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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 7365/1: drop unused parameter from flush_cache_user_range</title>
<updated>2012-05-30T23:43:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dima Zavin</name>
<email>dima@android.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-29T19:44:06+00:00</published>
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commit 4542b6a0fa6b48d9ae6b41c1efeb618b7a221b2a upstream.

vma isn't used and flush_cache_user_range isn't a standard macro that
is used on several archs with the same prototype. In fact only unicore32
has a macro with the same name (with an identical implementation and no
in-tree users).

This is a part of a patch proposed by Dima Zavin (with Message-id:
1272439931-12795-1-git-send-email-dima@android.com) that didn't get
accepted.

Cc: Dima Zavin &lt;dima@android.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 4542b6a0fa6b48d9ae6b41c1efeb618b7a221b2a upstream.

vma isn't used and flush_cache_user_range isn't a standard macro that
is used on several archs with the same prototype. In fact only unicore32
has a macro with the same name (with an identical implementation and no
in-tree users).

This is a part of a patch proposed by Dima Zavin (with Message-id:
1272439931-12795-1-git-send-email-dima@android.com) that didn't get
accepted.

Cc: Dima Zavin &lt;dima@android.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 7403/1: tls: remove covert channel via TPIDRURW</title>
<updated>2012-05-11T12:14:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-27T11:45:07+00:00</published>
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commit 6a1c53124aa161eb624ce7b1e40ade728186d34c upstream.

TPIDRURW is a user read/write register forming part of the group of
thread registers in more recent versions of the ARM architecture (~v6+).

Currently, the kernel does not touch this register, which allows tasks
to communicate covertly by reading and writing to the register without
context-switching affecting its contents.

This patch clears TPIDRURW when TPIDRURO is updated via the set_tls
macro, which is called directly from __switch_to. Since the current
behaviour makes the register useless to userspace as far as thread
pointers are concerned, simply clearing the register (rather than saving
and restoring it) will not cause any problems to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 6a1c53124aa161eb624ce7b1e40ade728186d34c upstream.

TPIDRURW is a user read/write register forming part of the group of
thread registers in more recent versions of the ARM architecture (~v6+).

Currently, the kernel does not touch this register, which allows tasks
to communicate covertly by reading and writing to the register without
context-switching affecting its contents.

This patch clears TPIDRURW when TPIDRURO is updated via the set_tls
macro, which is called directly from __switch_to. Since the current
behaviour makes the register useless to userspace as far as thread
pointers are concerned, simply clearing the register (rather than saving
and restoring it) will not cause any problems to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 7354/1: perf: limit sample_period to half max_period in non-sampling mode</title>
<updated>2012-03-12T19:31:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-06T16:33:17+00:00</published>
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commit 5727347180ebc6b4a866fcbe00dcb39cc03acb37 upstream.

On ARM, the PMU does not stop counting after an overflow and therefore
IRQ latency affects the new counter value read by the kernel. This is
significant for non-sampling runs where it is possible for the new value
to overtake the previous one, causing the delta to be out by up to
max_period events.

Commit a737823d ("ARM: 6835/1: perf: ensure overflows aren't missed due
to IRQ latency") attempted to fix this problem by allowing interrupt
handlers to pass an overflow flag to the event update function, causing
the overflow calculation to assume that the counter passed through zero
when going from prev to new. Unfortunately, this doesn't work when
overflow occurs on the perf_task_tick path because we have the flag
cleared and end up computing a large negative delta.

This patch removes the overflow flag from armpmu_event_update and
instead limits the sample_period to half of the max_period for
non-sampling profiling runs.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5727347180ebc6b4a866fcbe00dcb39cc03acb37 upstream.

On ARM, the PMU does not stop counting after an overflow and therefore
IRQ latency affects the new counter value read by the kernel. This is
significant for non-sampling runs where it is possible for the new value
to overtake the previous one, causing the delta to be out by up to
max_period events.

Commit a737823d ("ARM: 6835/1: perf: ensure overflows aren't missed due
to IRQ latency") attempted to fix this problem by allowing interrupt
handlers to pass an overflow flag to the event update function, causing
the overflow calculation to assume that the counter passed through zero
when going from prev to new. Unfortunately, this doesn't work when
overflow occurs on the perf_task_tick path because we have the flag
cleared and end up computing a large negative delta.

This patch removes the overflow flag from armpmu_event_update and
instead limits the sample_period to half of the max_period for
non-sampling profiling runs.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7325/1: fix v7 boot with lockdep enabled</title>
<updated>2012-03-01T00:30:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rabin Vincent</name>
<email>rabin@rab.in</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-15T15:01:42+00:00</published>
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commit 8e43a905dd574f54c5715d978318290ceafbe275 upstream.

Bootup with lockdep enabled has been broken on v7 since b46c0f74657d
("ARM: 7321/1: cache-v7: Disable preemption when reading CCSIDR").

This is because v7_setup (which is called very early during boot) calls
v7_flush_dcache_all, and the save_and_disable_irqs added by that patch
ends up attempting to call into lockdep C code (trace_hardirqs_off())
when we are in no position to execute it (no stack, MMU off).

Fix this by using a notrace variant of save_and_disable_irqs.  The code
already uses the notrace variant of restore_irqs.

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin@rab.in&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 8e43a905dd574f54c5715d978318290ceafbe275 upstream.

Bootup with lockdep enabled has been broken on v7 since b46c0f74657d
("ARM: 7321/1: cache-v7: Disable preemption when reading CCSIDR").

This is because v7_setup (which is called very early during boot) calls
v7_flush_dcache_all, and the save_and_disable_irqs added by that patch
ends up attempting to call into lockdep C code (trace_hardirqs_off())
when we are in no position to execute it (no stack, MMU off).

Fix this by using a notrace variant of save_and_disable_irqs.  The code
already uses the notrace variant of restore_irqs.

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin@rab.in&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7187/1: fix unwinding for XIP kernels</title>
<updated>2011-12-06T11:16:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uwe Kleine-König</name>
<email>u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-05T08:39:59+00:00</published>
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The linker places the unwind tables in readonly sections. So when using
an XIP kernel these are located in ROM and cannot be modified.
For that reason the current approach to convert the relative offsets in
the unwind index to absolute addresses early in the boot process doesn't
work with XIP.

The offsets in the unwind index section are signed 31 bit numbers and
the structs are sorted by this offset. So it first has offsets between
0x40000000 and 0x7fffffff (i.e. the negative offsets) and then offsets
between 0x00000000 and 0x3fffffff. When seperating these two blocks the
numbers are sorted even when interpreting the offsets as unsigned longs.

So determine the first non-negative entry once and track that using the
new origin pointer. The actual bisection can then use a plain unsigned
long comparison. The only thing that makes the new bisection more
complicated is that the offsets are relative to their position in the
index section, so the key to search needs to be adapted accordingly in
each step.

Moreover several consts are added to catch future writes and rename the
member "addr" of struct unwind_idx to "addr_offset" to better match the
new semantic. (This has the additional benefit of breaking eventual
users at compile time to make them aware of the change.)

In my tests the new algorithm was a tad faster than the original and has
the additional upside of not needing the initial conversion and so saves
some boot time and it's possible to unwind even earlier.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The linker places the unwind tables in readonly sections. So when using
an XIP kernel these are located in ROM and cannot be modified.
For that reason the current approach to convert the relative offsets in
the unwind index to absolute addresses early in the boot process doesn't
work with XIP.

The offsets in the unwind index section are signed 31 bit numbers and
the structs are sorted by this offset. So it first has offsets between
0x40000000 and 0x7fffffff (i.e. the negative offsets) and then offsets
between 0x00000000 and 0x3fffffff. When seperating these two blocks the
numbers are sorted even when interpreting the offsets as unsigned longs.

So determine the first non-negative entry once and track that using the
new origin pointer. The actual bisection can then use a plain unsigned
long comparison. The only thing that makes the new bisection more
complicated is that the offsets are relative to their position in the
index section, so the key to search needs to be adapted accordingly in
each step.

Moreover several consts are added to catch future writes and rename the
member "addr" of struct unwind_idx to "addr_offset" to better match the
new semantic. (This has the additional benefit of breaking eventual
users at compile time to make them aware of the change.)

In my tests the new algorithm was a tad faster than the original and has
the additional upside of not needing the initial conversion and so saves
some boot time and it's possible to unwind even earlier.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 7182/1: ARM cpu topology: fix warning</title>
<updated>2011-11-30T23:55:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincent Guittot</name>
<email>vincent.guittot@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-29T14:50:20+00:00</published>
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kernel/sched.c:7354:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

Align cpu_coregroup_mask prototype interface with sched_domain_mask_f typedef
use int cpu instead of unsigned int cpu

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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kernel/sched.c:7354:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

Align cpu_coregroup_mask prototype interface with sched_domain_mask_f typedef
use int cpu instead of unsigned int cpu

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-rmk' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux into fixes</title>
<updated>2011-11-22T20:44:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-22T20:44:19+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>ARM: wire up process_vm_writev and process_vm_readv syscalls</title>
<updated>2011-11-17T16:58:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-17T16:58:00+00:00</published>
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These two syscalls were introduced during the last merge window.
Add the entries into the ARM call tables for them.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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These two syscalls were introduced during the last merge window.
Add the entries into the ARM call tables for them.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: PMU: remove pmu_init declaration</title>
<updated>2011-11-16T10:06:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-16T10:05:18+00:00</published>
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pmu_init no longer exists, so don't declare it in asm/pmu.h.

Reported-by: Pawel Moll &lt;Pawel.Moll@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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pmu_init no longer exists, so don't declare it in asm/pmu.h.

Reported-by: Pawel Moll &lt;Pawel.Moll@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7156/1: l2x0: fix compile error on !CONFIG_USE_OF</title>
<updated>2011-11-12T11:32:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Olof Johansson</name>
<email>olof@lixom.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-09T21:10:00+00:00</published>
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fae2b89ab1 (ARM: l2x0: add empty l2x0_of_init) adds a static inline
function that returns -ENODEV, but at least on tegra cache-l2x0.h is
included without errno.h being pulled in first, resulting in compile
errors if OF isn't enabled:

In file included from arch/arm/mach-tegra/common.c:26:
arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h: In function 'l2x0_of_init':
arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h:110: error: 'ENODEV' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h:110: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h:110: error: for each function it appears in.)

Add errno.h to the include file to make it self-contained.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Acked-by: Rob Herring &lt;rob.herring@calxeda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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fae2b89ab1 (ARM: l2x0: add empty l2x0_of_init) adds a static inline
function that returns -ENODEV, but at least on tegra cache-l2x0.h is
included without errno.h being pulled in first, resulting in compile
errors if OF isn't enabled:

In file included from arch/arm/mach-tegra/common.c:26:
arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h: In function 'l2x0_of_init':
arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h:110: error: 'ENODEV' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h:110: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h:110: error: for each function it appears in.)

Add errno.h to the include file to make it self-contained.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Acked-by: Rob Herring &lt;rob.herring@calxeda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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