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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/arm/Makefile, branch linux-4.7.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>ARM: vexpress/mps2: introduce MPS2 platform</title>
<updated>2016-04-26T10:50:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Murzin</name>
<email>vladimir.murzin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-25T08:49:13+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The Cortex-M Prototyping System (or V2M-MPS2) is designed for
prototyping and evaluation Cortex-M family of processors including the
latest Cortex-M7

It comes with a range of useful peripherals including 8MB single cycle
SRAM, 16MB PSRAM, Ethernet, QSVGA touch screen panel, 4bit RGB VGA
connector, Audio, SPI and GPIO.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
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<pre>
The Cortex-M Prototyping System (or V2M-MPS2) is designed for
prototyping and evaluation Cortex-M family of processors including the
latest Cortex-M7

It comes with a range of useful peripherals including 8MB single cycle
SRAM, 16MB PSRAM, Ethernet, QSVGA touch screen panel, 4bit RGB VGA
connector, Audio, SPI and GPIO.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'armsoc-soc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc</title>
<updated>2016-03-20T21:57:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-20T21:57:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=33b3d2e88c9efd701b6153ca4714d4aa6e9f5af0'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull ARM SoC platform updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "Newly added support for additional SoCs:
   - Axis Artpec-6 SoC family
   - Allwinner A83T SoC
   - Mediatek MT7623
   - NXP i.MX6QP SoC
   - ST Microelectronics stm32f469 microcontroller

  New features:
   - SMP support for Mediatek mt2701
   - Big-endian support for NXP i.MX
   - DaVinci now uses the new DMA engine dma_slave_map
   - OMAP now uses the new DMA engine dma_slave_map
   - earlyprintk support for palmchip uart on mach-tango
   - delay timer support for orion

  Other:
   - Exynos PMU driver moved out to drivers/soc/
   - Various smaller updates for Renesas, Xilinx, PXA, AT91, OMAP,
     uniphier"

* tag 'armsoc-soc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (83 commits)
  ARM: uniphier: rework SMP code to support new System Bus binding
  ARM: uniphier: add missing of_node_put()
  ARM: at91: avoid defining CONFIG_* symbols in source code
  ARM: DRA7: hwmod: Add data for eDMA tpcc, tptc0, tptc1
  ARM: imx: Make reset_control_ops const
  ARM: imx: Do L2 errata only if the L2 cache isn't enabled
  ARM: imx: select ARM_CPU_SUSPEND only for imx6
  dmaengine: pxa_dma: fix the maximum requestor line
  ARM: alpine: select the Alpine MSI controller driver
  ARM: pxa: add the number of DMA requestor lines
  dmaengine: mmp-pdma: add number of requestors
  dma: mmp_pdma: Add the #dma-requests DT property documentation
  ARM: OMAP2+: Add rtc hwmod configuration for ti81xx
  ARM: s3c24xx: Avoid warning for inb/outb
  ARM: zynq: Move early printk virtual address to vmalloc area
  ARM: DRA7: hwmod: Add custom reset handler for PCIeSS
  ARM: SAMSUNG: Remove unused register offset definition
  ARM: EXYNOS: Cleanup header files inclusion
  drivers: soc: samsung: Enable COMPILE_TEST
  MAINTAINERS: Add maintainers entry for drivers/soc/samsung
  ...
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<pre>
Pull ARM SoC platform updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "Newly added support for additional SoCs:
   - Axis Artpec-6 SoC family
   - Allwinner A83T SoC
   - Mediatek MT7623
   - NXP i.MX6QP SoC
   - ST Microelectronics stm32f469 microcontroller

  New features:
   - SMP support for Mediatek mt2701
   - Big-endian support for NXP i.MX
   - DaVinci now uses the new DMA engine dma_slave_map
   - OMAP now uses the new DMA engine dma_slave_map
   - earlyprintk support for palmchip uart on mach-tango
   - delay timer support for orion

  Other:
   - Exynos PMU driver moved out to drivers/soc/
   - Various smaller updates for Renesas, Xilinx, PXA, AT91, OMAP,
     uniphier"

* tag 'armsoc-soc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (83 commits)
  ARM: uniphier: rework SMP code to support new System Bus binding
  ARM: uniphier: add missing of_node_put()
  ARM: at91: avoid defining CONFIG_* symbols in source code
  ARM: DRA7: hwmod: Add data for eDMA tpcc, tptc0, tptc1
  ARM: imx: Make reset_control_ops const
  ARM: imx: Do L2 errata only if the L2 cache isn't enabled
  ARM: imx: select ARM_CPU_SUSPEND only for imx6
  dmaengine: pxa_dma: fix the maximum requestor line
  ARM: alpine: select the Alpine MSI controller driver
  ARM: pxa: add the number of DMA requestor lines
  dmaengine: mmp-pdma: add number of requestors
  dma: mmp_pdma: Add the #dma-requests DT property documentation
  ARM: OMAP2+: Add rtc hwmod configuration for ti81xx
  ARM: s3c24xx: Avoid warning for inb/outb
  ARM: zynq: Move early printk virtual address to vmalloc area
  ARM: DRA7: hwmod: Add custom reset handler for PCIeSS
  ARM: SAMSUNG: Remove unused register offset definition
  ARM: EXYNOS: Cleanup header files inclusion
  drivers: soc: samsung: Enable COMPILE_TEST
  MAINTAINERS: Add maintainers entry for drivers/soc/samsung
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm: initial machine port for artpec-6 SoC</title>
<updated>2016-02-24T21:55:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lars Persson</name>
<email>lars.persson@axis.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-11T16:06:19+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Basic machine port for the Artpec-6 SoC from Axis
Communications.

Signed-off-by: Lars Persson &lt;larper@axis.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
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<pre>
Basic machine port for the Artpec-6 SoC from Axis
Communications.

Signed-off-by: Lars Persson &lt;larper@axis.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8529/1: remove 'i' and 'zi' targets</title>
<updated>2016-02-16T16:33:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-16T02:27:34+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
These two targets were introduced by commit 13d5fadf45d1 ("[ARM]
Make 'i' and 'zi' targets work") to short-circuit the dependencies
for 'install' and 'zinstall'.

After that, commit 19514fc665ff ('arm, kbuild: make "make install"
not depend on vmlinux') eventually made "(z)install" equivalent to
"(z)i".

It is true that 'i' and 'zi' might be still useful as shorthands
but the original intention had been already lost.

They do not even show up in "make ARCH=arm help", so I hope this
deletion does not have much impact.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
These two targets were introduced by commit 13d5fadf45d1 ("[ARM]
Make 'i' and 'zi' targets work") to short-circuit the dependencies
for 'install' and 'zinstall'.

After that, commit 19514fc665ff ('arm, kbuild: make "make install"
not depend on vmlinux') eventually made "(z)install" equivalent to
"(z)i".

It is true that 'i' and 'zi' might be still useful as shorthands
but the original intention had been already lost.

They do not even show up in "make ARCH=arm help", so I hope this
deletion does not have much impact.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'armsoc-defconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc</title>
<updated>2016-01-21T02:29:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-21T02:29:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f9cd69fe5eb6347b4de56458d0378bc0fa44bce9'/>
<id>f9cd69fe5eb6347b4de56458d0378bc0fa44bce9</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull ARM SoC defconfig updates from Olof Johansson:
 "As usual, a bunch of commits, mostly adding drivers and other options
  to defconfigs because it makes sense to have them enabled on various
  development or product boards.  Too much to enumerate each here.

  There's an introduction of a pxa_defconfig, since PXA finally will
  allow building a shared kernel for all boards.  With this, we can
  hopefully remove a bunch of individual defconfigs down the road but it
  requires a bit of real life testing and transition period"

* tag 'armsoc-defconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (65 commits)
  ARM: Add CONFIG_DEPRECATED_PARAM_STRUCT to netwinder_defconfig
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Add rockchip audio support
  arm: multi_v7_defconfig: Add virtio drivers
  ARM: zx_defconfig: remove CONFIG_MMC_DW_IDMAC
  ARM: versatile: enable the right LEDs
  ARM: pxa: add defconfig covering all the boards
  ARM: versatile: select some defaults in defconfig
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable fan, sensors and audio for Odroid XU3
  ARM: bcm2835: enable auxiliary spi driver in defconfig
  ARM: bcm2835: enable all bcm2835-relevant in defconfig
  ARM: default to multi_v7_defconfig
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: enable rk808 clkout module
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: enable rockchip crypto module
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: enable Rockchip io-domain driver
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable generic SoC internal OMAP regulators
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable AM437x PMIC TPS65218
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: enable TPS65217 regulator
  ARM: realview: select apropriate targets
  ARM: defconfig: qcom: Enable SSBI drivers
  ARM: defconfig: Update qcom_defconfig
  ...
</content>
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<pre>
Pull ARM SoC defconfig updates from Olof Johansson:
 "As usual, a bunch of commits, mostly adding drivers and other options
  to defconfigs because it makes sense to have them enabled on various
  development or product boards.  Too much to enumerate each here.

  There's an introduction of a pxa_defconfig, since PXA finally will
  allow building a shared kernel for all boards.  With this, we can
  hopefully remove a bunch of individual defconfigs down the road but it
  requires a bit of real life testing and transition period"

* tag 'armsoc-defconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (65 commits)
  ARM: Add CONFIG_DEPRECATED_PARAM_STRUCT to netwinder_defconfig
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Add rockchip audio support
  arm: multi_v7_defconfig: Add virtio drivers
  ARM: zx_defconfig: remove CONFIG_MMC_DW_IDMAC
  ARM: versatile: enable the right LEDs
  ARM: pxa: add defconfig covering all the boards
  ARM: versatile: select some defaults in defconfig
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable fan, sensors and audio for Odroid XU3
  ARM: bcm2835: enable auxiliary spi driver in defconfig
  ARM: bcm2835: enable all bcm2835-relevant in defconfig
  ARM: default to multi_v7_defconfig
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: enable rk808 clkout module
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: enable rockchip crypto module
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: enable Rockchip io-domain driver
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable generic SoC internal OMAP regulators
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable AM437x PMIC TPS65218
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: enable TPS65217 regulator
  ARM: realview: select apropriate targets
  ARM: defconfig: qcom: Enable SSBI drivers
  ARM: defconfig: Update qcom_defconfig
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: default to multi_v7_defconfig</title>
<updated>2015-12-31T15:10:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-18T22:44:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=32872c04ffd5a855c43802c5aa76c711eb021948'/>
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<content type='text'>
versatile_defconfig has not been a reasonable default for a very long
time, there is very little work happening on this platform and it's
based on an old ARM926 CPU core.

This changes the default to multi_v7_defconfig, which is much more
relevant to anyone doing a build test on ARM, as it covers a wide
range of platforms.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
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<pre>
versatile_defconfig has not been a reasonable default for a very long
time, there is very little work happening on this platform and it's
based on an old ARM926 CPU core.

This changes the default to multi_v7_defconfig, which is much more
relevant to anyone doing a build test on ARM, as it covers a wide
range of platforms.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: tango4: Initial platform support</title>
<updated>2015-12-22T23:10:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Gonzalez</name>
<email>marc_gonzalez@sigmadesigns.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-15T09:41:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d6de5b0294d74aefa16f78d050d1bcf6d5af84a7'/>
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<content type='text'>
Support Sigma Designs ARM-based (specifically, Cortex-A9 MPCore r3p0)
Tango4 "Secure Media Processor" platforms: smp8756, smp8758, smp8759
(8756 is single-core, the latter are dual-core).

Note: 8758 vs 8759: same chip, different package.

Support for older MIPS-based platforms can be found elsewhere:
https://github.com/mansr/linux-tangox

Signed-off-by: Marc Gonzalez &lt;marc_gonzalez@sigmadesigns.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Support Sigma Designs ARM-based (specifically, Cortex-A9 MPCore r3p0)
Tango4 "Secure Media Processor" platforms: smp8756, smp8758, smp8759
(8756 is single-core, the latter are dual-core).

Note: 8758 vs 8759: same chip, different package.

Support for older MIPS-based platforms can be found elsewhere:
https://github.com/mansr/linux-tangox

Signed-off-by: Marc Gonzalez &lt;marc_gonzalez@sigmadesigns.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8429/1: disable GCC SRA optimization</title>
<updated>2015-09-07T12:24:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-03T12:24:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a077224fd35b2f7fbc93f14cf67074fc792fbac2'/>
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<content type='text'>
While working on the 32-bit ARM port of UEFI, I noticed a strange
corruption in the kernel log. The following snprintf() statement
(in drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c:efi_md_typeattr_format())

	snprintf(pos, size, "|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s]",

was producing the following output in the log:

	|    |   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]
	|    |   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]
	|    |   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]
	|RUN|   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]*
	|RUN|   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]*
	|    |   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]
	|RUN|   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]*
	|    |   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]
	|RUN|   |   |   |    |   |   |   |UC]
	|RUN|   |   |   |    |   |   |   |UC]

As it turns out, this is caused by incorrect code being emitted for
the string() function in lib/vsprintf.c. The following code

	if (!(spec.flags &amp; LEFT)) {
		while (len &lt; spec.field_width--) {
			if (buf &lt; end)
				*buf = ' ';
			++buf;
		}
	}
	for (i = 0; i &lt; len; ++i) {
		if (buf &lt; end)
			*buf = *s;
		++buf; ++s;
	}
	while (len &lt; spec.field_width--) {
		if (buf &lt; end)
			*buf = ' ';
		++buf;
	}

when called with len == 0, triggers an issue in the GCC SRA optimization
pass (Scalar Replacement of Aggregates), which handles promotion of signed
struct members incorrectly. This is a known but as yet unresolved issue.
(https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65932). In this particular
case, it is causing the second while loop to be executed erroneously a
single time, causing the additional space characters to be printed.

So disable the optimization by passing -fno-ipa-sra.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
While working on the 32-bit ARM port of UEFI, I noticed a strange
corruption in the kernel log. The following snprintf() statement
(in drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c:efi_md_typeattr_format())

	snprintf(pos, size, "|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s]",

was producing the following output in the log:

	|    |   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]
	|    |   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]
	|    |   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]
	|RUN|   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]*
	|RUN|   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]*
	|    |   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]
	|RUN|   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]*
	|    |   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]
	|RUN|   |   |   |    |   |   |   |UC]
	|RUN|   |   |   |    |   |   |   |UC]

As it turns out, this is caused by incorrect code being emitted for
the string() function in lib/vsprintf.c. The following code

	if (!(spec.flags &amp; LEFT)) {
		while (len &lt; spec.field_width--) {
			if (buf &lt; end)
				*buf = ' ';
			++buf;
		}
	}
	for (i = 0; i &lt; len; ++i) {
		if (buf &lt; end)
			*buf = *s;
		++buf; ++s;
	}
	while (len &lt; spec.field_width--) {
		if (buf &lt; end)
			*buf = ' ';
		++buf;
	}

when called with len == 0, triggers an issue in the GCC SRA optimization
pass (Scalar Replacement of Aggregates), which handles promotion of signed
struct members incorrectly. This is a known but as yet unresolved issue.
(https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65932). In this particular
case, it is causing the second while loop to be executed erroneously a
single time, causing the additional space characters to be printed.

So disable the optimization by passing -fno-ipa-sra.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8418/1: add boot image dependencies to not generate invalid images</title>
<updated>2015-08-18T12:59:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-17T03:03:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3939f3345050b1ace675675c47d99fd7b606d9e3'/>
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U-Boot is often used to boot the kernel on ARM boards, but uImage
is not built by "make all", so we are often inclined to do
"make all uImage" to generate DTBs, modules and uImage in a single
command, but we should notice a pitfall behind it.  In fact,
"make all uImage" could generate an invalid uImage if it is run with
the parallel option (-j).

You can reproduce this problem with the following procedure:

[1] First, build "all" and "uImage" separately.
    You will get a valid uImage

  $ git clean -f -x -d
  $ export CROSS_COMPILE=&lt;your-tools-prefix&gt;
  $ make -s -j8 ARCH=arm multi_v7_defconfig
  $ make -s -j8 ARCH=arm all
  $ make -j8 ARCH=arm UIMAGE_LOADADDR=0x80208000 uImage
    CHK     include/config/kernel.release
    CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
    CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
  make[1]: `include/generated/mach-types.h' is up to date.
    CHK     include/generated/timeconst.h
    CHK     include/generated/bounds.h
    CHK     include/generated/asm-offsets.h
    CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
    CHK     include/generated/compile.h
    Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready
    Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready
    UIMAGE  arch/arm/boot/uImage
  Image Name:   Linux-4.2.0-rc5-00156-gdd2384a-d
  Created:      Sat Aug  8 23:21:35 2015
  Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
  Data Size:    6138648 Bytes = 5994.77 kB = 5.85 MB
  Load Address: 80208000
  Entry Point:  80208000
    Image arch/arm/boot/uImage is ready
  $ ls -l arch/arm/boot/*Image
  -rwxrwxr-x 1 masahiro masahiro 13766656 Aug  8 23:20 arch/arm/boot/Image
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 masahiro masahiro  6138712 Aug  8 23:21 arch/arm/boot/uImage
  -rwxrwxr-x 1 masahiro masahiro  6138648 Aug  8 23:20 arch/arm/boot/zImage

[2] Update some source file(s)

  $ touch init/main.c

[3] Then, re-build "all" and "uImage" simultaneously.
    You will get an invalid uImage at random.

  $ make -j8 ARCH=arm UIMAGE_LOADADDR=0x80208000 all uImage
    CHK     include/config/kernel.release
    CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
    CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
  make[1]: `include/generated/mach-types.h' is up to date.
    CHK     include/generated/timeconst.h
    CHK     include/generated/bounds.h
    CHK     include/generated/asm-offsets.h
    CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
    CC      init/main.o
    CHK     include/generated/compile.h
    LD      init/built-in.o
    LINK    vmlinux
    LD      vmlinux.o
    MODPOST vmlinux.o
    GEN     .version
    CHK     include/generated/compile.h
    UPD     include/generated/compile.h
    CC      init/version.o
    LD      init/built-in.o
    KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms1.o
    KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms2.o
    LD      vmlinux
    SORTEX  vmlinux
    SYSMAP  System.map
    OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/Image
    Building modules, stage 2.
    Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready
    GZIP    arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.gzip
    AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.gzip.o
    Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready
    LD      arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux
    GZIP    arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.gzip
    OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/zImage
    Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready
    UIMAGE  arch/arm/boot/uImage
  Image Name:   Linux-4.2.0-rc5-00156-gdd2384a-d
  Created:      Sat Aug  8 23:23:14 2015
  Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
  Data Size:    26472 Bytes = 25.85 kB = 0.03 MB
  Load Address: 80208000
  Entry Point:  80208000
    Image arch/arm/boot/uImage is ready
    MODPOST 192 modules
    AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.gzip.o
    LD      arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux
    OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/zImage
    Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready
  $ ls -l arch/arm/boot/*Image
  -rwxrwxr-x 1 masahiro masahiro 13766656 Aug  8 23:23 arch/arm/boot/Image
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 masahiro masahiro    26536 Aug  8 23:23 arch/arm/boot/uImage
  -rwxrwxr-x 1 masahiro masahiro  6138648 Aug  8 23:23 arch/arm/boot/zImage

Please notice the uImage is extremely small when this issue is
encountered.  Besides, "Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready" is
displayed twice, before and after the uImage log.

The root cause of this is the race condition between zImage and
uImage.  Actually, uImage depends on zImage, but the dependency
between the two is only described in arch/arm/boot/Makefile.
Because arch/arm/boot/Makefile is not included from the top-level
Makefile, it cannot know the dependency between zImage and uImage.

Consequently, when we run make with the parallel option, Kbuild
updates vmlinux first, and then two different threads descends into
the arch/arm/boot/Makefile almost at the same time, one for updating
zImage and the other for uImage.  While one thread is re-generating
zImage, the other also tries to update zImage before creating uImage
on top of that.  zImage is overwritten by the slower thread and then
uImage is created based on the half-written zImage.

This is the reason why "Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready" is
displayed twice, and a broken uImage is created.

The same problem could happen on bootpImage.

This commit adds dependencies among Image, zImage, uImage, and
bootpImage to arch/arm/Makefile, which is included from the
top-level Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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U-Boot is often used to boot the kernel on ARM boards, but uImage
is not built by "make all", so we are often inclined to do
"make all uImage" to generate DTBs, modules and uImage in a single
command, but we should notice a pitfall behind it.  In fact,
"make all uImage" could generate an invalid uImage if it is run with
the parallel option (-j).

You can reproduce this problem with the following procedure:

[1] First, build "all" and "uImage" separately.
    You will get a valid uImage

  $ git clean -f -x -d
  $ export CROSS_COMPILE=&lt;your-tools-prefix&gt;
  $ make -s -j8 ARCH=arm multi_v7_defconfig
  $ make -s -j8 ARCH=arm all
  $ make -j8 ARCH=arm UIMAGE_LOADADDR=0x80208000 uImage
    CHK     include/config/kernel.release
    CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
    CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
  make[1]: `include/generated/mach-types.h' is up to date.
    CHK     include/generated/timeconst.h
    CHK     include/generated/bounds.h
    CHK     include/generated/asm-offsets.h
    CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
    CHK     include/generated/compile.h
    Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready
    Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready
    UIMAGE  arch/arm/boot/uImage
  Image Name:   Linux-4.2.0-rc5-00156-gdd2384a-d
  Created:      Sat Aug  8 23:21:35 2015
  Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
  Data Size:    6138648 Bytes = 5994.77 kB = 5.85 MB
  Load Address: 80208000
  Entry Point:  80208000
    Image arch/arm/boot/uImage is ready
  $ ls -l arch/arm/boot/*Image
  -rwxrwxr-x 1 masahiro masahiro 13766656 Aug  8 23:20 arch/arm/boot/Image
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 masahiro masahiro  6138712 Aug  8 23:21 arch/arm/boot/uImage
  -rwxrwxr-x 1 masahiro masahiro  6138648 Aug  8 23:20 arch/arm/boot/zImage

[2] Update some source file(s)

  $ touch init/main.c

[3] Then, re-build "all" and "uImage" simultaneously.
    You will get an invalid uImage at random.

  $ make -j8 ARCH=arm UIMAGE_LOADADDR=0x80208000 all uImage
    CHK     include/config/kernel.release
    CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
    CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
  make[1]: `include/generated/mach-types.h' is up to date.
    CHK     include/generated/timeconst.h
    CHK     include/generated/bounds.h
    CHK     include/generated/asm-offsets.h
    CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
    CC      init/main.o
    CHK     include/generated/compile.h
    LD      init/built-in.o
    LINK    vmlinux
    LD      vmlinux.o
    MODPOST vmlinux.o
    GEN     .version
    CHK     include/generated/compile.h
    UPD     include/generated/compile.h
    CC      init/version.o
    LD      init/built-in.o
    KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms1.o
    KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms2.o
    LD      vmlinux
    SORTEX  vmlinux
    SYSMAP  System.map
    OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/Image
    Building modules, stage 2.
    Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready
    GZIP    arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.gzip
    AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.gzip.o
    Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready
    LD      arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux
    GZIP    arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.gzip
    OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/zImage
    Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready
    UIMAGE  arch/arm/boot/uImage
  Image Name:   Linux-4.2.0-rc5-00156-gdd2384a-d
  Created:      Sat Aug  8 23:23:14 2015
  Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
  Data Size:    26472 Bytes = 25.85 kB = 0.03 MB
  Load Address: 80208000
  Entry Point:  80208000
    Image arch/arm/boot/uImage is ready
    MODPOST 192 modules
    AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.gzip.o
    LD      arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux
    OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/zImage
    Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready
  $ ls -l arch/arm/boot/*Image
  -rwxrwxr-x 1 masahiro masahiro 13766656 Aug  8 23:23 arch/arm/boot/Image
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 masahiro masahiro    26536 Aug  8 23:23 arch/arm/boot/uImage
  -rwxrwxr-x 1 masahiro masahiro  6138648 Aug  8 23:23 arch/arm/boot/zImage

Please notice the uImage is extremely small when this issue is
encountered.  Besides, "Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready" is
displayed twice, before and after the uImage log.

The root cause of this is the race condition between zImage and
uImage.  Actually, uImage depends on zImage, but the dependency
between the two is only described in arch/arm/boot/Makefile.
Because arch/arm/boot/Makefile is not included from the top-level
Makefile, it cannot know the dependency between zImage and uImage.

Consequently, when we run make with the parallel option, Kbuild
updates vmlinux first, and then two different threads descends into
the arch/arm/boot/Makefile almost at the same time, one for updating
zImage and the other for uImage.  While one thread is re-generating
zImage, the other also tries to update zImage before creating uImage
on top of that.  zImage is overwritten by the slower thread and then
uImage is created based on the half-written zImage.

This is the reason why "Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready" is
displayed twice, and a broken uImage is created.

The same problem could happen on bootpImage.

This commit adds dependencies among Image, zImage, uImage, and
bootpImage to arch/arm/Makefile, which is included from the
top-level Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T19:20:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-26T19:20:00+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "Bigger items included in this update are:

   - A series of updates from Arnd for ARM randconfig build failures
   - Updates from Dmitry for StrongARM SA-1100 to move IRQ handling to
     drivers/irqchip/
   - Move ARMs SP804 timer to drivers/clocksource/
   - Perf updates from Mark Rutland in preparation to move the ARM perf
     code into drivers/ so it can be shared with ARM64.
   - MCPM updates from Nicolas
   - Add support for taking platform serial number from DT
   - Re-implement Keystone2 physical address space switch to conform to
     architecture requirements
   - Clean up ARMv7 LPAE code, which goes in hand with the Keystone2
     changes.
   - L2C cleanups to avoid unlocking caches if we're prevented by the
     secure support to unlock.
   - Avoid cleaning a potentially dirty cache containing stale data on
     CPU initialisation
   - Add ARM-only entry point for secondary startup (for machines that
     can only call into a Thumb kernel in ARM mode).  Same thing is also
     done for the resume entry point.
   - Provide arch_irqs_disabled via asm-generic
   - Enlarge ARMv7M vector table
   - Always use BFD linker for VDSO, as gold doesn't accept some of the
     options we need.
   - Fix an incorrect BSYM (for Thumb symbols) usage, and convert all
     BSYM compiler macros to a "badr" (for branch address).
   - Shut up compiler warnings provoked by our cmpxchg() implementation.
   - Ensure bad xchg sizes fail to link"

* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (75 commits)
  ARM: Fix build if CLKDEV_LOOKUP is not configured
  ARM: fix new BSYM() usage introduced via for-arm-soc branch
  ARM: 8383/1: nommu: avoid deprecated source register on mov
  ARM: 8391/1: l2c: add options to overwrite prefetching behavior
  ARM: 8390/1: irqflags: Get arch_irqs_disabled from asm-generic
  ARM: 8387/1: arm/mm/dma-mapping.c: Add arm_coherent_dma_mmap
  ARM: 8388/1: tcm: Don't crash when TCM banks are protected by TrustZone
  ARM: 8384/1: VDSO: force use of BFD linker
  ARM: 8385/1: VDSO: group link options
  ARM: cmpxchg: avoid warnings from macro-ized cmpxchg() implementations
  ARM: remove __bad_xchg definition
  ARM: 8369/1: ARMv7M: define size of vector table for Vybrid
  ARM: 8382/1: clocksource: make ARM_TIMER_SP804 depend on GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
  ARM: 8366/1: move Dual-Timer SP804 driver to drivers/clocksource
  ARM: 8365/1: introduce sp804_timer_disable and remove arm_timer.h inclusion
  ARM: 8364/1: fix BE32 module loading
  ARM: 8360/1: add secondary_startup_arm prototype in header file
  ARM: 8359/1: correct secondary_startup_arm mode
  ARM: proc-v7: sanitise and document registers around errata
  ARM: proc-v7: clean up MIDR access
  ...
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<pre>
Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "Bigger items included in this update are:

   - A series of updates from Arnd for ARM randconfig build failures
   - Updates from Dmitry for StrongARM SA-1100 to move IRQ handling to
     drivers/irqchip/
   - Move ARMs SP804 timer to drivers/clocksource/
   - Perf updates from Mark Rutland in preparation to move the ARM perf
     code into drivers/ so it can be shared with ARM64.
   - MCPM updates from Nicolas
   - Add support for taking platform serial number from DT
   - Re-implement Keystone2 physical address space switch to conform to
     architecture requirements
   - Clean up ARMv7 LPAE code, which goes in hand with the Keystone2
     changes.
   - L2C cleanups to avoid unlocking caches if we're prevented by the
     secure support to unlock.
   - Avoid cleaning a potentially dirty cache containing stale data on
     CPU initialisation
   - Add ARM-only entry point for secondary startup (for machines that
     can only call into a Thumb kernel in ARM mode).  Same thing is also
     done for the resume entry point.
   - Provide arch_irqs_disabled via asm-generic
   - Enlarge ARMv7M vector table
   - Always use BFD linker for VDSO, as gold doesn't accept some of the
     options we need.
   - Fix an incorrect BSYM (for Thumb symbols) usage, and convert all
     BSYM compiler macros to a "badr" (for branch address).
   - Shut up compiler warnings provoked by our cmpxchg() implementation.
   - Ensure bad xchg sizes fail to link"

* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (75 commits)
  ARM: Fix build if CLKDEV_LOOKUP is not configured
  ARM: fix new BSYM() usage introduced via for-arm-soc branch
  ARM: 8383/1: nommu: avoid deprecated source register on mov
  ARM: 8391/1: l2c: add options to overwrite prefetching behavior
  ARM: 8390/1: irqflags: Get arch_irqs_disabled from asm-generic
  ARM: 8387/1: arm/mm/dma-mapping.c: Add arm_coherent_dma_mmap
  ARM: 8388/1: tcm: Don't crash when TCM banks are protected by TrustZone
  ARM: 8384/1: VDSO: force use of BFD linker
  ARM: 8385/1: VDSO: group link options
  ARM: cmpxchg: avoid warnings from macro-ized cmpxchg() implementations
  ARM: remove __bad_xchg definition
  ARM: 8369/1: ARMv7M: define size of vector table for Vybrid
  ARM: 8382/1: clocksource: make ARM_TIMER_SP804 depend on GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
  ARM: 8366/1: move Dual-Timer SP804 driver to drivers/clocksource
  ARM: 8365/1: introduce sp804_timer_disable and remove arm_timer.h inclusion
  ARM: 8364/1: fix BE32 module loading
  ARM: 8360/1: add secondary_startup_arm prototype in header file
  ARM: 8359/1: correct secondary_startup_arm mode
  ARM: proc-v7: sanitise and document registers around errata
  ARM: proc-v7: clean up MIDR access
  ...
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