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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/parisc/kernel/head.S, branch v4.10</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>parisc: Fix ftrace function tracer</title>
<updated>2016-04-14T15:47:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2016-04-13T20:27:22+00:00</published>
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Fix the FTRACE function tracer for 32- and 64-bit kernel.
The former code was horribly broken.

Reimplement most coding in assembly and utilize optimizations, e.g. put
mcount() and ftrace_stub() into one L1 cacheline.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Fix the FTRACE function tracer for 32- and 64-bit kernel.
The former code was horribly broken.

Reimplement most coding in assembly and utilize optimizations, e.g. put
mcount() and ftrace_stub() into one L1 cacheline.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<title>parisc: Increase initial kernel mapping to 32MB on 64bit kernel</title>
<updated>2015-11-22T11:22:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2015-11-20T10:17:27+00:00</published>
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For the 64bit kernel the initially 16 MB kernel memory might become too
small if you build a kernel with many modules built-in and with kernel
text and data areas mapped on huge pages.

This patch increases the initial mapping to 32MB for 64bit kernels and
keeps 16MB for 32bit kernels.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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For the 64bit kernel the initially 16 MB kernel memory might become too
small if you build a kernel with many modules built-in and with kernel
text and data areas mapped on huge pages.

This patch increases the initial mapping to 32MB for 64bit kernels and
keeps 16MB for 32bit kernels.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: expose number of page table levels on Kconfig level</title>
<updated>2015-04-14T23:49:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-14T22:45:54+00:00</published>
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We would want to use number of page table level to define mm_struct.
Let's expose it as CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We would want to use number of page table level to define mm_struct.
Let's expose it as CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: fix kernel memory layout in vmlinux.ld.S</title>
<updated>2013-11-30T21:09:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2013-11-30T21:07:51+00:00</published>
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When building a 64bit kernel sometimes functions in the .init section were not
able to reach the standard kernel function. Main reason for this problem is,
that the linkage tables (.plt, .opd, .dlt) tend to become pretty huge and thus
the distance gets too big for short calls.

One option to avoid this is to use the -mlong-calls compiler option, but this
increases the binary size and introduces a performance penalty.

Instead, with this patch we just lay out the binary differently.  Init code is
stored first, followed by text, R/O and finally R/W data. This means, that init
and text code is now much closer to each other, which is sufficient to reach
each other by short calls.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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When building a 64bit kernel sometimes functions in the .init section were not
able to reach the standard kernel function. Main reason for this problem is,
that the linkage tables (.plt, .opd, .dlt) tend to become pretty huge and thus
the distance gets too big for short calls.

One option to avoid this is to use the -mlong-calls compiler option, but this
increases the binary size and introduces a performance penalty.

Instead, with this patch we just lay out the binary differently.  Init code is
stored first, followed by text, R/O and finally R/W data. This means, that init
and text code is now much closer to each other, which is sufficient to reach
each other by short calls.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: Do not crash 64bit SMP kernels on machines with &gt;= 4GB RAM</title>
<updated>2013-10-27T14:58:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-26T21:19:25+00:00</published>
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Since the beginning of the parisc-linux port, sometimes 64bit SMP kernels were
not able to bring up other CPUs than the monarch CPU and instead crashed the
kernel.  The reason was unclear, esp. since it involved various machines (e.g.
J5600, J6750 and SuperDome). Testing showed, that those crashes didn't happened
when less than 4GB were installed, or if a 32bit Linux kernel was booted.

In the end, the fix for those SMP problems is trivial:
During the early phase of the initialization of the CPUs, including the monarch
CPU, the PDC_PSW firmware function to enable WIDE (=64bit) mode is called.
It's documented that this firmware function may clobber various registers, and
one one of those possibly clobbered registers is %cr30 which holds the task
thread info pointer.

Now, if %cr30 would always have been clobbered, then this bug would have been
detected much earlier. But lots of testing finally showed, that - at least for
%cr30 - on some machines only the upper 32bits of the 64bit register suddenly
turned zero after the firmware call.

So, after finding the root cause, the explanation for the various crashes
became clear:
- On 32bit SMP Linux kernels all upper 32bit were zero, so we didn't faced this
  problem.
- Monarch CPUs in 64bit mode always booted sucessfully, because the inital task
  thread info pointer was below 4GB.
- Secondary CPUs booted sucessfully on machines with less than 4GB RAM because
  the upper 32bit were zero anyay.
- Secondary CPus failed to boot if we had more than 4GB RAM and the task thread
  info pointer was located above the 4GB boundary.

Finally, the patch to fix this problem is trivial by saving the %cr30 register
before the firmware call and restoring it afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 2.6.12+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Since the beginning of the parisc-linux port, sometimes 64bit SMP kernels were
not able to bring up other CPUs than the monarch CPU and instead crashed the
kernel.  The reason was unclear, esp. since it involved various machines (e.g.
J5600, J6750 and SuperDome). Testing showed, that those crashes didn't happened
when less than 4GB were installed, or if a 32bit Linux kernel was booted.

In the end, the fix for those SMP problems is trivial:
During the early phase of the initialization of the CPUs, including the monarch
CPU, the PDC_PSW firmware function to enable WIDE (=64bit) mode is called.
It's documented that this firmware function may clobber various registers, and
one one of those possibly clobbered registers is %cr30 which holds the task
thread info pointer.

Now, if %cr30 would always have been clobbered, then this bug would have been
detected much earlier. But lots of testing finally showed, that - at least for
%cr30 - on some machines only the upper 32bits of the 64bit register suddenly
turned zero after the firmware call.

So, after finding the root cause, the explanation for the various crashes
became clear:
- On 32bit SMP Linux kernels all upper 32bit were zero, so we didn't faced this
  problem.
- Monarch CPUs in 64bit mode always booted sucessfully, because the inital task
  thread info pointer was below 4GB.
- Secondary CPUs booted sucessfully on machines with less than 4GB RAM because
  the upper 32bit were zero anyay.
- Secondary CPus failed to boot if we had more than 4GB RAM and the task thread
  info pointer was located above the 4GB boundary.

Finally, the patch to fix this problem is trivial by saving the %cr30 register
before the firmware call and restoring it afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 2.6.12+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PARISC] only make executable areas executable</title>
<updated>2011-04-15T17:55:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Bottomley</name>
<email>James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-14T23:25:21+00:00</published>
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Currently parisc has the whole kernel marked as RWX, meaning any
kernel page at all is eligible to be executed.  This can cause a
theoretical problem on systems with combined I/D TLB because the act
of referencing a page causes a TLB insertion with an executable bit.
This TLB entry may be used by the CPU as the basis for speculating the
page into the I-Cache.  If this speculated page is subsequently used
for a user process, there is the possibility we will get a stale
I-cache line picked up as the binary executes.

As a point of good practise, only mark actual kernel text pages as
executable.  The same has to be done for init_text pages, but they're
converted to data pages (and the I-Cache flushed) when the init memory
is released.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
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Currently parisc has the whole kernel marked as RWX, meaning any
kernel page at all is eligible to be executed.  This can cause a
theoretical problem on systems with combined I/D TLB because the act
of referencing a page causes a TLB insertion with an executable bit.
This TLB entry may be used by the CPU as the basis for speculating the
page into the I-Cache.  If this speculated page is subsequently used
for a user process, there is the possibility we will get a stale
I-cache line picked up as the binary executes.

As a point of good practise, only mark actual kernel text pages as
executable.  The same has to be done for init_text pages, but they're
converted to data pages (and the I-Cache flushed) when the init memory
is released.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Fix common misspellings</title>
<updated>2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lucas De Marchi</name>
<email>lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-31T01:57:33+00:00</published>
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi &lt;lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi&gt;
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi &lt;lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Rename .data.read_mostly to .data..read_mostly.</title>
<updated>2010-03-03T10:26:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denys Vlasenko</name>
<email>vda.linux@googlemail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-20T00:03:44+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko &lt;vda.linux@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko &lt;vda.linux@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: hijack jump to start_kernel</title>
<updated>2008-10-10T16:32:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kyle McMartin</name>
<email>kyle@mcmartin.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-29T04:11:13+00:00</published>
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Bang in our own start_parisc call, which initializes the PDC
width, and turns on the FPU.

Previously, if CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME was on, we'd attempt to use
the FPU before we had enabled it, resulting in a difficult
to diagnose panic.

This patch causes init_per_cpu to redundantly set these for
cpu0, but this is harmless.
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Bang in our own start_parisc call, which initializes the PDC
width, and turns on the FPU.

Previously, if CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME was on, we'd attempt to use
the FPU before we had enabled it, resulting in a difficult
to diagnose panic.

This patch causes init_per_cpu to redundantly set these for
cpu0, but this is harmless.
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<entry>
<title>parisc: move head.S to head.text section</title>
<updated>2008-06-13T14:49:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kyle McMartin</name>
<email>kyle@minerva.i.cabal.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-22T18:38:26+00:00</published>
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And explicitly list it in vmlinux.lds...

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
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And explicitly list it in vmlinux.lds...

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
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