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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/arm/include/uapi, branch v3.12</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>ARM: 7791/1: a.out: remove partial a.out support</title>
<updated>2013-07-26T11:02:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
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<published>2013-07-25T10:44:48+00:00</published>
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a.out support on ARM requires that argc, argv and envp are passed in
r0-r2 respectively, which requires hacking load_aout_binary to
prevent argc being clobbered by the return code. Whilst mainline kernels
do set the registers up in start_thread, the aout loader has never
carried the hack in mainline.

Initialising the registers in this way actually goes against the libc
expectations for ELF binaries, where argc, argv and envp are passed on
the stack, with r0 being used to hold a pointer to an exit function for
cleaning up after the dynamic linker if required. If the pointer is
NULL, then it is ignored. When execing an ELF binary, Linux currently
zeroes r0, then sets it to argc and then finally clobbers it with the
return value of the execve syscall, so we actually end up with:

	r0 = 0
	stack[0] = argc
	r1 = stack[1] = argv
	r2 = stack[2] = envp

libc treats r1 and r2 as undefined. The clobbering of r0 by sys_execve
works for user-spawned threads, but when executing an ELF binary from a
kernel thread (via call_usermodehelper), the execve is performed on the
ret_from_fork path, which restores r0 from the saved pt_regs, resulting
in argc being presented to the C library. This has horrible consequences
when the application exits, since we have an exit function registered
using argc, resulting in a jump to hyperspace.

This patch solves the problem by removing the partial a.out support from
arch/arm/ altogether.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ashish Sangwan &lt;ashishsangwan2@gmail.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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a.out support on ARM requires that argc, argv and envp are passed in
r0-r2 respectively, which requires hacking load_aout_binary to
prevent argc being clobbered by the return code. Whilst mainline kernels
do set the registers up in start_thread, the aout loader has never
carried the hack in mainline.

Initialising the registers in this way actually goes against the libc
expectations for ELF binaries, where argc, argv and envp are passed on
the stack, with r0 being used to hold a pointer to an exit function for
cleaning up after the dynamic linker if required. If the pointer is
NULL, then it is ignored. When execing an ELF binary, Linux currently
zeroes r0, then sets it to argc and then finally clobbers it with the
return value of the execve syscall, so we actually end up with:

	r0 = 0
	stack[0] = argc
	r1 = stack[1] = argv
	r2 = stack[2] = envp

libc treats r1 and r2 as undefined. The clobbering of r0 by sys_execve
works for user-spawned threads, but when executing an ELF binary from a
kernel thread (via call_usermodehelper), the execve is performed on the
ret_from_fork path, which restores r0 from the saved pt_regs, resulting
in argc being presented to the C library. This has horrible consequences
when the application exits, since we have an exit function registered
using argc, resulting in a jump to hyperspace.

This patch solves the problem by removing the partial a.out support from
arch/arm/ altogether.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ashish Sangwan &lt;ashishsangwan2@gmail.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>Merge branch 'for-rmk/lpae' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux into devel-stable</title>
<updated>2013-06-18T19:11:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2013-06-18T19:11:32+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	arch/arm/kernel/smp.c

Please pull these miscellaneous LPAE fixes I've been collecting for a while
now for 3.11. They've been tested and reviewed by quite a few people, and most
of the patches are pretty trivial. -- Will Deacon.
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Conflicts:
	arch/arm/kernel/smp.c

Please pull these miscellaneous LPAE fixes I've been collecting for a while
now for 3.11. They've been tested and reviewed by quite a few people, and most
of the patches are pretty trivial. -- Will Deacon.
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<title>ARM: elf: add new hwcap for identifying atomic ldrd/strd instructions</title>
<updated>2013-05-30T15:02:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
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<published>2013-04-08T16:13:12+00:00</published>
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CPUs implementing LPAE have atomic ldrd/strd instructions, meaning that
userspace software can avoid having to use the exclusive variants of
these instructions if they wish.

This patch advertises the atomicity of these instructions via the
hwcaps, so userspace can detect this CPU feature.

Reported-by: Vladimir Danushevsky &lt;vladimir.danushevsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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CPUs implementing LPAE have atomic ldrd/strd instructions, meaning that
userspace software can avoid having to use the exclusive variants of
these instructions if they wish.

This patch advertises the atomicity of these instructions via the
hwcaps, so userspace can detect this CPU feature.

Reported-by: Vladimir Danushevsky &lt;vladimir.danushevsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/ukl/linux into devel-stable</title>
<updated>2013-05-22T09:52:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2013-05-19T00:22:53+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM-v7M support from Uwe Kleine-König:
"All but the last patch were in next since next-20130418 without issues.
The last patch fixes a problem in combination with

  8164f7a (ARM: 7680/1: Detect support for SDIV/UDIV from ISAR0 register)

which triggers a WARN_ON without an implemented read_cpuid_ext.

The branch merges fine into v3.10-rc1 and I'd be happy if you pulled it
for 3.11-rc1. The only missing piece to be able to run a Cortex-M3 is
the irqchip driver that will go in via Thomas Gleixner and platform
specific stuff."
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Pull ARM-v7M support from Uwe Kleine-König:
"All but the last patch were in next since next-20130418 without issues.
The last patch fixes a problem in combination with

  8164f7a (ARM: 7680/1: Detect support for SDIV/UDIV from ISAR0 register)

which triggers a WARN_ON without an implemented read_cpuid_ext.

The branch merges fine into v3.10-rc1 and I'd be happy if you pulled it
for 3.11-rc1. The only missing piece to be able to run a Cortex-M3 is
the irqchip driver that will go in via Thomas Gleixner and platform
specific stuff."
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<title>Merge branch 'mcpm' of git://git.linaro.org/people/nico/linux into devel-stable</title>
<updated>2013-04-25T08:42:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-25T08:42:42+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>ARM: Add base support for ARMv7-M</title>
<updated>2013-04-17T19:38:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<published>2010-05-21T17:06:41+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Austin &lt;jonathan.austin@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jonathan Austin &lt;jonathan.austin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
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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 &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Austin &lt;jonathan.austin@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jonathan Austin &lt;jonathan.austin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: KVM: convert GP registers from u32 to unsigned long</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T23:48:42+00:00</updated>
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<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
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<published>2012-10-03T10:17:02+00:00</published>
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On 32bit ARM, unsigned long is guaranteed to be a 32bit quantity.
On 64bit ARM, it is a 64bit quantity.

In order to be able to share code between the two architectures,
convert the registers to be unsigned long, so the core code can
be oblivious of the change.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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On 32bit ARM, unsigned long is guaranteed to be a 32bit quantity.
On 64bit ARM, it is a 64bit quantity.

In order to be able to share code between the two architectures,
convert the registers to be unsigned long, so the core code can
be oblivious of the change.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 7665/1: Wire up kcmp syscall</title>
<updated>2013-03-03T22:54:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cyrill Gorcunov</name>
<email>cyrill.gorcunov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-28T20:53:35+00:00</published>
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Wire up kcmp syscall for ability to proceed checkpoint/restore
procedure on ARM platform.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kartashov &lt;alekskartashov@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Wire up kcmp syscall for ability to proceed checkpoint/restore
procedure on ARM platform.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kartashov &lt;alekskartashov@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: KVM: VGIC accept vcpu and dist base addresses from user space</title>
<updated>2013-02-11T18:59:01+00:00</updated>
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<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>c.dall@virtualopensystems.com</email>
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<published>2013-01-22T00:36:13+00:00</published>
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User space defines the model to emulate to a guest and should therefore
decide which addresses are used for both the virtual CPU interface
directly mapped in the guest physical address space and for the emulated
distributor interface, which is mapped in software by the in-kernel VGIC
support.

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;c.dall@virtualopensystems.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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User space defines the model to emulate to a guest and should therefore
decide which addresses are used for both the virtual CPU interface
directly mapped in the guest physical address space and for the emulated
distributor interface, which is mapped in software by the in-kernel VGIC
support.

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;c.dall@virtualopensystems.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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<title>KVM: ARM: Introduce KVM_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR ioctl</title>
<updated>2013-02-11T18:58:39+00:00</updated>
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<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>c.dall@virtualopensystems.com</email>
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<published>2013-01-23T18:18:04+00:00</published>
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On ARM some bits are specific to the model being emulated for the guest and
user space needs a way to tell the kernel about those bits.  An example is mmio
device base addresses, where KVM must know the base address for a given device
to properly emulate mmio accesses within a certain address range or directly
map a device with virtualiation extensions into the guest address space.

We make this API ARM-specific as we haven't yet reached a consensus for a
generic API for all KVM architectures that will allow us to do something like
this.

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;c.dall@virtualopensystems.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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On ARM some bits are specific to the model being emulated for the guest and
user space needs a way to tell the kernel about those bits.  An example is mmio
device base addresses, where KVM must know the base address for a given device
to properly emulate mmio accesses within a certain address range or directly
map a device with virtualiation extensions into the guest address space.

We make this API ARM-specific as we haven't yet reached a consensus for a
generic API for all KVM architectures that will allow us to do something like
this.

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;c.dall@virtualopensystems.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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