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<title>ARC: uacces: remove lp_start, lp_end from clobber list</title>
<updated>2019-03-23T07:44:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-05T18:07:07+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d5e3c55e01d8b1774b37b4647c30fb22f1d39077 ]

Newer ARC gcc handles lp_start, lp_end in a different way and doesn't
like them in the clobber list.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d5e3c55e01d8b1774b37b4647c30fb22f1d39077 ]

Newer ARC gcc handles lp_start, lp_end in a different way and doesn't
like them in the clobber list.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: fix __ffs return value to avoid build warnings</title>
<updated>2019-03-23T07:44:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eugeniy Paltsev</name>
<email>Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-13T15:42:57+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4e868f8419cb4cb558c5d428e7ab5629cef864c7 ]

|  CC      mm/nobootmem.o
|In file included from ./include/asm-generic/bug.h:18:0,
|                 from ./arch/arc/include/asm/bug.h:32,
|                 from ./include/linux/bug.h:5,
|                 from ./include/linux/mmdebug.h:5,
|                 from ./include/linux/gfp.h:5,
|                 from ./include/linux/slab.h:15,
|                 from mm/nobootmem.c:14:
|mm/nobootmem.c: In function '__free_pages_memory':
|./include/linux/kernel.h:845:29: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
|   (!!(sizeof((typeof(x) *)1 == (typeof(y) *)1)))
|                             ^
|./include/linux/kernel.h:859:4: note: in expansion of macro '__typecheck'
|   (__typecheck(x, y) &amp;&amp; __no_side_effects(x, y))
|    ^~~~~~~~~~~
|./include/linux/kernel.h:869:24: note: in expansion of macro '__safe_cmp'
|  __builtin_choose_expr(__safe_cmp(x, y), \
|                        ^~~~~~~~~~
|./include/linux/kernel.h:878:19: note: in expansion of macro '__careful_cmp'
| #define min(x, y) __careful_cmp(x, y, &lt;)
|                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
|mm/nobootmem.c:104:11: note: in expansion of macro 'min'
|   order = min(MAX_ORDER - 1UL, __ffs(start));

Change __ffs return value from 'int' to 'unsigned long' as it
is done in other implementations (like asm-generic, x86, etc...)
to avoid build-time warnings in places where type is strictly
checked.

As __ffs may return values in [0-31] interval changing return
type to unsigned is valid.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4e868f8419cb4cb558c5d428e7ab5629cef864c7 ]

|  CC      mm/nobootmem.o
|In file included from ./include/asm-generic/bug.h:18:0,
|                 from ./arch/arc/include/asm/bug.h:32,
|                 from ./include/linux/bug.h:5,
|                 from ./include/linux/mmdebug.h:5,
|                 from ./include/linux/gfp.h:5,
|                 from ./include/linux/slab.h:15,
|                 from mm/nobootmem.c:14:
|mm/nobootmem.c: In function '__free_pages_memory':
|./include/linux/kernel.h:845:29: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
|   (!!(sizeof((typeof(x) *)1 == (typeof(y) *)1)))
|                             ^
|./include/linux/kernel.h:859:4: note: in expansion of macro '__typecheck'
|   (__typecheck(x, y) &amp;&amp; __no_side_effects(x, y))
|    ^~~~~~~~~~~
|./include/linux/kernel.h:869:24: note: in expansion of macro '__safe_cmp'
|  __builtin_choose_expr(__safe_cmp(x, y), \
|                        ^~~~~~~~~~
|./include/linux/kernel.h:878:19: note: in expansion of macro '__careful_cmp'
| #define min(x, y) __careful_cmp(x, y, &lt;)
|                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
|mm/nobootmem.c:104:11: note: in expansion of macro 'min'
|   order = min(MAX_ORDER - 1UL, __ffs(start));

Change __ffs return value from 'int' to 'unsigned long' as it
is done in other implementations (like asm-generic, x86, etc...)
to avoid build-time warnings in places where type is strictly
checked.

As __ffs may return values in [0-31] interval changing return
type to unsigned is valid.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARCv2: Enable unaligned access in early ASM code</title>
<updated>2019-03-23T07:44:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eugeniy Paltsev</name>
<email>Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-16T11:29:50+00:00</published>
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commit 252f6e8eae909bc075a1b1e3b9efb095ae4c0b56 upstream.

It is currently done in arc_init_IRQ() which might be too late
considering gcc 7.3.1 onwards (GNU 2018.03) generates unaligned
memory accesses by default

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.4+
Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[vgupta: rewrote changelog]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 252f6e8eae909bc075a1b1e3b9efb095ae4c0b56 upstream.

It is currently done in arc_init_IRQ() which might be too late
considering gcc 7.3.1 onwards (GNU 2018.03) generates unaligned
memory accesses by default

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.4+
Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[vgupta: rewrote changelog]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ARC: perf: map generic branches to correct hardware condition</title>
<updated>2019-02-06T18:43:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eugeniy Paltsev</name>
<email>Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-17T09:54:23+00:00</published>
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commit 3affbf0e154ee351add6fcc254c59c3f3947fa8f upstream.

So far we've mapped branches to "ijmp" which also counts conditional
branches NOT taken. This makes us different from other architectures
such as ARM which seem to be counting only taken branches.

So use "ijmptak" hardware condition which only counts (all jump
instructions that are taken)

'ijmptak' event is available on both ARCompact and ARCv2 ISA based
cores.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[vgupta: reworked changelog]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3affbf0e154ee351add6fcc254c59c3f3947fa8f upstream.

So far we've mapped branches to "ijmp" which also counts conditional
branches NOT taken. This makes us different from other architectures
such as ARM which seem to be counting only taken branches.

So use "ijmptak" hardware condition which only counts (all jump
instructions that are taken)

'ijmptak' event is available on both ARCompact and ARCv2 ISA based
cores.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[vgupta: reworked changelog]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: io.h: Implement reads{x}()/writes{x}()</title>
<updated>2018-12-21T13:09:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jose Abreu</name>
<email>joabreu@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-30T09:47:31+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 10d443431dc2bb733cf7add99b453e3fb9047a2e ]

Some ARC CPU's do not support unaligned loads/stores. Currently, generic
implementation of reads{b/w/l}()/writes{b/w/l}() is being used with ARC.
This can lead to misfunction of some drivers as generic functions do a
plain dereference of a pointer that can be unaligned.

Let's use {get/put}_unaligned() helpers instead of plain dereference of
pointer in order to fix. The helpers allow to get and store data from an
unaligned address whilst preserving the CPU internal alignment.
According to [1], the use of these helpers are costly in terms of
performance so we added an initial check for a buffer already aligned so
that the usage of the helpers can be avoided, when possible.

[1] Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt

Cc: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Joao Pinto &lt;jpinto@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Tested-by: Vitor Soares &lt;soares@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jose Abreu &lt;joabreu@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 10d443431dc2bb733cf7add99b453e3fb9047a2e ]

Some ARC CPU's do not support unaligned loads/stores. Currently, generic
implementation of reads{b/w/l}()/writes{b/w/l}() is being used with ARC.
This can lead to misfunction of some drivers as generic functions do a
plain dereference of a pointer that can be unaligned.

Let's use {get/put}_unaligned() helpers instead of plain dereference of
pointer in order to fix. The helpers allow to get and store data from an
unaligned address whilst preserving the CPU internal alignment.
According to [1], the use of these helpers are costly in terms of
performance so we added an initial check for a buffer already aligned so
that the usage of the helpers can be avoided, when possible.

[1] Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt

Cc: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Joao Pinto &lt;jpinto@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Tested-by: Vitor Soares &lt;soares@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jose Abreu &lt;joabreu@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arc: [devboards] Add support of NFSv3 ACL</title>
<updated>2018-12-13T08:21:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Brodkin</name>
<email>abrodkin@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-20T10:30:19+00:00</published>
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commit 6b04114f6fae5e84d33404c2970b1949c032546e upstream.

By default NFSv3 doesn't support ACL (Access Control Lists)
which might be quite convenient to have so that
mounted NFS behaves exactly as any other local file-system.

In particular missing support of ACL makes umask useless.
This among other thigs fixes Glibc's "nptl/tst-umask1".

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Cupertino Miranda &lt;cmiranda@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	#4.14+
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6b04114f6fae5e84d33404c2970b1949c032546e upstream.

By default NFSv3 doesn't support ACL (Access Control Lists)
which might be quite convenient to have so that
mounted NFS behaves exactly as any other local file-system.

In particular missing support of ACL makes umask useless.
This among other thigs fixes Glibc's "nptl/tst-umask1".

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Cupertino Miranda &lt;cmiranda@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	#4.14+
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: change defconfig defaults to ARCv2</title>
<updated>2018-12-13T08:21:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Hilman</name>
<email>khilman@baylibre.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-30T12:51:56+00:00</published>
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commit b7cc40c32a8bfa6f2581a71747f6a7d491fe43ba upstream.

Change the default defconfig (used with 'make defconfig') to the ARCv2
nsim_hs_defconfig, and also switch the default Kconfig ISA selection to
ARCv2.

This allows several default defconfigs (e.g. make defconfig, make
allnoconfig, make tinyconfig) to all work with ARCv2 by default.

Note since we change default architecture from ARCompact to ARCv2
it's required to explicitly mention architecture type in ARCompact
defconfigs otherwise ARCv2 will be implied and binaries will be
generated for ARCv2.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.4.x
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@baylibre.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b7cc40c32a8bfa6f2581a71747f6a7d491fe43ba upstream.

Change the default defconfig (used with 'make defconfig') to the ARCv2
nsim_hs_defconfig, and also switch the default Kconfig ISA selection to
ARCv2.

This allows several default defconfigs (e.g. make defconfig, make
allnoconfig, make tinyconfig) to all work with ARCv2 by default.

Note since we change default architecture from ARCompact to ARCv2
it's required to explicitly mention architecture type in ARCompact
defconfigs otherwise ARCv2 will be implied and binaries will be
generated for ARCv2.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.4.x
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@baylibre.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: build: Get rid of toolchain check</title>
<updated>2018-10-20T07:52:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Brodkin</name>
<email>abrodkin@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-13T20:24:28+00:00</published>
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commit 615f64458ad890ef94abc879a66d8b27236e733a upstream.

This check is very naive: we simply test if GCC invoked without
"-mcpu=XXX" has ARC700 define set. In that case we think that GCC
was built with "--with-cpu=arc700" and has libgcc built for ARC700.

Otherwise if ARC700 is not defined we think that everythng was built
for ARCv2.

But in reality our life is much more interesting.

1. Regardless of GCC configuration (i.e. what we pass in "--with-cpu"
   it may generate code for any ARC core).

2. libgcc might be built with explicitly specified "--mcpu=YYY"

That's exactly what happens in case of multilibbed toolchains:
 - GCC is configured with default settings
 - All the libs built for many different CPU flavors

I.e. that check gets in the way of usage of multilibbed
toolchains. And even non-multilibbed toolchains are affected.
OpenEmbedded also builds GCC without "--with-cpu" because
each and every target component later is compiled with explicitly
set "-mcpu=ZZZ".

Acked-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 615f64458ad890ef94abc879a66d8b27236e733a upstream.

This check is very naive: we simply test if GCC invoked without
"-mcpu=XXX" has ARC700 define set. In that case we think that GCC
was built with "--with-cpu=arc700" and has libgcc built for ARC700.

Otherwise if ARC700 is not defined we think that everythng was built
for ARCv2.

But in reality our life is much more interesting.

1. Regardless of GCC configuration (i.e. what we pass in "--with-cpu"
   it may generate code for any ARC core).

2. libgcc might be built with explicitly specified "--mcpu=YYY"

That's exactly what happens in case of multilibbed toolchains:
 - GCC is configured with default settings
 - All the libs built for many different CPU flavors

I.e. that check gets in the way of usage of multilibbed
toolchains. And even non-multilibbed toolchains are affected.
OpenEmbedded also builds GCC without "--with-cpu" because
each and every target component later is compiled with explicitly
set "-mcpu=ZZZ".

Acked-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: clone syscall to setp r25 as thread pointer</title>
<updated>2018-10-13T07:11:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-05T19:48:48+00:00</published>
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commit c58a584f05e35d1d4342923cd7aac07d9c3d3d16 upstream.

Per ARC TLS ABI, r25 is designated TP (thread pointer register).
However so far kernel didn't do any special treatment, like setting up
usermode r25, even for CLONE_SETTLS. We instead relied on libc runtime
to do this, in say clone libc wrapper [1]. This was deliberate to keep
kernel ABI agnostic (userspace could potentially change TP, specially
for different ARC ISA say ARCompact vs. ARCv2 with different spare
registers etc)

However userspace setting up r25, after clone syscall opens a race, if
child is not scheduled and gets a signal instead. It starts off in
userspace not in clone but in a signal handler and anything TP sepcific
there such as pthread_self() fails which showed up with uClibc
testsuite nptl/tst-kill6 [2]

Fix this by having kernel populate r25 to TP value. So this locks in
ABI, but it was not going to change anyways, and fwiw is same for both
ARCompact (arc700 core) and ARCvs (HS3x cores)

[1] https://cgit.uclibc-ng.org/cgi/cgit/uclibc-ng.git/tree/libc/sysdeps/linux/arc/clone.S
[2] https://github.com/wbx-github/uclibc-ng-test/blob/master/test/nptl/tst-kill6.c

Fixes: ARC STAR 9001378481
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Nikita Sobolev &lt;sobolev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c58a584f05e35d1d4342923cd7aac07d9c3d3d16 upstream.

Per ARC TLS ABI, r25 is designated TP (thread pointer register).
However so far kernel didn't do any special treatment, like setting up
usermode r25, even for CLONE_SETTLS. We instead relied on libc runtime
to do this, in say clone libc wrapper [1]. This was deliberate to keep
kernel ABI agnostic (userspace could potentially change TP, specially
for different ARC ISA say ARCompact vs. ARCv2 with different spare
registers etc)

However userspace setting up r25, after clone syscall opens a race, if
child is not scheduled and gets a signal instead. It starts off in
userspace not in clone but in a signal handler and anything TP sepcific
there such as pthread_self() fails which showed up with uClibc
testsuite nptl/tst-kill6 [2]

Fix this by having kernel populate r25 to TP value. So this locks in
ABI, but it was not going to change anyways, and fwiw is same for both
ARCompact (arc700 core) and ARCvs (HS3x cores)

[1] https://cgit.uclibc-ng.org/cgi/cgit/uclibc-ng.git/tree/libc/sysdeps/linux/arc/clone.S
[2] https://github.com/wbx-github/uclibc-ng-test/blob/master/test/nptl/tst-kill6.c

Fixes: ARC STAR 9001378481
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Nikita Sobolev &lt;sobolev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>ARC: [plat-axs*]: Enable SWAP</title>
<updated>2018-09-19T20:48:56+00:00</updated>
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<name>Alexey Brodkin</name>
<email>abrodkin@synopsys.com</email>
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<published>2018-08-02T08:50:16+00:00</published>
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commit c83532fb0fe053d2e43e9387354cb1b52ba26427 upstream.

SWAP support on ARC was fixed earlier by
commit 6e3761145a9b ("ARC: Fix CONFIG_SWAP")
so now we may safely enable it on platforms that
have external media like USB and SD-card.

Note: it was already allowed for HSDK

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6e3761145a9b: ARC: Fix CONFIG_SWAP
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c83532fb0fe053d2e43e9387354cb1b52ba26427 upstream.

SWAP support on ARC was fixed earlier by
commit 6e3761145a9b ("ARC: Fix CONFIG_SWAP")
so now we may safely enable it on platforms that
have external media like USB and SD-card.

Note: it was already allowed for HSDK

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6e3761145a9b: ARC: Fix CONFIG_SWAP
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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