1. 12 Sep, 2016 1 commit
    • Mark Rutland's avatar
      arm64: alternative: add auto-nop infrastructure · 792d4737
      Mark Rutland authored
      In some cases, one side of an alternative sequence is simply a number of
      NOPs used to balance the other side. Keeping track of this manually is
      tedious, and the presence of large chains of NOPs makes the code more
      painful to read than necessary.
      
      To ameliorate matters, this patch adds a new alternative_else_nop_endif,
      which automatically balances an alternative sequence with a trivial NOP
      sled.
      
      In many cases, we would like a NOP-sled in the default case, and
      instructions patched in in the presence of a feature. To enable the NOPs
      to be generated automatically for this case, this patch also adds a new
      alternative_if, and updates alternative_else and alternative_endif to
      work with either alternative_if or alternative_endif.
      
      Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
      Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
      Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com>
      Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
      [will: use new nops macro to generate nop sequences]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      792d4737
  2. 09 Sep, 2016 35 commits
  3. 08 Sep, 2016 1 commit
    • Robin Murphy's avatar
      arm64/io: Allow I/O writes to use {W,X}ZR · ee5e41b5
      Robin Murphy authored
      When zeroing an I/O location, the current accessors are forced to
      allocate a temporary register to store the zero for the write. By
      tweaking the assembly constraints, we can allow the compiler to use
      the zero register directly in such cases, and save some juggling.
      Compiling a representative kernel configuration with GCC 6 shows
      that 2.3KB worth of code can be wasted just on that!
      
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      Acked-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      ee5e41b5
  4. 07 Sep, 2016 2 commits
  5. 06 Sep, 2016 1 commit