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<title>ARM: 8618/1: decompressor: reset ttbcr fields to use TTBR0 on ARMv7</title>
<updated>2017-02-06T22:32:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srinivas Ramana</name>
<email>sramana@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-30T14:03:31+00:00</published>
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commit 117e5e9c4cfcb7628f08de074fbfefec1bb678b7 upstream.

If the bootloader uses the long descriptor format and jumps to
kernel decompressor code, TTBCR may not be in a right state.
Before enabling the MMU, it is required to clear the TTBCR.PD0
field to use TTBR0 for translation table walks.

The commit dbece45894d3a ("ARM: 7501/1: decompressor:
reset ttbcr for VMSA ARMv7 cores") does the reset of TTBCR.N, but
doesn't consider all the bits for the size of TTBCR.N.

Clear TTBCR.PD0 field and reset all the three bits of TTBCR.N to
indicate the use of TTBR0 and the correct base address width.

Fixes: dbece45894d3 ("ARM: 7501/1: decompressor: reset ttbcr for VMSA ARMv7 cores")
Acked-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Ramana &lt;sramana@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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commit 117e5e9c4cfcb7628f08de074fbfefec1bb678b7 upstream.

If the bootloader uses the long descriptor format and jumps to
kernel decompressor code, TTBCR may not be in a right state.
Before enabling the MMU, it is required to clear the TTBCR.PD0
field to use TTBR0 for translation table walks.

The commit dbece45894d3a ("ARM: 7501/1: decompressor:
reset ttbcr for VMSA ARMv7 cores") does the reset of TTBCR.N, but
doesn't consider all the bits for the size of TTBCR.N.

Clear TTBCR.PD0 field and reset all the three bits of TTBCR.N to
indicate the use of TTBR0 and the correct base address width.

Fixes: dbece45894d3 ("ARM: 7501/1: decompressor: reset ttbcr for VMSA ARMv7 cores")
Acked-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Ramana &lt;sramana@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 7722/1: zImage: Convert 32bits memory size and address from ATAG to 64bits DTB</title>
<updated>2013-08-04T08:50:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gregory CLEMENT</name>
<email>gregory.clement@free-electrons.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-15T08:39:17+00:00</published>
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commit faefd550c45d8d314e8f260f21565320355c947f upstream.

When CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB is selected, if the bootloader provides
an ATAG_MEM it replaces the memory size and the memory address in the
memory node of the device tree. In the case of a system which can
handle more than 4GB, the memory node cell size is 4: each data
(memory size and memory address) are 64 bits and then use 2 cells.

The current code in atags_to_fdt.c made the assumption of a cell size
of 2 (one cell for the memory size and one cell for the memory
address), this leads to an improper write of the data and ends with a
boot hang.

This patch writes the memory size and the memory address on the memory
node in the device tree depending of the size of the memory node (32
bits or 64 bits).

It has been tested in the 2 cases:
- with a dtb using skeleton.dtsi
- and with a dtb using skeleton64.dtsi

Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT &lt;gregory.clement@free-electrons.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit faefd550c45d8d314e8f260f21565320355c947f upstream.

When CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB is selected, if the bootloader provides
an ATAG_MEM it replaces the memory size and the memory address in the
memory node of the device tree. In the case of a system which can
handle more than 4GB, the memory node cell size is 4: each data
(memory size and memory address) are 64 bits and then use 2 cells.

The current code in atags_to_fdt.c made the assumption of a cell size
of 2 (one cell for the memory size and one cell for the memory
address), this leads to an improper write of the data and ends with a
boot hang.

This patch writes the memory size and the memory address on the memory
node in the device tree depending of the size of the memory node (32
bits or 64 bits).

It has been tested in the 2 cases:
- with a dtb using skeleton.dtsi
- and with a dtb using skeleton64.dtsi

Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT &lt;gregory.clement@free-electrons.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ARM: 7756/1: zImage/virt: remove hyp-stub.S during distclean</title>
<updated>2013-06-17T09:30:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Magnus Damm</name>
<email>damm@opensource.se</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-12T09:56:43+00:00</published>
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Make sure hyp-stub.S gets removed during make distclean,
this left over file was introduced in commit:

424e599 ARM: zImage/virt: hyp mode entry support for the zImage loader

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm &lt;damm@opensource.se&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms+renesas@verge.net.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Make sure hyp-stub.S gets removed during make distclean,
this left over file was introduced in commit:

424e599 ARM: zImage/virt: hyp mode entry support for the zImage loader

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm &lt;damm@opensource.se&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms+renesas@verge.net.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7750/1: update legacy CPU ID in decompressor cache support jump table</title>
<updated>2013-06-05T22:32:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc C</name>
<email>marc.ceeeee@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-05T21:02:23+00:00</published>
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The previous mask values for the legacy ARM CPU IDs were conflicting
with the CPU ID assignments for late-generation CPUs (like the
Qualcomm MSM/QSD or Broadcom Brahma-15 processors). This change
corrects the legacy ARM CPU ID value so that the jump table can
fall-through to the appropriate cache maintenance / MMU functions.

Signed-off-by: Marc C &lt;marc.ceeeee@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The previous mask values for the legacy ARM CPU IDs were conflicting
with the CPU ID assignments for late-generation CPUs (like the
Qualcomm MSM/QSD or Broadcom Brahma-15 processors). This change
corrects the legacy ARM CPU ID value so that the jump table can
fall-through to the appropriate cache maintenance / MMU functions.

Signed-off-by: Marc C &lt;marc.ceeeee@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7743/1: compressed/head.S: work around new binutils warning</title>
<updated>2013-06-05T22:32:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-31T21:50:47+00:00</published>
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In August 2012, Matthew Gretton-Dann checked a change into binutils
labelled "Error on obsolete &amp; warn on deprecated registers", apparently as
part of ARMv8 support. Apparently, this was supposed to emit the message
"Warning: This coprocessor register access is deprecated in ARMv8" when
using certain mcr/mrc instructions and building for ARMv8. Unfortunately,
the message that is actually emitted appears to be '(null)', which is
less helpful in comparison.

Even more unfortunately, this is biting us on every single kernel
build with a new gas, because arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S and some
other files in that directory are built with -march=all since kernel
commit 80cec14a8 "[ARM] Add -march=all to assembly file build in
arch/arm/boot/compressed" back in v2.6.28.

This patch reverts Russell's nice solution and instead marks the head.S
file to be built for armv7-a, which fortunately lets us build all
instructions in that file without warnings even on the broken binutils.

Without this patch, building anything results in:

arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S: Assembler messages:
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:565: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:676: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:698: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:722: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:726: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:957: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:996: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:997: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1027: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1035: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1046: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1060: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1092: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1094: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1095: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1102: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1134: Warning: (null)

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Matthew Gretton-Dann &lt;matthew.gretton-dann@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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In August 2012, Matthew Gretton-Dann checked a change into binutils
labelled "Error on obsolete &amp; warn on deprecated registers", apparently as
part of ARMv8 support. Apparently, this was supposed to emit the message
"Warning: This coprocessor register access is deprecated in ARMv8" when
using certain mcr/mrc instructions and building for ARMv8. Unfortunately,
the message that is actually emitted appears to be '(null)', which is
less helpful in comparison.

Even more unfortunately, this is biting us on every single kernel
build with a new gas, because arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S and some
other files in that directory are built with -march=all since kernel
commit 80cec14a8 "[ARM] Add -march=all to assembly file build in
arch/arm/boot/compressed" back in v2.6.28.

This patch reverts Russell's nice solution and instead marks the head.S
file to be built for armv7-a, which fortunately lets us build all
instructions in that file without warnings even on the broken binutils.

Without this patch, building anything results in:

arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S: Assembler messages:
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:565: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:676: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:698: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:722: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:726: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:957: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:996: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:997: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1027: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1035: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1046: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1060: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1092: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1094: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1095: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1102: Warning: (null)
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S:1134: Warning: (null)

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Matthew Gretton-Dann &lt;matthew.gretton-dann@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7737/1: fix kernel decompressor compilation error with CONFIG_DEBUG_SEMIHOSTING</title>
<updated>2013-06-05T22:32:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Pitre</name>
<email>nicolas.pitre@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-29T15:57:30+00:00</published>
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Selecting this option produces:

  AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/debug.o
arch/arm/boot/compressed/debug.S:4:33: fatal error: mach/debug-macro.S: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[3]: *** [arch/arm/boot/compressed/debug.o] Error 1

The semihosting support cannot be modelled into a senduart macro as
it requires memory space for argument passing.  So the
CONFIG_DEBUG_LL_INCLUDE may not have any sensible value and the include
directive should be omitted.

While at it, let's add proper semihosting output support to the
decompressor.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Shawn Guo &lt;shawn.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Selecting this option produces:

  AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/debug.o
arch/arm/boot/compressed/debug.S:4:33: fatal error: mach/debug-macro.S: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[3]: *** [arch/arm/boot/compressed/debug.o] Error 1

The semihosting support cannot be modelled into a senduart macro as
it requires memory space for argument passing.  So the
CONFIG_DEBUG_LL_INCLUDE may not have any sensible value and the include
directive should be omitted.

While at it, let's add proper semihosting output support to the
decompressor.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Shawn Guo &lt;shawn.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7672/1: uncompress debug support for multiplatform build</title>
<updated>2013-03-15T17:18:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shawn Guo</name>
<email>shawn.guo@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-14T07:48:06+00:00</published>
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Instead of giving zero support of uncompress debug for multiplatform
build, the patch turns uncompress debug into one part of DEBUG_LL
support.  When DEBUG_LL is turned on for a particular platform,
uncompress debug works too for that platform.

OMAP and Tegra are exceptions here.  OMAP low-level debug code places
data in the .data section, and that is not allowed in decompressor.
And Tegra code has reference to variable that's unavailable in
decompressor but only in kernel.  That's why Kconfig symbol
DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS controlling multiplatform uncompress debug support is
defined with !DEBUG_OMAP2PLUS_UART &amp;&amp; !DEBUG_TEGRA_UART.

It creates arch/arm/boot/compressed/debug.S with CONFIG_DEBUG_LL_INCLUDE
included there, implements a generic putc() using those macros, which
will be built when DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS is defined.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo &lt;shawn.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Instead of giving zero support of uncompress debug for multiplatform
build, the patch turns uncompress debug into one part of DEBUG_LL
support.  When DEBUG_LL is turned on for a particular platform,
uncompress debug works too for that platform.

OMAP and Tegra are exceptions here.  OMAP low-level debug code places
data in the .data section, and that is not allowed in decompressor.
And Tegra code has reference to variable that's unavailable in
decompressor but only in kernel.  That's why Kconfig symbol
DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS controlling multiplatform uncompress debug support is
defined with !DEBUG_OMAP2PLUS_UART &amp;&amp; !DEBUG_TEGRA_UART.

It creates arch/arm/boot/compressed/debug.S with CONFIG_DEBUG_LL_INCLUDE
included there, implements a generic putc() using those macros, which
will be built when DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS is defined.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo &lt;shawn.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7671/1: use Kconfig to select uncompress.h</title>
<updated>2013-03-15T17:18:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shawn Guo</name>
<email>shawn.guo@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-14T07:47:27+00:00</published>
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Following the approach handling DEBUG_LL inclusion, the patch creates
a Kconfig symbol CONFIG_UNCOMPRESS_INCLUDE for choosing the correct
uncompress header.  For traditional build, mach/uncompress.h will be
included in arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c.  For multiplatform build,
debug/uncompress.h which contains a suite of empty functions will be
used.  In this way, a platform with particular uncompress.h
implementation could choose its own uncompress.h with this Kconfig
option.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo &lt;shawn.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Following the approach handling DEBUG_LL inclusion, the patch creates
a Kconfig symbol CONFIG_UNCOMPRESS_INCLUDE for choosing the correct
uncompress header.  For traditional build, mach/uncompress.h will be
included in arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c.  For multiplatform build,
debug/uncompress.h which contains a suite of empty functions will be
used.  In this way, a platform with particular uncompress.h
implementation could choose its own uncompress.h with this Kconfig
option.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo &lt;shawn.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7666/1: decompressor: add -mno-single-pic-base for building the decompressor</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T23:45:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Austin</name>
<email>Jonathan.Austin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-04T14:17:36+00:00</published>
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Before jumping to (position independent) C-code from the decompressor's
assembler world we set-up the C environment. This setup currently does not
set r9, which for arm-none-uclinux-uclibceabi toolchains is by default
expected to be the PIC offset base register (IE should point to the
beginning of the GOT).

Currently, therefore, in order to build working kernels that use the
decompressor it is necessary to use an arm-linux-gnueabi toolchain, or
similar. uClinux toolchains cause a prefetch abort to occur at the beginning
of the decompress_kernel function.

This patch allows uClinux toolchains to build bootable zImages by forcing
the -mno-single-pic-base option, which ensures that the location of the GOT
is re-derived each time it is required, and r9 becomes free for use as a
general purpose register.

This has a small (4% in instruction terms) advantage over the alternative of
setting r9 to point to the GOT before calling into the C-world.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Austin &lt;jonathan.austin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Before jumping to (position independent) C-code from the decompressor's
assembler world we set-up the C environment. This setup currently does not
set r9, which for arm-none-uclinux-uclibceabi toolchains is by default
expected to be the PIC offset base register (IE should point to the
beginning of the GOT).

Currently, therefore, in order to build working kernels that use the
decompressor it is necessary to use an arm-linux-gnueabi toolchain, or
similar. uClinux toolchains cause a prefetch abort to occur at the beginning
of the decompress_kernel function.

This patch allows uClinux toolchains to build bootable zImages by forcing
the -mno-single-pic-base option, which ensures that the location of the GOT
is re-derived each time it is required, and r9 becomes free for use as a
general purpose register.

This has a small (4% in instruction terms) advantage over the alternative of
setting r9 to point to the GOT before calling into the C-world.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Austin &lt;jonathan.austin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: decompress: remove unused ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG</title>
<updated>2013-01-11T02:53:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shawn Guo</name>
<email>shawn.guo@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-12T12:51:38+00:00</published>
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ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG is only used in lib/inflate.c which is not
included in arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c now.  That said,
ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG is not used at all.  Let's remove it.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo &lt;shawn.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
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ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG is only used in lib/inflate.c which is not
included in arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c now.  That said,
ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG is not used at all.  Let's remove it.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo &lt;shawn.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
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