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<title>ARM: 7790/1: Fix deferred mm switch on VIVT processors</title>
<updated>2013-07-26T11:02:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-23T15:15:36+00:00</published>
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As of commit b9d4d42ad9 (ARM: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW on
pre-ARMv6 CPUs), the mm switching on VIVT processors is done in the
finish_arch_post_lock_switch() function to avoid whole cache flushing
with interrupts disabled. The need for deferred mm switch is stored as a
thread flag (TIF_SWITCH_MM). However, with preemption enabled, we can
have another thread switch before finish_arch_post_lock_switch(). If the
new thread has the same mm as the previous 'next' thread, the scheduler
will not call switch_mm() and the TIF_SWITCH_MM flag won't be set for
the new thread.

This patch moves the switch pending flag to the mm_context_t structure
since this is specific to the mm rather than thread.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.5+
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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As of commit b9d4d42ad9 (ARM: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW on
pre-ARMv6 CPUs), the mm switching on VIVT processors is done in the
finish_arch_post_lock_switch() function to avoid whole cache flushing
with interrupts disabled. The need for deferred mm switch is stored as a
thread flag (TIF_SWITCH_MM). However, with preemption enabled, we can
have another thread switch before finish_arch_post_lock_switch(). If the
new thread has the same mm as the previous 'next' thread, the scheduler
will not call switch_mm() and the TIF_SWITCH_MM flag won't be set for
the new thread.

This patch moves the switch pending flag to the mm_context_t structure
since this is specific to the mm rather than thread.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.5+
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7769/1: Cortex-A15: fix erratum 798181 implementation</title>
<updated>2013-06-24T14:27:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>Marc.Zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-21T11:07:27+00:00</published>
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Looking into the active_asids array is not enough, as we also need
to look into the reserved_asids array (they both represent processes
that are currently running).

Also, not holding the ASID allocator lock is racy, as another CPU
could schedule that process and trigger a rollover, making the erratum
workaround miss an IPI.

Exposing this outside of context.c is a little ugly on the side, so
let's define a new entry point that the erratum workaround can call
to obtain the cpumask.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.9
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Looking into the active_asids array is not enough, as we also need
to look into the reserved_asids array (they both represent processes
that are currently running).

Also, not holding the ASID allocator lock is racy, as another CPU
could schedule that process and trigger a rollover, making the erratum
workaround miss an IPI.

Exposing this outside of context.c is a little ugly on the side, so
let's define a new entry point that the erratum workaround can call
to obtain the cpumask.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.9
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7757/1: mm: don't flush icache in switch_mm with hardware broadcasting</title>
<updated>2013-06-17T08:27:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-12T11:25:56+00:00</published>
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When scheduling an mm on a CPU where it hasn't previously been used, we
flush the icache on that CPU so that any code loaded previously on
a different core can be safely executed.

For cores with hardware broadcasting of cache maintenance operations,
this is clearly unnecessary, since the inner-shareable invalidation in
__sync_icache_dcache will affect all CPUs.

This patch conditionalises the icache flush in switch_mm based on
cache_ops_need_broadcast().

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Albin Tonnerre &lt;albin.tonnerre@arm.com&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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When scheduling an mm on a CPU where it hasn't previously been used, we
flush the icache on that CPU so that any code loaded previously on
a different core can be safely executed.

For cores with hardware broadcasting of cache maintenance operations,
this is clearly unnecessary, since the inner-shareable invalidation in
__sync_icache_dcache will affect all CPUs.

This patch conditionalises the icache flush in switch_mm based on
cache_ops_need_broadcast().

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Albin Tonnerre &lt;albin.tonnerre@arm.com&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>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7684/1: errata: Workaround for Cortex-A15 erratum 798181 (TLBI/DSB operations)</title>
<updated>2013-04-03T15:45:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-26T22:35:04+00:00</published>
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On Cortex-A15 (r0p0..r3p2) the TLBI/DSB are not adequately shooting down
all use of the old entries. This patch implements the erratum workaround
which consists of:

1. Dummy TLBIMVAIS and DSB on the CPU doing the TLBI operation.
2. Send IPI to the CPUs that are running the same mm (and ASID) as the
   one being invalidated (or all the online CPUs for global pages).
3. CPU receiving the IPI executes a DMB and CLREX (part of the exception
   return code already).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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On Cortex-A15 (r0p0..r3p2) the TLBI/DSB are not adequately shooting down
all use of the old entries. This patch implements the erratum workaround
which consists of:

1. Dummy TLBIMVAIS and DSB on the CPU doing the TLBI operation.
2. Send IPI to the CPUs that are running the same mm (and ASID) as the
   one being invalidated (or all the online CPUs for global pages).
3. CPU receiving the IPI executes a DMB and CLREX (part of the exception
   return code already).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7659/1: mm: make mm-&gt;context.id an atomic64_t variable</title>
<updated>2013-03-03T22:54:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-28T16:47:36+00:00</published>
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mm-&gt;context.id is updated under asid_lock when a new ASID is allocated
to an mm_struct. However, it is also read without the lock when a task
is being scheduled and checking whether or not the current ASID
generation is up-to-date.

If two threads of the same process are being scheduled in parallel and
the bottom bits of the generation in their mm-&gt;context.id match the
current generation (that is, the mm_struct has not been used for ~2^24
rollovers) then the non-atomic, lockless access to mm-&gt;context.id may
yield the incorrect ASID.

This patch fixes this issue by making mm-&gt;context.id and atomic64_t,
ensuring that the generation is always read consistently. For code that
only requires access to the ASID bits (e.g. TLB flushing by mm), then
the value is accessed directly, which GCC converts to an ldrb.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.8
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&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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mm-&gt;context.id is updated under asid_lock when a new ASID is allocated
to an mm_struct. However, it is also read without the lock when a task
is being scheduled and checking whether or not the current ASID
generation is up-to-date.

If two threads of the same process are being scheduled in parallel and
the bottom bits of the generation in their mm-&gt;context.id match the
current generation (that is, the mm_struct has not been used for ~2^24
rollovers) then the non-atomic, lockless access to mm-&gt;context.id may
yield the incorrect ASID.

This patch fixes this issue by making mm-&gt;context.id and atomic64_t,
ensuring that the generation is always read consistently. For code that
only requires access to the ASID bits (e.g. TLB flushing by mm), then
the value is accessed directly, which GCC converts to an ldrb.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.8
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&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: 7582/2: rename kvm_seq to vmalloc_seq so to avoid confusion with KVM</title>
<updated>2012-11-26T12:23:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Pitre</name>
<email>nicolas.pitre@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-25T02:24:32+00:00</published>
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The kvm_seq value has nothing to do what so ever with this other KVM.
Given that KVM support on ARM is imminent, it's best to rename kvm_seq
into something else to clearly identify what it is about i.e. a sequence
number for vmalloc section mappings.

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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The kvm_seq value has nothing to do what so ever with this other KVM.
Given that KVM support on ARM is imminent, it's best to rename kvm_seq
into something else to clearly identify what it is about i.e. a sequence
number for vmalloc section mappings.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: mm: remove IPI broadcasting on ASID rollover</title>
<updated>2012-11-05T16:25:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-15T13:47:31+00:00</published>
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ASIDs are allocated to MMU contexts based on a rolling counter. This
means that after 255 allocations we must invalidate all existing ASIDs
via an expensive IPI mechanism to synchronise all of the online CPUs and
ensure that all tasks execute with an ASID from the new generation.

This patch changes the rollover behaviour so that we rely instead on the
hardware broadcasting of the TLB invalidation to avoid the IPI calls.
This works by keeping track of the active ASID on each core, which is
then reserved in the case of a rollover so that currently scheduled
tasks can continue to run. For cores without hardware TLB broadcasting,
we keep track of pending flushes in a cpumask, so cores can flush their
local TLB before scheduling a new mm.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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ASIDs are allocated to MMU contexts based on a rolling counter. This
means that after 255 allocations we must invalidate all existing ASIDs
via an expensive IPI mechanism to synchronise all of the online CPUs and
ensure that all tasks execute with an ASID from the new generation.

This patch changes the rollover behaviour so that we rely instead on the
hardware broadcasting of the TLB invalidation to avoid the IPI calls.
This works by keeping track of the active ASID on each core, which is
then reserved in the case of a rollover so that currently scheduled
tasks can continue to run. For cores without hardware TLB broadcasting,
we keep track of pending flushes in a cpumask, so cores can flush their
local TLB before scheduling a new mm.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW on pre-ARMv6 CPUs</title>
<updated>2012-04-17T14:29:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-28T21:57:24+00:00</published>
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This patch removes the __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW definition for
ARMv5 and earlier processors. On such processors, the context switch
requires a full cache flush. To avoid high interrupt latencies, this
patch defers the mm switching to the post-lock switch hook if the
interrupts are disabled.

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@am.sony.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;Marc.Zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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This patch removes the __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW definition for
ARMv5 and earlier processors. On such processors, the context switch
requires a full cache flush. To avoid high interrupt latencies, this
patch defers the mm switching to the post-lock switch hook if the
interrupts are disabled.

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@am.sony.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;Marc.Zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: Remove current_mm per-cpu variable</title>
<updated>2012-04-17T14:29:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-28T15:59:10+00:00</published>
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The current_mm variable was used to store the new mm between the
switch_mm() and switch_to() calls where an IPI to reset the context
could have set the wrong mm. Since the interrupts are disabled during
context switch, there is no need for this variable, current-&gt;active_mm
already points to the current mm when interrupts are re-enabled.

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@am.sony.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;Marc.Zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The current_mm variable was used to store the new mm between the
switch_mm() and switch_to() calls where an IPI to reset the context
could have set the wrong mm. Since the interrupts are disabled during
context switch, there is no need for this variable, current-&gt;active_mm
already points to the current mm when interrupts are re-enabled.

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@am.sony.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;Marc.Zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW on ASID-capable CPUs</title>
<updated>2012-04-17T14:29:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-28T13:53:28+00:00</published>
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Since the ASIDs must be unique to an mm across all the CPUs in a system,
the __new_context() function needs to broadcast a context reset event to
all the CPUs during ASID allocation if a roll-over occurred. Such IPIs
cannot be issued with interrupts disabled and ARM had to define
__ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW.

This patch changes the check_context() function to
check_and_switch_context() called from switch_mm(). In case of
ASID-capable CPUs (ARMv6 onwards), if a new ASID is needed and the
interrupts are disabled, it defers the __new_context() and
cpu_switch_mm() calls to the post-lock switch hook where the interrupts
are enabled. Setting the reserved TTBR0 was also moved to
check_and_switch_context() from cpu_v7_switch_mm().

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@am.sony.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;Marc.Zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Since the ASIDs must be unique to an mm across all the CPUs in a system,
the __new_context() function needs to broadcast a context reset event to
all the CPUs during ASID allocation if a roll-over occurred. Such IPIs
cannot be issued with interrupts disabled and ARM had to define
__ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW.

This patch changes the check_context() function to
check_and_switch_context() called from switch_mm(). In case of
ASID-capable CPUs (ARMv6 onwards), if a new ASID is needed and the
interrupts are disabled, it defers the __new_context() and
cpu_switch_mm() calls to the post-lock switch hook where the interrupts
are enabled. Setting the reserved TTBR0 was also moved to
check_and_switch_context() from cpu_v7_switch_mm().

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@am.sony.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;Marc.Zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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