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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>ARM: 7409/1: Do not call flush_cache_user_range with mmap_sem held</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T07:13:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dima Zavin</name>
<email>dima@android.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-30T09:26:14+00:00</published>
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commit 435a7ef52db7d86e67a009b36cac1457f8972391 upstream.

We can't be holding the mmap_sem while calling flush_cache_user_range
because the flush can fault. If we fault on a user address, the
page fault handler will try to take mmap_sem again. Since both places
acquire the read lock, most of the time it succeeds. However, if another
thread tries to acquire the write lock on the mmap_sem (e.g. mmap) in
between the call to flush_cache_user_range and the fault, the down_read
in do_page_fault will deadlock.

[will: removed drop of vma parameter as already queued by rmk (7365/1)]

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin &lt;dima@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&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 435a7ef52db7d86e67a009b36cac1457f8972391 upstream.

We can't be holding the mmap_sem while calling flush_cache_user_range
because the flush can fault. If we fault on a user address, the
page fault handler will try to take mmap_sem again. Since both places
acquire the read lock, most of the time it succeeds. However, if another
thread tries to acquire the write lock on the mmap_sem (e.g. mmap) in
between the call to flush_cache_user_range and the fault, the down_read
in do_page_fault will deadlock.

[will: removed drop of vma parameter as already queued by rmk (7365/1)]

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin &lt;dima@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&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>
<title>ARM: 7365/1: drop unused parameter from flush_cache_user_range</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T07:13:00+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;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&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;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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<entry>
<title>ARM: extend Code: line by one 16-bit quantity for Thumb instructions</title>
<updated>2011-06-09T22:55:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-09T22:21:11+00:00</published>
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Dump out the following 16-bit instruction to the faulting instruction
in the Code: line.  This allows Thumb-2 instructions to be properly
encoded.

Tested-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Dump out the following 16-bit instruction to the faulting instruction
in the Code: line.  This allows Thumb-2 instructions to be properly
encoded.

Tested-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 6955/1: cmpxchg syscall should data abort if page not write</title>
<updated>2011-06-09T09:15:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Po-Yu Chuang</name>
<email>ratbert@faraday-tech.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-09T07:42:17+00:00</published>
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If the page to cmpxchg is user mode read only (not write),
we should simulate a data abort first.

Signed-off-by: Po-Yu Chuang &lt;ratbert@faraday-tech.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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If the page to cmpxchg is user mode read only (not write),
we should simulate a data abort first.

Signed-off-by: Po-Yu Chuang &lt;ratbert@faraday-tech.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sysfs: remove "last sysfs file:" line from the oops messages</title>
<updated>2011-05-13T23:05:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-12T23:01:02+00:00</published>
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On some arches (x86, sh, arm, unicore, powerpc) the oops message would
print out the last sysfs file accessed.

This was very useful in finding a number of sysfs and driver core bugs
in the 2.5 and early 2.6 development days, but it has been a number of
years since this file has actually helped in debugging anything that
couldn't also be trivially determined from the stack traceback.

So it's time to delete the line.  This is good as we need all the space
we can get for oops messages at times on consoles.

Acked-by: Phil Carmody &lt;ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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On some arches (x86, sh, arm, unicore, powerpc) the oops message would
print out the last sysfs file accessed.

This was very useful in finding a number of sysfs and driver core bugs
in the 2.5 and early 2.6 development days, but it has been a number of
years since this file has actually helped in debugging anything that
couldn't also be trivially determined from the stack traceback.

So it's time to delete the line.  This is good as we need all the space
we can get for oops messages at times on consoles.

Acked-by: Phil Carmody &lt;ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 6879/1: fix personality test wrt usage of domain handlers</title>
<updated>2011-04-14T08:15:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Pitre</name>
<email>nicolas.pitre@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-13T04:01:52+00:00</published>
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There are optional bits that may complement a personality ID.  It is
therefore wrong to simply test against the absolute current-&gt;personality
value to determine the effective personality.  The PER_LINUX_32BIT is
itself just PER_LINUX with one of those optional bits set.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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There are optional bits that may complement a personality ID.  It is
therefore wrong to simply test against the absolute current-&gt;personality
value to determine the effective personality.  The PER_LINUX_32BIT is
itself just PER_LINUX with one of those optional bits set.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'fixes', 'pgt-next' and 'versatile' into devel</title>
<updated>2011-03-20T09:32:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-20T09:32:12+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 6668/1: ptrace: remove single-step emulation code</title>
<updated>2011-02-23T17:24:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-14T13:31:09+00:00</published>
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PTRACE_SINGLESTEP is a ptrace request designed to offer single-stepping
support to userspace when the underlying architecture has hardware
support for this operation.

On ARM, we set arch_has_single_step() to 1 and attempt to emulate hardware
single-stepping by disassembling the current instruction to determine the
next pc and placing a software breakpoint on that location.

Unfortunately this has the following problems:

1.) Only a subset of ARMv7 instructions are supported
2.) Thumb-2 is unsupported
3.) The code is not SMP safe

We could try to fix this code, but it turns out that because of the above
issues it is rarely used in practice.  GDB, for example, uses PTRACE_POKETEXT
and PTRACE_PEEKTEXT to manage breakpoints itself and does not require any
kernel assistance.

This patch removes the single-step emulation code from ptrace meaning that
the PTRACE_SINGLESTEP request will return -EIO on ARM. Portable code must
check the return value from a ptrace call and handle the failure gracefully.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&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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PTRACE_SINGLESTEP is a ptrace request designed to offer single-stepping
support to userspace when the underlying architecture has hardware
support for this operation.

On ARM, we set arch_has_single_step() to 1 and attempt to emulate hardware
single-stepping by disassembling the current instruction to determine the
next pc and placing a software breakpoint on that location.

Unfortunately this has the following problems:

1.) Only a subset of ARMv7 instructions are supported
2.) Thumb-2 is unsupported
3.) The code is not SMP safe

We could try to fix this code, but it turns out that because of the above
issues it is rarely used in practice.  GDB, for example, uses PTRACE_POKETEXT
and PTRACE_PEEKTEXT to manage breakpoints itself and does not require any
kernel assistance.

This patch removes the single-step emulation code from ptrace meaning that
the PTRACE_SINGLESTEP request will return -EIO on ARM. Portable code must
check the return value from a ptrace call and handle the failure gracefully.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&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>ARM: fix some sparse errors in generic ARM code</title>
<updated>2011-02-23T17:24:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-08T12:05:09+00:00</published>
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arch/arm/kernel/return_address.c:37:6: warning: symbol 'return_address' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:76:14: warning: symbol 'processor_id' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/arm/kernel/traps.c:259:1: warning: symbol 'die_lock' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c:156:6: warning: symbol 'vfp_raise_sigfpe' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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arch/arm/kernel/return_address.c:37:6: warning: symbol 'return_address' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:76:14: warning: symbol 'processor_id' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/arm/kernel/traps.c:259:1: warning: symbol 'die_lock' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c:156:6: warning: symbol 'vfp_raise_sigfpe' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 6674/1: LPAE: use long long format when printing physical addresses and ptes</title>
<updated>2011-02-15T14:20:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-15T13:31:37+00:00</published>
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For the Kernel to support 2 level and 3 level page tables, physical
addresses (and also page table entries) need to be 32 or 64-bits depending
upon the configuration.

This patch uses the %08llx conversion specifier for physical addresses
and page table entries, ensuring that they are cast to (long long) so
that common code can be used regardless of the datatype widths.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.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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For the Kernel to support 2 level and 3 level page tables, physical
addresses (and also page table entries) need to be 32 or 64-bits depending
upon the configuration.

This patch uses the %08llx conversion specifier for physical addresses
and page table entries, ensuring that they are cast to (long long) so
that common code can be used regardless of the datatype widths.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.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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