linux-toradex.git/arch/mips/kernel/head.S, branch v4.4.106

MIPS: Add support for vmlinux.bin appended dtb

2015-06-21T19:54:14+00:00

Add support for detecting a vmlinux.bin appended dtb and overriding
the boot arguments to match the UHI interface.

Due to the PERCPU section being empty for !SMP, but still modifying
the current address by aligning it to the page size, do not define
it for !SMP builds to allow __appended_dtb to still point to
the actual end of the data.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John Crispin 
Cc: Kevin Cernekee 
Cc: Florian Fainelli 
Cc: Aaro Koskinen 
Cc: Markos Chandras 
Cc: Andrew Bresticker 
Cc: Daniel Schwierzeck 
Cc: Paul Burton 
Cc: James Hartley 
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9739/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: MT: Remove SMTC support

2014-05-23T22:07:01+00:00

Nobody is maintaining SMTC anymore and there also seems to be no userbase.
Which is a pity - the SMTC technology primarily developed by Kevin D.
Kissell  is an ingenious demonstration for the MT
ASE's power and elegance.

Based on Markos Chandras  patch
https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6719/ which while very similar did
no longer apply cleanly when I tried to merge it plus some additional
post-SMTC cleanup - SMTC was a feature as tricky to remove as it was to
merge once upon a time.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: malta: Add support for SMP EVA

2014-03-26T22:09:20+00:00

Allow secondary cores to program their segment control registers
during smp bootstrap code. This enables EVA on Malta SMP
configurations

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras

MIPS: Delete cpuinit/CPUINIT usage from MIPS code

2013-07-14T23:36:51+00:00

commit 3747069b25e419f6b51395f48127e9812abc3596 upstream.

The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
and are flagged as __cpuinit  -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
the arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
related content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get
rid of these warnings.  In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

Here, we remove all the MIPS __cpuinit from C code and __CPUINIT
from asm files.  MIPS is interesting in this respect, because there
are also uasm users hiding behind their own renamed versions of the
__cpuinit macros.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

[ralf@linux-mips.org: Folded in Paul's followup fix.]

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5494/
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5495/
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5509/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Move gas macro MAPPED_KERNEL_SETUP_TLB to IP27-specific code.

2013-06-21T16:07:00+00:00

It's IP27-specific and can only cause trouble in head.S.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Whitespace cleanup.

2013-02-01T09:00:22+00:00

Having received another series of whitespace patches I decided to do this
once and for all rather than dealing with this kind of patches trickling
in forever.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Don't include unnecessarily.

2012-12-28T16:04:04+00:00

So far we're jumping through hoops to keep the file usable from assembler
source but it's getting just too painful.  Turns out that many uses of
 are unnecessary anyway, so just remove those.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Avoid potential hazard on Context register

2009-11-02T11:00:07+00:00

set_saved_sp reads Context register. Avoid reading stale value from
earlier incomplete write.

Issue found and fixed for head.S by Chris Dearman .

Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman 
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Avoid clobbering struct pt_regs in kthreads

2009-08-03T16:52:41+00:00

The resume() implementation octeon_switch.S examines the saved cp0_status
register.  We were clobbering the entire pt_regs structure in kernel
threads leading to random crashes.

When switching away from a kernel thread, the saved cp0_status is examined
and if bit 30 is set it is cleared and the CP2 state saved into the pt_regs
structure.  Since the kernel thread stack overlaid the pt_regs structure
this resulted in a corrupt stack.  When the kthread with the corrupt stack
was resumed, it could crash if it used any of the data in the stack that was
clobbered.

We fix it by moving the kernel thread stack down so it doesn't overlay
pt_regs.

Signed-off-by: David Daney 
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

[MIPS] IP27: Fix build errors if CONFIG_MAPPED_KERNEL=y

2008-10-06T00:22:29+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle