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<title>ARM: smp: elide HWCAP_TLS checks or __entry_task updates on SMP+v6</title>
<updated>2022-01-25T08:53:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-24T18:28:58+00:00</published>
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Use the SMP_ON_UP patching framework to elide HWCAP_TLS tests from the
context switch and return to userspace code paths, as SMP systems are
guaranteed to have this h/w capability.

At the same time, omit the update of __entry_task if the system is
detected to be UP at runtime, as in that case, the value is never used.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Use the SMP_ON_UP patching framework to elide HWCAP_TLS tests from the
context switch and return to userspace code paths, as SMP systems are
guaranteed to have this h/w capability.

At the same time, omit the update of __entry_task if the system is
detected to be UP at runtime, as in that case, the value is never used.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: smp: defer TPIDRURO update for SMP v6 configurations too</title>
<updated>2021-12-06T11:49:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-25T22:21:45+00:00</published>
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Defer TPIDURO updates for user space until exit also for CPU_V6+SMP
configurations so that we can decide at runtime whether to use it to
carry the current pointer, provided that we are running on a CPU that
actually implements this register. This is needed for
THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK support for UP systems, which requires that all SMP
capable systems use the TPIDRURO based access to 'current' as the only
remaining alternative will be a global variable which only works on UP.

Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt; # ARMv7M
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Defer TPIDURO updates for user space until exit also for CPU_V6+SMP
configurations so that we can decide at runtime whether to use it to
carry the current pointer, provided that we are running on a CPU that
actually implements this register. This is needed for
THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK support for UP systems, which requires that all SMP
capable systems use the TPIDRURO based access to 'current' as the only
remaining alternative will be a global variable which only works on UP.

Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt; # ARMv7M
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<entry>
<title>ARM: assembler: add optimized ldr/str macros to load variables from memory</title>
<updated>2021-12-06T11:49:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-26T18:37:27+00:00</published>
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We will be adding variable loads to various hot paths, so it makes sense
to add a helper macro that can load variables from asm code without the
use of literal pool entries. On v7 or later, we can simply use MOVW/MOVT
pairs, but on earlier cores, this requires a bit of hackery to emit a
instruction sequence that implements this using a sequence of ADD/LDR
instructions.

Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt; # ARMv7M
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We will be adding variable loads to various hot paths, so it makes sense
to add a helper macro that can load variables from asm code without the
use of literal pool entries. On v7 or later, we can simply use MOVW/MOVT
pairs, but on earlier cores, this requires a bit of hackery to emit a
instruction sequence that implements this using a sequence of ADD/LDR
instructions.

Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt; # ARMv7M
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<entry>
<title>ARM: implement support for vmap'ed stacks</title>
<updated>2021-12-03T14:11:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-23T07:15:53+00:00</published>
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Wire up the generic support for managing task stack allocations via vmalloc,
and implement the entry code that detects whether we faulted because of a
stack overrun (or future stack overrun caused by pushing the pt_regs array)

While this adds a fair amount of tricky entry asm code, it should be
noted that it only adds a TST + branch to the svc_entry path. The code
implementing the non-trivial handling of the overflow stack is emitted
out-of-line into the .text section.

Since on ARM, we rely on do_translation_fault() to keep PMD level page
table entries that cover the vmalloc region up to date, we need to
ensure that we don't hit such a stale PMD entry when accessing the
stack. So we do a dummy read from the new stack while still running from
the old one on the context switch path, and bump the vmalloc_seq counter
when PMD level entries in the vmalloc range are modified, so that the MM
switch fetches the latest version of the entries.

Note that we need to increase the per-mode stack by 1 word, to gain some
space to stash a GPR until we know it is safe to touch the stack.
However, due to the cacheline alignment of the struct, this does not
actually increase the memory footprint of the struct stack array at all.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Keith Packard &lt;keithpac@amazon.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt; # ARMv7M
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Wire up the generic support for managing task stack allocations via vmalloc,
and implement the entry code that detects whether we faulted because of a
stack overrun (or future stack overrun caused by pushing the pt_regs array)

While this adds a fair amount of tricky entry asm code, it should be
noted that it only adds a TST + branch to the svc_entry path. The code
implementing the non-trivial handling of the overflow stack is emitted
out-of-line into the .text section.

Since on ARM, we rely on do_translation_fault() to keep PMD level page
table entries that cover the vmalloc region up to date, we need to
ensure that we don't hit such a stale PMD entry when accessing the
stack. So we do a dummy read from the new stack while still running from
the old one on the context switch path, and bump the vmalloc_seq counter
when PMD level entries in the vmalloc range are modified, so that the MM
switch fetches the latest version of the entries.

Note that we need to increase the per-mode stack by 1 word, to gain some
space to stash a GPR until we know it is safe to touch the stack.
However, due to the cacheline alignment of the struct, this does not
actually increase the memory footprint of the struct stack array at all.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Keith Packard &lt;keithpac@amazon.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt; # ARMv7M
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<entry>
<title>ARM: smp: Free up the TLS register while running in the kernel</title>
<updated>2021-09-27T14:54:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-18T08:44:36+00:00</published>
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To prepare for a subsequent patch that stores the current task pointer
in the user space TLS register while running in the kernel, modify the
set_tls and switch_tls routines not to touch the register directly, and
update the return to user space code to load the correct value.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap &lt;amit.kachhap@arm.com&gt;
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<pre>
To prepare for a subsequent patch that stores the current task pointer
in the user space TLS register while running in the kernel, modify the
set_tls and switch_tls routines not to touch the register directly, and
update the return to user space code to load the correct value.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap &lt;amit.kachhap@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: uaccess: consolidate uaccess asm to asm/uaccess-asm.h</title>
<updated>2020-05-03T16:30:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-03T12:03:54+00:00</published>
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Consolidate the user access assembly code to asm/uaccess-asm.h.  This
moves the csdb, check_uaccess, uaccess_mask_range_ptr, uaccess_enable,
uaccess_disable, uaccess_save, uaccess_restore macros, and creates two
new ones for exception entry and exit - uaccess_entry and uaccess_exit.

This makes the uaccess_save and uaccess_restore macros private to
asm/uaccess-asm.h.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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Consolidate the user access assembly code to asm/uaccess-asm.h.  This
moves the csdb, check_uaccess, uaccess_mask_range_ptr, uaccess_enable,
uaccess_disable, uaccess_save, uaccess_restore macros, and creates two
new ones for exception entry and exit - uaccess_entry and uaccess_exit.

This makes the uaccess_save and uaccess_restore macros private to
asm/uaccess-asm.h.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8844/1: use unified assembler in assembly files</title>
<updated>2019-02-26T11:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Agner</name>
<email>stefan@agner.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-17T23:57:38+00:00</published>
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Use unified assembler syntax (UAL) in assembly files. Divided
syntax is considered deprecated. This will also allow to build
the kernel using LLVM's integrated assembler.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner &lt;stefan@agner.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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Use unified assembler syntax (UAL) in assembly files. Divided
syntax is considered deprecated. This will also allow to build
the kernel using LLVM's integrated assembler.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner &lt;stefan@agner.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8830/1: NOMMU: Toggle only bits in EXC_RETURN we are really care of</title>
<updated>2019-02-01T21:44:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Murzin</name>
<email>vladimir.murzin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-25T14:18:37+00:00</published>
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ARMv8M introduces support for Security extension to M class, among
other things it affects exception handling, especially, encoding of
EXC_RETURN.

The new bits have been added:

Bit [6]	Secure or Non-secure stack
Bit [5]	Default callee register stacking
Bit [0]	Exception Secure

which conflicts with hard-coded value of EXC_RETURN:

In fact, we only care of few bits:

Bit [3]	 Mode (0 - Handler, 1 - Thread)
Bit [2]	 Stack pointer selection (0 - Main, 1 - Process)

We can toggle only those bits and left other bits as they were on
exception entry.

It is basically, what patch does - saves EXC_RETURN when we do
transition form Thread to Handler mode (it is first svc), so later
saved value is used instead of EXC_RET_THREADMODE_PROCESSSTACK.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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ARMv8M introduces support for Security extension to M class, among
other things it affects exception handling, especially, encoding of
EXC_RETURN.

The new bits have been added:

Bit [6]	Secure or Non-secure stack
Bit [5]	Default callee register stacking
Bit [0]	Exception Secure

which conflicts with hard-coded value of EXC_RETURN:

In fact, we only care of few bits:

Bit [3]	 Mode (0 - Handler, 1 - Thread)
Bit [2]	 Stack pointer selection (0 - Main, 1 - Process)

We can toggle only those bits and left other bits as they were on
exception entry.

It is basically, what patch does - saves EXC_RETURN when we do
transition form Thread to Handler mode (it is first svc), so later
saved value is used instead of EXC_RET_THREADMODE_PROCESSSTACK.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: spectre-v1: fix syscall entry</title>
<updated>2018-05-31T22:27:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-11T10:16:22+00:00</published>
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Prevent speculation at the syscall table decoding by clamping the index
used to zero on invalid system call numbers, and using the csdb
speculative barrier.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Boot-tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
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Prevent speculation at the syscall table decoding by clamping the index
used to zero on invalid system call numbers, and using the csdb
speculative barrier.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Boot-tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2017-12-03T15:51:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-03T15:51:08+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM fix from Russell King:
 "Just one fix this time around, for the late commit in the merge window
  that triggered a problem with qemu. Qemu is apparently also going to
  receive a fix for the discovered issue"

* 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: avoid faulting on qemu
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Pull ARM fix from Russell King:
 "Just one fix this time around, for the late commit in the merge window
  that triggered a problem with qemu. Qemu is apparently also going to
  receive a fix for the discovered issue"

* 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: avoid faulting on qemu
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