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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>ARM: 7855/1: Add check for Cortex-A15 errata 798181 ECO</title>
<updated>2013-10-29T11:06:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Herring</name>
<email>rob.herring@calxeda.com</email>
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<published>2013-10-09T16:26:44+00:00</published>
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The work-around for A15 errata 798181 is not needed if appropriate ECO
fixes have been applied to r3p2 and earlier core revisions. This can be
checked by reading REVIDR register bits 4 and 9. If only bit 4 is set,
then the IPI broadcast can be skipped.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;rob.herring@calxeda.com&gt;
Reviewed-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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The work-around for A15 errata 798181 is not needed if appropriate ECO
fixes have been applied to r3p2 and earlier core revisions. This can be
checked by reading REVIDR register bits 4 and 9. If only bit 4 is set,
then the IPI broadcast can be skipped.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;rob.herring@calxeda.com&gt;
Reviewed-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: tlb: reduce scope of barrier domains for TLB invalidation</title>
<updated>2013-08-12T11:25:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-23T17:43:58+00:00</published>
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Our TLB invalidation routines may require a barrier before the
maintenance (in order to ensure pending page table writes are visible to
the hardware walker) and barriers afterwards (in order to ensure
completion of the maintenance and visibility in the instruction stream).

Whilst this is expensive, the cost can be reduced somewhat by reducing
the scope of the barrier instructions:

  - The barrier before only needs to apply to stores (pte writes)
  - Local ops are required only to affect the non-shareable domain
  - Global ops are required only to affect the inner-shareable domain

This patch makes these changes for the TLB flushing code.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Our TLB invalidation routines may require a barrier before the
maintenance (in order to ensure pending page table writes are visible to
the hardware walker) and barriers afterwards (in order to ensure
completion of the maintenance and visibility in the instruction stream).

Whilst this is expensive, the cost can be reduced somewhat by reducing
the scope of the barrier instructions:

  - The barrier before only needs to apply to stores (pte writes)
  - Local ops are required only to affect the non-shareable domain
  - Global ops are required only to affect the inner-shareable domain

This patch makes these changes for the TLB flushing code.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>ARM: tlb: don't perform inner-shareable invalidation for local BP ops</title>
<updated>2013-08-12T11:25:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-18T22:07:47+00:00</published>
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Now that the ASID allocator doesn't require inner-shareable maintenance,
we can convert the local_bp_flush_all function to perform only
non-shareable flushing, in a similar manner to the TLB invalidation
routines.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Now that the ASID allocator doesn't require inner-shareable maintenance,
we can convert the local_bp_flush_all function to perform only
non-shareable flushing, in a similar manner to the TLB invalidation
routines.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: tlb: don't bother with barriers for branch predictor maintenance</title>
<updated>2013-08-12T11:25:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-23T17:29:18+00:00</published>
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Branch predictor maintenance is only required when we are either
changing the kernel's view of memory (switching tables completely) or
dealing with ASID rollover.

Both of these use-cases require subsequent TLB invalidation, which has
the relevant barrier instructions to ensure completion and visibility
of the maintenance, so this patch removes the instruction barrier from
[local_]flush_bp_all.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Branch predictor maintenance is only required when we are either
changing the kernel's view of memory (switching tables completely) or
dealing with ASID rollover.

Both of these use-cases require subsequent TLB invalidation, which has
the relevant barrier instructions to ensure completion and visibility
of the maintenance, so this patch removes the instruction barrier from
[local_]flush_bp_all.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>ARM: tlb: don't perform inner-shareable invalidation for local TLB ops</title>
<updated>2013-08-12T11:25:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-11T13:47:48+00:00</published>
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Inner-shareable TLB invalidation is typically more expensive than local
(non-shareable) invalidation, so performing the broadcasting for
local_flush_tlb_* operations is a waste of cycles and needlessly
clobbers entries in the TLBs of other CPUs.

This patch introduces __flush_tlb_* versions for many of the TLB
invalidation functions, which only respect inner-shareable variants of
the invalidation instructions when presented with the TLB_V7_UIS_FULL
flag. The local version is also inlined to prevent SMP_ON_UP kernels
from missing flushes, where the __flush variant would be called with
the UP flags.

This gains us around 0.5% in hackbench scores for a dual-core A15, but I
would expect this to improve as more cores (and clusters) are added to
the equation.

Reviewed-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;
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Inner-shareable TLB invalidation is typically more expensive than local
(non-shareable) invalidation, so performing the broadcasting for
local_flush_tlb_* operations is a waste of cycles and needlessly
clobbers entries in the TLBs of other CPUs.

This patch introduces __flush_tlb_* versions for many of the TLB
invalidation functions, which only respect inner-shareable variants of
the invalidation instructions when presented with the TLB_V7_UIS_FULL
flag. The local version is also inlined to prevent SMP_ON_UP kernels
from missing flushes, where the __flush variant would be called with
the UP flags.

This gains us around 0.5% in hackbench scores for a dual-core A15, but I
would expect this to improve as more cores (and clusters) are added to
the equation.

Reviewed-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;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 7789/1: Do not run dummy_flush_tlb_a15_erratum() on non-Cortex-A15</title>
<updated>2013-07-26T11:02:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fabio Estevam</name>
<email>festevam@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-23T14:13:06+00:00</published>
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Commit 93dc688 (ARM: 7684/1: errata: Workaround for Cortex-A15 erratum 798181 (TLBI/DSB operations)) causes the following undefined instruction error on a mx53 (Cortex-A8):

Internal error: Oops - undefined instruction: 0 [#1] SMP ARM
CPU: 0 PID: 275 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.11.0-rc2-next-20130722-00009-g9b0f371 #881
task: df46cc00 ti: df48e000 task.ti: df48e000
PC is at check_and_switch_context+0x17c/0x4d0
LR is at check_and_switch_context+0xdc/0x4d0

This problem happens because check_and_switch_context() calls dummy_flush_tlb_a15_erratum() without checking if we are really running on a Cortex-A15 or not.

To avoid this issue, only call dummy_flush_tlb_a15_erratum() inside
check_and_switch_context() if erratum_a15_798181() returns true, which means that we are really running on a Cortex-A15.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam &lt;fabio.estevam@freescale.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Roger Quadros &lt;rogerq@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Commit 93dc688 (ARM: 7684/1: errata: Workaround for Cortex-A15 erratum 798181 (TLBI/DSB operations)) causes the following undefined instruction error on a mx53 (Cortex-A8):

Internal error: Oops - undefined instruction: 0 [#1] SMP ARM
CPU: 0 PID: 275 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.11.0-rc2-next-20130722-00009-g9b0f371 #881
task: df46cc00 ti: df48e000 task.ti: df48e000
PC is at check_and_switch_context+0x17c/0x4d0
LR is at check_and_switch_context+0xdc/0x4d0

This problem happens because check_and_switch_context() calls dummy_flush_tlb_a15_erratum() without checking if we are really running on a Cortex-A15 or not.

To avoid this issue, only call dummy_flush_tlb_a15_erratum() inside
check_and_switch_context() if erratum_a15_798181() returns true, which means that we are really running on a Cortex-A15.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam &lt;fabio.estevam@freescale.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Roger Quadros &lt;rogerq@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-rmk/hugepages' of git://git.linaro.org/people/stevecapper/linux into devel-stable</title>
<updated>2013-06-18T19:05:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-18T19:03:30+00:00</published>
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These changes bring both HugeTLB support and Transparent HugePage
(THP) support to ARM.  Only long descriptors (LPAE) are supported
in this series.

The code has been tested on an Arndale board (Exynos 5250).
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These changes bring both HugeTLB support and Transparent HugePage
(THP) support to ARM.  Only long descriptors (LPAE) are supported
in this series.

The code has been tested on an Arndale board (Exynos 5250).
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<entry>
<title>ARM: nommu: add stub local_flush_bp_all() for !CONFIG_MMUU</title>
<updated>2013-06-07T16:02:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Austin</name>
<email>jonathan.austin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-24T10:56:09+00:00</published>
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Since the merging of Will's tlb-ops branch, specifically 89c7e4b8bbb3
(ARM: 7661/1: mm: perform explicit branch predictor maintenance when required),
building SMP without CONFIG_MMU has been broken.

The local_flush_bp_all function is only called for operations related to
changing the kernel's view of memory and ASID rollover - both of which are
irrelevant to an !MMU kernel.

This patch adds a stub local_flush_bp_all() function to the other tlb
maintenance stubs and restores the ability to build an SMP !MMU kernel.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Austin &lt;jonathan.austin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Since the merging of Will's tlb-ops branch, specifically 89c7e4b8bbb3
(ARM: 7661/1: mm: perform explicit branch predictor maintenance when required),
building SMP without CONFIG_MMU has been broken.

The local_flush_bp_all function is only called for operations related to
changing the kernel's view of memory and ASID rollover - both of which are
irrelevant to an !MMU kernel.

This patch adds a stub local_flush_bp_all() function to the other tlb
maintenance stubs and restores the ability to build an SMP !MMU kernel.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Austin &lt;jonathan.austin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: nommu: define dummy TLB operations for nommu configurations</title>
<updated>2013-06-07T16:02:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-28T12:56:06+00:00</published>
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nommu platforms do not perform address translation and therefore clearly
don't have TLBs. However, some SMP code assumes the presence of the TLB
flushing routines and will therefore fail to compile for a nommu system.

This patch defines dummy local_* TLB operations and #defines
tlb_ops_need_broadcast() as 0, therefore causing the usual ARM SMP TLB
operations to call the local variants instead.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
CC: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
CC: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
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nommu platforms do not perform address translation and therefore clearly
don't have TLBs. However, some SMP code assumes the presence of the TLB
flushing routines and will therefore fail to compile for a nommu system.

This patch defines dummy local_* TLB operations and #defines
tlb_ops_need_broadcast() as 0, therefore causing the usual ARM SMP TLB
operations to call the local variants instead.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
CC: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
CC: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: mm: Transparent huge page support for LPAE systems.</title>
<updated>2013-06-04T15:52:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-25T13:39:26+00:00</published>
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The patch adds support for THP (transparent huge pages) to LPAE
systems. When this feature is enabled, the kernel tries to map
anonymous pages as 2MB sections where possible.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
[steve.capper@linaro.org: symbolic constants used, value of
PMD_SECT_SPLITTING adjusted, tlbflush.h included in pgtable.h,
added PROT_NONE support.]
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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The patch adds support for THP (transparent huge pages) to LPAE
systems. When this feature is enabled, the kernel tries to map
anonymous pages as 2MB sections where possible.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
[steve.capper@linaro.org: symbolic constants used, value of
PMD_SECT_SPLITTING adjusted, tlbflush.h included in pgtable.h,
added PROT_NONE support.]
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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