of task-&gt;thread.cause_code ECR placeholder which is set
    in non-uniform way. Then ARC VM code can safely rely on it being
    there for purpose of finer grained VM_EXEC dcache flush (based on
    exec fault: I-TLB Miss)

(2) Further, ECR being passed around from low level handlers as arg can
    be eliminated as it is part of standard reg-file in pt_regs

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: pt_regs update #4: r25 saved/restored unconditionally</title>
<updated>2013-06-22T13:53:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-28T08:20:41+00:00</published>
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(This is a VERY IMP change for low level interrupt/exception handling)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
WHAT
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* User 25 now saved in pt_regs-&gt;user_r25 (vs. tsk-&gt;thread_info.user_r25)

* This allows Low level interrupt code to unconditionally save r25
  (vs. the prev version which would only do it for U-&gt;K transition).
  Ofcourse for nested interrupts, only the pt_regs-&gt;user_r25 of
  bottom-most frame is useful.

* simplifies the interrupt prologue/epilogue

* Needed for ARCv2 ISA code and done here to keep design similar with
  ARCompact event handling

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WHY
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
With CONFIG_ARC_CURR_IN_REG, r25 is used to cache "current" task pointer
in kernel mode. So when entering kernel mode from User Mode
- user r25 is specially safe-kept (it being a callee reg is NOT part of
  pt_regs which are saved by default on each interrupt/trap/exception)
- r25 loaded with current task pointer.

Further, if interrupt was taken in kernel mode, this is skipped since we
know that r25 already has valid "current" pointer.

With 2 level of interrupts in ARCompact ISA, detecting this is difficult
but still possible, since we could be in kernel mode but r25 not already saved
(in fact the stack itself might not have been switched).

A. User mode
B. L1 IRQ taken
C. L2 IRQ taken (while on 1st line of L1 ISR)

So in #C, although in kernel mode, r25 not saved (infact SP not
switched at all)

Given that ARcompact has manual stack switching, we could use a bit of
trickey - The low level code would make sure that SP is only set to kernel
mode value at the very end (after saving r25). So a non kernel mode SP,
even if in kernel mode, meant r25 was NOT saved.

The same paradigm won't work in ARCv2 ISA since SP is auto-switched so
it's setting can't be delayed/constrained.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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(This is a VERY IMP change for low level interrupt/exception handling)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
WHAT
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
* User 25 now saved in pt_regs-&gt;user_r25 (vs. tsk-&gt;thread_info.user_r25)

* This allows Low level interrupt code to unconditionally save r25
  (vs. the prev version which would only do it for U-&gt;K transition).
  Ofcourse for nested interrupts, only the pt_regs-&gt;user_r25 of
  bottom-most frame is useful.

* simplifies the interrupt prologue/epilogue

* Needed for ARCv2 ISA code and done here to keep design similar with
  ARCompact event handling

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
WHY
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
With CONFIG_ARC_CURR_IN_REG, r25 is used to cache "current" task pointer
in kernel mode. So when entering kernel mode from User Mode
- user r25 is specially safe-kept (it being a callee reg is NOT part of
  pt_regs which are saved by default on each interrupt/trap/exception)
- r25 loaded with current task pointer.

Further, if interrupt was taken in kernel mode, this is skipped since we
know that r25 already has valid "current" pointer.

With 2 level of interrupts in ARCompact ISA, detecting this is difficult
but still possible, since we could be in kernel mode but r25 not already saved
(in fact the stack itself might not have been switched).

A. User mode
B. L1 IRQ taken
C. L2 IRQ taken (while on 1st line of L1 ISR)

So in #C, although in kernel mode, r25 not saved (infact SP not
switched at all)

Given that ARcompact has manual stack switching, we could use a bit of
trickey - The low level code would make sure that SP is only set to kernel
mode value at the very end (after saving r25). So a non kernel mode SP,
even if in kernel mode, meant r25 was NOT saved.

The same paradigm won't work in ARCv2 ISA since SP is auto-switched so
it's setting can't be delayed/constrained.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: Entry Handler tweaks: Simplify branch for in-kernel preemption</title>
<updated>2013-06-22T13:53:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-14T13:00:50+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: Entry Handler tweaks: Avoid hardcoded LIMMS for ECR values</title>
<updated>2013-06-22T13:53:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-28T09:54:30+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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