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 <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> # Tegra Jetson TK1
Tested-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr> # mioa701_bootresume.S
Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> # Kirkwood
Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@freescale.com>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> # OMAPs
Tested-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> # Armada XP, 375, 385
Acked-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com> # DaVinci
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> # kvm/hyp
Acked-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com> # PXA3xx
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> # Xen
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> # ARMv7M
Tested-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au> # Shmobile
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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 <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Arun KS <getarunks@gmail.com>
Cc: Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch is in preparation for calling the crunch_task_enable()
function with interrupts enabled.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The crunch code in arch/arm/kernel is specific to the EP93xx. Move it
to the mach-ep93xx directory. This removes the need for the
EP93XX_SYSCON defines to be exported to arch/arm/kernel.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Russell King