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<title>arm64/kernel: fix incorrect EL0 check in inv_entry macro</title>
<updated>2019-04-03T04:23:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-18T09:58:09+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b660950c60a7278f9d8deb7c32a162031207c758 ]

The implementation of macro inv_entry refers to its 'el' argument without
the required leading backslash, which results in an undefined symbol
'el' to be passed into the kernel_entry macro rather than the index of
the exception level as intended.

This undefined symbol strangely enough does not result in build failures,
although it is visible in vmlinux:

     $ nm -n vmlinux |head
                      U el
     0000000000000000 A _kernel_flags_le_hi32
     0000000000000000 A _kernel_offset_le_hi32
     0000000000000000 A _kernel_size_le_hi32
     000000000000000a A _kernel_flags_le_lo32
     .....

However, it does result in incorrect code being generated for invalid
exceptions taken from EL0, since the argument check in kernel_entry
assumes EL1 if its argument does not equal '0'.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b660950c60a7278f9d8deb7c32a162031207c758 ]

The implementation of macro inv_entry refers to its 'el' argument without
the required leading backslash, which results in an undefined symbol
'el' to be passed into the kernel_entry macro rather than the index of
the exception level as intended.

This undefined symbol strangely enough does not result in build failures,
although it is visible in vmlinux:

     $ nm -n vmlinux |head
                      U el
     0000000000000000 A _kernel_flags_le_hi32
     0000000000000000 A _kernel_offset_le_hi32
     0000000000000000 A _kernel_size_le_hi32
     000000000000000a A _kernel_flags_le_lo32
     .....

However, it does result in incorrect code being generated for invalid
exceptions taken from EL0, since the argument check in kernel_entry
assumes EL1 if its argument does not equal '0'.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Add trace_hardirqs_off annotation in ret_to_user</title>
<updated>2018-09-29T10:08:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-04T12:42:29+00:00</published>
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commit db3899a6477a4dccd26cbfb7f408b6be2cc068e0 upstream.

When a kernel is built with CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS the following warning
is produced when entering userspace for the first time:

  WARNING: at /work/Linux/linux-2.6-aarch64/kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3519
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.4.0-rc3+ #639
  Hardware name: Juno (DT)
  task: ffffffc9768a0000 ti: ffffffc9768a8000 task.ti: ffffffc9768a8000
  PC is at check_flags.part.22+0x19c/0x1a8
  LR is at check_flags.part.22+0x19c/0x1a8
  pc : [&lt;ffffffc0000fba6c&gt;] lr : [&lt;ffffffc0000fba6c&gt;] pstate: 600001c5
  sp : ffffffc9768abe10
  x29: ffffffc9768abe10 x28: ffffffc9768a8000
  x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000001
  x25: 00000000000000a6 x24: ffffffc00064be6c
  x23: ffffffc0009f249e x22: ffffffc9768a0000
  x21: ffffffc97fea5480 x20: 00000000000001c0
  x19: ffffffc00169a000 x18: 0000005558cc7b58
  x17: 0000007fb78e3180 x16: 0000005558d2e238
  x15: ffffffffffffffff x14: 0ffffffffffffffd
  x13: 0000000000000008 x12: 0101010101010101
  x11: 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f x10: fefefefefefeff63
  x9 : 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f x8 : 6e655f7371726964
  x7 : 0000000000000001 x6 : ffffffc0001079c4
  x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001
  x3 : ffffffc001698438 x2 : 0000000000000000
  x1 : ffffffc9768a0000 x0 : 000000000000002e
  Call trace:
  [&lt;ffffffc0000fba6c&gt;] check_flags.part.22+0x19c/0x1a8
  [&lt;ffffffc0000fc440&gt;] lock_is_held+0x80/0x98
  [&lt;ffffffc00064bafc&gt;] __schedule+0x404/0x730
  [&lt;ffffffc00064be6c&gt;] schedule+0x44/0xb8
  [&lt;ffffffc000085bb0&gt;] ret_to_user+0x0/0x24
  possible reason: unannotated irqs-off.
  irq event stamp: 502169
  hardirqs last  enabled at (502169): [&lt;ffffffc000085a98&gt;] el0_irq_naked+0x1c/0x24
  hardirqs last disabled at (502167): [&lt;ffffffc0000bb3bc&gt;] __do_softirq+0x17c/0x298
  softirqs last  enabled at (502168): [&lt;ffffffc0000bb43c&gt;] __do_softirq+0x1fc/0x298
  softirqs last disabled at (502143): [&lt;ffffffc0000bb830&gt;] irq_exit+0xa0/0xf0

This happens because we disable interrupts in ret_to_user before calling
schedule() in work_resched. This patch adds the necessary
trace_hardirqs_off annotation.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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commit db3899a6477a4dccd26cbfb7f408b6be2cc068e0 upstream.

When a kernel is built with CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS the following warning
is produced when entering userspace for the first time:

  WARNING: at /work/Linux/linux-2.6-aarch64/kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3519
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.4.0-rc3+ #639
  Hardware name: Juno (DT)
  task: ffffffc9768a0000 ti: ffffffc9768a8000 task.ti: ffffffc9768a8000
  PC is at check_flags.part.22+0x19c/0x1a8
  LR is at check_flags.part.22+0x19c/0x1a8
  pc : [&lt;ffffffc0000fba6c&gt;] lr : [&lt;ffffffc0000fba6c&gt;] pstate: 600001c5
  sp : ffffffc9768abe10
  x29: ffffffc9768abe10 x28: ffffffc9768a8000
  x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000001
  x25: 00000000000000a6 x24: ffffffc00064be6c
  x23: ffffffc0009f249e x22: ffffffc9768a0000
  x21: ffffffc97fea5480 x20: 00000000000001c0
  x19: ffffffc00169a000 x18: 0000005558cc7b58
  x17: 0000007fb78e3180 x16: 0000005558d2e238
  x15: ffffffffffffffff x14: 0ffffffffffffffd
  x13: 0000000000000008 x12: 0101010101010101
  x11: 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f x10: fefefefefefeff63
  x9 : 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f x8 : 6e655f7371726964
  x7 : 0000000000000001 x6 : ffffffc0001079c4
  x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001
  x3 : ffffffc001698438 x2 : 0000000000000000
  x1 : ffffffc9768a0000 x0 : 000000000000002e
  Call trace:
  [&lt;ffffffc0000fba6c&gt;] check_flags.part.22+0x19c/0x1a8
  [&lt;ffffffc0000fc440&gt;] lock_is_held+0x80/0x98
  [&lt;ffffffc00064bafc&gt;] __schedule+0x404/0x730
  [&lt;ffffffc00064be6c&gt;] schedule+0x44/0xb8
  [&lt;ffffffc000085bb0&gt;] ret_to_user+0x0/0x24
  possible reason: unannotated irqs-off.
  irq event stamp: 502169
  hardirqs last  enabled at (502169): [&lt;ffffffc000085a98&gt;] el0_irq_naked+0x1c/0x24
  hardirqs last disabled at (502167): [&lt;ffffffc0000bb3bc&gt;] __do_softirq+0x17c/0x298
  softirqs last  enabled at (502168): [&lt;ffffffc0000bb43c&gt;] __do_softirq+0x1fc/0x298
  softirqs last disabled at (502143): [&lt;ffffffc0000bb830&gt;] irq_exit+0xa0/0xf0

This happens because we disable interrupts in ret_to_user before calling
schedule() in work_resched. This patch adds the necessary
trace_hardirqs_off annotation.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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<entry>
<title>arm64: entry: improve data abort handling of tagged pointers</title>
<updated>2017-06-14T11:16:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kristina Martsenko</name>
<email>kristina.martsenko@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T15:37:47+00:00</published>
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commit 276e93279a630657fff4b086ba14c95955912dfa upstream.

This backport has a minor difference from the upstream commit: it adds
the asm-uaccess.h file, which is not present in 4.4, because 4.4 does
not have commit b4b8664d291a ("arm64: don't pull uaccess.h into *.S").

Original patch description:

When handling a data abort from EL0, we currently zero the top byte of
the faulting address, as we assume the address is a TTBR0 address, which
may contain a non-zero address tag. However, the address may be a TTBR1
address, in which case we should not zero the top byte. This patch fixes
that. The effect is that the full TTBR1 address is passed to the task's
signal handler (or printed out in the kernel log).

When handling a data abort from EL1, we leave the faulting address
intact, as we assume it's either a TTBR1 address or a TTBR0 address with
tag 0x00. This is true as far as I'm aware, we don't seem to access a
tagged TTBR0 address anywhere in the kernel. Regardless, it's easy to
forget about address tags, and code added in the future may not always
remember to remove tags from addresses before accessing them. So add tag
handling to the EL1 data abort handler as well. This also makes it
consistent with the EL0 data abort handler.

Fixes: d50240a5f6ce ("arm64: mm: permit use of tagged pointers at EL0")
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martsenko &lt;kristina.martsenko@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 276e93279a630657fff4b086ba14c95955912dfa upstream.

This backport has a minor difference from the upstream commit: it adds
the asm-uaccess.h file, which is not present in 4.4, because 4.4 does
not have commit b4b8664d291a ("arm64: don't pull uaccess.h into *.S").

Original patch description:

When handling a data abort from EL0, we currently zero the top byte of
the faulting address, as we assume the address is a TTBR0 address, which
may contain a non-zero address tag. However, the address may be a TTBR1
address, in which case we should not zero the top byte. This patch fixes
that. The effect is that the full TTBR1 address is passed to the task's
signal handler (or printed out in the kernel log).

When handling a data abort from EL1, we leave the faulting address
intact, as we assume it's either a TTBR1 address or a TTBR0 address with
tag 0x00. This is true as far as I'm aware, we don't seem to access a
tagged TTBR0 address anywhere in the kernel. Regardless, it's easy to
forget about address tags, and code added in the future may not always
remember to remove tags from addresses before accessing them. So add tag
handling to the EL1 data abort handler as well. This also makes it
consistent with the EL0 data abort handler.

Fixes: d50240a5f6ce ("arm64: mm: permit use of tagged pointers at EL0")
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martsenko &lt;kristina.martsenko@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: avoid returning from bad_mode</title>
<updated>2017-01-26T07:23:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-18T17:23:41+00:00</published>
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commit 7d9e8f71b989230bc613d121ca38507d34ada849 upstream.

Generally, taking an unexpected exception should be a fatal event, and
bad_mode is intended to cater for this. However, it should be possible
to contain unexpected synchronous exceptions from EL0 without bringing
the kernel down, by sending a SIGILL to the task.

We tried to apply this approach in commit 9955ac47f4ba1c95 ("arm64:
don't kill the kernel on a bad esr from el0"), by sending a signal for
any bad_mode call resulting from an EL0 exception.

However, this also applies to other unexpected exceptions, such as
SError and FIQ. The entry paths for these exceptions branch to bad_mode
without configuring the link register, and have no kernel_exit. Thus, if
we take one of these exceptions from EL0, bad_mode will eventually
return to the original user link register value.

This patch fixes this by introducing a new bad_el0_sync handler to cater
for the recoverable case, and restoring bad_mode to its original state,
whereby it calls panic() and never returns. The recoverable case
branches to bad_el0_sync with a bl, and returns to userspace via the
usual ret_to_user mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 9955ac47f4ba1c95 ("arm64: don't kill the kernel on a bad esr from el0")
Reported-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 7d9e8f71b989230bc613d121ca38507d34ada849 upstream.

Generally, taking an unexpected exception should be a fatal event, and
bad_mode is intended to cater for this. However, it should be possible
to contain unexpected synchronous exceptions from EL0 without bringing
the kernel down, by sending a SIGILL to the task.

We tried to apply this approach in commit 9955ac47f4ba1c95 ("arm64:
don't kill the kernel on a bad esr from el0"), by sending a signal for
any bad_mode call resulting from an EL0 exception.

However, this also applies to other unexpected exceptions, such as
SError and FIQ. The entry paths for these exceptions branch to bad_mode
without configuring the link register, and have no kernel_exit. Thus, if
we take one of these exceptions from EL0, bad_mode will eventually
return to the original user link register value.

This patch fixes this by introducing a new bad_el0_sync handler to cater
for the recoverable case, and restoring bad_mode to its original state,
whereby it calls panic() and never returns. The recoverable case
branches to bad_el0_sync with a bl, and returns to userspace via the
usual ret_to_user mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 9955ac47f4ba1c95 ("arm64: don't kill the kernel on a bad esr from el0")
Reported-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>arm64: kernel: Save and restore UAO and addr_limit on exception entry</title>
<updated>2016-08-20T16:09:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-20T17:28:01+00:00</published>
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commit e19a6ee2460bdd0d0055a6029383422773f9999a upstream.

If we take an exception while at EL1, the exception handler inherits
the original context's addr_limit and PSTATE.UAO values. To be consistent
always reset addr_limit and PSTATE.UAO on (re-)entry to EL1. This
prevents accidental re-use of the original context's addr_limit.

Based on a similar patch for arm from Russell King.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.6-
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
[ backport to stop perf misusing inherited addr_limit.
  Removed code interacting with UAO and the irqstack ]
Link: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=822
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit e19a6ee2460bdd0d0055a6029383422773f9999a upstream.

If we take an exception while at EL1, the exception handler inherits
the original context's addr_limit and PSTATE.UAO values. To be consistent
always reset addr_limit and PSTATE.UAO on (re-)entry to EL1. This
prevents accidental re-use of the original context's addr_limit.

Based on a similar patch for arm from Russell King.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.6-
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
[ backport to stop perf misusing inherited addr_limit.
  Removed code interacting with UAO and the irqstack ]
Link: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=822
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: AArch32 user space PC alignment exception</title>
<updated>2015-10-16T13:55:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Salyzyn</name>
<email>salyzyn@android.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-13T21:30:51+00:00</published>
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ARMv7 does not have a PC alignment exception. ARMv8 AArch32
user space however can produce a PC alignment exception. Add
handler so that we do not dump an unexpected stack trace in
the logs.

Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn &lt;salyzyn@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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ARMv7 does not have a PC alignment exception. ARMv8 AArch32
user space however can produce a PC alignment exception. Add
handler so that we do not dump an unexpected stack trace in
the logs.

Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn &lt;salyzyn@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: entry: always restore x0 from the stack on syscall return</title>
<updated>2015-08-21T14:11:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-19T14:57:09+00:00</published>
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We have a micro-optimisation on the fast syscall return path where we
take care to keep x0 live with the return value from the syscall so that
we can avoid restoring it from the stack. The benefit of doing this is
fairly suspect, since we will be restoring x1 from the stack anyway
(which lives adjacent in the pt_regs structure) and the only additional
cost is saving x0 back to pt_regs after the syscall handler, which could
be seen as a poor man's prefetch.

More importantly, this causes issues with the context tracking code.

The ct_user_enter macro ends up branching into C code, which is free to
use x0 as a scratch register and consequently leads to us returning junk
back to userspace as the syscall return value. Rather than special case
the context-tracking code, this patch removes the questionable
optimisation entirely.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Larry Bassel &lt;larry.bassel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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We have a micro-optimisation on the fast syscall return path where we
take care to keep x0 live with the return value from the syscall so that
we can avoid restoring it from the stack. The benefit of doing this is
fairly suspect, since we will be restoring x1 from the stack anyway
(which lives adjacent in the pt_regs structure) and the only additional
cost is saving x0 back to pt_regs after the syscall handler, which could
be seen as a poor man's prefetch.

More importantly, this causes issues with the context tracking code.

The ct_user_enter macro ends up branching into C code, which is free to
use x0 as a scratch register and consequently leads to us returning junk
back to userspace as the syscall return value. Rather than special case
the context-tracking code, this patch removes the questionable
optimisation entirely.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Larry Bassel &lt;larry.bassel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: kernel: Adopt new alternative assembler macros</title>
<updated>2015-07-27T10:08:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Thompson</name>
<email>daniel.thompson@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-22T11:21:03+00:00</published>
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Convert the dynamic patching for ARM64_WORKAROUND_845719 over to
the newly added alternative assembler macros.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Convert the dynamic patching for ARM64_WORKAROUND_845719 over to
the newly added alternative assembler macros.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: switch_to: calculate cpu context pointer using separate register</title>
<updated>2015-07-22T09:56:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-20T14:14:53+00:00</published>
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Commit 0c8c0f03e3a2 ("x86/fpu, sched: Dynamically allocate 'struct fpu'")
moved the thread_struct to the bottom of task_struct. As a result, the
offset is now too large to be used in an immediate add on arm64 with
some kernel configs:

arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S: Assembler messages:
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:588: Error: immediate out of range
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:597: Error: immediate out of range

This patch calculates the offset using an additional register instead of
an immediate offset.

Fixes: 0c8c0f03e3a2 ("x86/fpu, sched: Dynamically allocate 'struct fpu'")
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Commit 0c8c0f03e3a2 ("x86/fpu, sched: Dynamically allocate 'struct fpu'")
moved the thread_struct to the bottom of task_struct. As a result, the
offset is now too large to be used in an immediate add on arm64 with
some kernel configs:

arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S: Assembler messages:
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:588: Error: immediate out of range
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:597: Error: immediate out of range

This patch calculates the offset using an additional register instead of
an immediate offset.

Fixes: 0c8c0f03e3a2 ("x86/fpu, sched: Dynamically allocate 'struct fpu'")
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: entry: handle debug exceptions in el*_inv</title>
<updated>2015-07-08T17:03:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-07T17:00:49+00:00</published>
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Currently we enable debug exceptions before reading ESR_EL1 in both
el0_inv and el1_inv. If a debug exception is taken before we read
ESR_EL1, the value will have been corrupted.

As el*_inv is typically fatal, an intervening debug exception results in
misleading debug information being logged to the console, but is not
otherwise harmful.

As with the other entry paths, we can use the ESR_EL1 value stashed
earlier in the exception entry (in x25 for el0_sync{,_compat}, and x1
for el1_sync), giving us better error reporting in this case.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Currently we enable debug exceptions before reading ESR_EL1 in both
el0_inv and el1_inv. If a debug exception is taken before we read
ESR_EL1, the value will have been corrupted.

As el*_inv is typically fatal, an intervening debug exception results in
misleading debug information being logged to the console, but is not
otherwise harmful.

As with the other entry paths, we can use the ESR_EL1 value stashed
earlier in the exception entry (in x25 for el0_sync{,_compat}, and x1
for el1_sync), giving us better error reporting in this case.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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