linux.git/arch/arc/include/asm/entry.h, branch v3.10

ARC: Fix the typo in event identifier flags used by ptrace

2013-03-20T13:15:45+00:00

orig_r8_IS_EXCPN and orig_r8_IS_BRKPT were same values due to a
copy/paste error. Although it looks bad and is wrong, it really doesn't
affect gdb working.

orig_r8_IS_BRKPT is the one relevant to debugging (breakpoints), since
it is used to provide EFA vs. ERET to a ptrace "stop_pc" request.

So when gdb has inserted a breakpoint, orig_r8_IS_BRKPT is already set,
and anything else (i.e. orig_r8_IS_EXCPN) becoming same as it, really
doesn't hurt gdb. The corollary case, could be nasty but nobody uses the
ptrace "stop_pc" request in that case

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: SMP support

2013-02-15T17:46:02+00:00

ARC common code to enable a SMP system + ISS provided SMP extensions.

ARC700 natively lacks SMP support, hence some of the core features are
are only enabled if SoCs have the necessary h/w pixie-dust. This
includes:
-Inter Processor Interrupts (IPI)
-Cache coherency
-load-locked/store-conditional
...

The low level exception handling would be completely broken in SMP
because we don't have hardware assisted stack switching. Thus a fair bit
of this code is repurposing the MMU_SCRATCH reg for event handler
prologues to keep them re-entrant.

Many thanks to Rajeshwar Ranga for his initial "major" contributions to
SMP Port (back in 2008), and to Noam Camus and Gilad Ben-Yossef for help
with resurrecting that in 3.2 kernel (2012).

Note that this platform code is again singleton design pattern - so
multiple SMP platforms won't build at the moment - this deficiency is
addressed in subsequent patches within this series.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Rajeshwar Ranga 
Cc: Noam Camus 
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef

ARC: Support for high priority interrupts in the in-core intc

2013-02-15T17:46:01+00:00

There is a bit of hack/kludge right now where we disable preemption if a
L2 (High prio) IRQ is taken while L1 (Low prio) is active.

Need to revisit this

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: [optim] Cache "current" in Register r25

2013-02-15T17:45:58+00:00

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: [Review] Preparing to fix incorrect syscall restarts due to signals

2013-02-15T17:45:49+00:00

To avoid multiple syscall restarts (multiple signals) or no restart at
all (sigreturn), we need just an extra bit of state "literally 1 bit" in
struct pt_regs. orig_r8 is the best place to do this, however given the
way it is encoded currently, we can't add anything simplistically.

Current orig_r8:
* syscalls   -> 1 to NR_SYSCALLS
* Exceptions -> NR_SYSCALLS + 1
* Break-point-> NR_SYSCALLS + 2

In new scheme it is a bit-field
* lower short word contains the  exact event type (and a new bit to represent
   restart semantics : if syscall was already / can't be restarted)
* upper short word optionally containing the syscall num - needed by
  likes of tracehooks etc

This patch only changes how orig_r8 is organised and nothing should
change behaviourily.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Al Viro

ARC: Signal handling

2013-02-15T17:33:30+00:00

Includes following fixes courtesy review by Al-Viro

* Tracer poke to Callee-regs were lost

  Before going off into do_signal( ) we save the user-mode callee regs
  (as they are not saved by default as part of pt_regs). This is to make
  sure that that a Tracer (if tracing related signal) is able to do likes
  of PEEKUSR(callee-reg).

  However in return path we were simply discarding the user-mode callee
  regs, which would break a POKEUSR(callee-reg) from a tracer.

* Issue related to multiple syscall restarts are addressed in next patch

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Al Viro 
Acked-by: Jonas Bonn

ARC: Low level IRQ/Trap/Exception Handling

2013-02-11T14:30:36+00:00

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Al Viro