linux.git/arch/arm/boot/compressed, branch v3.17

ARM: 8079/1: zImage: identify kernel endianness

2014-07-18T11:29:08+00:00

With patch #8067/1 ("zImage: ensure header in LE format for BE8 kernels")
applied, it is no longer possible to determine the endianness of a compiled
kernel image.  This normally shouldn't matter to the boot environment,
except for those cases where the selection of a ramdisk or root filesystem
with a matching endianness has to be automated.

Let's add a flag to the zImage header indicating the actual endianness.
Four bytes from offset 0x30 can be interpreted as follows:

	04 03 02 01	big endian kernel

	01 02 03 04	little endian kernel

Anything else should be interpreted as "unknown", in which case it is
most likely that patch #8067/1 was not applied either and the zImage
magic number at offset 0x24 could be used instead to determine
endianness. No zImage before this patch ever produced 0x01020304 nor
0x04030201 at offset 0x30 so there is no confusion possible.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: simplify generation of compressed vmlinux.lds file

2014-07-01T14:01:51+00:00

As we are now using the C preprocessor, we do not need to use sed to
edit constants in this file, and then pass the resulting file through
the C preprocessor.  Instead, rely solely on the C preprocessor to
rewrite TEXT_START and BSS_ADDR.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8067/1: zImage: ensure header in LE format for BE8 kernels

2014-07-01T14:00:28+00:00

All known BE8-capable systems have LE bootloaders, so we need to ensure
that the magic number and image start/end values are in little endian
format.

[ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk: from nico's original email on this subject]
[taras.kondratiuk@linaro.org: removed lds.S->lds rule, added target to extra-y]

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks 
Signed-off-by: Taras Kondratiuk 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm into next

2014-06-05T22:57:04+00:00

Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - Major clean-up of the L2 cache support code.  The existing mess was
   becoming rather unmaintainable through all the additions that others
   have done over time.  This turns it into a much nicer structure, and
   implements a few performance improvements as well.

 - Clean up some of the CP15 control register tweaks for alignment
   support, moving some code and data into alignment.c

 - DMA properties for ARM, from Santosh and reviewed by DT people.  This
   adds DT properties to specify bus translations we can't discover
   automatically, and to indicate whether devices are coherent.

 - Hibernation support for ARM

 - Make ftrace work with read-only text in modules

 - add suspend support for PJ4B CPUs

 - rework interrupt masking for undefined instruction handling, which
   allows us to enable interrupts earlier in the handling of these
   exceptions.

 - support for big endian page tables

 - fix stacktrace support to exclude stacktrace functions from the
   trace, and add save_stack_trace_regs() implementation so that kprobes
   can record stack traces.

 - Add support for the Cortex-A17 CPU.

 - Remove last vestiges of ARM710 support.

 - Removal of ARM "meminfo" structure, finally converting us solely to
   memblock to handle the early memory initialisation.

* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (142 commits)
  ARM: ensure C page table setup code follows assembly code (part II)
  ARM: ensure C page table setup code follows assembly code
  ARM: consolidate last remaining open-coded alignment trap enable
  ARM: remove global cr_no_alignment
  ARM: remove CPU_CP15 conditional from alignment.c
  ARM: remove unused adjust_cr() function
  ARM: move "noalign" command line option to alignment.c
  ARM: provide common method to clear bits in CPU control register
  ARM: 8025/1: Get rid of meminfo
  ARM: 8060/1: mm: allow sub-architectures to override PCI I/O memory type
  ARM: 8066/1: correction for ARM patch 8031/2
  ARM: 8049/1: ftrace/add save_stack_trace_regs() implementation
  ARM: 8065/1: remove last use of CONFIG_CPU_ARM710
  ARM: 8062/1: Modify ldrt fixup handler to re-execute the userspace instruction
  ARM: 8047/1: rwsem: use asm-generic rwsem implementation
  ARM: l2c: trial at enabling some Cortex-A9 optimisations
  ARM: l2c: add warnings for stuff modifying aux_ctrl register values
  ARM: l2c: print a warning with L2C-310 caches if the cache size is modified
  ARM: l2c: remove old .set_debug method
  ARM: l2c: kill L2X0_AUX_CTRL_MASK before anyone else makes use of this
  ...

ARM: 8025/1: Get rid of meminfo

2014-06-01T00:17:12+00:00

memblock is now fully integrated into the kernel and is the prefered
method for tracking memory. Rather than reinvent the wheel with
meminfo, migrate to using memblock directly instead of meminfo as
an intermediate.

Acked-by: Jason Cooper 
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas 
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar 
Acked-by: Kukjin Kim 
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski 
Tested-by: Leif Lindholm 
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: compressed/head.S: remove s3c24xx special case

2014-05-25T19:05:00+00:00

addruart from the generic debug macro is doing exactly the same using
the common lowlevel uart definition, so there is no cause for this
special casing for s3c24xx.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner 
Signed-off-by: Kukjin Kim

ARM: 7992/1: boot: compressed: ignore bswapsdi2.S

2014-03-07T22:04:10+00:00

Commit 017f161a55b4 (ARM: 7877/1: use built-in byte swap function) added
bswapsdi2.{o,S} to arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile, but didn't update
the .gitignore. Thus after a a build git status shows bswapsdi2.S as a
new file, which is a little annoying.

This patch updates arch/arm/boot/compressed/.gitignore to ignore
bswapsdi2.S, as we already do for ashldi3.S and others.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland 
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Acked-by: Kim Phillips 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

Merge tag 'soc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

2014-01-24T02:40:49+00:00

Pull ARM SoC platform changes from Olof Johansson:
"New core SoC-specific changes.

New platforms:
* Introduction of a vendor, Hisilicon, and one of their SoCs with
some random numerical product name.
* Introduction of EFM32, embedded platform from Silicon Labs (ARMv7m,
i.e. !MMU).
* Marvell Berlin series of SoCs, which include the one in Chromecast.
* MOXA platform support, ARM9-based platform used mostly in
industrial products
* Support for Freescale's i.MX50 SoC.

Other work:
* Renesas work for new platforms and drivers, and conversion over to
more multiplatform-friendly device registration schemes.
* SMP support for Allwinner sunxi platforms.
* ... plus a bunch of other stuff across various platforms"

* tag 'soc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (201 commits)
ARM: tegra: fix tegra_powergate_sequence_power_up() inline
ARM: msm_defconfig: Update for multi-platform
ARM: msm: Move MSM's DT based hardware to multi-platform support
ARM: msm: Only build timer.c if required
ARM: msm: Only build clock.c on proc_comm based platforms
ARM: ux500: Enable system suspend with WFI support
ARM: ux500: turn on PRINTK_TIME in u8500_defconfig
ARM: shmobile: r8a7790: Fix I2C controller names
ARM: msm: Simplify ARCH_MSM_DT config
ARM: msm: Add support for MSM8974 SoC
ARM: sunxi: select ARM_PSCI
MAINTAINERS: Update Allwinner sunXi maintainer files
ARM: sunxi: Select RESET_CONTROLLER
ARM: imx: improve the comment of CCM lpm SW workaround
ARM: imx: improve status check of clock gate
ARM: imx: add necessary interface for pfd
ARM: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: Select CONFIG_REGULATOR_PFUZE100
ARM: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: Select MX35 and MX50 device tree support
ARM: imx: Add cpu frequency scaling support
ARM i.MX35: Add devicetree support.
...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm

2014-01-24T02:34:03+00:00

Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "In this set, we have:
   - Refactoring of some of the old StrongARM-1100 GPIO code to make
     things simpler by Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
   - Read-only and non-executable support for modules on ARM from Laura
     Abbot
   - Removal of unnecessary set_drvdata() calls in AMBA code
   - Some non-executable support for kernel lowmem mappings at the 1MB
     section granularity, and dumping of kernel page tables via debugfs
   - Some improvements for the timer/clock code on Footbridge platforms,
     and cleanup some of the LED code there
   - Fix fls/ffs() signatures to match x86 to prevent build warnings,
     particularly where these are used with min/max() macros
   - Avoid using the bootmem allocator on ARM (patches from Santosh
     Shilimkar)
   - Various asid/unaligned access updates from Will Deacon"

* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (51 commits)
  ARM: SMP implementations are not supposed to return from smp_ops.cpu_die()
  ARM: ignore memory below PHYS_OFFSET
  Fix select-induced Kconfig warning for ZBOOT_ROM
  ARM: fix ffs/fls implementations to match x86
  ARM: 7935/1: sa1100: collie: add gpio-keys configuration
  ARM: 7932/1: bcm: Add DEBUG_LL console support
  ARM: 7929/1: Remove duplicate SCHED_HRTICK config option
  ARM: 7928/1: kconfig: select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS for CPUv6+ && MMU
  ARM: 7927/1: dcache: select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS for big-endian CPUs
  ARM: 7926/1: mm: flesh out and fix the comments in the ASID allocator
  ARM: 7925/1: mm: keep track of last ASID allocation to improve bitmap searching
  ARM: 7924/1: mm: don't bother with reserved ttbr0 when running with LPAE
  ARM: PCI: add legacy IDE IRQ implementation
  ARM: footbridge: cleanup LEDs code
  ARM: pgd allocation: retry on failure
  ARM: footbridge: add one-shot mode for DC21285 timer
  ARM: footbridge: add sched_clock implementation
  ARM: 7922/1: l2x0: add Marvell Tauros3 support
  ARM: 7877/1: use built-in byte swap function
  ARM: 7921/1: mcpm: remove redundant dsb instructions prior to sev
  ...

ARM: 7877/1: use built-in byte swap function

2013-12-29T12:32:45+00:00

Enable the compiler intrinsic for byte swapping on arch ARM. This
allows the compiler to detect and be able to optimize out byte
swappings, and has a very modest benefit on vmlinux size (Linaro gcc
4.8):

text data bss dec hex filename
2840310 123932 61960 3026202 2e2d1a vmlinux-lart #orig
2840152 123932 61960 3026044 2e2c7c vmlinux-lart #builtin-bswap

6473120 314840 5616016 12403976 bd4508 vmlinux-mxs #orig
6472586 314848 5616016 12403450 bd42fa vmlinux-mxs #builtin-bswap

7419872 318372 379556 8117800 7bde28 vmlinux-imx_v6_v7 #orig
7419170 318364 379556 8117090 7bdb62 vmlinux-imx_v6_v7 #builtin-bswap

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips 
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Acked-by: David Woodhouse 
Signed-off-by: Russell King