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<title>ARM: 8052/1: unwind: Fix handling of "Pop r4-r[4+nnn],r14" opcode</title>
<updated>2014-05-25T22:44:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikolay Borisov</name>
<email>Nikolay.Borisov@arm.com</email>
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<published>2014-05-08T14:54:26+00:00</published>
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The arm EABI states that unwind opcode 10100nnn means pop register r4-4[4+nnn],aditionally there is a similar unwind opcode: 10101nnn which means the same thing plus popping r14. Those two cases are handled by the unwind_exec_pop_r4_to_rN function which checks whether the 4th bit is set and does r14 popping.

However, up until now it has been checking whether the 8th bit was set (mask &amp; 0x80) instead of the 4th (mask &amp; 0x8), a simple to make typo but this meant that we were always popping r14 even if we had the former opcode.

This patch changes the mask so that the 2 unwind opcodes are being handled correctly.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;Nikolay.Borisov@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anurag Aggarwal &lt;anurag19aggarwal@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The arm EABI states that unwind opcode 10100nnn means pop register r4-4[4+nnn],aditionally there is a similar unwind opcode: 10101nnn which means the same thing plus popping r14. Those two cases are handled by the unwind_exec_pop_r4_to_rN function which checks whether the 4th bit is set and does r14 popping.

However, up until now it has been checking whether the 8th bit was set (mask &amp; 0x80) instead of the 4th (mask &amp; 0x8), a simple to make typo but this meant that we were always popping r14 even if we had the former opcode.

This patch changes the mask so that the 2 unwind opcodes are being handled correctly.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;Nikolay.Borisov@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anurag Aggarwal &lt;anurag19aggarwal@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: 7987/1: ARM : unwinder : Prevent data abort due to stack overflow</title>
<updated>2014-02-25T11:48:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anurag Aggarwal</name>
<email>a.anurag@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-24T10:17:36+00:00</published>
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While unwinding backtrace, stack overflow is possible. This stack
overflow can sometimes lead to data abort in system if the area after
stack is not mapped to physical memory.

To prevent this problem from happening, execute the instructions that
can cause a data abort in separate helper functions, where a check for
feasibility is made before reading each word from the stack.

Signed-off-by: Anurag Aggarwal &lt;a.anurag@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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While unwinding backtrace, stack overflow is possible. This stack
overflow can sometimes lead to data abort in system if the area after
stack is not mapped to physical memory.

To prevent this problem from happening, execute the instructions that
can cause a data abort in separate helper functions, where a check for
feasibility is made before reading each word from the stack.

Signed-off-by: Anurag Aggarwal &lt;a.anurag@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: unwinder: fix bisection to find origin in .idx section</title>
<updated>2011-12-15T22:02:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uwe Kleine-König</name>
<email>u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-15T20:47:56+00:00</published>
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The bisection implemented in unwind_find_origin() stopped to early.  If
there is only a single entry left to check the original code just took
the end point as origin which might be wrong.

This was introduced in commit de66a979012d ("ARM: 7187/1: fix unwinding
for XIP kernels").

Reported-and-tested-by: Nick Bowler &lt;nbowler@elliptictech.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The bisection implemented in unwind_find_origin() stopped to early.  If
there is only a single entry left to check the original code just took
the end point as origin which might be wrong.

This was introduced in commit de66a979012d ("ARM: 7187/1: fix unwinding
for XIP kernels").

Reported-and-tested-by: Nick Bowler &lt;nbowler@elliptictech.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>ARM: 7187/1: fix unwinding for XIP kernels</title>
<updated>2011-12-06T11:16:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uwe Kleine-König</name>
<email>u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-05T08:39:59+00:00</published>
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The linker places the unwind tables in readonly sections. So when using
an XIP kernel these are located in ROM and cannot be modified.
For that reason the current approach to convert the relative offsets in
the unwind index to absolute addresses early in the boot process doesn't
work with XIP.

The offsets in the unwind index section are signed 31 bit numbers and
the structs are sorted by this offset. So it first has offsets between
0x40000000 and 0x7fffffff (i.e. the negative offsets) and then offsets
between 0x00000000 and 0x3fffffff. When seperating these two blocks the
numbers are sorted even when interpreting the offsets as unsigned longs.

So determine the first non-negative entry once and track that using the
new origin pointer. The actual bisection can then use a plain unsigned
long comparison. The only thing that makes the new bisection more
complicated is that the offsets are relative to their position in the
index section, so the key to search needs to be adapted accordingly in
each step.

Moreover several consts are added to catch future writes and rename the
member "addr" of struct unwind_idx to "addr_offset" to better match the
new semantic. (This has the additional benefit of breaking eventual
users at compile time to make them aware of the change.)

In my tests the new algorithm was a tad faster than the original and has
the additional upside of not needing the initial conversion and so saves
some boot time and it's possible to unwind even earlier.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The linker places the unwind tables in readonly sections. So when using
an XIP kernel these are located in ROM and cannot be modified.
For that reason the current approach to convert the relative offsets in
the unwind index to absolute addresses early in the boot process doesn't
work with XIP.

The offsets in the unwind index section are signed 31 bit numbers and
the structs are sorted by this offset. So it first has offsets between
0x40000000 and 0x7fffffff (i.e. the negative offsets) and then offsets
between 0x00000000 and 0x3fffffff. When seperating these two blocks the
numbers are sorted even when interpreting the offsets as unsigned longs.

So determine the first non-negative entry once and track that using the
new origin pointer. The actual bisection can then use a plain unsigned
long comparison. The only thing that makes the new bisection more
complicated is that the offsets are relative to their position in the
index section, so the key to search needs to be adapted accordingly in
each step.

Moreover several consts are added to catch future writes and rename the
member "addr" of struct unwind_idx to "addr_offset" to better match the
new semantic. (This has the additional benefit of breaking eventual
users at compile time to make them aware of the change.)

In my tests the new algorithm was a tad faster than the original and has
the additional upside of not needing the initial conversion and so saves
some boot time and it's possible to unwind even earlier.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<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>
</author>
<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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<entry>
<title>ARM: 6468/1: backtrace: fix calculation of thread stack base</title>
<updated>2010-11-07T16:12:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-04T17:22:51+00:00</published>
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When unwinding stack frames we must take care not to unwind
areas of memory that lie outside of the known extent of the stack.

This patch fixes an incorrect calculation of the stack base where
THREAD_SIZE is added to the stack pointer after it has already
been aligned to this value. Since the ALIGN macro performs this
addition internally, we end up overshooting the base by 8k.

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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When unwinding stack frames we must take care not to unwind
areas of memory that lie outside of the known extent of the stack.

This patch fixes an incorrect calculation of the stack base where
THREAD_SIZE is added to the stack pointer after it has already
been aligned to this value. Since the ALIGN macro performs this
addition internally, we end up overshooting the base by 8k.

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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<entry>
<title>ARM: 6341/1: unwind - optimise linked-list searches for modules</title>
<updated>2010-09-02T14:31:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Phil Carmody</name>
<email>ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-19T14:20:37+00:00</published>
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With several sections per module, and dozens of modules, the
searches down the linked list of sections would dominate the
lookup time, dwarfing any savings from the binary search
within the section.

A simple move-to-front optimisation exploits the commonality
of the code paths taken, and in simple real-world tests reduces
the number of steps in the search to barely more than 1.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody &lt;ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com&gt;
Acked-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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With several sections per module, and dozens of modules, the
searches down the linked list of sections would dominate the
lookup time, dwarfing any savings from the binary search
within the section.

A simple move-to-front optimisation exploits the commonality
of the code paths taken, and in simple real-world tests reduces
the number of steps in the search to barely more than 1.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody &lt;ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com&gt;
Acked-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: 6140/1: silence a bogus sparse warning in unwind.c</title>
<updated>2010-05-24T19:42:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Shishkin</name>
<email>virtuoso@slind.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-21T11:32:07+00:00</published>
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The check for compiler which is supposed to miscompile unwind tables
clearly has nothing to do with sparse (which does not define necessary
macros anyway), so simply silence it.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin &lt;virtuoso@slind.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The check for compiler which is supposed to miscompile unwind tables
clearly has nothing to do with sparse (which does not define necessary
macros anyway), so simply silence it.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin &lt;virtuoso@slind.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 5977/1: arm: Enable backtrace printing on oops when PC is corrupted</title>
<updated>2010-03-07T10:22:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Laurent Pinchart</name>
<email>laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-04T14:33:16+00:00</published>
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If PC points outside kernel text, start printing the backtrace at LR
instead.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart &lt;laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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If PC points outside kernel text, start printing the backtrace at LR
instead.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart &lt;laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 5776/1: Check compiler version and EABI support when adding ARM unwind support.</title>
<updated>2009-11-02T16:59:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Claudio Scordino</name>
<email>claudio@evidence.eu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-30T11:06:05+00:00</published>
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ARM unwind is known to compile only with EABI and not-buggy compilers.
The problem is not the unwinding information but the -fno-frame-pointer
option added as a result of !CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER.  Now we check the
compiler and raise a #warning in case of wrong compiler.

Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino &lt;claudio@evidence.eu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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ARM unwind is known to compile only with EABI and not-buggy compilers.
The problem is not the unwinding information but the -fno-frame-pointer
option added as a result of !CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER.  Now we check the
compiler and raise a #warning in case of wrong compiler.

Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino &lt;claudio@evidence.eu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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