linux-toradex.git/arch/arm/include, branch v3.2.46

signal: Define __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER so we know whether to clear sa_restorer

2013-03-27T02:41:25+00:00

flush_signal_handlers() needs to know whether sigaction::sa_restorer
is defined, not whether SA_RESTORER is defined.  Define the
__ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER macro to indicate this.

Vaguely based on upstream commit 574c4866e33d 'consolidate kernel-side
struct sigaction declarations'.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Cc: Al Viro

ARM: 7566/1: vfp: fix save and restore when running on pre-VFPv3 and CONFIG_VFPv3 set

2013-01-03T03:32:49+00:00

commit 39141ddfb63a664f26d3f42f64ee386e879b492c upstream.

After commit 846a136881b8f73c1f74250bf6acfaa309cab1f2 ("ARM: vfp: fix
saving d16-d31 vfp registers on v6+ kernels"), the OMAP 2430SDP board
started crashing during boot with omap2plus_defconfig:

[    3.875122] mmcblk0: mmc0:e624 SD04G 3.69 GiB
[    3.915954]  mmcblk0: p1
[    4.086639] Internal error: Oops - undefined instruction: 0 [#1] SMP ARM
[    4.093719] Modules linked in:
[    4.096954] CPU: 0    Not tainted  (3.6.0-02232-g759e00b #570)
[    4.103149] PC is at vfp_reload_hw+0x1c/0x44
[    4.107666] LR is at __und_usr_fault_32+0x0/0x8

It turns out that the context save/restore fix unmasked a latent bug
in commit 5aaf254409f8d58229107b59507a8235b715a960 ("ARM: 6203/1: Make
VFPv3 usable on ARMv6").  When CONFIG_VFPv3 is set, but the kernel is
booted on a pre-VFPv3 core, the code attempts to save and restore the
d16-d31 VFP registers.  These are only present on non-D16 VFPv3+, so
this results in an undefined instruction exception.  The code didn't
crash before commit 846a136 because the save and restore code was
only touching d0-d15, present on all VFP.

Fix by implementing a request from Russell King to add a new HWCAP
flag that affirmatively indicates the presence of the d16-d31
registers:

   http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=135013547905283&w=2

and some feedback from Måns to clarify the name of the HWCAP flag.

Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Tony Lindgren 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Dave Martin 
Cc: Måns Rullgård 
Signed-off-by: Russell King 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ARM: vfp: fix saving d16-d31 vfp registers on v6+ kernels

2012-10-30T23:26:38+00:00

commit 846a136881b8f73c1f74250bf6acfaa309cab1f2 upstream.

Michael Olbrich reported that his test program fails when built with
-O2 -mcpu=cortex-a8 -mfpu=neon, and a kernel which supports v6 and v7
CPUs:

volatile int x = 2;
volatile int64_t y = 2;

int main() {
	volatile int a = 0;
	volatile int64_t b = 0;
	while (1) {
		a = (a + x) % (1 << 30);
		b = (b + y) % (1 << 30);
		assert(a == b);
	}
}

and two instances are run.  When built for just v7 CPUs, this program
works fine.  It uses the "vadd.i64 d19, d18, d16" VFP instruction.

It appears that we do not save the high-16 double VFP registers across
context switches when the kernel is built for v6 CPUs.  Fix that.

Tested-By: Michael Olbrich 
Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ARM: 7487/1: mm: avoid setting nG bit for user mappings that aren't present

2012-09-19T14:05:01+00:00

commit 47f1204329237a0f8655f5a9f14a38ac81946ca1 upstream.

Swap entries are encoding in ptes such that !pte_present(pte) and
pte_file(pte). The remaining bits of the descriptor are used to identify
the swapfile and offset within it to the swap entry.

When writing such a pte for a user virtual address, set_pte_at
unconditionally sets the nG bit, which (in the case of LPAE) will
corrupt the swapfile offset and lead to a BUG:

[  140.494067] swap_free: Unused swap offset entry 000763b4
[  140.509989] BUG: Bad page map in process rs:main Q:Reg  pte:0ec76800 pmd:8f92e003

This patch fixes the problem by only setting the nG bit for user
mappings that are actually present.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ARM: 7488/1: mm: use 5 bits for swapfile type encoding

2012-09-12T02:36:57+00:00

commit f5f2025ef3e2cdb593707cbf87378761f17befbe upstream.

Page migration encodes the pfn in the offset field of a swp_entry_t.
For LPAE, we support physical addresses of up to 36 bits (due to
sparsemem limitations with the size of page flags), requiring 24 bits
to represent a pfn. A further 3 bits are used to encode a swp_entry into
a pte, leaving 5 bits for the type field. Furthermore, the core code
defines MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT as 5, so the additional type bit does not
get used.

This patch reduces the width of the type field to 5 bits, allowing us
to create up to 31 swapfiles of 64GB each.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ARM: 7467/1: mutex: use generic xchg-based implementation for ARMv6+

2012-08-09T23:25:04+00:00

commit a76d7bd96d65fa5119adba97e1b58d95f2e78829 upstream.

The open-coded mutex implementation for ARMv6+ cores suffers from a
severe lack of barriers, so in the uncontended case we don't actually
protect any accesses performed during the critical section.

Furthermore, the code is largely a duplication of the ARMv6+ atomic_dec
code but optimised to remove a branch instruction, as the mutex fastpath
was previously inlined. Now that this is executed out-of-line, we can
reuse the atomic access code for the locking (in fact, we use the xchg
code as this produces shorter critical sections).

This patch uses the generic xchg based implementation for mutexes on
ARMv6+, which introduces barriers to the lock/unlock operations and also
has the benefit of removing a fair amount of inline assembly code.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Reported-by: Shan Kang 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ARM: 7365/1: drop unused parameter from flush_cache_user_range

2012-05-30T23:43:49+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas 
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König 
Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ARM: 7403/1: tls: remove covert channel via TPIDRURW

2012-05-11T12:14:46+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ARM: 7354/1: perf: limit sample_period to half max_period in non-sampling mode

2012-03-12T19:31:38+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARM: 7325/1: fix v7 boot with lockdep enabled

2012-03-01T00:30:57+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Stephen Boyd 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent 
Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman