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<title>arm64: let the core code deal with preempt_count</title>
<updated>2013-11-25T16:44:04+00:00</updated>
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<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>Marc.Zyngier@arm.com</email>
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<published>2013-11-12T17:11:53+00:00</published>
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Commit f27dde8deef3 (sched: Add NEED_RESCHED to the preempt_count)
introduced the use of bit 31 in preempt_count for obscure scheduling
purposes.

This causes interrupts taken from EL0 to hit the (open coded) BUG when
this flag is flipped while handling the interrupt (we compare the
values before and after, and kill the kernel if they are different).

The fix is to stop messing with the preempt count entirely, as this
is already being dealt with in the generic code (irq_enter/irq_exit).

Tested on a dual A53 FPGA running cyclictest.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Commit f27dde8deef3 (sched: Add NEED_RESCHED to the preempt_count)
introduced the use of bit 31 in preempt_count for obscure scheduling
purposes.

This causes interrupts taken from EL0 to hit the (open coded) BUG when
this flag is flipped while handling the interrupt (we compare the
values before and after, and kill the kernel if they are different).

The fix is to stop messing with the preempt count entirely, as this
is already being dealt with in the generic code (irq_enter/irq_exit).

Tested on a dual A53 FPGA running cyclictest.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: fix access to preempt_count from assembly code</title>
<updated>2013-11-05T09:33:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>Marc.Zyngier@arm.com</email>
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<published>2013-11-04T20:14:58+00:00</published>
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preempt_count is defined as an int. Oddly enough, we access it
as a 64bit value. Things become interesting when running a BE
kernel, and looking at the current CPU number, which is stored
as an int next to preempt_count. Like in a per-cpu interrupt
handler, for example...

Using a 32bit access fixes the issue for good.

Cc: Matthew Leach &lt;matthew.leach@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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preempt_count is defined as an int. Oddly enough, we access it
as a 64bit value. Things become interesting when running a BE
kernel, and looking at the current CPU number, which is stored
as an int next to preempt_count. Like in a per-cpu interrupt
handler, for example...

Using a 32bit access fixes the issue for good.

Cc: Matthew Leach &lt;matthew.leach@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: mm: permit use of tagged pointers at EL0</title>
<updated>2013-09-03T09:18:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
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<published>2013-06-12T15:28:04+00:00</published>
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TCR.TBI0 can be used to cause hardware address translation to ignore the
top byte of userspace virtual addresses. Whilst not especially useful in
standard C programs, this can be used by JITs to `tag' pointers with
various pieces of metadata.

This patch enables this bit for AArch64 Linux, and adds a new file to
Documentation/arm64/ which describes some potential caveats when using
tagged virtual addresses.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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TCR.TBI0 can be used to cause hardware address translation to ignore the
top byte of userspace virtual addresses. Whilst not especially useful in
standard C programs, this can be used by JITs to `tag' pointers with
various pieces of metadata.

This patch enables this bit for AArch64 Linux, and adds a new file to
Documentation/arm64/ which describes some potential caveats when using
tagged virtual addresses.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: Enable interrupts in the EL0 undef handler</title>
<updated>2013-08-22T10:47:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<published>2013-08-22T10:47:37+00:00</published>
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do_undefinstr() has to be called with interrupts disabled since it may
read the instruction from the user address space which could lead to a
data abort and subsequent might_sleep() warning in do_page_fault().

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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do_undefinstr() has to be called with interrupts disabled since it may
read the instruction from the user address space which could lead to a
data abort and subsequent might_sleep() warning in do_page_fault().

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Change kernel stack size to 16K</title>
<updated>2013-07-26T12:37:29+00:00</updated>
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<name>Feng Kan</name>
<email>fkan@apm.com</email>
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<published>2013-07-23T17:52:31+00:00</published>
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Written by Catalin Marinas, tested by APM on storm platform. This is needed
because of the failures encountered when running SpecWeb benchmark test.

Signed-off-by: Feng Kan &lt;fkan@apm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kumar Sankaran &lt;ksankaran@apm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Written by Catalin Marinas, tested by APM on storm platform. This is needed
because of the failures encountered when running SpecWeb benchmark test.

Signed-off-by: Feng Kan &lt;fkan@apm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kumar Sankaran &lt;ksankaran@apm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: treat unhandled compat el0 traps as undef</title>
<updated>2013-05-31T15:04:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-24T11:02:35+00:00</published>
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Currently, if a compat process reads or writes from/to a disabled
cp15/cp14 register, the trap is not handled by the el0_sync_compat
handler, and the kernel will head to bad_mode, where it will die(), and
oops(). For 64 bit processes, disabled system register accesses are
currently treated as unhandled instructions.

This patch modifies entry.S to treat these unhandled traps as undefined
instructions, sending a SIGILL to userspace. This gives processes a
chance to handle this and stop using inaccessible registers, and
prevents further issues in the kernel as a result of the die().

Reported-by: Johannes Jensen &lt;Johannes.Jensen@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Currently, if a compat process reads or writes from/to a disabled
cp15/cp14 register, the trap is not handled by the el0_sync_compat
handler, and the kernel will head to bad_mode, where it will die(), and
oops(). For 64 bit processes, disabled system register accesses are
currently treated as unhandled instructions.

This patch modifies entry.S to treat these unhandled traps as undefined
instructions, sending a SIGILL to userspace. This gives processes a
chance to handle this and stop using inaccessible registers, and
prevents further issues in the kernel as a result of the die().

Reported-by: Johannes Jensen &lt;Johannes.Jensen@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: add explicit symbols to ESR_EL1 decoding</title>
<updated>2013-04-17T14:58:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>Marc.Zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-08T16:17:03+00:00</published>
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The ESR_EL1 decoding process is a bit cryptic, and KVM has also
a need for the same constants.

Add a new esr.h file containing the appropriate exception classes
constants, and change entry.S to use it. Fix a small bug in the
EL1 breakpoint check while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The ESR_EL1 decoding process is a bit cryptic, and KVM has also
a need for the same constants.

Add a new esr.h file containing the appropriate exception classes
constants, and change entry.S to use it. Fix a small bug in the
EL1 breakpoint check while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: switch to generic sigaltstack</title>
<updated>2013-02-14T14:17:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2012-12-23T06:56:45+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: move vector entry macro to assembler.h</title>
<updated>2012-12-05T11:26:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-19T16:37:35+00:00</published>
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This macro is also useful to other bits defining vectors (hypervisor
stub, KVM...).

Move it to a common location.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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This macro is also useful to other bits defining vectors (hypervisor
stub, KVM...).

Move it to a common location.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: get rid of fork/vfork/clone wrappers</title>
<updated>2012-10-22T22:14:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-18T04:55:54+00:00</published>
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[fixes from Catalin Marinas folded]

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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[fixes from Catalin Marinas folded]

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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