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<title>arm64: include alternative handling in dcache_by_line_op</title>
<updated>2016-07-01T10:28:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andre Przywara</name>
<email>andre.przywara@arm.com</email>
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<published>2016-06-28T17:07:29+00:00</published>
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The newly introduced dcache_by_line_op macro is used at least in
one occassion at the moment to issue a "dc cvau" instruction,
which is affected by ARM errata 819472, 826319, 827319 and 824069.
Change the macro to allow for alternative patching in there to
protect affected Cortex-A53 cores.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: indentation fixups]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The newly introduced dcache_by_line_op macro is used at least in
one occassion at the moment to issue a "dc cvau" instruction,
which is affected by ARM errata 819472, 826319, 827319 and 824069.
Change the macro to allow for alternative patching in there to
protect affected Cortex-A53 cores.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: indentation fixups]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Add new asm macro copy_page</title>
<updated>2016-04-28T11:05:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geoff Levand</name>
<email>geoff@infradead.org</email>
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<published>2016-04-27T16:47:10+00:00</published>
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Kexec and hibernate need to copy pages of memory, but may not have all
of the kernel mapped, and are unable to call copy_page().

Add a simplistic copy_page() macro, that can be inlined in these
situations. lib/copy_page.S provides a bigger better version, but
uses more registers.

Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
[Changed asm label to 9998, added commit message]
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Kexec and hibernate need to copy pages of memory, but may not have all
of the kernel mapped, and are unable to call copy_page().

Add a simplistic copy_page() macro, that can be inlined in these
situations. lib/copy_page.S provides a bigger better version, but
uses more registers.

Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
[Changed asm label to 9998, added commit message]
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Fold proc-macros.S into assembler.h</title>
<updated>2016-04-28T11:05:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geoff Levand</name>
<email>geoff@infradead.org</email>
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<published>2016-04-27T16:47:00+00:00</published>
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To allow the assembler macros defined in arch/arm64/mm/proc-macros.S to
be used outside the mm code move the contents of proc-macros.S to
asm/assembler.h.  Also, delete proc-macros.S, and fix up all references
to proc-macros.S.

Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
[rebased, included dcache_by_line_op]
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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To allow the assembler macros defined in arch/arm64/mm/proc-macros.S to
be used outside the mm code move the contents of proc-macros.S to
asm/assembler.h.  Also, delete proc-macros.S, and fix up all references
to proc-macros.S.

Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
[rebased, included dcache_by_line_op]
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: introduce mov_q macro to move a constant into a 64-bit register</title>
<updated>2016-04-26T11:22:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-18T15:09:44+00:00</published>
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Implement a macro mov_q that can be used to move an immediate constant
into a 64-bit register, using between 2 and 4 movz/movk instructions
(depending on the operand)

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Implement a macro mov_q that can be used to move an immediate constant
into a 64-bit register, using between 2 and 4 movz/movk instructions
(depending on the operand)

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: asm: remove unused push/pop macros</title>
<updated>2016-04-20T11:19:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-19T09:31:19+00:00</published>
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We haven't used the push/pop macros for a while now, as it's typically
better to use immediate offsets for batches of accesses to the stack, as
we now do in the entry assembly for the kernel and hyp code.

Remove the unused macros.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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We haven't used the push/pop macros for a while now, as it's typically
better to use immediate offsets for batches of accesses to the stack, as
we now do in the entry assembly for the kernel and hyp code.

Remove the unused macros.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: switch to relative exception tables</title>
<updated>2016-02-24T14:57:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-01T14:02:12+00:00</published>
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Instead of using absolute addresses for both the exception location
and the fixup, use offsets relative to the exception table entry values.
Not only does this cut the size of the exception table in half, it is
also a prerequisite for KASLR, since absolute exception table entries
are subject to dynamic relocation, which is incompatible with the sorting
of the exception table that occurs at build time.

This patch also introduces the _ASM_EXTABLE preprocessor macro (which
exists on x86 as well) and its _asm_extable assembly counterpart, as
shorthands to emit exception table entries.

Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Instead of using absolute addresses for both the exception location
and the fixup, use offsets relative to the exception table entry values.
Not only does this cut the size of the exception table in half, it is
also a prerequisite for KASLR, since absolute exception table entries
are subject to dynamic relocation, which is incompatible with the sorting
of the exception table that occurs at build time.

This patch also introduces the _ASM_EXTABLE preprocessor macro (which
exists on x86 as well) and its _asm_extable assembly counterpart, as
shorthands to emit exception table entries.

Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: avoid R_AARCH64_ABS64 relocations for Image header fields</title>
<updated>2016-02-24T14:57:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-26T12:48:02+00:00</published>
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Unfortunately, the current way of using the linker to emit build time
constants into the Image header will no longer work once we switch to
the use of PIE executables. The reason is that such constants are emitted
into the binary using R_AARCH64_ABS64 relocations, which are resolved at
runtime, not at build time, and the places targeted by those relocations
will contain zeroes before that.

So refactor the endian swapping linker script constant generation code so
that it emits the upper and lower 32-bit words separately.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Unfortunately, the current way of using the linker to emit build time
constants into the Image header will no longer work once we switch to
the use of PIE executables. The reason is that such constants are emitted
into the binary using R_AARCH64_ABS64 relocations, which are resolved at
runtime, not at build time, and the places targeted by those relocations
will contain zeroes before that.

So refactor the endian swapping linker script constant generation code so
that it emits the upper and lower 32-bit words separately.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Add this_cpu_ptr() assembler macro for use in entry.S</title>
<updated>2015-12-10T12:08:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-10T10:22:39+00:00</published>
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irq_stack is a per_cpu variable, that needs to be access from entry.S.
Use an assembler macro instead of the unreadable details.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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irq_stack is a per_cpu variable, that needs to be access from entry.S.
Use an assembler macro instead of the unreadable details.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: use ENDPIPROC() to annotate position independent assembler routines</title>
<updated>2015-10-12T15:19:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-08T19:02:03+00:00</published>
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For more control over which functions are called with the MMU off or
with the UEFI 1:1 mapping active, annotate some assembler routines as
position independent. This is done by introducing ENDPIPROC(), which
replaces the ENDPROC() declaration of those routines.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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For more control over which functions are called with the MMU off or
with the UEFI 1:1 mapping active, annotate some assembler routines as
position independent. This is done by introducing ENDPIPROC(), which
replaces the ENDPROC() declaration of those routines.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: force CONFIG_SMP=y and remove redundant #ifdefs</title>
<updated>2015-07-27T10:08:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-29T17:28:44+00:00</published>
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Nobody seems to be producing !SMP systems anymore, so this is just
becoming a source of kernel bugs, particularly if people want to use
coherent DMA with non-shared pages.

This patch forces CONFIG_SMP=y for arm64, removing a modest amount of
code in the process.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Nobody seems to be producing !SMP systems anymore, so this is just
becoming a source of kernel bugs, particularly if people want to use
coherent DMA with non-shared pages.

This patch forces CONFIG_SMP=y for arm64, removing a modest amount of
code in the process.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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