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<entry>
<title>MIPS: lib: Provide MIPS64r6 __multi3() for GCC &lt; 7</title>
<updated>2018-09-05T07:18:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-21T19:12:59+00:00</published>
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commit 690d9163bf4b8563a2682e619f938e6a0443947f upstream.

Some versions of GCC suboptimally generate calls to the __multi3()
intrinsic for MIPS64r6 builds, resulting in link failures due to the
missing function:

    LD      vmlinux.o
    MODPOST vmlinux.o
  kernel/bpf/verifier.o: In function `kmalloc_array':
  include/linux/slab.h:631: undefined reference to `__multi3'
  fs/select.o: In function `kmalloc_array':
  include/linux/slab.h:631: undefined reference to `__multi3'
  ...

We already have a workaround for this in which we provide the
instrinsic, but we do so selectively for GCC 7 only. Unfortunately the
issue occurs with older GCC versions too - it has been observed with
both GCC 5.4.0 &amp; GCC 6.4.0.

MIPSr6 support was introduced in GCC 5, so all major GCC versions prior
to GCC 8 are affected and we extend our workaround accordingly to all
MIPS64r6 builds using GCC versions older than GCC 8.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Reported-by: Vladimir Kondratiev &lt;vladimir.kondratiev@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: ebabcf17bcd7 ("MIPS: Implement __multi3 for GCC7 MIPS64r6 builds")
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20297/
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.15+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 690d9163bf4b8563a2682e619f938e6a0443947f upstream.

Some versions of GCC suboptimally generate calls to the __multi3()
intrinsic for MIPS64r6 builds, resulting in link failures due to the
missing function:

    LD      vmlinux.o
    MODPOST vmlinux.o
  kernel/bpf/verifier.o: In function `kmalloc_array':
  include/linux/slab.h:631: undefined reference to `__multi3'
  fs/select.o: In function `kmalloc_array':
  include/linux/slab.h:631: undefined reference to `__multi3'
  ...

We already have a workaround for this in which we provide the
instrinsic, but we do so selectively for GCC 7 only. Unfortunately the
issue occurs with older GCC versions too - it has been observed with
both GCC 5.4.0 &amp; GCC 6.4.0.

MIPSr6 support was introduced in GCC 5, so all major GCC versions prior
to GCC 8 are affected and we extend our workaround accordingly to all
MIPS64r6 builds using GCC versions older than GCC 8.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Reported-by: Vladimir Kondratiev &lt;vladimir.kondratiev@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: ebabcf17bcd7 ("MIPS: Implement __multi3 for GCC7 MIPS64r6 builds")
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20297/
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.15+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: memset.S: Fix clobber of v1 in last_fixup</title>
<updated>2018-04-24T07:32:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Redfearn</name>
<email>matt.redfearn@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-17T15:40:00+00:00</published>
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commit c96eebf07692e53bf4dd5987510d8b550e793598 upstream.

The label .Llast_fixup\@ is jumped to on page fault within the final
byte set loop of memset (on &lt; MIPSR6 architectures). For some reason, in
this fault handler, the v1 register is randomly set to a2 &amp; STORMASK.
This clobbers v1 for the calling function. This can be observed with the
following test code:

static int __init __attribute__((optimize("O0"))) test_clear_user(void)
{
  register int t asm("v1");
  char *test;
  int j, k;

  pr_info("\n\n\nTesting clear_user\n");
  test = vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE);

  for (j = 256; j &lt; 512; j++) {
    t = 0xa5a5a5a5;
    if ((k = clear_user(test + PAGE_SIZE - 256, j)) != j - 256) {
        pr_err("clear_user (%px %d) returned %d\n", test + PAGE_SIZE - 256, j, k);
    }
    if (t != 0xa5a5a5a5) {
       pr_err("v1 was clobbered to 0x%x!\n", t);
    }
  }

  return 0;
}
late_initcall(test_clear_user);

Which demonstrates that v1 is indeed clobbered (MIPS64):

Testing clear_user
v1 was clobbered to 0x1!
v1 was clobbered to 0x2!
v1 was clobbered to 0x3!
v1 was clobbered to 0x4!
v1 was clobbered to 0x5!
v1 was clobbered to 0x6!
v1 was clobbered to 0x7!

Since the number of bytes that could not be set is already contained in
a2, the andi placing a value in v1 is not necessary and actively
harmful in clobbering v1.

Reported-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19109/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c96eebf07692e53bf4dd5987510d8b550e793598 upstream.

The label .Llast_fixup\@ is jumped to on page fault within the final
byte set loop of memset (on &lt; MIPSR6 architectures). For some reason, in
this fault handler, the v1 register is randomly set to a2 &amp; STORMASK.
This clobbers v1 for the calling function. This can be observed with the
following test code:

static int __init __attribute__((optimize("O0"))) test_clear_user(void)
{
  register int t asm("v1");
  char *test;
  int j, k;

  pr_info("\n\n\nTesting clear_user\n");
  test = vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE);

  for (j = 256; j &lt; 512; j++) {
    t = 0xa5a5a5a5;
    if ((k = clear_user(test + PAGE_SIZE - 256, j)) != j - 256) {
        pr_err("clear_user (%px %d) returned %d\n", test + PAGE_SIZE - 256, j, k);
    }
    if (t != 0xa5a5a5a5) {
       pr_err("v1 was clobbered to 0x%x!\n", t);
    }
  }

  return 0;
}
late_initcall(test_clear_user);

Which demonstrates that v1 is indeed clobbered (MIPS64):

Testing clear_user
v1 was clobbered to 0x1!
v1 was clobbered to 0x2!
v1 was clobbered to 0x3!
v1 was clobbered to 0x4!
v1 was clobbered to 0x5!
v1 was clobbered to 0x6!
v1 was clobbered to 0x7!

Since the number of bytes that could not be set is already contained in
a2, the andi placing a value in v1 is not necessary and actively
harmful in clobbering v1.

Reported-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19109/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: memset.S: Fix return of __clear_user from Lpartial_fixup</title>
<updated>2018-04-24T07:32:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Redfearn</name>
<email>matt.redfearn@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-17T14:52:21+00:00</published>
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commit daf70d89f80c6e1772233da9e020114b1254e7e0 upstream.

The __clear_user function is defined to return the number of bytes that
could not be cleared. From the underlying memset / bzero implementation
this means setting register a2 to that number on return. Currently if a
page fault is triggered within the memset_partial block, the value
loaded into a2 on return is meaningless.

The label .Lpartial_fixup\@ is jumped to on page fault. In order to work
out how many bytes failed to copy, the exception handler should find how
many bytes left in the partial block (andi a2, STORMASK), add that to
the partial block end address (a2), and subtract the faulting address to
get the remainder. Currently it incorrectly subtracts the partial block
start address (t1), which has additionally been clobbered to generate a
jump target in memset_partial. Fix this by adding the block end address
instead.

This issue was found with the following test code:
      int j, k;
      for (j = 0; j &lt; 512; j++) {
        if ((k = clear_user(NULL, j)) != j) {
           pr_err("clear_user (NULL %d) returned %d\n", j, k);
        }
      }
Which now passes on Creator Ci40 (MIPS32) and Cavium Octeon II (MIPS64).

Suggested-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19108/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit daf70d89f80c6e1772233da9e020114b1254e7e0 upstream.

The __clear_user function is defined to return the number of bytes that
could not be cleared. From the underlying memset / bzero implementation
this means setting register a2 to that number on return. Currently if a
page fault is triggered within the memset_partial block, the value
loaded into a2 on return is meaningless.

The label .Lpartial_fixup\@ is jumped to on page fault. In order to work
out how many bytes failed to copy, the exception handler should find how
many bytes left in the partial block (andi a2, STORMASK), add that to
the partial block end address (a2), and subtract the faulting address to
get the remainder. Currently it incorrectly subtracts the partial block
start address (t1), which has additionally been clobbered to generate a
jump target in memset_partial. Fix this by adding the block end address
instead.

This issue was found with the following test code:
      int j, k;
      for (j = 0; j &lt; 512; j++) {
        if ((k = clear_user(NULL, j)) != j) {
           pr_err("clear_user (NULL %d) returned %d\n", j, k);
        }
      }
Which now passes on Creator Ci40 (MIPS32) and Cavium Octeon II (MIPS64).

Suggested-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/19108/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: memset.S: EVA &amp; fault support for small_memset</title>
<updated>2018-04-24T07:32:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Redfearn</name>
<email>matt.redfearn@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-29T09:28:23+00:00</published>
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commit 8a8158c85e1e774a44fbe81106fa41138580dfd1 upstream.

The MIPS kernel memset / bzero implementation includes a small_memset
branch which is used when the region to be set is smaller than a long (4
bytes on 32bit, 8 bytes on 64bit). The current small_memset
implementation uses a simple store byte loop to write the destination.
There are 2 issues with this implementation:

1. When EVA mode is active, user and kernel address spaces may overlap.
Currently the use of the sb instruction means kernel mode addressing is
always used and an intended write to userspace may actually overwrite
some critical kernel data.

2. If the write triggers a page fault, for example by calling
__clear_user(NULL, 2), instead of gracefully handling the fault, an OOPS
is triggered.

Fix these issues by replacing the sb instruction with the EX() macro,
which will emit EVA compatible instuctions as required. Additionally
implement a fault fixup for small_memset which sets a2 to the number of
bytes that could not be cleared (as defined by __clear_user).

Reported-by: Chuanhua Lei &lt;chuanhua.lei@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18975/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 8a8158c85e1e774a44fbe81106fa41138580dfd1 upstream.

The MIPS kernel memset / bzero implementation includes a small_memset
branch which is used when the region to be set is smaller than a long (4
bytes on 32bit, 8 bytes on 64bit). The current small_memset
implementation uses a simple store byte loop to write the destination.
There are 2 issues with this implementation:

1. When EVA mode is active, user and kernel address spaces may overlap.
Currently the use of the sb instruction means kernel mode addressing is
always used and an intended write to userspace may actually overwrite
some critical kernel data.

2. If the write triggers a page fault, for example by calling
__clear_user(NULL, 2), instead of gracefully handling the fault, an OOPS
is triggered.

Fix these issues by replacing the sb instruction with the EX() macro,
which will emit EVA compatible instuctions as required. Additionally
implement a fault fixup for small_memset which sets a2 to the number of
bytes that could not be cleared (as defined by __clear_user).

Reported-by: Chuanhua Lei &lt;chuanhua.lei@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18975/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Implement __multi3 for GCC7 MIPS64r6 builds</title>
<updated>2018-03-03T09:19:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>jhogan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-07T07:20:46+00:00</published>
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commit ebabcf17bcd7ce968b1631ebe08236275698f39b upstream.

GCC7 is a bit too eager to generate suboptimal __multi3 calls (128bit
multiply with 128bit result) for MIPS64r6 builds, even in code which
doesn't explicitly use 128bit types, such as the following:

unsigned long func(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
{
	return a &gt; (~0UL) / b;
}

Which GCC rearanges to:

return (unsigned __int128)a * (unsigned __int128)b &gt; 0xffffffffffffffff;

Therefore implement __multi3, but only for MIPS64r6 with GCC7 as under
normal circumstances we wouldn't expect any calls to __multi3 to be
generated from kernel code.

Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni &lt;thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Waldemar Brodkorb &lt;wbx@openadk.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Fortune &lt;matthew.fortune@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17890/
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 ebabcf17bcd7ce968b1631ebe08236275698f39b upstream.

GCC7 is a bit too eager to generate suboptimal __multi3 calls (128bit
multiply with 128bit result) for MIPS64r6 builds, even in code which
doesn't explicitly use 128bit types, such as the following:

unsigned long func(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
{
	return a &gt; (~0UL) / b;
}

Which GCC rearanges to:

return (unsigned __int128)a * (unsigned __int128)b &gt; 0xffffffffffffffff;

Therefore implement __multi3, but only for MIPS64r6 with GCC7 as under
normal circumstances we wouldn't expect any calls to __multi3 to be
generated from kernel code.

Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni &lt;thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Waldemar Brodkorb &lt;wbx@openadk.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Fortune &lt;matthew.fortune@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17890/
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>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: lib: Mark intrinsics notrace</title>
<updated>2016-06-08T01:14:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Harvey Hunt</name>
<email>harvey.hunt@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-25T10:06:35+00:00</published>
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commit aedcfbe06558a9f53002e82d5be64c6c94687726 upstream.

On certain MIPS32 devices, the ftrace tracer "function_graph" uses
__lshrdi3() during the capturing of trace data. ftrace then attempts to
trace __lshrdi3() which leads to infinite recursion and a stack overflow.
Fix this by marking __lshrdi3() as notrace. Mark the other compiler
intrinsics as notrace in case the compiler decides to use them in the
ftrace path.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Hunt &lt;harvey.hunt@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-mips@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13354/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit aedcfbe06558a9f53002e82d5be64c6c94687726 upstream.

On certain MIPS32 devices, the ftrace tracer "function_graph" uses
__lshrdi3() during the capturing of trace data. ftrace then attempts to
trace __lshrdi3() which leads to infinite recursion and a stack overflow.
Fix this by marking __lshrdi3() as notrace. Mark the other compiler
intrinsics as notrace in case the compiler decides to use them in the
ftrace path.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Hunt &lt;harvey.hunt@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-mips@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13354/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: uaccess: Take EVA into account in [__]clear_user</title>
<updated>2015-12-22T10:58:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-05T15:41:39+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
__clear_user() (and clear_user() which uses it), always access the user
mode address space, which results in EVA store instructions when EVA is
enabled even if the current user address limit is KERNEL_DS.

Fix this by adding a new symbol __bzero_kernel for the normal kernel
address space bzero in EVA mode, and call that from __clear_user() if
eva_kernel_access().

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin &lt;leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10844/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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__clear_user() (and clear_user() which uses it), always access the user
mode address space, which results in EVA store instructions when EVA is
enabled even if the current user address limit is KERNEL_DS.

Fix this by adding a new symbol __bzero_kernel for the normal kernel
address space bzero in EVA mode, and call that from __clear_user() if
eva_kernel_access().

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Markos Chandras &lt;markos.chandras@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin &lt;leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10844/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: Use ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP.</title>
<updated>2015-10-26T08:49:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-29T10:19:48+00:00</published>
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ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP will use __builtin_bswap16(), __builtin_bswap32()
and __builtin_bswap64() where available.  This allows better instruction
scheduling.  On pre-R2 processors it will result in 32 bit and 64 bit
swapping being performed in a call to a __bswapsi2() rsp. __bswapdi2()
functions, so we add these, too.

For a 4.2 kernel with GCC 4.9 this yields the following kernel sizes:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
3996071  155804   88992 4240867  40b5e3 vmlinux         ip22 baseline
3985687  159900   88992 4234579  409d53 vmlinux         ip22 + bswap patch
6913157  378552  251024 7542733  7317cd vmlinux         ip27 baseline
6878581  378552  251024 7508157  7290bd vmlinux         ip27 + bswap patch
5773777  268752  187424 6229953  5f0fc1 vmlinux         malta baseline
5773401  268752  187424 6229577  5f0e49 vmlinux         malta + bswap patch

Presumably the code size improvments yield better cache hit rate thus
better performance compensating for the extra function call but this
will still need to be benchmarked.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP will use __builtin_bswap16(), __builtin_bswap32()
and __builtin_bswap64() where available.  This allows better instruction
scheduling.  On pre-R2 processors it will result in 32 bit and 64 bit
swapping being performed in a call to a __bswapsi2() rsp. __bswapdi2()
functions, so we add these, too.

For a 4.2 kernel with GCC 4.9 this yields the following kernel sizes:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
3996071  155804   88992 4240867  40b5e3 vmlinux         ip22 baseline
3985687  159900   88992 4234579  409d53 vmlinux         ip22 + bswap patch
6913157  378552  251024 7542733  7317cd vmlinux         ip27 baseline
6878581  378552  251024 7508157  7290bd vmlinux         ip27 + bswap patch
5773777  268752  187424 6229953  5f0fc1 vmlinux         malta baseline
5773401  268752  187424 6229577  5f0e49 vmlinux         malta + bswap patch

Presumably the code size improvments yield better cache hit rate thus
better performance compensating for the extra function call but this
will still need to be benchmarked.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Rearrange ENTRYLO field definitions</title>
<updated>2015-09-03T10:07:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-15T15:17:47+00:00</published>
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The generic field definitions (i.e. present before MIPS32/MIPS64) in
mipsregs.h are conventionally not prefixed with MIPS_, so rename the
recently added MIPS_ENTRYLO_* definitions for the G, V, D, and C fields
to ENTRYLO_*. Also rearrange to put the EntryLo and EntryHi definitions
in the right place in the file.

Fixes: 8ab6abcb6aa4 ("MIPS: mipsregs.h: Add EntryLo bit definitions")
Reported-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10725/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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The generic field definitions (i.e. present before MIPS32/MIPS64) in
mipsregs.h are conventionally not prefixed with MIPS_, so rename the
recently added MIPS_ENTRYLO_* definitions for the G, V, D, and C fields
to ENTRYLO_*. Also rearrange to put the EntryLo and EntryHi definitions
in the right place in the file.

Fixes: 8ab6abcb6aa4 ("MIPS: mipsregs.h: Add EntryLo bit definitions")
Reported-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10725/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: dump_tlb: Dump FrameMask register if exists</title>
<updated>2015-09-03T10:07:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-15T15:17:46+00:00</published>
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The FrameMask register is relevant to the TLB so it should be dumped by
dump_tlb_regs(), however it is only present in certain cores (r10000,
r12000, r14000, r16000). Add dumping of it, conditional upon
current_cpu_type().

Suggested-by: Joshua Kinard &lt;kumba@gentoo.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Joshua Kinard &lt;kumba@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10724/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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The FrameMask register is relevant to the TLB so it should be dumped by
dump_tlb_regs(), however it is only present in certain cores (r10000,
r12000, r14000, r16000). Add dumping of it, conditional upon
current_cpu_type().

Suggested-by: Joshua Kinard &lt;kumba@gentoo.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Joshua Kinard &lt;kumba@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10724/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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