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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>ARM: 8618/1: decompressor: reset ttbcr fields to use TTBR0 on ARMv7</title>
<updated>2016-10-02T19:05:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srinivas Ramana</name>
<email>sramana@codeaurora.org</email>
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<published>2016-09-30T14:03:31+00:00</published>
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If the bootloader uses the long descriptor format and jumps to
kernel decompressor code, TTBCR may not be in a right state.
Before enabling the MMU, it is required to clear the TTBCR.PD0
field to use TTBR0 for translation table walks.

The commit dbece45894d3a ("ARM: 7501/1: decompressor:
reset ttbcr for VMSA ARMv7 cores") does the reset of TTBCR.N, but
doesn't consider all the bits for the size of TTBCR.N.

Clear TTBCR.PD0 field and reset all the three bits of TTBCR.N to
indicate the use of TTBR0 and the correct base address width.

Fixes: dbece45894d3 ("ARM: 7501/1: decompressor: reset ttbcr for VMSA ARMv7 cores")
Acked-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Ramana &lt;sramana@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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If the bootloader uses the long descriptor format and jumps to
kernel decompressor code, TTBCR may not be in a right state.
Before enabling the MMU, it is required to clear the TTBCR.PD0
field to use TTBR0 for translation table walks.

The commit dbece45894d3a ("ARM: 7501/1: decompressor:
reset ttbcr for VMSA ARMv7 cores") does the reset of TTBCR.N, but
doesn't consider all the bits for the size of TTBCR.N.

Clear TTBCR.PD0 field and reset all the three bits of TTBCR.N to
indicate the use of TTBR0 and the correct base address width.

Fixes: dbece45894d3 ("ARM: 7501/1: decompressor: reset ttbcr for VMSA ARMv7 cores")
Acked-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Ramana &lt;sramana@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: add UEFI stub support</title>
<updated>2015-12-14T09:38:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roy Franz</name>
<email>roy.franz@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-24T03:17:54+00:00</published>
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This patch adds EFI stub support for the ARM Linux kernel.

The EFI stub operates similarly to the x86 and arm64 stubs: it is a
shim between the EFI firmware and the normal zImage entry point, and
sets up the environment that the zImage is expecting. This includes
optionally loading the initrd and device tree from the system partition
based on the kernel command line.

Signed-off-by: Roy Franz &lt;roy.franz@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ryan Harkin &lt;ryan.harkin@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
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This patch adds EFI stub support for the ARM Linux kernel.

The EFI stub operates similarly to the x86 and arm64 stubs: it is a
shim between the EFI firmware and the normal zImage entry point, and
sets up the environment that the zImage is expecting. This includes
optionally loading the initrd and device tree from the system partition
based on the kernel command line.

Signed-off-by: Roy Franz &lt;roy.franz@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ryan Harkin &lt;ryan.harkin@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: replace BSYM() with badr assembly macro</title>
<updated>2015-05-08T16:33:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-21T13:17:25+00:00</published>
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BSYM() was invented to allow us to work around a problem with the
assembler, where local symbols resolved by the assembler for the 'adr'
instruction did not take account of their ISA.

Since we don't want BSYM() used elsewhere, replace BSYM() with a new
macro 'badr', which is like the 'adr' pseudo-op, but with the BSYM()
mechanics integrated into it.  This ensures that the BSYM()-ification
is only used in conjunction with 'adr'.

Acked-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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BSYM() was invented to allow us to work around a problem with the
assembler, where local symbols resolved by the assembler for the 'adr'
instruction did not take account of their ISA.

Since we don't want BSYM() used elsewhere, replace BSYM() with a new
macro 'badr', which is like the 'adr' pseudo-op, but with the BSYM()
mechanics integrated into it.  This ensures that the BSYM()-ification
is only used in conjunction with 'adr'.

Acked-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 8327/1: zImage: add support for ARMv7-M</title>
<updated>2015-03-28T16:54:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joachim Eastwood</name>
<email>manabian@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-25T07:47:18+00:00</published>
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This patch makes it possible to enter zImage in Thumb mode for ARMv7-M
(Cortex-M) CPUs that do not support ARM mode. The kernel entry is also
made in Thumb mode.

[ukl: fix spelling in commit log, return early in call_cache_fn]

Signed-off-by: Joachim Eastwood &lt;manabian@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Stefan Agner &lt;stefan@agner.ch&gt;
Tested-by: Ezequiel Garcia &lt;ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar&gt;
Tested-by: Chanwoo Choi &lt;cw00.choi@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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This patch makes it possible to enter zImage in Thumb mode for ARMv7-M
(Cortex-M) CPUs that do not support ARM mode. The kernel entry is also
made in Thumb mode.

[ukl: fix spelling in commit log, return early in call_cache_fn]

Signed-off-by: Joachim Eastwood &lt;manabian@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Stefan Agner &lt;stefan@agner.ch&gt;
Tested-by: Ezequiel Garcia &lt;ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar&gt;
Tested-by: Chanwoo Choi &lt;cw00.choi@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: add documentation for finding start of physical memory</title>
<updated>2015-03-27T22:21:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-26T09:41:33+00:00</published>
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Occasionally, there's a question about the method we use to find the
start of physical memory.  Add some documentation so we don't have to
keep repeating outselves on the mailing list.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Occasionally, there's a question about the method we use to find the
start of physical memory.  Add some documentation so we don't have to
keep repeating outselves on the mailing list.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'debug', 'fixes', 'l2c' (early part), 'misc' and 'sa1100' into for-next</title>
<updated>2015-02-10T10:26:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-10T10:26:27+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 8294/1: ATAG_DTB_COMPAT: remove the DT workspace's hardcoded 64KB size</title>
<updated>2015-01-29T15:23:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Pitre</name>
<email>nicolas.pitre@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-27T15:10:42+00:00</published>
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There is currently a hardcoded limit of 64KB for the DTB to live in and
be extended with ATAG info.  Some DTBs have outgrown that limit:

$ du -b arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-n900.dtb
70212   arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-n900.dtb

Furthermore, the actual size passed to atags_to_fdt() included the stack
size which is obviously wrong.

The initial DTB size is known, so use it to size the allocated workspace
with a 50% growth assumption and relocate the temporary stack above that.
This is also clamped to 32KB min / 1MB max for robustness against bad
DTB data.

Reported-by: Pali Rohár &lt;pali.rohar@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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There is currently a hardcoded limit of 64KB for the DTB to live in and
be extended with ATAG info.  Some DTBs have outgrown that limit:

$ du -b arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-n900.dtb
70212   arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-n900.dtb

Furthermore, the actual size passed to atags_to_fdt() included the stack
size which is obviously wrong.

The initial DTB size is known, so use it to size the allocated workspace
with a 50% growth assumption and relocate the temporary stack above that.
This is also clamped to 32KB min / 1MB max for robustness against bad
DTB data.

Reported-by: Pali Rohár &lt;pali.rohar@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 8290/1: decompressor: fix a wrong comment</title>
<updated>2015-01-21T15:59:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-20T02:44:26+00:00</published>
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This comment does not correspond to the actual code.

When zImage is loaded at a lower *OR* higher address of
the destination of Image, it won't overwrite itself.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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This comment does not correspond to the actual code.

When zImage is loaded at a lower *OR* higher address of
the destination of Image, it won't overwrite itself.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 8191/1: decompressor: ensure I-side picks up relocated code</title>
<updated>2014-11-13T23:45:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-04T10:40:46+00:00</published>
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To speed up decompression, the decompressor sets up a flat, cacheable
mapping of memory. However, when there is insufficient space to hold
the page tables for this mapping, we don't bother to enable the caches
and subsequently skip all the cache maintenance hooks.

Skipping the cache maintenance before jumping to the relocated code
allows the processor to predict the branch and populate the I-cache
with stale data before the relocation loop has completed (since a
bootloader may have SCTLR.I set, which permits normal, cacheable
instruction fetches regardless of SCTLR.M).

This patch moves the cache maintenance check into the maintenance
routines themselves, allowing the v6/v7 versions to invalidate the
I-cache regardless of the MMU state.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Marc Carino &lt;marc.ceeeee@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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To speed up decompression, the decompressor sets up a flat, cacheable
mapping of memory. However, when there is insufficient space to hold
the page tables for this mapping, we don't bother to enable the caches
and subsequently skip all the cache maintenance hooks.

Skipping the cache maintenance before jumping to the relocated code
allows the processor to predict the branch and populate the I-cache
with stale data before the relocation loop has completed (since a
bootloader may have SCTLR.I set, which permits normal, cacheable
instruction fetches regardless of SCTLR.M).

This patch moves the cache maintenance check into the maintenance
routines themselves, allowing the v6/v7 versions to invalidate the
I-cache regardless of the MMU state.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Marc Carino &lt;marc.ceeeee@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 8079/1: zImage: identify kernel endianness</title>
<updated>2014-07-18T11:29:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Pitre</name>
<email>nicolas.pitre@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-19T21:44:32+00:00</published>
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With patch #8067/1 ("zImage: ensure header in LE format for BE8 kernels")
applied, it is no longer possible to determine the endianness of a compiled
kernel image.  This normally shouldn't matter to the boot environment,
except for those cases where the selection of a ramdisk or root filesystem
with a matching endianness has to be automated.

Let's add a flag to the zImage header indicating the actual endianness.
Four bytes from offset 0x30 can be interpreted as follows:

	04 03 02 01	big endian kernel

	01 02 03 04	little endian kernel

Anything else should be interpreted as "unknown", in which case it is
most likely that patch #8067/1 was not applied either and the zImage
magic number at offset 0x24 could be used instead to determine
endianness. No zImage before this patch ever produced 0x01020304 nor
0x04030201 at offset 0x30 so there is no confusion possible.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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With patch #8067/1 ("zImage: ensure header in LE format for BE8 kernels")
applied, it is no longer possible to determine the endianness of a compiled
kernel image.  This normally shouldn't matter to the boot environment,
except for those cases where the selection of a ramdisk or root filesystem
with a matching endianness has to be automated.

Let's add a flag to the zImage header indicating the actual endianness.
Four bytes from offset 0x30 can be interpreted as follows:

	04 03 02 01	big endian kernel

	01 02 03 04	little endian kernel

Anything else should be interpreted as "unknown", in which case it is
most likely that patch #8067/1 was not applied either and the zImage
magic number at offset 0x24 could be used instead to determine
endianness. No zImage before this patch ever produced 0x01020304 nor
0x04030201 at offset 0x30 so there is no confusion possible.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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