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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Revert "arm: move exports to definitions"</title>
<updated>2016-11-23T10:00:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2016-11-23T10:00:03+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 4dd1837d7589f468ed109556513f476e7a7f9121.

Moving the exports for assembly code into the assembly files breaks
KSYM trimming, but also breaks modversions.

While fixing the KSYM trimming is trivial, fixing modversions brings
us to a technically worse position that we had prior to the above
change:

- We end up with the prototype definitions divorsed from everything
  else, which means that adding or removing assembly level ksyms
  become more fragile:
  * if adding a new assembly ksyms export, a missed prototype in
    asm-prototypes.h results in a successful build if no module in
    the selected configuration makes use of the symbol.
  * when removing a ksyms export, asm-prototypes.h will get forgotten,
    with armksyms.c, you'll get a build error if you forget to touch
    the file.

- We end up with the same amount of include files and prototypes,
  they're just in a header file instead of a .c file with their
  exports.

As for lines of code, we don't get much of a size reduction:
 (original commit)
 47 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 208 deletions(-)
 (fix for ksyms trimming)
 7 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 (two fixes for modversions)
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
which results in a net total of only 25 lines deleted.

As there does not seem to be much benefit from this change of approach,
revert the change.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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This reverts commit 4dd1837d7589f468ed109556513f476e7a7f9121.

Moving the exports for assembly code into the assembly files breaks
KSYM trimming, but also breaks modversions.

While fixing the KSYM trimming is trivial, fixing modversions brings
us to a technically worse position that we had prior to the above
change:

- We end up with the prototype definitions divorsed from everything
  else, which means that adding or removing assembly level ksyms
  become more fragile:
  * if adding a new assembly ksyms export, a missed prototype in
    asm-prototypes.h results in a successful build if no module in
    the selected configuration makes use of the symbol.
  * when removing a ksyms export, asm-prototypes.h will get forgotten,
    with armksyms.c, you'll get a build error if you forget to touch
    the file.

- We end up with the same amount of include files and prototypes,
  they're just in a header file instead of a .c file with their
  exports.

As for lines of code, we don't get much of a size reduction:
 (original commit)
 47 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 208 deletions(-)
 (fix for ksyms trimming)
 7 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 (two fixes for modversions)
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
which results in a net total of only 25 lines deleted.

As there does not seem to be much benefit from this change of approach,
revert the change.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2016-10-15T01:19:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-15T01:19:05+00:00</published>
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Pull more misc uaccess and vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "The rest of the stuff from -next (more uaccess work) + assorted fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  score: traps: Add missing include file to fix build error
  fs/super.c: don't fool lockdep in freeze_super() and thaw_super() paths
  fs/super.c: fix race between freeze_super() and thaw_super()
  overlayfs: Fix setting IOP_XATTR flag
  iov_iter: kernel-doc import_iovec() and rw_copy_check_uvector()
  blackfin: no access_ok() for __copy_{to,from}_user()
  arm64: don't zero in __copy_from_user{,_inatomic}
  arm: don't zero in __copy_from_user_inatomic()/__copy_from_user()
  arc: don't leak bits of kernel stack into coredump
  alpha: get rid of tail-zeroing in __copy_user()
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Pull more misc uaccess and vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "The rest of the stuff from -next (more uaccess work) + assorted fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  score: traps: Add missing include file to fix build error
  fs/super.c: don't fool lockdep in freeze_super() and thaw_super() paths
  fs/super.c: fix race between freeze_super() and thaw_super()
  overlayfs: Fix setting IOP_XATTR flag
  iov_iter: kernel-doc import_iovec() and rw_copy_check_uvector()
  blackfin: no access_ok() for __copy_{to,from}_user()
  arm64: don't zero in __copy_from_user{,_inatomic}
  arm: don't zero in __copy_from_user_inatomic()/__copy_from_user()
  arc: don't leak bits of kernel stack into coredump
  alpha: get rid of tail-zeroing in __copy_user()
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<title>arm: don't zero in __copy_from_user_inatomic()/__copy_from_user()</title>
<updated>2016-09-15T23:51:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-10T20:44:03+00:00</published>
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adjust copy_from_user(), obviously

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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adjust copy_from_user(), obviously

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>arm: move exports to definitions</title>
<updated>2016-08-08T03:47:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-13T18:46:22+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: uaccess: provide uaccess_save_and_enable() and uaccess_restore()</title>
<updated>2015-08-25T15:14:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-19T10:02:28+00:00</published>
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Provide uaccess_save_and_enable() and uaccess_restore() to permit
control of userspace visibility to the kernel, and hook these into
the appropriate places in the kernel where we need to access
userspace.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Provide uaccess_save_and_enable() and uaccess_restore() to permit
control of userspace visibility to the kernel, and hook these into
the appropriate places in the kernel where we need to access
userspace.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 8225/1: Add unwinding support for memory copy functions</title>
<updated>2014-11-27T16:00:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lin Yongting</name>
<email>linyongting@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-26T13:38:33+00:00</published>
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The memory copy functions(memcpy, __copy_from_user, __copy_to_user)
never had unwinding annotations added. Currently, when accessing
invalid pointer by these functions occurs the backtrace shown will
stop at these functions or some completely unrelated function.
Add unwinding annotations in hopes of getting a more useful backtrace
in following cases:
1. die on accessing invalid pointer by these functions
2. kprobe trapped at any instruction within these functions
3. interrupted at any instruction within these functions

Signed-off-by: Lin Yongting &lt;linyongting@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The memory copy functions(memcpy, __copy_from_user, __copy_to_user)
never had unwinding annotations added. Currently, when accessing
invalid pointer by these functions occurs the backtrace shown will
stop at these functions or some completely unrelated function.
Add unwinding annotations in hopes of getting a more useful backtrace
in following cases:
1. die on accessing invalid pointer by these functions
2. kprobe trapped at any instruction within these functions
3. interrupted at any instruction within these functions

Signed-off-by: Lin Yongting &lt;linyongting@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: fix build error in arch/arm/kernel/process.c</title>
<updated>2010-04-21T07:45:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-19T09:15:03+00:00</published>
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/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s:1952: Error: can't resolve `.text' {.text section} - `.LFB1077'

This is caused because:

	.section .data
	.section .text
	.section .text
	.previous

does not return us to the .text section, but the .data section; this
makes use of .previous dangerous if the ordering of previous sections
is not known.

Fix up the other users of .previous; .pushsection and .popsection are
a safer pairing to use than .section and .previous.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s:1952: Error: can't resolve `.text' {.text section} - `.LFB1077'

This is caused because:

	.section .data
	.section .text
	.section .text
	.previous

does not return us to the .text section, but the .data section; this
makes use of .previous dangerous if the ordering of previous sections
is not known.

Fix up the other users of .previous; .pushsection and .popsection are
a safer pairing to use than .section and .previous.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Thumb-2: Implement the unified arch/arm/lib functions</title>
<updated>2009-07-24T11:32:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-24T11:32:57+00:00</published>
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This patch adds the ARM/Thumb-2 unified support for the arch/arm/lib/*
files.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;



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This patch adds the ARM/Thumb-2 unified support for the arch/arm/lib/*
files.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;



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<title>[ARM] 5227/1: Add the ENDPROC declarations to the .S files</title>
<updated>2008-09-01T11:06:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-28T10:22:32+00:00</published>
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This declaration specifies the "function" type and size for various
assembly functions, mainly needed for generating the correct branch
instructions in Thumb-2.

Signed-off-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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This declaration specifies the "function" type and size for various
assembly functions, mainly needed for generating the correct branch
instructions in Thumb-2.

Signed-off-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] Remove the __arch_* layer from uaccess.h</title>
<updated>2006-06-28T16:53:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2006-06-21T13:44:52+00:00</published>
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Back in the days when we had armo (26-bit) and armv (32-bit) combined,
we had an additional layer to the uaccess macros to ensure correct
typing.  Since we no longer have 26-bit in this tree, we no longer
need this layer, so eliminate it.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Back in the days when we had armo (26-bit) and armv (32-bit) combined,
we had an additional layer to the uaccess macros to ensure correct
typing.  Since we no longer have 26-bit in this tree, we no longer
need this layer, so eliminate it.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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