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<title>ARM: 7627/1: Predicate preempt logic on PREEMP_COUNT not PREEMPT alone</title>
<updated>2013-02-04T00:27:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Boyd</name>
<email>sboyd@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-14T18:50:42+00:00</published>
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commit 568dca15aa2a0f4ddee255894ec393a159f13147 upstream.

Patrik Kluba reports that the preempt count becomes invalid due
to the preempt_enable() call being unbalanced with a
preempt_disable() call in the vfp assembly routines. This happens
because preempt_enable() and preempt_disable() update preempt
counts under PREEMPT_COUNT=y but the vfp assembly routines do so
under PREEMPT=y. In a configuration where PREEMPT=n and
DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y, PREEMPT_COUNT=y and so the preempt_enable()
call in VFP_bounce() keeps subtracting from the preempt count
until it goes negative.

Fix this by always using PREEMPT_COUNT to decided when to update
preempt counts in the ARM assembly code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reported-by: Patrik Kluba &lt;pkluba@dension.com&gt;
Tested-by: Patrik Kluba &lt;pkluba@dension.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 568dca15aa2a0f4ddee255894ec393a159f13147 upstream.

Patrik Kluba reports that the preempt count becomes invalid due
to the preempt_enable() call being unbalanced with a
preempt_disable() call in the vfp assembly routines. This happens
because preempt_enable() and preempt_disable() update preempt
counts under PREEMPT_COUNT=y but the vfp assembly routines do so
under PREEMPT=y. In a configuration where PREEMPT=n and
DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y, PREEMPT_COUNT=y and so the preempt_enable()
call in VFP_bounce() keeps subtracting from the preempt count
until it goes negative.

Fix this by always using PREEMPT_COUNT to decided when to update
preempt counts in the ARM assembly code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reported-by: Patrik Kluba &lt;pkluba@dension.com&gt;
Tested-by: Patrik Kluba &lt;pkluba@dension.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ARM: 7566/1: vfp: fix save and restore when running on pre-VFPv3 and CONFIG_VFPv3 set</title>
<updated>2012-10-29T10:04:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Walmsley</name>
<email>paul@pwsan.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-23T19:32:59+00:00</published>
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After commit 846a136881b8f73c1f74250bf6acfaa309cab1f2 ("ARM: vfp: fix
saving d16-d31 vfp registers on v6+ kernels"), the OMAP 2430SDP board
started crashing during boot with omap2plus_defconfig:

[    3.875122] mmcblk0: mmc0:e624 SD04G 3.69 GiB
[    3.915954]  mmcblk0: p1
[    4.086639] Internal error: Oops - undefined instruction: 0 [#1] SMP ARM
[    4.093719] Modules linked in:
[    4.096954] CPU: 0    Not tainted  (3.6.0-02232-g759e00b #570)
[    4.103149] PC is at vfp_reload_hw+0x1c/0x44
[    4.107666] LR is at __und_usr_fault_32+0x0/0x8

It turns out that the context save/restore fix unmasked a latent bug
in commit 5aaf254409f8d58229107b59507a8235b715a960 ("ARM: 6203/1: Make
VFPv3 usable on ARMv6").  When CONFIG_VFPv3 is set, but the kernel is
booted on a pre-VFPv3 core, the code attempts to save and restore the
d16-d31 VFP registers.  These are only present on non-D16 VFPv3+, so
this results in an undefined instruction exception.  The code didn't
crash before commit 846a136 because the save and restore code was
only touching d0-d15, present on all VFP.

Fix by implementing a request from Russell King to add a new HWCAP
flag that affirmatively indicates the presence of the d16-d31
registers:

   http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&amp;m=135013547905283&amp;w=2

and some feedback from Måns to clarify the name of the HWCAP flag.

Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul@pwsan.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Måns Rullgård &lt;mans.rullgard@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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After commit 846a136881b8f73c1f74250bf6acfaa309cab1f2 ("ARM: vfp: fix
saving d16-d31 vfp registers on v6+ kernels"), the OMAP 2430SDP board
started crashing during boot with omap2plus_defconfig:

[    3.875122] mmcblk0: mmc0:e624 SD04G 3.69 GiB
[    3.915954]  mmcblk0: p1
[    4.086639] Internal error: Oops - undefined instruction: 0 [#1] SMP ARM
[    4.093719] Modules linked in:
[    4.096954] CPU: 0    Not tainted  (3.6.0-02232-g759e00b #570)
[    4.103149] PC is at vfp_reload_hw+0x1c/0x44
[    4.107666] LR is at __und_usr_fault_32+0x0/0x8

It turns out that the context save/restore fix unmasked a latent bug
in commit 5aaf254409f8d58229107b59507a8235b715a960 ("ARM: 6203/1: Make
VFPv3 usable on ARMv6").  When CONFIG_VFPv3 is set, but the kernel is
booted on a pre-VFPv3 core, the code attempts to save and restore the
d16-d31 VFP registers.  These are only present on non-D16 VFPv3+, so
this results in an undefined instruction exception.  The code didn't
crash before commit 846a136 because the save and restore code was
only touching d0-d15, present on all VFP.

Fix by implementing a request from Russell King to add a new HWCAP
flag that affirmatively indicates the presence of the d16-d31
registers:

   http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&amp;m=135013547905283&amp;w=2

and some feedback from Måns to clarify the name of the HWCAP flag.

Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul@pwsan.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Måns Rullgård &lt;mans.rullgard@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 7483/1: vfp: only advertise VFPv4 in hwcaps if CONFIG_VFPv3 is enabled</title>
<updated>2012-08-11T08:15:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-03T16:24:14+00:00</published>
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VFPv4 support depends on the VFPv3 context save/restore code, so only
advertise support in the hwcaps if the kernel can actually handle it.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.1+
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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VFPv4 support depends on the VFPv3 context save/restore code, so only
advertise support in the hwcaps if the kernel can actually handle it.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.1+
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2012-08-01T23:30:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-01T23:30:45+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM fixes from Russell King:
 "This fixes various issues found during July"

* 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: 7479/1: mm: avoid NULL dereference when flushing gate_vma with VIVT caches
  ARM: Fix undefined instruction exception handling
  ARM: 7480/1: only call smp_send_stop() on SMP
  ARM: 7478/1: errata: extend workaround for erratum #720789
  ARM: 7477/1: vfp: Always save VFP state in vfp_pm_suspend on UP
  ARM: 7476/1: vfp: only clear vfp state for current cpu in vfp_pm_suspend
  ARM: 7468/1: ftrace: Trace function entry before updating index
  ARM: 7467/1: mutex: use generic xchg-based implementation for ARMv6+
  ARM: 7466/1: disable interrupt before spinning endlessly
  ARM: 7465/1: Handle &gt;4GB memory sizes in device tree and mem=size@start option
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Pull ARM fixes from Russell King:
 "This fixes various issues found during July"

* 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: 7479/1: mm: avoid NULL dereference when flushing gate_vma with VIVT caches
  ARM: Fix undefined instruction exception handling
  ARM: 7480/1: only call smp_send_stop() on SMP
  ARM: 7478/1: errata: extend workaround for erratum #720789
  ARM: 7477/1: vfp: Always save VFP state in vfp_pm_suspend on UP
  ARM: 7476/1: vfp: only clear vfp state for current cpu in vfp_pm_suspend
  ARM: 7468/1: ftrace: Trace function entry before updating index
  ARM: 7467/1: mutex: use generic xchg-based implementation for ARMv6+
  ARM: 7466/1: disable interrupt before spinning endlessly
  ARM: 7465/1: Handle &gt;4GB memory sizes in device tree and mem=size@start option
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: Fix undefined instruction exception handling</title>
<updated>2012-07-31T11:04:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-30T18:42:10+00:00</published>
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While trying to get a v3.5 kernel booted on the cubox, I noticed that
VFP does not work correctly with VFP bounce handling.  This is because
of the confusion over 16-bit vs 32-bit instructions, and where PC is
supposed to point to.

The rule is that FP handlers are entered with regs-&gt;ARM_pc pointing at
the _next_ instruction to be executed.  However, if the exception is
not handled, regs-&gt;ARM_pc points at the faulting instruction.

This is easy for ARM mode, because we know that the next instruction and
previous instructions are separated by four bytes.  This is not true of
Thumb2 though.

Since all FP instructions are 32-bit in Thumb2, it makes things easy.
We just need to select the appropriate adjustment.  Do this by moving
the adjustment out of do_undefinstr() into the assembly code, as only
the assembly code knows whether it's dealing with a 32-bit or 16-bit
instruction.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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While trying to get a v3.5 kernel booted on the cubox, I noticed that
VFP does not work correctly with VFP bounce handling.  This is because
of the confusion over 16-bit vs 32-bit instructions, and where PC is
supposed to point to.

The rule is that FP handlers are entered with regs-&gt;ARM_pc pointing at
the _next_ instruction to be executed.  However, if the exception is
not handled, regs-&gt;ARM_pc points at the faulting instruction.

This is easy for ARM mode, because we know that the next instruction and
previous instructions are separated by four bytes.  This is not true of
Thumb2 though.

Since all FP instructions are 32-bit in Thumb2, it makes things easy.
We just need to select the appropriate adjustment.  Do this by moving
the adjustment out of do_undefinstr() into the assembly code, as only
the assembly code knows whether it's dealing with a 32-bit or 16-bit
instruction.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7477/1: vfp: Always save VFP state in vfp_pm_suspend on UP</title>
<updated>2012-07-31T09:30:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Cross</name>
<email>ccross@android.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-20T01:03:42+00:00</published>
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vfp_pm_suspend should save the VFP state in suspend after
any lazy context switch.  If it only saves when the VFP is enabled,
the state can get lost when, on a UP system:
  Thread 1 uses the VFP
  Context switch occurs to thread 2, VFP is disabled but the
     VFP context is not saved
  Thread 2 initiates suspend
  vfp_pm_suspend is called with the VFP disabled, and the unsaved
     VFP context of Thread 1 in the registers

Modify vfp_pm_suspend to save the VFP context whenever
vfp_current_hw_state is not NULL.

Includes a fix from Ido Yariv &lt;ido@wizery.com&gt;, who pointed out that on
SMP systems, the state pointer can be pointing to a freed task struct if
a task exited on another cpu, fixed by using #ifndef CONFIG_SMP in the
new if clause.

Cc: Barry Song &lt;bs14@csr.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ido Yariv &lt;ido@wizery.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Drake &lt;dsd@laptop.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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vfp_pm_suspend should save the VFP state in suspend after
any lazy context switch.  If it only saves when the VFP is enabled,
the state can get lost when, on a UP system:
  Thread 1 uses the VFP
  Context switch occurs to thread 2, VFP is disabled but the
     VFP context is not saved
  Thread 2 initiates suspend
  vfp_pm_suspend is called with the VFP disabled, and the unsaved
     VFP context of Thread 1 in the registers

Modify vfp_pm_suspend to save the VFP context whenever
vfp_current_hw_state is not NULL.

Includes a fix from Ido Yariv &lt;ido@wizery.com&gt;, who pointed out that on
SMP systems, the state pointer can be pointing to a freed task struct if
a task exited on another cpu, fixed by using #ifndef CONFIG_SMP in the
new if clause.

Cc: Barry Song &lt;bs14@csr.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ido Yariv &lt;ido@wizery.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Drake &lt;dsd@laptop.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 7476/1: vfp: only clear vfp state for current cpu in vfp_pm_suspend</title>
<updated>2012-07-31T09:30:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Cross</name>
<email>ccross@android.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-20T01:03:43+00:00</published>
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vfp_pm_suspend runs on each cpu, only clear the hardware state
pointer for the current cpu.  Prevents a possible crash if one
cpu clears the hw state pointer when another cpu has already
checked if it is valid.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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vfp_pm_suspend runs on each cpu, only clear the hardware state
pointer for the current cpu.  Prevents a possible crash if one
cpu clears the hw state pointer when another cpu has already
checked if it is valid.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: remove direct definitions of KERN_&lt;LEVEL&gt; uses</title>
<updated>2012-07-31T00:25:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-30T21:40:12+00:00</published>
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Add #include &lt;linux/kern_levels.h&gt; so that the #define KERN_&lt;LEVEL&gt; macros
don't have to be duplicated.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay@vrfy.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add #include &lt;linux/kern_levels.h&gt; so that the #define KERN_&lt;LEVEL&gt; macros
don't have to be duplicated.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay@vrfy.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'misc' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2012-05-21T14:15:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-21T14:15:24+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
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Conflicts:
	arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7419/1: vfp: fix VFP flushing regression on sigreturn path</title>
<updated>2012-05-17T13:48:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-15T14:51:54+00:00</published>
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Commit ff9a184c ("ARM: 7400/1: vfp: clear fpscr length and stride bits
on entry to sig handler") flushes the VFP state prior to entering a
signal handler so that a VFP operation inside the handler will trap and
force a restore of ABI-compliant registers. Reflushing and disabling VFP
on the sigreturn path is predicated on the saved thread state indicating
that VFP was used by the handler -- however for SMP platforms this is
only set on context-switch, making the check unreliable and causing VFP
register corruption in userspace since the register values are not
necessarily those restored from the sigframe.

This patch unconditionally flushes the VFP state after a signal handler.
Since we already perform the flush before the handler and the flushing
itself happens lazily, the redundant flush when VFP is not used by the
handler is essentially a nop.

Reported-by: Jon Medhurst &lt;tixy@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst &lt;tixy@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Commit ff9a184c ("ARM: 7400/1: vfp: clear fpscr length and stride bits
on entry to sig handler") flushes the VFP state prior to entering a
signal handler so that a VFP operation inside the handler will trap and
force a restore of ABI-compliant registers. Reflushing and disabling VFP
on the sigreturn path is predicated on the saved thread state indicating
that VFP was used by the handler -- however for SMP platforms this is
only set on context-switch, making the check unreliable and causing VFP
register corruption in userspace since the register values are not
necessarily those restored from the sigframe.

This patch unconditionally flushes the VFP state after a signal handler.
Since we already perform the flush before the handler and the flushing
itself happens lazily, the redundant flush when VFP is not used by the
handler is essentially a nop.

Reported-by: Jon Medhurst &lt;tixy@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst &lt;tixy@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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