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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h, branch v5.5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: Avoid VDSO ABI breakage due to global register variable</title>
<updated>2020-01-03T00:41:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paulburton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-02T04:50:38+00:00</published>
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Declaring __current_thread_info as a global register variable has the
effect of preventing GCC from saving &amp; restoring its value in cases
where the ABI would typically do so.

To quote GCC documentation:

&gt; If the register is a call-saved register, call ABI is affected: the
&gt; register will not be restored in function epilogue sequences after the
&gt; variable has been assigned. Therefore, functions cannot safely return
&gt; to callers that assume standard ABI.

When our position independent VDSO is built for the n32 or n64 ABIs all
functions it exposes should be preserving the value of $gp/$28 for their
caller, but in the presence of the __current_thread_info global register
variable GCC stops doing so &amp; simply clobbers $gp/$28 when calculating
the address of the GOT.

In cases where the VDSO returns success this problem will typically be
masked by the caller in libc returning &amp; restoring $gp/$28 itself, but
that is by no means guaranteed. In cases where the VDSO returns an error
libc will typically contain a fallback path which will now fail
(typically with a bad memory access) if it attempts anything which
relies upon the value of $gp/$28 - eg. accessing anything via the GOT.

One fix for this would be to move the declaration of
__current_thread_info inside the current_thread_info() function,
demoting it from global register variable to local register variable &amp;
avoiding inadvertently creating a non-standard calling ABI for the VDSO.
Unfortunately this causes issues for clang, which doesn't support local
register variables as pointed out by commit fe92da0f355e ("MIPS: Changed
current_thread_info() to an equivalent supported by both clang and GCC")
which introduced the global register variable before we had a VDSO to
worry about.

Instead, fix this by continuing to use the global register variable for
the kernel proper but declare __current_thread_info as a simple extern
variable when building the VDSO. It should never be referenced, and will
cause a link error if it is. This resolves the calling convention issue
for the VDSO without having any impact upon the build of the kernel
itself for either clang or gcc.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Reported-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.4+
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Declaring __current_thread_info as a global register variable has the
effect of preventing GCC from saving &amp; restoring its value in cases
where the ABI would typically do so.

To quote GCC documentation:

&gt; If the register is a call-saved register, call ABI is affected: the
&gt; register will not be restored in function epilogue sequences after the
&gt; variable has been assigned. Therefore, functions cannot safely return
&gt; to callers that assume standard ABI.

When our position independent VDSO is built for the n32 or n64 ABIs all
functions it exposes should be preserving the value of $gp/$28 for their
caller, but in the presence of the __current_thread_info global register
variable GCC stops doing so &amp; simply clobbers $gp/$28 when calculating
the address of the GOT.

In cases where the VDSO returns success this problem will typically be
masked by the caller in libc returning &amp; restoring $gp/$28 itself, but
that is by no means guaranteed. In cases where the VDSO returns an error
libc will typically contain a fallback path which will now fail
(typically with a bad memory access) if it attempts anything which
relies upon the value of $gp/$28 - eg. accessing anything via the GOT.

One fix for this would be to move the declaration of
__current_thread_info inside the current_thread_info() function,
demoting it from global register variable to local register variable &amp;
avoiding inadvertently creating a non-standard calling ABI for the VDSO.
Unfortunately this causes issues for clang, which doesn't support local
register variables as pointed out by commit fe92da0f355e ("MIPS: Changed
current_thread_info() to an equivalent supported by both clang and GCC")
which introduced the global register variable before we had a VDSO to
worry about.

Instead, fix this by continuing to use the global register variable for
the kernel proper but declare __current_thread_info as a simple extern
variable when building the VDSO. It should never be referenced, and will
cause a link error if it is. This resolves the calling convention issue
for the VDSO without having any impact upon the build of the kernel
itself for either clang or gcc.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Reported-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.4+
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>Construct init thread stack in the linker script rather than by union</title>
<updated>2018-01-09T23:21:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-02T15:12:01+00:00</published>
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Construct the init thread stack in the linker script rather than doing it
by means of a union so that ia64's init_task.c can be got rid of.

The following symbols are then made available from INIT_TASK_DATA() linker
script macro:

	init_thread_union
	init_stack

INIT_TASK_DATA() also expands the region to THREAD_SIZE to accommodate the
size of the init stack.  init_thread_union is given its own section so that
it can be placed into the stack space in the right order.  I'm assuming
that the ia64 ordering is correct and that the task_struct is first and the
thread_info second.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt; (arm64)
Tested-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Construct the init thread stack in the linker script rather than doing it
by means of a union so that ia64's init_task.c can be got rid of.

The following symbols are then made available from INIT_TASK_DATA() linker
script macro:

	init_thread_union
	init_stack

INIT_TASK_DATA() also expands the region to THREAD_SIZE to accommodate the
size of the init stack.  init_thread_union is given its own section so that
it can be placed into the stack space in the right order.  I'm assuming
that the ia64 ordering is correct and that the task_struct is first and the
thread_info second.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt; (arm64)
Tested-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Remove r2_emul_return from struct thread_info</title>
<updated>2017-01-03T15:34:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-17T14:34:35+00:00</published>
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The r2_emul_return field in struct thread_info was used in order to take
an alternate codepath when returning to userland, which (besides not
implementing certain features) effectively used the eretnc instruction
in place of eret. The difference is that eretnc doesn't clear LLBit, and
therefore doesn't cause a linked load &amp; store sequence to fail due to
emulation like eret would.

The reason eret would usually be used to clear LLBit is so that after
context switching we ensure that a load performed by one task doesn't
influence another task. However commit 7c151d3d5d7a ("MIPS: Make use of
the ERETNC instruction on MIPS R6") which introduced the r2_emul_return
field and conditional use of eretnc also for some reason began
explicitly clearing LLBit during context switches - despite retaining
the use of eret for everything but returns from the pre-r6 instruction
emulation code.

As LLBit is cleared upon context switches anyway, simplify this by using
eretnc unconditionally for MIPSr6 kernels. This allows us to remove the
4 byte r2_emul_return boolean from struct thread_info, simplify the
return to user code in entry.S and avoid the overhead of tracking &amp;
checking state which we don't need.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14408/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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The r2_emul_return field in struct thread_info was used in order to take
an alternate codepath when returning to userland, which (besides not
implementing certain features) effectively used the eretnc instruction
in place of eret. The difference is that eretnc doesn't clear LLBit, and
therefore doesn't cause a linked load &amp; store sequence to fail due to
emulation like eret would.

The reason eret would usually be used to clear LLBit is so that after
context switching we ensure that a load performed by one task doesn't
influence another task. However commit 7c151d3d5d7a ("MIPS: Make use of
the ERETNC instruction on MIPS R6") which introduced the r2_emul_return
field and conditional use of eretnc also for some reason began
explicitly clearing LLBit during context switches - despite retaining
the use of eret for everything but returns from the pre-r6 instruction
emulation code.

As LLBit is cleared upon context switches anyway, simplify this by using
eretnc unconditionally for MIPSr6 kernels. This allows us to remove the
4 byte r2_emul_return boolean from struct thread_info, simplify the
return to user code in entry.S and avoid the overhead of tracking &amp;
checking state which we don't need.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14408/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Add uprobes support.</title>
<updated>2015-09-03T10:08:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-29T20:44:53+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus</title>
<updated>2015-04-17T19:50:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2015-04-17T19:50:54+00:00</published>
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
 "This is the main pull request for MIPS for Linux 4.1.  Most
  noteworthy:

   - Add more Octeon-optimized crypto functions
   - Octeon crypto preemption and locking fixes
   - Little endian support for Octeon
   - Use correct CSR to soft reset Octeons
   - Support LEDs on the Octeon-based DSR-1000N
   - Fix PCI interrupt mapping for the Octeon-based DSR-1000N
   - Mark prom_free_prom_memory() as __init for a number of systems
   - Support for Imagination's Pistachio SOC.  This includes arch and
     CLK bits.  I'd like to merge pinctrl bits later
   - Improve parallelism of csum_partial for certain pipelines
   - Organize DTB files in subdirs like other architectures
   - Implement read_sched_clock for all MIPS platforms other than
     Octeon
   - Massive series of 38 fixes and cleanups for the FPU emulator /
     kernel
   - Further FPU remulator work to support new features.  This sits on a
     separate branch which also has been pulled into the 4.1 KVM branch
   - Clean up and fixes for the SEAD3 eval board; remove unused file
   - Various updates for Netlogic platforms
   - A number of small updates for Loongson 3 platforms
   - Increase the memory limit for ATH79 platforms to 256MB
   - A fair number of fixes and updates for BCM47xx platforms
   - Finish the implementation of XPA support
   - MIPS FDC support.  No, not floppy controller but Fast Debug Channel :)
   - Detect the R16000 used in SGI legacy platforms
   - Fix Kconfig dependencies for the SSB bus support"

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (265 commits)
  MIPS: Makefile: Fix MIPS ASE detection code
  MIPS: asm: elf: Set O32 default FPU flags
  MIPS: BCM47XX: Fix detecting Microsoft MN-700 &amp; Asus WL500G
  MIPS: Kconfig: Disable SMP/CPS for 64-bit
  MIPS: Hibernate: flush TLB entries earlier
  MIPS: smp-cps: cpu_set FPU mask if FPU present
  MIPS: lose_fpu(): Disable FPU when MSA enabled
  MIPS: ralink: add missing symbol for RALINK_ILL_ACC
  MIPS: ralink: Fix bad config symbol in PCI makefile.
  SSB: fix Kconfig dependencies
  MIPS: Malta: Detect and fix bad memsize values
  Revert "MIPS: Avoid pipeline stalls on some MIPS32R2 cores."
  MIPS: Octeon: Delete override of cpu_has_mips_r2_exec_hazard.
  MIPS: Fix cpu_has_mips_r2_exec_hazard.
  MIPS: kernel: entry.S: Set correct ISA level for mips_ihb
  MIPS: asm: spinlock: Fix addiu instruction for R10000_LLSC_WAR case
  MIPS: r4kcache: Use correct base register for MIPS R6 cache flushes
  MIPS: Kconfig: Fix typo for the r2-to-r6 emulator kernel parameter
  MIPS: unaligned: Fix regular load/store instruction emulation for EVA
  MIPS: unaligned: Surround load/store macros in do {} while statements
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
 "This is the main pull request for MIPS for Linux 4.1.  Most
  noteworthy:

   - Add more Octeon-optimized crypto functions
   - Octeon crypto preemption and locking fixes
   - Little endian support for Octeon
   - Use correct CSR to soft reset Octeons
   - Support LEDs on the Octeon-based DSR-1000N
   - Fix PCI interrupt mapping for the Octeon-based DSR-1000N
   - Mark prom_free_prom_memory() as __init for a number of systems
   - Support for Imagination's Pistachio SOC.  This includes arch and
     CLK bits.  I'd like to merge pinctrl bits later
   - Improve parallelism of csum_partial for certain pipelines
   - Organize DTB files in subdirs like other architectures
   - Implement read_sched_clock for all MIPS platforms other than
     Octeon
   - Massive series of 38 fixes and cleanups for the FPU emulator /
     kernel
   - Further FPU remulator work to support new features.  This sits on a
     separate branch which also has been pulled into the 4.1 KVM branch
   - Clean up and fixes for the SEAD3 eval board; remove unused file
   - Various updates for Netlogic platforms
   - A number of small updates for Loongson 3 platforms
   - Increase the memory limit for ATH79 platforms to 256MB
   - A fair number of fixes and updates for BCM47xx platforms
   - Finish the implementation of XPA support
   - MIPS FDC support.  No, not floppy controller but Fast Debug Channel :)
   - Detect the R16000 used in SGI legacy platforms
   - Fix Kconfig dependencies for the SSB bus support"

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (265 commits)
  MIPS: Makefile: Fix MIPS ASE detection code
  MIPS: asm: elf: Set O32 default FPU flags
  MIPS: BCM47XX: Fix detecting Microsoft MN-700 &amp; Asus WL500G
  MIPS: Kconfig: Disable SMP/CPS for 64-bit
  MIPS: Hibernate: flush TLB entries earlier
  MIPS: smp-cps: cpu_set FPU mask if FPU present
  MIPS: lose_fpu(): Disable FPU when MSA enabled
  MIPS: ralink: add missing symbol for RALINK_ILL_ACC
  MIPS: ralink: Fix bad config symbol in PCI makefile.
  SSB: fix Kconfig dependencies
  MIPS: Malta: Detect and fix bad memsize values
  Revert "MIPS: Avoid pipeline stalls on some MIPS32R2 cores."
  MIPS: Octeon: Delete override of cpu_has_mips_r2_exec_hazard.
  MIPS: Fix cpu_has_mips_r2_exec_hazard.
  MIPS: kernel: entry.S: Set correct ISA level for mips_ihb
  MIPS: asm: spinlock: Fix addiu instruction for R10000_LLSC_WAR case
  MIPS: r4kcache: Use correct base register for MIPS R6 cache flushes
  MIPS: Kconfig: Fix typo for the r2-to-r6 emulator kernel parameter
  MIPS: unaligned: Fix regular load/store instruction emulation for EVA
  MIPS: unaligned: Surround load/store macros in do {} while statements
  ...
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<title>arch: Remove exec_domain from remaining archs</title>
<updated>2015-04-12T19:03:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
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<published>2015-03-30T05:30:38+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>MIPS: Changed current_thread_info() to an equivalent supported by both clang and GCC</title>
<updated>2015-04-01T15:21:45+00:00</updated>
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<name>Daniel Sanders</name>
<email>daniel.sanders@imgtec.com</email>
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<published>2015-02-24T15:02:57+00:00</published>
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Without this, a 'break' instruction is executed very early in the boot and
the boot hangs.

The problem is that clang doesn't honour named registers on local variables
and silently treats them as normal uninitialized variables. However, it
does honour them on global variables.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Sanders &lt;daniel.sanders@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com&gt;
Cc: David Daney &lt;ddaney.cavm@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Behan Webster &lt;behanw@converseincode.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9311/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Without this, a 'break' instruction is executed very early in the boot and
the boot hangs.

The problem is that clang doesn't honour named registers on local variables
and silently treats them as normal uninitialized variables. However, it
does honour them on global variables.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Sanders &lt;daniel.sanders@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com&gt;
Cc: David Daney &lt;ddaney.cavm@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Behan Webster &lt;behanw@converseincode.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9311/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus</title>
<updated>2015-02-22T03:41:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2015-02-22T03:41:38+00:00</published>
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
 "This is the main pull request for MIPS:

   - a number of fixes that didn't make the 3.19 release.

   - a number of cleanups.

   - preliminary support for Cavium's Octeon 3 SOCs which feature up to
     48 MIPS64 R3 cores with FPU and hardware virtualization.

   - support for MIPS R6 processors.

     Revision 6 of the MIPS architecture is a major revision of the MIPS
     architecture which does away with many of original sins of the
     architecture such as branch delay slots.  This and other changes in
     R6 require major changes throughout the entire MIPS core
     architecture code and make up for the lion share of this pull
     request.

   - finally some preparatory work for eXtendend Physical Address
     support, which allows support of up to 40 bit of physical address
     space on 32 bit processors"

     [ Ahh, MIPS can't leave the PAE brain damage alone.  It's like
       every CPU architect has to make that mistake, but pee in the snow
       by changing the TLA.  But whether it's called PAE, LPAE or XPA,
       it's horrid crud   - Linus ]

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (114 commits)
  MIPS: sead3: Corrected get_c0_perfcount_int
  MIPS: mm: Remove dead macro definitions
  MIPS: OCTEON: irq: add CIB and other fixes
  MIPS: OCTEON: Don't do acknowledge operations for level triggered irqs.
  MIPS: OCTEON: More OCTEONIII support
  MIPS: OCTEON: Remove setting of processor specific CVMCTL icache bits.
  MIPS: OCTEON: Core-15169 Workaround and general CVMSEG cleanup.
  MIPS: OCTEON: Update octeon-model.h code for new SoCs.
  MIPS: OCTEON: Implement DCache errata workaround for all CN6XXX
  MIPS: OCTEON: Add little-endian support to asm/octeon/octeon.h
  MIPS: OCTEON: Implement the core-16057 workaround
  MIPS: OCTEON: Delete unused COP2 saving code
  MIPS: OCTEON: Use correct instruction to read 64-bit COP0 register
  MIPS: OCTEON: Save and restore CP2 SHA3 state
  MIPS: OCTEON: Fix FP context save.
  MIPS: OCTEON: Save/Restore wider multiply registers in OCTEON III CPUs
  MIPS: boot: Provide more uImage options
  MIPS: Remove unneeded #ifdef __KERNEL__ from asm/processor.h
  MIPS: ip22-gio: Remove legacy suspend/resume support
  mips: pci: Add ifdef around pci_proc_domain
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
 "This is the main pull request for MIPS:

   - a number of fixes that didn't make the 3.19 release.

   - a number of cleanups.

   - preliminary support for Cavium's Octeon 3 SOCs which feature up to
     48 MIPS64 R3 cores with FPU and hardware virtualization.

   - support for MIPS R6 processors.

     Revision 6 of the MIPS architecture is a major revision of the MIPS
     architecture which does away with many of original sins of the
     architecture such as branch delay slots.  This and other changes in
     R6 require major changes throughout the entire MIPS core
     architecture code and make up for the lion share of this pull
     request.

   - finally some preparatory work for eXtendend Physical Address
     support, which allows support of up to 40 bit of physical address
     space on 32 bit processors"

     [ Ahh, MIPS can't leave the PAE brain damage alone.  It's like
       every CPU architect has to make that mistake, but pee in the snow
       by changing the TLA.  But whether it's called PAE, LPAE or XPA,
       it's horrid crud   - Linus ]

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (114 commits)
  MIPS: sead3: Corrected get_c0_perfcount_int
  MIPS: mm: Remove dead macro definitions
  MIPS: OCTEON: irq: add CIB and other fixes
  MIPS: OCTEON: Don't do acknowledge operations for level triggered irqs.
  MIPS: OCTEON: More OCTEONIII support
  MIPS: OCTEON: Remove setting of processor specific CVMCTL icache bits.
  MIPS: OCTEON: Core-15169 Workaround and general CVMSEG cleanup.
  MIPS: OCTEON: Update octeon-model.h code for new SoCs.
  MIPS: OCTEON: Implement DCache errata workaround for all CN6XXX
  MIPS: OCTEON: Add little-endian support to asm/octeon/octeon.h
  MIPS: OCTEON: Implement the core-16057 workaround
  MIPS: OCTEON: Delete unused COP2 saving code
  MIPS: OCTEON: Use correct instruction to read 64-bit COP0 register
  MIPS: OCTEON: Save and restore CP2 SHA3 state
  MIPS: OCTEON: Fix FP context save.
  MIPS: OCTEON: Save/Restore wider multiply registers in OCTEON III CPUs
  MIPS: boot: Provide more uImage options
  MIPS: Remove unneeded #ifdef __KERNEL__ from asm/processor.h
  MIPS: ip22-gio: Remove legacy suspend/resume support
  mips: pci: Add ifdef around pci_proc_domain
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<title>MIPS: Make use of the ERETNC instruction on MIPS R6</title>
<updated>2015-02-17T15:37:37+00:00</updated>
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<name>Markos Chandras</name>
<email>markos.chandras@imgtec.com</email>
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<published>2014-12-03T12:37:32+00:00</published>
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The ERETNC instruction, introduced in MIPS R5, is similar to the ERET
one, except it does not clear the LLB bit in the LLADDR register.
This feature is necessary to safely emulate R2 LL/SC instructions.
However, on context switches, we need to clear the LLAddr/LLB bit
in order to make sure that an SC instruction from the new thread
will never succeed if it happens to interrupt an LL operation on the
same address from the previous thread.

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
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The ERETNC instruction, introduced in MIPS R5, is similar to the ERET
one, except it does not clear the LLB bit in the LLADDR register.
This feature is necessary to safely emulate R2 LL/SC instructions.
However, on context switches, we need to clear the LLAddr/LLB bit
in order to make sure that an SC instruction from the new thread
will never succeed if it happens to interrupt an LL operation on the
same address from the previous thread.

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
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