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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>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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<entry>
<title>ARM: 8223/1: Add unwinding support for __memzero function</title>
<updated>2014-11-27T16:00:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lin Yongting</name>
<email>linyongting@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-26T13:33:49+00:00</published>
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The __memzero function never had unwinding annotations added.
Currently, when accessing invalid pointer by __memzero occurs the
backtrace shown will stop at __memzero 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 __memzero
2. kprobe trapped at any instruction within __memzero
3. interrupted at any instruction within __memzero

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 __memzero function never had unwinding annotations added.
Currently, when accessing invalid pointer by __memzero occurs the
backtrace shown will stop at __memzero 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 __memzero
2. kprobe trapped at any instruction within __memzero
3. interrupted at any instruction within __memzero

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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<entry>
<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>
</author>
<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>[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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<entry>
<title>[ARM] cache align memset and memzero</title>
<updated>2008-06-22T20:44:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Pitre</name>
<email>nico@cam.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-12T01:04:28+00:00</published>
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This is a natural extension following the previous patch.
Non Feroceon based targets are unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@marvell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek &lt;buytenh@marvell.com&gt;
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This is a natural extension following the previous patch.
Non Feroceon based targets are unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@marvell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek &lt;buytenh@marvell.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[ARM] Remove LOADREGS macro</title>
<updated>2006-06-25T10:23:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2006-06-25T10:23:45+00:00</published>
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As for RETINSTR, LOADREGS is a left-over from the 26-bit days.
Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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As for RETINSTR, LOADREGS is a left-over from the 26-bit days.
Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>[ARM] Remove RETINSTR macro</title>
<updated>2006-06-25T10:17:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2006-06-25T10:17:23+00:00</published>
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RETINSTR is a left-over from the days when we had 26-bit and
32-bit CPU support integrated into the same tree.  Since this
is no longer the case, we can now remove RETINSTR.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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RETINSTR is a left-over from the days when we had 26-bit and
32-bit CPU support integrated into the same tree.  Since this
is no longer the case, we can now remove RETINSTR.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Linux-2.6.12-rc2</title>
<updated>2005-04-16T22:20:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org</email>
</author>
<published>2005-04-16T22:20:36+00:00</published>
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
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