linux-toradex.git/arch/arm/include/asm/ptrace.h, branch v4.4.97

ARM: 8175/1: Use current_stack_pointer to calculate pt_regs address

2014-11-13T23:58:07+00:00

Use the global current_stack_pointer to calculate the end of the stack for
current_pt_regs()

Signed-off-by: Behan Webster 
Reviewed-by: Mark Charlebois 
Reviewed-by: Jan-Simon Möller 
Acked-by: Will Deacon 
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8070/1: Introduce arm_get_current_stack_frame()

2014-07-18T11:29:11+00:00

Currently there are numerous places where "struct pt_regs" are used to
populate "struct stackframe", however all of those location do not
consider the situation where the kernel might be compiled in THUMB2
mode, in which case the framepointer member of pt_regs become ARM_r7
instead of ARM_fp (r11). Document this idiosyncracy in the
definition of "struct stackframe"

The easiest solution is to introduce a new function (in the spirit of
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.kernel/dA2YuUcSpZ4)
which would hide the complexity of initializing the stackframe struct
from pt_regs.

Also implement a macro frame_pointer(regs) that would return the correct
register so that we can use it in cases where we just require the frame
pointer and not a whole struct stackframe

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov 
Acked-by: Will Deacon 
Acked-by: Robert Richter 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

Merge branch 'uprobes-v7' of git://git.linaro.org/people/dave.long/linux into devel-stable

2014-03-19T20:15:46+00:00

This patch series adds basic uprobes support to ARM. It is based on
patches developed earlier by Rabin Vincent. That approach of adding
hooks into the kprobes instruction parsing code was not well received.
This approach separates the ARM instruction parsing code in kprobes out
into a separate set of functions which can be used by both kprobes and
uprobes. Both kprobes and uprobes then provide their own semantic action
tables to process the results of the parsing.

ARM: add uprobes support

2014-03-18T20:39:40+00:00

Using Rabin Vincent's ARM uprobes patches as a base, enable uprobes
support on ARM.

Caveats:

 - Thumb is not supported

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent 
Signed-off-by: David A. Long

ARM: make isa_mode macro more robust and fix for v7-M

2014-02-03T10:46:39+00:00

The definition of isa_mode hardcodes the values to shift PSR_J_BIT and
PSR_T_BIT to move them to bits 1 and 0 respectively. Instead use __ffs to
calculate the shift from the #define already used for masking.

This is relevant on v7-M as there PSR_T_BIT is 0x01000000 instead of
0x00000020 for V7-[AR] and earlier. Because of that isa_mode produced
values >= 0x80000 which are unsuitable to index into isa_modes[4] there
and so made __show_regs read from undefined memory which resulted in
hangs and crashes.

Moreover isa_mode is wrong for v7-M even after this robustness fix as
there is no J-bit in the PSR register. So hardcode isa_mode to "Thumb"
for v7-M.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König

ARM: Add base support for ARMv7-M

2013-04-17T19:38:10+00:00

This patch adds the base support for the ARMv7-M
architecture. It consists of the corresponding arch/arm/mm/ files and
various #ifdef's around the kernel. Exception handling is implemented by
a subsequent patch.

[ukleinek: squash in some changes originating from commit

b5717ba (Cortex-M3: Add support for the Microcontroller Prototyping System)

from the v2.6.33-arm1 patch stack, port to post 3.6, drop zImage
support, drop reorganisation of pt_regs, assert CONFIG_CPU_V7M doesn't
leak into installed headers and a few cosmetic changes]

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Austin 
Tested-by: Jonathan Austin 
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/arm/include/asm

2012-10-12T12:05:52+00:00

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Dave Jones

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm

2012-10-12T03:32:43+00:00

Pull second set of ARM updates from Russell King:
 "This is the second set of ARM updates for this merge window.

  Contained within are changes to allow the kernel to boot in hypervisor
  mode on CPUs supporting virtualization, and cache flushing support to
  the point of inner sharable unification, which are used by the
  suspend/resume code to avoid having to do a full cache flush.

  Also included is one fix for VFP code identified by Michael Olbrich."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: vfp: fix saving d16-d31 vfp registers on v6+ kernels
  ARM: 7549/1: HYP: fix boot on some ARM1136 cores
  ARM: 7542/1: mm: fix cache LoUIS API for xscale and feroceon
  ARM: mm: update __v7_setup() to the new LoUIS cache maintenance API
  ARM: kernel: update __cpu_disable to use cache LoUIS maintenance API
  ARM: kernel: update cpu_suspend code to use cache LoUIS operations
  ARM: mm: rename jump labels in v7_flush_dcache_all function
  ARM: mm: implement LoUIS API for cache maintenance ops
  ARM: virt: arch_timers: enable access to physical timers
  ARM: virt: Add CONFIG_ARM_VIRT_EXT option
  ARM: virt: Add boot-time diagnostics
  ARM: virt: Update documentation for hyp mode entry support
  ARM: zImage/virt: hyp mode entry support for the zImage loader
  ARM: virt: allow the kernel to be entered in HYP mode
  ARM: opcodes: add __ERET/__MSR_ELR_HYP instruction encoding

arm: optimized current_pt_regs()

2012-10-01T02:21:37+00:00

... no need to read current_thread_info()->task only to
feed it to task_thread_page() immediately afterwards.
Moreover, not using current_thread_info() at all ends
up with better assembler - we need a location very close
to the top of kernel stack page and it's actually better
to do or with 0x1fff, followed be subtracting a small
constant than and with ~0x1fff, followed by adding a large
one.  Both & and | would be a couple of insns (mvn lsr/mvn lsl
for |, a pair of bic for &), but the following addition
would cost a pair of add while the subtraction ends up
as a single sub.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

ARM: virt: allow the kernel to be entered in HYP mode

2012-09-19T07:32:50+00:00

This patch does two things:

  * Ensure that asynchronous aborts are masked at kernel entry.
    The bootloader should be masking these anyway, but this reduces
    the damage window just in case it doesn't.

  * Enter svc mode via exception return to ensure that CPU state is
    properly serialised.  This does not matter when switching from
    an ordinary privileged mode ("PL1" modes in ARMv7-AR rev C
    parlance), but it potentially does matter when switching from a
    another privileged mode such as hyp mode.

This should allow the kernel to boot safely either from svc mode or
hyp mode, even if no support for use of the ARM Virtualization
Extensions is built into the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin 
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier