kernel/git/stable/linux.git/arch/arm/vfp, branch linux-3.18.y

ARM: convert all "mov.* pc, reg" to "bx reg" for ARMv6+

2014-07-18T11:29:04+00:00

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 Tested-by: Stephen Warren # Tegra Jetson TK1 Tested-by: Robert Jarzmik # mioa701_bootresume.S Tested-by: Andrew Lunn # Kirkwood Tested-by: Shawn Guo Tested-by: Tony Lindgren # OMAPs Tested-by: Gregory CLEMENT # Armada XP, 375, 385 Acked-by: Sekhar Nori # DaVinci Acked-by: Christoffer Dall # kvm/hyp Acked-by: Haojian Zhuang # PXA3xx Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini # Xen Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König # ARMv7M Tested-by: Simon Horman # Shmobile Signed-off-by: Russell King

Merge branches 'alignment', 'fixes', 'l2c' (early part) and 'misc' into for-next

2014-06-05T11:35:52+00:00

ARM: 8036/1: Enable IRQs before attempting to read user space in __und_usr

2014-04-25T11:06:38+00:00

The Undef abort handler in the kernel reads the undefined instruction from user space. If the page table was modified from another CPU, the user access could fail and do_page_fault() will be executed with interrupts disabled. This can potentially deadlock on ARM11MPCore or on Cortex-A15 with erratum 798181 workaround enabled (both implying IPI for TLB maintenance with page table lock held). This patch enables the IRQs in __und_usr before attempting to read the instruction from user space. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Tested-by: Arun KS Cc: Hartley Sweeten Cc: Ryan Mallon Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8026/1: Fix emulation of multiply accumulate instructions

2014-04-14T22:28:24+00:00

The emulation for single and double precision multiply accumulate instructions correctly normalised any denormal values in the operand registers, but failed to normalise the destination (accumulator) register. This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70501 Signed-off-by: Jay Foad Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8018/1: Add {inc,dec}_preempt_count asm macros

2014-04-09T12:08:08+00:00

The patch adds asm macros for inc_preempt_count and dec_preempt_count_ti (which also gets the current thread_info) instead of open-coding them in arch/arm/vfp/*.S files. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Tested-by: Arun KS Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8017/1: Move asm macro get_thread_info to asm/assembler.h

2014-04-09T12:08:07+00:00

asm/assembler.h is a better place for this macro since it is used by asm files outside arch/arm/kernel/ Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Tested-by: Arun KS Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 7873/1: vfp: clear vfp_current_hw_state for dying cpu

2013-10-30T22:10:10+00:00

The CPU_DYING notifier is called by cpu stopper task which does not own the context held in the VFP hardware. Calling vfp_force_reload() has no effect. Replace it with clearing vfp_current_hw_state. Signed-off-by: Yuanyuan Zhong Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: add support for kernel mode NEON

2013-07-08T21:08:51+00:00

In order to safely support the use of NEON instructions in kernel mode, some precautions need to be taken: - the userland context that may be present in the registers (even if the NEON/VFP is currently disabled) must be stored under the correct task (which may not be 'current' in the UP case), - to avoid having to keep track of additional vfpstates for the kernel side, disallow the use of NEON in interrupt context and run with preemption disabled, - after use, re-enable preemption and re-enable the lazy restore machinery by disabling the NEON/VFP unit. This patch adds the functions kernel_neon_begin() and kernel_neon_end() which take care of the above. It also adds the Kconfig symbol KERNEL_MODE_NEON to enable it. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre

ARM: be strict about FP exceptions in kernel mode

2013-07-08T21:07:38+00:00

The support code in vfp_support_entry does not care whether the exception that caused it to be invoked occurred in kernel mode or in user mode. However, neither condition that could trigger this exception (lazy restore and VFP bounce to support code) is currently allowable in kernel mode. In either case, print a message describing the condition before letting the undefined instruction handler run its course and trigger an oops. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre

ARM: move VFP init to an earlier boot stage

2013-07-08T17:22:19+00:00

In order to use the NEON unit in the kernel, we should initialize it a bit earlier in the boot process so NEON users that like to do a quick benchmark at load time (like the xor_blocks or RAID-6 code) find the NEON/VFP unit already enabled. Replaced late_initcall() with core_initcall(). Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre