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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branches 'devel-stable', 'entry', 'fixes', 'mach-types', 'misc' and 'smp-hotplug' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2013-05-02T20:30:36+00:00</updated>
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<name>Russell King</name>
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<published>2013-05-02T20:30:36+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge branch 'for-rmk/740t' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux into fixes</title>
<updated>2013-04-17T09:35:23+00:00</updated>
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<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2013-04-17T09:35:23+00:00</published>
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<title>ARM: 7691/1: mm: kill unused TLB_CAN_READ_FROM_L1_CACHE and use ALT_SMP instead</title>
<updated>2013-04-03T16:39:07+00:00</updated>
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<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
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<published>2013-04-03T16:16:57+00:00</published>
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Many ARMv7 cores have hardware page table walkers that can read the L1
cache. This is discoverable from the ID_MMFR3 register, although this
can be expensive to access from the low-level set_pte functions and is a
pain to cache, particularly with multi-cluster systems.

A useful observation is that the multi-processing extensions for ARMv7
require coherent table walks, meaning that we can make use of ALT_SMP
patching in proc-v7-* to patch away the cache flush safely for these
cores.

Reported-by: Albin Tonnerre &lt;Albin.Tonnerre@arm.com&gt;
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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Many ARMv7 cores have hardware page table walkers that can read the L1
cache. This is discoverable from the ID_MMFR3 register, although this
can be expensive to access from the low-level set_pte functions and is a
pain to cache, particularly with multi-cluster systems.

A useful observation is that the multi-processing extensions for ARMv7
require coherent table walks, meaning that we can make use of ALT_SMP
patching in proc-v7-* to patch away the cache flush safely for these
cores.

Reported-by: Albin Tonnerre &lt;Albin.Tonnerre@arm.com&gt;
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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<title>ARM: 7684/1: errata: Workaround for Cortex-A15 erratum 798181 (TLBI/DSB operations)</title>
<updated>2013-04-03T15:45:49+00:00</updated>
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<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<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;
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<title>ARM: tlbflush: remove ARMv3 support</title>
<updated>2013-03-25T13:31:55+00:00</updated>
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<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
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<published>2013-01-14T20:48:55+00:00</published>
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We no longer support any ARMv3 platforms, so remove the old tlbflushing
code.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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We no longer support any ARMv3 platforms, so remove the old tlbflushing
code.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>ARM: 7660/1: tlb: add branch predictor maintenance operations</title>
<updated>2013-03-03T22:54:15+00:00</updated>
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<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
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<published>2013-02-28T16:48:11+00:00</published>
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The ARM architecture requires explicit branch predictor maintenance
when updating an instruction stream for a given virtual address. In
reality, this isn't so much of a burden because the branch predictor
is flushed during the cache maintenance required to make the new
instructions visible to the I-side of the processor.

However, there are still some cases where explicit flushing is required,
so add a local_bp_flush_all operation to deal with this.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The ARM architecture requires explicit branch predictor maintenance
when updating an instruction stream for a given virtual address. In
reality, this isn't so much of a burden because the branch predictor
is flushed during the cache maintenance required to make the new
instructions visible to the I-side of the processor.

However, there are still some cases where explicit flushing is required,
so add a local_bp_flush_all operation to deal with this.

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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<title>ARM: Remove support for ARMv3 ARM610 and ARM710 CPUs</title>
<updated>2012-05-05T04:50:50+00:00</updated>
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<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2012-05-04T11:04:26+00:00</published>
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This patch removes support for ARMv3 CPUs, which haven't worked properly
for quite some time (see the FIXME comment in arch/arm/mm/fault.c).  The
only V3 parts left is the cache model for ARMv3, which is needed for some
odd reason by ARM740T CPUs, and being able to build with -march=armv3,
which is required for the RiscPC platform due to its bus structure.

Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD &lt;plagnioj@jcrosoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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This patch removes support for ARMv3 CPUs, which haven't worked properly
for quite some time (see the FIXME comment in arch/arm/mm/fault.c).  The
only V3 parts left is the cache model for ARMv3, which is needed for some
odd reason by ARM740T CPUs, and being able to build with -march=armv3,
which is required for the RiscPC platform due to its bus structure.

Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD &lt;plagnioj@jcrosoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: Optimize multi-CPU tlb flushing a little more</title>
<updated>2012-03-24T09:38:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-04T10:55:38+00:00</published>
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The compiler does not conditionalize the assembly instructions for
the tlb operations, which leads to sub-optimal code being generated
when building a kernel for multiple CPUs.

We can tweak things fairly simply as the code fragment below shows:

    17f8:       e3120001        tst     r2, #1  ; 0x1
...
    1800:       0a000000        beq     1808 &lt;handle_pte_fault+0x194&gt;
    1804:       ee061f10        mcr     15, 0, r1, cr6, cr0, {0}
    1808:       e3120004        tst     r2, #4  ; 0x4
    180c:       0a000000        beq     1814 &lt;handle_pte_fault+0x1a0&gt;
    1810:       ee081f36        mcr     15, 0, r1, cr8, cr6, {1}
becomes:
    17f0:       e3120001        tst     r2, #1  ; 0x1
    17f4:       1e063f10        mcrne   15, 0, r3, cr6, cr0, {0}
    17f8:       e3120004        tst     r2, #4  ; 0x4
    17fc:       1e083f36        mcrne   15, 0, r3, cr8, cr6, {1}

Overall, for Realview with V6 and V7 CPUs configured:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
4153998  207340 5371036 9732374  948116 ../build/realview/vmlinux.before
4153366  207332 5371036 9731734  947e96 ../build/realview/vmlinux.after

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The compiler does not conditionalize the assembly instructions for
the tlb operations, which leads to sub-optimal code being generated
when building a kernel for multiple CPUs.

We can tweak things fairly simply as the code fragment below shows:

    17f8:       e3120001        tst     r2, #1  ; 0x1
...
    1800:       0a000000        beq     1808 &lt;handle_pte_fault+0x194&gt;
    1804:       ee061f10        mcr     15, 0, r1, cr6, cr0, {0}
    1808:       e3120004        tst     r2, #4  ; 0x4
    180c:       0a000000        beq     1814 &lt;handle_pte_fault+0x1a0&gt;
    1810:       ee081f36        mcr     15, 0, r1, cr8, cr6, {1}
becomes:
    17f0:       e3120001        tst     r2, #1  ; 0x1
    17f4:       1e063f10        mcrne   15, 0, r3, cr6, cr0, {0}
    17f8:       e3120004        tst     r2, #4  ; 0x4
    17fc:       1e083f36        mcrne   15, 0, r3, cr8, cr6, {1}

Overall, for Realview with V6 and V7 CPUs configured:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
4153998  207340 5371036 9732374  948116 ../build/realview/vmlinux.before
4153366  207332 5371036 9731734  947e96 ../build/realview/vmlinux.after

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: 7076/1: LPAE: Add (pte|pmd)val_t type definitions as u32</title>
<updated>2011-10-06T14:40:05+00:00</updated>
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<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-05T16:51:56+00:00</published>
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This patch defines the (pte|pmd)val_t as u32 and changes the page table
types to be based on these. The PMD bits are converted to the
corresponding type using the _AT macro.

The flush_pmd_entry/clean_pmd_entry argument was changed to (void *) to
allow them to be used with both PGD and PMD pointers and avoid code
duplication.

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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This patch defines the (pte|pmd)val_t as u32 and changes the page table
types to be based on these. The PMD bits are converted to the
corresponding type using the _AT macro.

The flush_pmd_entry/clean_pmd_entry argument was changed to (void *) to
allow them to be used with both PGD and PMD pointers and avoid code
duplication.

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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<title>ARM: btc: avoid invalidating the branch target cache on kernel TLB maintanence</title>
<updated>2011-07-19T10:44:06+00:00</updated>
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<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2011-07-05T08:01:13+00:00</published>
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Kernel space needs very little in the way of BTC maintanence as most
mappings which are created and destroyed are non-executable, and so
could never enter the instruction stream.

The case which does warrant BTC maintanence is when a module is loaded.
This creates a new executable mapping, but at that point the pages have
not been initialized with code and data, so at that point they contain
unpredictable information.  Invalidating the BTC at this stage serves
little useful purpose.

Before we execute module code, we call flush_icache_range(), which deals
with the BTC maintanence requirements.  This ensures that we have a BTC
maintanence operation before we execute code via the newly created
mapping.

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Kernel space needs very little in the way of BTC maintanence as most
mappings which are created and destroyed are non-executable, and so
could never enter the instruction stream.

The case which does warrant BTC maintanence is when a module is loaded.
This creates a new executable mapping, but at that point the pages have
not been initialized with code and data, so at that point they contain
unpredictable information.  Invalidating the BTC at this stage serves
little useful purpose.

Before we execute module code, we call flush_icache_range(), which deals
with the BTC maintanence requirements.  This ensures that we have a BTC
maintanence operation before we execute code via the newly created
mapping.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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