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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>ARM: convert all "mov.* pc, reg" to "bx reg" for ARMv6+</title>
<updated>2014-07-18T11:29:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2014-06-30T15:29:12+00:00</published>
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ARMv6 and greater introduced a new instruction ("bx") which can be used
to return from function calls.  Recent CPUs perform better when the
"bx lr" instruction is used rather than the "mov pc, lr" instruction,
and this sequence is strongly recommended to be used by the ARM
architecture manual (section A.4.1.1).

We provide a new macro "ret" with all its variants for the condition
code which will resolve to the appropriate instruction.

Rather than doing this piecemeal, and miss some instances, change all
the "mov pc" instances to use the new macro, with the exception of
the "movs" instruction and the kprobes code.  This allows us to detect
the "mov pc, lr" case and fix it up - and also gives us the possibility
of deploying this for other registers depending on the CPU selection.

Reported-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Stephen Warren &lt;swarren@nvidia.com&gt; # Tegra Jetson TK1
Tested-by: Robert Jarzmik &lt;robert.jarzmik@free.fr&gt; # mioa701_bootresume.S
Tested-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt; # Kirkwood
Tested-by: Shawn Guo &lt;shawn.guo@freescale.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt; # OMAPs
Tested-by: Gregory CLEMENT &lt;gregory.clement@free-electrons.com&gt; # Armada XP, 375, 385
Acked-by: Sekhar Nori &lt;nsekhar@ti.com&gt; # DaVinci
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt; # kvm/hyp
Acked-by: Haojian Zhuang &lt;haojian.zhuang@gmail.com&gt; # PXA3xx
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt; # Xen
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt; # ARMv7M
Tested-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms+renesas@verge.net.au&gt; # Shmobile
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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ARMv6 and greater introduced a new instruction ("bx") which can be used
to return from function calls.  Recent CPUs perform better when the
"bx lr" instruction is used rather than the "mov pc, lr" instruction,
and this sequence is strongly recommended to be used by the ARM
architecture manual (section A.4.1.1).

We provide a new macro "ret" with all its variants for the condition
code which will resolve to the appropriate instruction.

Rather than doing this piecemeal, and miss some instances, change all
the "mov pc" instances to use the new macro, with the exception of
the "movs" instruction and the kprobes code.  This allows us to detect
the "mov pc, lr" case and fix it up - and also gives us the possibility
of deploying this for other registers depending on the CPU selection.

Reported-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Stephen Warren &lt;swarren@nvidia.com&gt; # Tegra Jetson TK1
Tested-by: Robert Jarzmik &lt;robert.jarzmik@free.fr&gt; # mioa701_bootresume.S
Tested-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt; # Kirkwood
Tested-by: Shawn Guo &lt;shawn.guo@freescale.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt; # OMAPs
Tested-by: Gregory CLEMENT &lt;gregory.clement@free-electrons.com&gt; # Armada XP, 375, 385
Acked-by: Sekhar Nori &lt;nsekhar@ti.com&gt; # DaVinci
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt; # kvm/hyp
Acked-by: Haojian Zhuang &lt;haojian.zhuang@gmail.com&gt; # PXA3xx
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt; # Xen
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt; # ARMv7M
Tested-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms+renesas@verge.net.au&gt; # Shmobile
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'alignment', 'fixes', 'l2c' (early part) and 'misc' into for-next</title>
<updated>2014-06-05T11:35:52+00:00</updated>
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<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2014-06-05T11:35:52+00:00</published>
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<title>ARM: consolidate last remaining open-coded alignment trap enable</title>
<updated>2014-06-02T08:20:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2014-04-13T19:24:51+00:00</published>
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We can use the alignment_trap assembly macro here too.

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We can use the alignment_trap assembly macro here too.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: remove global cr_no_alignment</title>
<updated>2014-06-02T08:20:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2014-04-13T18:43:26+00:00</published>
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cr_no_alignment is really only used by the alignment code.  Since we no
longer change the setting of cr_alignment after boot, we can localise
this to alignment.c

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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cr_no_alignment is really only used by the alignment code.  Since we no
longer change the setting of cr_alignment after boot, we can localise
this to alignment.c

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: 8062/1: Modify ldrt fixup handler to re-execute the userspace instruction</title>
<updated>2014-05-30T00:12:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arun K S</name>
<email>arunks.linux@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2014-05-19T10:43:00+00:00</published>
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We will reach fixup handler when one thread(say cpu0) caused an undefined exception, while another thread(say cpu1) is unmmaping the page.

Fixup handler returns to the next userspace instruction which has caused the undef execption, rather than going to the same instruction.

ARM ARM says that after undefined exception, the PC will be pointing
to the next instruction. ie +4 offset in case of ARM and +2 in case of Thumb

And there is no correction offset passed to vector_stub in case of
undef exception.

File: arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S +1085
vector_stub     und, UND_MODE

During an undefined exception, in normal scenario(ie when ldrt
instruction does not cause an abort) after resorting the context in
VFP hardware, the PC is modified as show below before jumping to
ret_from_exception which is in r9.

File: arch/arm/vfp/vfphw.S +169
@ The context stored in the VFP hardware is up to date with this thread
vfp_hw_state_valid:
   tst     r1, #FPEXC_EX
   bne     process_exception     @ might as well handle the pending
                                 @ exception before retrying branch
                                 @ out before setting an FPEXC that
                                 @ stops us reading stuff
        VFPFMXR FPEXC, r1        @ Restore FPEXC last
        sub     r2, r2, #4       @ Retry current instruction - if Thumb
        str     r2, [sp, #S_PC]  @ mode it's two 16-bit instructions,
                                 @ else it's one 32-bit instruction, so
                                 @ always subtract 4 from the following
                                 @ instruction address.

But if ldrt results in an abort, we reach the fixup handler and return
to ret_from_execption without correcting the pc.

This patch modifes the fixup handler to re-execute the same instruction which caused undefined execption.

Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon &lt;vinayakm.list@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arun KS &lt;getarunks@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-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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We will reach fixup handler when one thread(say cpu0) caused an undefined exception, while another thread(say cpu1) is unmmaping the page.

Fixup handler returns to the next userspace instruction which has caused the undef execption, rather than going to the same instruction.

ARM ARM says that after undefined exception, the PC will be pointing
to the next instruction. ie +4 offset in case of ARM and +2 in case of Thumb

And there is no correction offset passed to vector_stub in case of
undef exception.

File: arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S +1085
vector_stub     und, UND_MODE

During an undefined exception, in normal scenario(ie when ldrt
instruction does not cause an abort) after resorting the context in
VFP hardware, the PC is modified as show below before jumping to
ret_from_exception which is in r9.

File: arch/arm/vfp/vfphw.S +169
@ The context stored in the VFP hardware is up to date with this thread
vfp_hw_state_valid:
   tst     r1, #FPEXC_EX
   bne     process_exception     @ might as well handle the pending
                                 @ exception before retrying branch
                                 @ out before setting an FPEXC that
                                 @ stops us reading stuff
        VFPFMXR FPEXC, r1        @ Restore FPEXC last
        sub     r2, r2, #4       @ Retry current instruction - if Thumb
        str     r2, [sp, #S_PC]  @ mode it's two 16-bit instructions,
                                 @ else it's one 32-bit instruction, so
                                 @ always subtract 4 from the following
                                 @ instruction address.

But if ldrt results in an abort, we reach the fixup handler and return
to ret_from_execption without correcting the pc.

This patch modifes the fixup handler to re-execute the same instruction which caused undefined execption.

Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon &lt;vinayakm.list@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arun KS &lt;getarunks@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-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: 8036/1: Enable IRQs before attempting to read user space in __und_usr</title>
<updated>2014-04-25T11:06:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<published>2014-04-22T15:14:29+00:00</published>
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The Undef abort handler in the kernel reads the undefined instruction
from user space. If the page table was modified from another CPU, the
user access could fail and do_page_fault() will be executed with
interrupts disabled. This can potentially deadlock on ARM11MPCore or on
Cortex-A15 with erratum 798181 workaround enabled (both implying IPI for
TLB maintenance with page table lock held).

This patch enables the IRQs in __und_usr before attempting to read the
instruction from user space.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arun KS &lt;getarunks@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hartley Sweeten &lt;hsweeten@visionengravers.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Mallon &lt;rmallon@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The Undef abort handler in the kernel reads the undefined instruction
from user space. If the page table was modified from another CPU, the
user access could fail and do_page_fault() will be executed with
interrupts disabled. This can potentially deadlock on ARM11MPCore or on
Cortex-A15 with erratum 798181 workaround enabled (both implying IPI for
TLB maintenance with page table lock held).

This patch enables the IRQs in __und_usr before attempting to read the
instruction from user space.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Arun KS &lt;getarunks@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hartley Sweeten &lt;hsweeten@visionengravers.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Mallon &lt;rmallon@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: 7946/1: asm: __und_usr_thumb need byteswap instructions in BE case</title>
<updated>2014-01-28T14:34:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Victor Kamensky</name>
<email>victor.kamensky@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2014-01-21T05:45:11+00:00</published>
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__und_usr_thumb function deals with thumb2 opcodes. In case of BE
image, it needs to byteswap half word thumb2 encoded instructions
before further processing them.

Without this fix BE image user-land thread executing first VFP
instruction encoded in thumb2 fails with SIGILL, because kernel
does not recognize instruction and does not enable VFP.

Reported-by: Corey Melton &lt;comelton@cisco.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky &lt;victor.kamensky@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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__und_usr_thumb function deals with thumb2 opcodes. In case of BE
image, it needs to byteswap half word thumb2 encoded instructions
before further processing them.

Without this fix BE image user-land thread executing first VFP
instruction encoded in thumb2 fails with SIGILL, because kernel
does not recognize instruction and does not enable VFP.

Reported-by: Corey Melton &lt;comelton@cisco.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky &lt;victor.kamensky@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'fixes', 'mmci' and 'sa11x0' into for-next</title>
<updated>2013-11-12T10:59:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2013-11-12T10:59:08+00:00</published>
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<title>ARM: 7876/1: clear Thumb-2 IT state on exception handling</title>
<updated>2013-11-07T00:15:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>Marc.Zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-04T10:42:29+00:00</published>
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The exception handling code fails to clear the IT state, potentially
leading to incorrect execution of the fixup if the size of the IT
block is more than one.

Let fixup_exception do the IT sanitizing if a fixup has been found,
and restore CPSR from the stack when returning from a data abort.

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The exception handling code fails to clear the IT state, potentially
leading to incorrect execution of the fixup if the size of the IT
block is more than one.

Let fixup_exception do the IT sanitizing if a fixup has been found,
and restore CPSR from the stack when returning from a data abort.

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: asm: Add ARM_BE8() assembly helper</title>
<updated>2013-10-19T19:46:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Dooks</name>
<email>ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-12T18:59:57+00:00</published>
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Add ARM_BE8() helper to wrap any code conditional on being
compile when CONFIG_ARM_ENDIAN_BE8 is selected and convert
existing places where this is to use it.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks &lt;ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk&gt;
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Add ARM_BE8() helper to wrap any code conditional on being
compile when CONFIG_ARM_ENDIAN_BE8 is selected and convert
existing places where this is to use it.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks &lt;ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk&gt;
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