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<title>ARM: 6489/1: thumb2: fix incorrect optimisation in usracc</title>
<updated>2010-11-21T22:05:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
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<published>2010-11-19T12:18:31+00:00</published>
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Commit 8b592783 added a Thumb-2 variant of usracc which, when it is
called with \rept=2, calls usraccoff once with an offset of 0 and
secondly with a hard-coded offset of 4 in order to avoid incrementing
the pointer again. If \inc != 4 then we will store the data to the wrong
offset from \ptr. Luckily, the only caller that passes \rept=2 to this
function is __clear_user so we haven't been actively corrupting user data.

This patch fixes usracc to pass \inc instead of #4 to usraccoff
when it is called a second time.

Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Tony Thompson &lt;tony.thompson@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Commit 8b592783 added a Thumb-2 variant of usracc which, when it is
called with \rept=2, calls usraccoff once with an offset of 0 and
secondly with a hard-coded offset of 4 in order to avoid incrementing
the pointer again. If \inc != 4 then we will store the data to the wrong
offset from \ptr. Luckily, the only caller that passes \rept=2 to this
function is __clear_user so we haven't been actively corrupting user data.

This patch fixes usracc to pass \inc instead of #4 to usraccoff
when it is called a second time.

Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Tony Thompson &lt;tony.thompson@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: Allow SMP kernels to boot on UP systems</title>
<updated>2010-10-04T19:23:36+00:00</updated>
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<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2010-09-04T09:47:48+00:00</published>
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UP systems do not implement all the instructions that SMP systems have,
so in order to boot a SMP kernel on a UP system, we need to rewrite
parts of the kernel.

Do this using an 'alternatives' scheme, where the kernel code and data
is modified prior to initialization to replace the SMP instructions,
thereby rendering the problematical code ineffectual.  We use the linker
to generate a list of 32-bit word locations and their replacement values,
and run through these replacements when we detect a UP system.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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UP systems do not implement all the instructions that SMP systems have,
so in order to boot a SMP kernel on a UP system, we need to rewrite
parts of the kernel.

Do this using an 'alternatives' scheme, where the kernel code and data
is modified prior to initialization to replace the SMP instructions,
thereby rendering the problematical code ineffectual.  We use the linker
to generate a list of 32-bit word locations and their replacement values,
and run through these replacements when we detect a UP system.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: fix build error in arch/arm/kernel/process.c</title>
<updated>2010-04-21T07:45:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2010-04-19T09:15:03+00:00</published>
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/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s:1952: Error: can't resolve `.text' {.text section} - `.LFB1077'

This is caused because:

	.section .data
	.section .text
	.section .text
	.previous

does not return us to the .text section, but the .data section; this
makes use of .previous dangerous if the ordering of previous sections
is not known.

Fix up the other users of .previous; .pushsection and .popsection are
a safer pairing to use than .section and .previous.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s:1952: Error: can't resolve `.text' {.text section} - `.LFB1077'

This is caused because:

	.section .data
	.section .text
	.section .text
	.previous

does not return us to the .text section, but the .data section; this
makes use of .previous dangerous if the ordering of previous sections
is not known.

Fix up the other users of .previous; .pushsection and .popsection are
a safer pairing to use than .section and .previous.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-rmk-2.6.32' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/ukl/linux-2.6 into devel-stable</title>
<updated>2009-08-15T15:51:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-15T15:51:48+00:00</published>
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<title>Complete irq tracing support for ARM</title>
<updated>2009-08-13T18:34:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uwe Kleine-König</name>
<email>u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de</email>
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<published>2009-08-13T18:38:17+00:00</published>
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Before this patch enabling and disabling irqs in assembler code and by
the hardware wasn't tracked completly.

I had to transpose two instructions in arch/arm/lib/bitops.h because
restore_irqs doesn't preserve the flags with CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS=y

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
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Before this patch enabling and disabling irqs in assembler code and by
the hardware wasn't tracked completly.

I had to transpose two instructions in arch/arm/lib/bitops.h because
restore_irqs doesn't preserve the flags with CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS=y

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Thumb-2: Implement the unified arch/arm/lib functions</title>
<updated>2009-07-24T11:32:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-24T11:32:57+00:00</published>
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This patch adds the ARM/Thumb-2 unified support for the arch/arm/lib/*
files.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;



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This patch adds the ARM/Thumb-2 unified support for the arch/arm/lib/*
files.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;



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<entry>
<title>Thumb-2: Implementation of the unified start-up and exceptions code</title>
<updated>2009-07-24T11:32:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-24T11:32:54+00:00</published>
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This patch implements the ARM/Thumb-2 unified kernel start-up and
exception handling code.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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This patch implements the ARM/Thumb-2 unified kernel start-up and
exception handling code.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[ARM] barriers: improve xchg, bitops and atomic SMP barriers</title>
<updated>2009-05-28T18:39:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-25T19:58:00+00:00</published>
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Mathieu Desnoyers pointed out that the ARM barriers were lacking:

- cmpxchg, xchg and atomic add return need memory barriers on
  architectures which can reorder the relative order in which memory
  read/writes can be seen between CPUs, which seems to include recent
  ARM architectures. Those barriers are currently missing on ARM.

- test_and_xxx_bit were missing SMP barriers.

So put these barriers in.  Provide separate atomic_add/atomic_sub
operations which do not require barriers.

Reported-Reviewed-and-Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Mathieu Desnoyers pointed out that the ARM barriers were lacking:

- cmpxchg, xchg and atomic add return need memory barriers on
  architectures which can reorder the relative order in which memory
  read/writes can be seen between CPUs, which seems to include recent
  ARM architectures. Those barriers are currently missing on ARM.

- test_and_xxx_bit were missing SMP barriers.

So put these barriers in.  Provide separate atomic_add/atomic_sub
operations which do not require barriers.

Reported-Reviewed-and-Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[ARM] move include/asm-arm to arch/arm/include/asm</title>
<updated>2008-08-02T20:32:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-02T09:55:55+00:00</published>
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Move platform independent header files to arch/arm/include/asm, leaving
those in asm/arch* and asm/plat* alone.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Move platform independent header files to arch/arm/include/asm, leaving
those in asm/arch* and asm/plat* alone.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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