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<title>arm: convert core files from module.h to export.h</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T23:30:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
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<published>2011-07-22T14:58:34+00:00</published>
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Many of the core ARM kernel files are not modules, but just
including module.h for exporting symbols.  Now these files can
use the lighter footprint export.h for this role.

There are probably lots more, but ARM files of mach-* and plat-*
don't get coverage via a simple yesconfig build.  They will have
to be cleaned up and tested via using their respective configs.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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Many of the core ARM kernel files are not modules, but just
including module.h for exporting symbols.  Now these files can
use the lighter footprint export.h for this role.

There are probably lots more, but ARM files of mach-* and plat-*
don't get coverage via a simple yesconfig build.  They will have
to be cleaned up and tested via using their respective configs.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<title>ARM: 7068/1: process: change from __backtrace to dump_stack in show_regs</title>
<updated>2011-10-17T08:12:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Laura Abbott</name>
<email>lauraa@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-31T01:04:06+00:00</published>
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Currently, show_regs calls __backtrace which does
nothing if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is not set. Switch to
dump_stack which handles both CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER and
CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND correctly.

__backtrace is now superseded by dump_stack in general
and show_regs was the last caller so remove __backtrace
as well.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott &lt;lauraa@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Currently, show_regs calls __backtrace which does
nothing if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is not set. Switch to
dump_stack which handles both CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER and
CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND correctly.

__backtrace is now superseded by dump_stack in general
and show_regs was the last caller so remove __backtrace
as well.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott &lt;lauraa@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>cpuidle: Consistent spelling of cpuidle_idle_call()</title>
<updated>2011-08-05T02:35:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Brown</name>
<email>davidb@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-04T16:24:31+00:00</published>
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Commit a0bfa1373859e9d11dc92561a8667588803e42d8 mispells
cpuidle_idle_call() on ARM and SH code.  Fix this to be consistent.

Cc: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@deeprootsystems.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Brown &lt;davidb@codeaurora.org&gt;
[ Also done by Mark Brown - th ebug has been around forever, and was
  noticed in -next, but the idle tree never picked it up. Bad bad bad ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit a0bfa1373859e9d11dc92561a8667588803e42d8 mispells
cpuidle_idle_call() on ARM and SH code.  Fix this to be consistent.

Cc: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@deeprootsystems.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Brown &lt;davidb@codeaurora.org&gt;
[ Also done by Mark Brown - th ebug has been around forever, and was
  noticed in -next, but the idle tree never picked it up. Bad bad bad ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpuidle: stop depending on pm_idle</title>
<updated>2011-08-03T23:06:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-01T23:34:59+00:00</published>
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cpuidle users should call cpuidle_call_idle() directly
rather than via (pm_idle)() function pointer.

Architecture may choose to continue using (pm_idle)(),
but cpuidle need not depend on it:

  my_arch_cpu_idle()
	...
	if(cpuidle_call_idle())
		pm_idle();

cc: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@deeprootsystems.com&gt;
cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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cpuidle users should call cpuidle_call_idle() directly
rather than via (pm_idle)() function pointer.

Architecture may choose to continue using (pm_idle)(),
but cpuidle need not depend on it:

  my_arch_cpu_idle()
	...
	if(cpuidle_call_idle())
		pm_idle();

cc: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@deeprootsystems.com&gt;
cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 6867/1: Introduce THREAD_NOTIFY_COPY for copy_thread() hooks</title>
<updated>2011-04-10T20:13:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-06T15:16:29+00:00</published>
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This patch adds THREAD_NOTIFY_COPY for calling registered handlers
during the copy_thread() function call. It also changes the VFP handler
to use a switch statement rather than if..else and ignore this event.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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This patch adds THREAD_NOTIFY_COPY for calling registered handlers
during the copy_thread() function call. It also changes the VFP handler
to use a switch statement rather than if..else and ignore this event.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 6619/1: nommu: avoid mapping vectors page when !CONFIG_MMU</title>
<updated>2011-01-11T17:32:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-11T13:04:36+00:00</published>
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When running without an MMU, we do not need to install a mapping for the
vectors page. Attempting to do so causes a compile-time error because
install_special_mapping is not defined.

This patch adds compile-time guards to the vector mapping functions
so that we can build nommu configurations once more.

Acked-by: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@uclinux.org&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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When running without an MMU, we do not need to install a mapping for the
vectors page. Attempting to do so causes a compile-time error because
install_special_mapping is not defined.

This patch adds compile-time guards to the vector mapping functions
so that we can build nommu configurations once more.

Acked-by: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@uclinux.org&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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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'devel-stable' into devel</title>
<updated>2010-10-19T21:06:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-19T21:06:36+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'at91', 'dcache', 'ftrace', 'hwbpt', 'misc', 'mmci', 's3c', 'st-ux' and 'unwind' into devel</title>
<updated>2010-10-18T21:34:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-18T21:34:25+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 6428/1: add cpu_idle_wait() to support CPUidle on SMP systems.</title>
<updated>2010-10-08T09:02:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Hilman</name>
<email>khilman@deeprootsystems.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-01T21:13:47+00:00</published>
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In order for CPUidle to work on SMP systems, an implementation of
cpu_idle_wait() is needed.

This patch duplicates the x86 implementation of cpu_idle_wait() for
ARM.

Tested-by: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@deeprootsystems.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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In order for CPUidle to work on SMP systems, an implementation of
cpu_idle_wait() is needed.

This patch duplicates the x86 implementation of cpu_idle_wait() for
ARM.

Tested-by: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@deeprootsystems.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: add a vma entry for the user accessible vector page</title>
<updated>2010-10-02T02:35:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Pitre</name>
<email>nico@fluxnic.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-27T03:10:50+00:00</published>
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The kernel makes the high vector page visible to user space. This page
contains (amongst others) small code segments that can be executed in
user space.  Make this page visible through ptrace and /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/mem
in order to let gdb perform code parsing needed for proper unwinding.

For example, the ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK handler actually has a stack
frame -- it returns to a PC value stored on the user's stack.   To
unwind after a "sleep" system call was interrupted twice, GDB would
have to recognize this situation and understand that stack frame
layout -- which it currently cannot do.

We could fix this by hard-coding addresses in the vector page range into
GDB, but that isn't really portable as not all of those addresses are
guaranteed to remain stable across kernel releases.  And having the gdb
process make an exception for this page and get  content from its own
address space for it looks strange, and it is not future proof either.

Being located above PAGE_OFFSET, this vma cannot be deleted by
user space code.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
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The kernel makes the high vector page visible to user space. This page
contains (amongst others) small code segments that can be executed in
user space.  Make this page visible through ptrace and /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/mem
in order to let gdb perform code parsing needed for proper unwinding.

For example, the ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK handler actually has a stack
frame -- it returns to a PC value stored on the user's stack.   To
unwind after a "sleep" system call was interrupted twice, GDB would
have to recognize this situation and understand that stack frame
layout -- which it currently cannot do.

We could fix this by hard-coding addresses in the vector page range into
GDB, but that isn't really portable as not all of those addresses are
guaranteed to remain stable across kernel releases.  And having the gdb
process make an exception for this page and get  content from its own
address space for it looks strange, and it is not future proof either.

Being located above PAGE_OFFSET, this vma cannot be deleted by
user space code.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
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