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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/arm/vfp, branch v2.6.32</title>
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<title>Thumb-2: Implement the unified VFP support</title>
<updated>2009-07-24T11:32:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<published>2009-07-24T11:32:57+00:00</published>
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This patch modifies the VFP files for the ARM/Thumb-2 unified
assembly syntax.

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

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This patch modifies the VFP files for the ARM/Thumb-2 unified
assembly syntax.

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

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<entry>
<title>Thumb-2: Add some .align statements to the .S files</title>
<updated>2009-07-24T11:32:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<published>2009-07-24T11:32:52+00:00</published>
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Since the Thumb-2 instructions can be 16-bit wide, data in the .text
sections may not be aligned to a 32-bit word and this leads to unaligned
exceptions. This patch does not affect the ARM code generation.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Since the Thumb-2 instructions can be 16-bit wide, data in the .text
sections may not be aligned to a 32-bit word and this leads to unaligned
exceptions. This patch does not affect the ARM code generation.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<title>Fix the VFP handling on the Feroceon CPU</title>
<updated>2009-05-30T13:00:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<published>2009-05-30T13:00:18+00:00</published>
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This CPU generates synchronous VFP exceptions in a non-standard way -
the FPEXC.EX bit set but without the FPSCR.IXE bit being set like in the
VFP subarchitecture 1 or just the FPEXC.DEX bit like in VFP
subarchitecture 2. The main problem is that the faulty instruction
(which needs to be emulated in software) will be restarted several times
(normally until a context switch disables the VFP). This patch ensures
that the VFP exception is treated as synchronous.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@cam.org&gt;
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This CPU generates synchronous VFP exceptions in a non-standard way -
the FPEXC.EX bit set but without the FPSCR.IXE bit being set like in the
VFP subarchitecture 1 or just the FPEXC.DEX bit like in VFP
subarchitecture 2. The main problem is that the faulty instruction
(which needs to be emulated in software) will be restarted several times
(normally until a context switch disables the VFP). This patch ensures
that the VFP exception is treated as synchronous.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@cam.org&gt;
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<title>[ARM] 5440/1: Fix VFP state corruption due to preemption during VFP exceptions</title>
<updated>2009-04-01T21:17:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>George G. Davis</name>
<email>gdavis@mvista.com</email>
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<published>2009-04-01T19:27:18+00:00</published>
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We've observed that ARM VFP state can be corrupted during VFP exception
handling when PREEMPT is enabled.  The exact conditions are difficult
to reproduce but appear to occur during VFP exception handling when a
task causes a VFP exception which is handled via VFP_bounce and is then
preempted by yet another task which in turn causes yet another VFP
exception.  Since the VFP_bounce code is not preempt safe, VFP state then
becomes corrupt.  In order to prevent preemption from occuring while
handling a VFP exception, this patch disables preemption while handling
VFP exceptions.

Signed-off-by: George G. Davis &lt;gdavis@mvista.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've observed that ARM VFP state can be corrupted during VFP exception
handling when PREEMPT is enabled.  The exact conditions are difficult
to reproduce but appear to occur during VFP exception handling when a
task causes a VFP exception which is handled via VFP_bounce and is then
preempted by yet another task which in turn causes yet another VFP
exception.  Since the VFP_bounce code is not preempt safe, VFP state then
becomes corrupt.  In order to prevent preemption from occuring while
handling a VFP exception, this patch disables preemption while handling
VFP exceptions.

Signed-off-by: George G. Davis &lt;gdavis@mvista.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] 5388/1: Add hwcap bits for VFPv3 and VFPv3D16</title>
<updated>2009-02-12T10:59:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-11T12:13:56+00:00</published>
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The VFPv3D16 is a VFPv3 CPU configuration where only 16 double registers
are present, as the VFPv2 configuration. This patch adds the
corresponding hwcap bits so that applications or debuggers have more
information about the supported features.

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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The VFPv3D16 is a VFPv3 CPU configuration where only 16 double registers
are present, as the VFPv2 configuration. This patch adds the
corresponding hwcap bits so that applications or debuggers have more
information about the supported features.

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] 5387/1: Add ptrace VFP support on ARM</title>
<updated>2009-02-12T10:59:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<published>2009-02-11T12:12:56+00:00</published>
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This patch adds ptrace support for setting and getting the VFP registers
using PTRACE_SETVFPREGS and PTRACE_GETVFPREGS. The user_vfp structure
defined in asm/user.h contains 32 double registers (to cover VFPv3 and
Neon hardware) and the FPSCR register.

Cc: Paul Brook &lt;paul@codesourcery.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz &lt;dan@codesourcery.com&gt;
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 patch adds ptrace support for setting and getting the VFP registers
using PTRACE_SETVFPREGS and PTRACE_GETVFPREGS. The user_vfp structure
defined in asm/user.h contains 32 double registers (to cover VFPv3 and
Neon hardware) and the FPSCR register.

Cc: Paul Brook &lt;paul@codesourcery.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz &lt;dan@codesourcery.com&gt;
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] 5349/1: VFP: Add PM code to save and restore current VFP state</title>
<updated>2008-12-18T21:21:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Dooks</name>
<email>ben-linux@fluff.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-18T11:26:54+00:00</published>
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When CONFIG_PM is selected, the VFP code does not have any handler
installed to deal with either saving the VFP state of the current
task, nor does it do anything to try and restore the VFP after a
resume.

On resume, the VFP will have been reset and the co-processor access
control registers are in an indeterminate state (very probably the
CP10 and CP11 the VFP uses will have been disabled by the ARM core
reset). When this happens, resume will break as soon as it tries to
unfreeze the tasks and restart scheduling.

Add a sys device to allow us to hook the suspend call to save the
current thread state if the thread is using VFP and a resume hook
which restores the CP10/CP11 access and ensures the VFP is disabled
so that the lazy swapping will take place on next access.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks &lt;ben-linux@fluff.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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When CONFIG_PM is selected, the VFP code does not have any handler
installed to deal with either saving the VFP state of the current
task, nor does it do anything to try and restore the VFP after a
resume.

On resume, the VFP will have been reset and the co-processor access
control registers are in an indeterminate state (very probably the
CP10 and CP11 the VFP uses will have been disabled by the ARM core
reset). When this happens, resume will break as soon as it tries to
unfreeze the tasks and restart scheduling.

Add a sys device to allow us to hook the suspend call to save the
current thread state if the thread is using VFP and a resume hook
which restores the CP10/CP11 access and ensures the VFP is disabled
so that the lazy swapping will take place on next access.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks &lt;ben-linux@fluff.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARMv7: Branch over conditional undefined instructions in vfphw.S</title>
<updated>2008-11-06T13:23:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-06T13:23:08+00:00</published>
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On ARMv7, conditional undefined instructions may generate exceptions
even if the condition is not met. The vfphw.S contains the FPINST and
FPINST2 access instructions which may not be present on processors with
synchronous VFP exceptions.

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




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On ARMv7, conditional undefined instructions may generate exceptions
even if the condition is not met. The vfphw.S contains the FPINST and
FPINST2 access instructions which may not be present on processors with
synchronous VFP exceptions.

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




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<entry>
<title>Add HWCAP_NEON to the ARM hwcap.h file</title>
<updated>2008-11-06T13:23:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-06T13:23:07+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;



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