- 28 Nov, 2014 1 commit
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AKASHI Takahiro authored
This regeset is intended to be used to get and set a system call number while tracing. There was some discussion about possible approaches to do so: (1) modify x8 register with ptrace(PTRACE_SETREGSET) indirectly, and update regs->syscallno later on in syscall_trace_enter(), or (2) define a dedicated regset for this purpose as on s390, or (3) support ptrace(PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL) as on arch/arm Thinking of the fact that user_pt_regs doesn't expose 'syscallno' to tracer as well as that secure_computing() expects a changed syscall number, especially case of -1, to be visible before this function returns in syscall_trace_enter(), (1) doesn't work well. We will take (2) since it looks much cleaner. Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 26 Nov, 2014 4 commits
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Laura Abbott authored
The head.text section is intended to be run at early bootup before any of the regular kernel mappings have been setup. Parts of head.text may be freed back into the buddy allocator due to TEXT_OFFSET so for security requirements this memory must not be executable. The suspend/resume/hotplug code path requires some of these head.S functions to run however which means they need to be executable. Support these conflicting requirements by moving the few head.text functions that need to be executable to the text section which has the appropriate page table permissions. Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Mark Rutland authored
In the arm64 arch_static_branch implementation we place an A64 NOP into the instruction stream and log relevant details to a jump_entry in a __jump_table section. Later this may be replaced with an immediate branch without link to the code for the unlikely case. At init time, the core calls arch_jump_label_transform_static to initialise the NOPs. On x86 this involves inserting the optimal NOP for a given microarchitecture, but on arm64 we only use the architectural NOP, and hence replace each NOP with the exact same NOP. This is somewhat pointless. Additionally, at module load time we don't call jump_label_apply_nops to patch the optimal NOPs in, unlike other architectures, but get away with this because we only use the architectural NOP anyway. A later notifier will patch NOPs with branches as required. Similarly to x86 commit 11570da1 (x86/jump-label: Do not bother updating NOPs if they are correct), we can avoid patching NOPs with identical NOPs. Given that we only use a single NOP encoding, this means we can NOP-out the body of arch_jump_label_transform_static entirely. As the default __weak arch_jump_label_transform_static implementation performs a patch, we must use an empty function to achieve this. Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Laura Abbott authored
In a similar manner to arm, it's useful to be able to dump the page tables to verify permissions and memory types. Add a debugfs file to check the page tables. Acked-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> Tested-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> [will: s/BUFFERABLE/NORMAL-NC/] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Laura Abbott authored
Every other architecture with permanent fixed addresses has FIX_HOLE as the first entry. This seems to be designed as a debugging aid but there are a couple of side effects of not having FIX_HOLE: - If the first fixed address is 0, fix_to_virt -> virt_to_fix triggers a BUG_ON for the virtual address being equal to FIXADDR_TOP - fix_to_virt may return a value outside of FIXADDR_START and FIXADDR_TOP which may look like a bug to a developer. Match up with other architectures and make everything clearer by adding FIX_HOLE. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 25 Nov, 2014 17 commits
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Will Deacon authored
Consistently use the plural form for alternatives pr_fmt strings. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Will Deacon authored
.exit.* sections may be subject to patching by the new alternatives framework and so shouldn't be discarded at link-time. Without this patch, such a section will result in the following linker error: `.exit.text' referenced in section `.altinstructions' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Laura Abbott authored
The fixmap API was originally added for arm64 for early_ioremap purposes. It can be used for other purposes too so move the initialization from ioremap to somewhere more generic. This makes it obvious where the fixmap is being set up and allows for a cleaner implementation of __set_fixmap. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Laura Abbott authored
The function cpu_resume currently lives in the .data section. There's no reason for it to be there since we can use relative instructions without a problem. Move a few cpu_resume data structures out of the assembly file so the .data annotation can be dropped completely and cpu_resume ends up in the read only text section. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Tested-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Laura Abbott authored
The hyp stub vectors are currently loaded using adr. This instruction has a +/- 1MB range for the loading address. If the alignment for sections is changed the address may be more than 1MB away, resulting in reclocation errors. Switch to using adrp for getting the address to ensure we aren't affected by the location of the __hyp_stub_vectors. Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Laura Abbott authored
handle_arch_irq isn't actually text, it's just a function pointer. It doesn't need to be stored in the text section and doing so causes problesm if we ever want to make the kernel text read only. Declare handle_arch_irq as a proper function pointer stored in the data section. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Mark Rutland authored
While we currently expect self-hosted debug support to be identical across CPUs, we don't currently sanity check this. This patch adds logging of the ID_AA64DFR{0,1}_EL1 values and associated sanity checking code. It's not clear to me whether we need to check PMUVer, TraceVer, and DebugVer, as we don't currently rely on these fields at all. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Mark Rutland authored
A missing newline in the WARN_TAINT_ONCE string results in ugly and somewhat difficult to read output in the case of a sanity check failure, as the next print does not appear on a new line: Unsupported CPU feature variation.Modules linked in: This patch adds the missing newline, fixing the output formatting. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Mark Rutland authored
It seems that Cortex-A53 r0p4 added support for AIFSR and ADFSR, and ID_MMFR0.AuxReg has been updated accordingly to report this fact. As Cortex-A53 could be paired with CPUs which do not implement these registers (e.g. all current revisions of Cortex-A57), this may trigger a sanity check failure at boot. The AuxReg value describes the availability of the ACTLR, AIFSR, and ADFSR registers, which are only of use to 32-bit guest OSs, and have IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED contents. Given the nature of these registers it is likely that KVM will need to trap accesses regardless of whether the CPUs are heterogeneous. This patch masks out the ID_MMFR0.AuxReg value from the sanity checks, preventing spurious warnings at boot time. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reported-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Mark Brown authored
The only requirement the scheduler has on cluster IDs is that they must be unique. When enumerating the topology based on MPIDR information the kernel currently generates cluster IDs by using the first level of affinity above the core ID (either level one or two depending on if the core has multiple threads) however the ARMv8 architecture allows for up to three levels of affinity. This means that an ARMv8 system may contain cores which have MPIDRs identical other than affinity level three which with current code will cause us to report multiple cores with the same identification to the scheduler in violation of its uniqueness requirement. Ensure that we do not violate the scheduler requirements on systems that uses all the affinity levels by incorporating both affinity levels two and three into the cluser ID when the cores are not threaded. While no currently known hardware uses multi-level clusters it is better to program defensively, this will help ease bringup of systems that have them and will ensure that things like distribution install media do not need to be respun to replace kernels in order to deploy such systems. In the worst case the system will work but perform suboptimally until a kernel modified to handle the new topology better is installed, in the best case this will be an adequate description of such topologies for the scheduler to perform well. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Andre Przywara authored
Not all of the errata we have workarounds for apply necessarily to all SoCs, so people compiling a kernel for one very specific SoC may not need to patch the kernel. Introduce a new submenu in the "Platform selection" menu to allow people to turn off certain bugs if they are not affected. By default all of them are enabled. Normal users or distribution kernels shouldn't bother to deselect any bugs here, since the alternatives framework will take care of patching them in only if needed. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> [will: moved kconfig menu under `Kernel Features'] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Andre Przywara authored
The ARM erratum 832075 applies to certain revisions of Cortex-A57, one of the workarounds is to change device loads into using load-aquire semantics. This is achieved using the alternatives framework. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Andre Przywara authored
The ARM errata 819472, 826319, 827319 and 824069 define the same workaround for these hardware issues in certain Cortex-A53 parts. Use the new alternatives framework and the CPU MIDR detection to patch "cache clean" into "cache clean and invalidate" instructions if an affected CPU is detected at runtime. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> [will: add __maybe_unused to squash gcc warning] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Andre Przywara authored
After each CPU has been started, we iterate through a list of CPU features or bugs to detect CPUs which need (or could benefit from) kernel code patches. For each feature/bug there is a function which checks if that particular CPU is affected. We will later provide some more generic functions for common things like testing for certain MIDR ranges. We do this for every CPU to cover big.LITTLE systems properly as well. If a certain feature/bug has been detected, the capability bit will be set, so that later the call to apply_alternatives() will trigger the actual code patching. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Andre Przywara authored
With a blatant copy of some x86 bits we introduce the alternative runtime patching "framework" to arm64. This is quite basic for now and we only provide the functions we need at this time. This is connected to the newly introduced feature bits. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Andre Przywara authored
For taking note if at least one CPU in the system needs a bug workaround or would benefit from a code optimization, we create a new bitmap to hold (artificial) feature bits. Since elf_hwcap is part of the userland ABI, we keep it alone and introduce a new data structure for that (along with some accessors). Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Will Deacon authored
update_insn_emulation_mode() returns 0 on success, so we should be treating any non-zero values as failure, rather than the other way around. Otherwise, writes to the sysctl file controlling the emulation are ignored and immediately rolled back. Reported-by: Gene Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 21 Nov, 2014 1 commit
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Will Deacon authored
Translation faults that occur due to the input address being outside of the address range mapped by the relevant base register are reported as level 0 faults in ESR.DFSC. If the faulting access cannot be resolved by the kernel (e.g. because it is not mapped by a vma), then we report "input address range fault" on the console. This was fine until we added support for 48-bit VAs, which actually place PGDs at level 0 and can trigger faults for invalid addresses that are within the range of the page tables. This patch changes the string to report "level 0 translation fault", which is far less confusing. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 20 Nov, 2014 9 commits
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Will Deacon authored
Having the instruction emulation submenu underneath "platform selection" is a great way to hide options we don't want people to use, but somewhat confusing when you stumble across it there. Move the menuconfig option underneath "kernel features", where it makes a bit more sense. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Punit Agrawal authored
Introduce an event to trace the usage of emulated instructions. The trace event is intended to help identify and encourage the migration of legacy software using the emulation features. Use this event to trace usage of swp and CP15 barrier emulation. Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Punit Agrawal authored
The CP15 barrier instructions (CP15ISB, CP15DSB and CP15DMB) are deprecated in the ARMv7 architecture, superseded by ISB, DSB and DMB instructions respectively. Some implementations may provide the ability to disable the CP15 barriers by disabling the CP15BEN bit in SCTLR_EL1. If not enabled, the encodings for these instructions become undefined. To support legacy software using these instructions, this patch register hooks to - * emulate CP15 barriers and warn the user about their use * toggle CP15BEN in SCTLR_EL1 Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Punit Agrawal authored
The SWP instruction was deprecated in the ARMv6 architecture. The ARMv7 multiprocessing extensions mandate that SWP/SWPB instructions are treated as undefined from reset, with the ability to enable them through the System Control Register SW bit. With ARMv8, the option to enable these instructions through System Control Register was dropped as well. To support legacy applications using these instructions, port the emulation of the SWP and SWPB instructions from the arm port to arm64. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Punit Agrawal authored
Typically, providing support for legacy instructions requires emulating the behaviour of instructions whose encodings have become undefined. If the instructions haven't been removed from the architecture, there maybe an option in the implementation to turn on/off the support for these instructions. Create common infrastructure to support legacy instruction emulation. In addition to emulation, also provide an option to support hardware execution when supported. The default execution mode (one of undef, emulate, hw exeuction) is dependent on the state of the instruction (deprecated or obsolete) in the architecture and can specified at the time of registering the instruction handlers. The runtime state of the emulation can be controlled by writing to individual nodes in sysctl. The expected default behaviour is documented as part of this patch. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Punit Agrawal authored
Port support for AArch32 instruction condition code checking from arm to arm64. Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Punit Agrawal authored
Add support to register hooks for undefined instructions. The handlers will be called when the undefined instruction and the processor state (as contained in pstate) match criteria used at registration. Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Steve Capper authored
The generic this_cpu operations disable interrupts to ensure that the requested operation is protected from pre-emption. For arm64, this is overkill and can hurt throughput and latency. This patch provides arm64 specific implementations for the this_cpu operations. Rather than disable interrupts, we use the exclusive monitor or atomic operations as appropriate. The following operations are implemented: add, add_return, and, or, read, write, xchg. We also wire up a cmpxchg implementation from cmpxchg.h. Testing was performed using the percpu_test module and hackbench on a Juno board running 3.18-rc4. Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Mark Rutland authored
We currently allocate different levels of page tables with a variety of differing flags, and the PGALLOC_GFP flags, intended for use when allocating any level of page table, are only used for ptes in pte_alloc_one. On x86, PGALLOC_GFP is used for all page table allocations. Currently the major differences are: * __GFP_NOTRACK -- Needed to ensure page tables are always accessible in the presence of kmemcheck to prevent recursive faults. Currently kmemcheck cannot be selected for arm64. * __GFP_REPEAT -- Causes the allocator to try to reclaim pages and retry upon a failure to allocate. * __GFP_ZERO -- Sometimes passed explicitly, sometimes zalloc variants are used. While we've no encountered issues so far, it would be preferable to be consistent. This patch ensures all levels of table are allocated in the same manner, with PGALLOC_GFP. Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 18 Nov, 2014 1 commit
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Yann Droneaud authored
Since commit 8a0a9bd4 ('random: make get_random_int() more random'), get_random_int() returns a random value for each call, so comment and hack introduced in mmap_rnd() as part of commit 1d18c47c ('arm64: MMU fault handling and page table management') are incorrects. Commit 1d18c47c seems to use the same hack introduced by commit a5adc91a ('powerpc: Ensure random space between stack and mmaps'), latter copied in commit 5a0efea0 ('sparc64: Sharpen address space randomization calculations.'). But both architectures were cleaned up as part of commit fa8cbaaf ('powerpc+sparc64/mm: Remove hack in mmap randomize layout') as hack is no more needed since commit 8a0a9bd4. So the present patch removes the comment and the hack around get_random_int() on AArch64's mmap_rnd(). Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 17 Nov, 2014 2 commits
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Catalin Marinas authored
Commit a469abd0 (ARM: elf: add new hwcap for identifying atomic ldrd/strd instructions) introduces HWCAP_ELF for 32-bit ARM applications. As LPAE is always present on arm64, report the corresponding compat HWCAP to user space. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.11+ Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Will Deacon authored
On architectures with hardware broadcasting of TLB invalidation messages , it makes sense to reduce the range of the mmu_gather structure when unmapping page ranges based on the dirty address information passed to tlb_remove_tlb_entry. arm64 already does this by directly manipulating the start/end fields of the gather structure, but this confuses the generic code which does not expect these fields to change and can end up calculating invalid, negative ranges when forcing a flush in zap_pte_range. This patch moves the minimal range calculation out of the arm64 code and into the generic implementation, simplifying zap_pte_range in the process (which no longer needs to care about start/end, since they will point to the appropriate ranges already). With the range being tracked by core code, the need_flush flag is dropped in favour of checking that the end of the range has actually been set. Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 14 Nov, 2014 3 commits
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Will Deacon authored
The push/pop instructions can be suboptimal when saving/restoring large amounts of data to/from the stack, for example on entry/exit from the kernel. This is because: (1) They act on descending addresses (i.e. the newly decremented sp), which may defeat some hardware prefetchers (2) They introduce an implicit dependency between each instruction, as the sp has to be updated in order to resolve the address of the next access. This patch removes the push/pop instructions from our kernel entry/exit macros in favour of ldp/stp plus offset. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Will Deacon authored
Using an explicit adr instruction to set the link register to point at ret_fast_syscall/ret_to_user can defeat branch and return stack predictors. Instead, use the standard calling instructions (bl, blr) and have an unconditional branch as the following instruction. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Mark Rutland authored
Commit d7a49086 (arm64: cpuinfo: print info for all CPUs) attempted to clean up /proc/cpuinfo, but due to concerns regarding further changes was reverted in commit 5e39977e (Revert "arm64: cpuinfo: print info for all CPUs"). There are two major issues with the arm64 /proc/cpuinfo format currently: * The "Features" line describes (only) the 64-bit hwcaps, which is problematic for some 32-bit applications which attempt to parse it. As the same names are used for analogous ISA features (e.g. aes) despite these generally being architecturally unrelated, it is not possible to simply append the 64-bit and 32-bit hwcaps in a manner that might not be misleading to some applications. Various potential solutions have appeared in vendor kernels. Typically the format of the Features line varies depending on whether the task is 32-bit. * Information is only printed regarding a single CPU. This does not match the ARM format, and does not provide sufficient information in big.LITTLE systems where CPUs are heterogeneous. The CPU information printed is queried from the current CPU's registers, which is racy w.r.t. cross-cpu migration. This patch attempts to solve these issues. The following changes are made: * When a task with a LINUX32 personality attempts to read /proc/cpuinfo, the "Features" line contains the decoded 32-bit hwcaps, as with the arm port. Otherwise, the decoded 64-bit hwcaps are shown. This aligns with the behaviour of COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE and COMPAT_ELF_PLATFORM. In the absense of compat support, the Features line is empty. The set of hwcaps injected into a task's auxval are unaffected. * Properties are printed per-cpu, as with the ARM port. The per-cpu information is queried from pre-recorded cpu information (as used by the sanity checks). * As with the previous attempt at fixing up /proc/cpuinfo, the hardware field is removed. The only users so far are 32-bit applications tied to particular boards, so no portable applications should be affected, and this should prevent future tying to particular boards. The following differences remain: * No model_name is printed, as this cannot be queried from the hardware and cannot be provided in a stable fashion. Use of the CPU {implementor,variant,part,revision} fields is sufficient to identify a CPU and is portable across arm and arm64. * The following system-wide properties are not provided, as they are not possible to provide generally. Programs relying on these are already tied to particular (32-bit only) boards: - Hardware - Revision - Serial No software has yet been identified for which these remaining differences are problematic. Cc: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com> Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Serban Constantinescu <serban.constantinescu@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: cross-distro@lists.linaro.org Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 07 Nov, 2014 2 commits
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
Replace two instances of 'ldr xN, =(constant)' in the world switch hot path with 'mov' instructions. Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
Replace ldr xN, =<symbol> with adrp/add or adrp/ldr [as appropriate] in the implementation of _mcount(), which may be called very often. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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