linux.git/arch/arm/lib, branch v3.14

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

ARM: make kernel oops easier to read

2013-12-29T12:32:30+00:00

We don't need the offset for the first function name in each backtrace
entry; this needlessly consumes screen space.  This is virtually always
the first or second instruction in the called function.

Also, recognise stmfd instructions which include r10 as a valid stack
saving instruction, and when dumping the registers, dump six registers
per line rather than five, and fix the wrapping.

Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 7907/1: lib: delay-loop: Add align directive to fix BogoMIPS calculation

2013-11-30T22:21:03+00:00

Currently mx53 (CortexA8) running at 1GHz reports:
Calibrating delay loop... 663.55 BogoMIPS (lpj=3317760)

Tom Evans verified that alignments of 0x0 and 0x8 run the two instructions of __loop_delay in one clock cycle (1 clock/loop), while alignments of 0x4 and 0xc take 3 clocks to run the loop twice. (1.5 clock/loop)

The original object code looks like this:

00000010 <__loop_const_udelay>:
  10:	e3e01000 	mvn	r1, #0
  14:	e51f201c 	ldr	r2, [pc, #-28]	; 0 <__loop_udelay-0x8>
  18:	e5922000 	ldr	r2, [r2]
  1c:	e0800921 	add	r0, r0, r1, lsr #18
  20:	e1a00720 	lsr	r0, r0, #14
  24:	e0822b21 	add	r2, r2, r1, lsr #22
  28:	e1a02522 	lsr	r2, r2, #10
  2c:	e0000092 	mul	r0, r2, r0
  30:	e0800d21 	add	r0, r0, r1, lsr #26
  34:	e1b00320 	lsrs	r0, r0, #6
  38:	01a0f00e 	moveq	pc, lr

0000003c <__loop_delay>:
  3c:	e2500001 	subs	r0, r0, #1
  40:	8afffffe 	bhi	3c <__loop_delay>
  44:	e1a0f00e 	mov	pc, lr

After adding the 'align 3' directive to __loop_delay (align to 8 bytes):

00000010 <__loop_const_udelay>:
  10:	e3e01000 	mvn	r1, #0
  14:	e51f201c 	ldr	r2, [pc, #-28]	; 0 <__loop_udelay-0x8>
  18:	e5922000 	ldr	r2, [r2]
  1c:	e0800921 	add	r0, r0, r1, lsr #18
  20:	e1a00720 	lsr	r0, r0, #14
  24:	e0822b21 	add	r2, r2, r1, lsr #22
  28:	e1a02522 	lsr	r2, r2, #10
  2c:	e0000092 	mul	r0, r2, r0
  30:	e0800d21 	add	r0, r0, r1, lsr #26
  34:	e1b00320 	lsrs	r0, r0, #6
  38:	01a0f00e 	moveq	pc, lr
  3c:	e320f000 	nop	{0}

00000040 <__loop_delay>:
  40:	e2500001 	subs	r0, r0, #1
  44:	8afffffe 	bhi	40 <__loop_delay>
  48:	e1a0f00e 	mov	pc, lr
  4c:	e320f000 	nop	{0}

, which now reports:
Calibrating delay loop... 996.14 BogoMIPS (lpj=4980736)

Some more test results:

On mx31 (ARM1136) running at 532 MHz, before the patch:
Calibrating delay loop... 351.43 BogoMIPS (lpj=1757184)

On mx31 (ARM1136) running at 532 MHz after the patch:
Calibrating delay loop... 528.79 BogoMIPS (lpj=2643968)

Also tested on mx6 (CortexA9) and on mx27 (ARM926), which shows the same
BogoMIPS value before and after this patch.

Reported-by: Tom Evans 
Suggested-by: Tom Evans 
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 7893/1: bitops: only emit .arch_extension mp if CONFIG_SMP

2013-11-20T23:05:53+00:00

Uwe reported a build failure when targetting a NOMMU platform with my
recent prefetch changes:

  arch/arm/lib/changebit.S: Assembler messages:
  arch/arm/lib/changebit.S:15: Error: architectural extension `mp' is
			not allowed for the current base architecture

This is due to use of the .arch_extension mp directive immediately prior
to an ALT_SMP(...) instruction. Whilst the ALT_SMP macro will expand to
nothing if !CONFIG_SMP, gas will still choke on the directive.

This patch fixes the issue by only emitting the sequence (including the
directive) if CONFIG_SMP=y.

Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm

2013-11-13T23:51:29+00:00

Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
"Included in this series are:

1. BE8 (modern big endian) changes for ARM from Ben Dooks
2. big.Little support from Nicolas Pitre and Dave Martin
3. support for LPAE systems with all system memory above 4GB
4. Perf updates from Will Deacon
5. Additional prefetching and other performance improvements from Will.
6. Neon-optimised AES implementation fro Ard.
7. A number of smaller fixes scattered around the place.

There is a rather horrid merge conflict in tools/perf - I was never
notified of the conflict because it originally occurred between Will's
tree and other stuff. Consequently I have a resolution which Will
forwarded me, which I'll forward on immediately after sending this
mail.

The other notable thing is I'm expecting some build breakage in the
crypto stuff on ARM only with Ard's AES patches. These were merged
into a stable git branch which others had already pulled, so there's
little I can do about this. The problem is caused because these
patches have a dependency on some code in the crypto git tree - I
tried requesting a branch I can pull to resolve these, and all I got
each time from the crypto people was "we'll revert our patches then"
which would only make things worse since I still don't have the
dependent patches. I've no idea what's going on there or how to
resolve that, and since I can't split these patches from the rest of
this pull request, I'm rather stuck with pushing this as-is or
reverting Ard's patches.

Since it should "come out in the wash" I've left them in - the only
build problems they seem to cause at the moment are with randconfigs,
and since it's a new feature anyway. However, if by -rc1 the
dependencies aren't in, I think it'd be best to revert Ard's patches"

I resolved the perf conflict roughly as per the patch sent by Russell,
but there may be some differences. Any errors are likely mine. Let's
see how the crypto issues work out..

* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (110 commits)
ARM: 7868/1: arm/arm64: remove atomic_clear_mask() in "include/asm/atomic.h"
ARM: 7867/1: include: asm: use 'int' instead of 'unsigned long' for 'oldval' in atomic_cmpxchg().
ARM: 7866/1: include: asm: use 'long long' instead of 'u64' within atomic.h
ARM: 7871/1: amba: Extend number of IRQS
ARM: 7887/1: Don't smp_cross_call() on UP devices in arch_irq_work_raise()
ARM: 7872/1: Support arch_irq_work_raise() via self IPIs
ARM: 7880/1: Clear the IT state independent of the Thumb-2 mode
ARM: 7878/1: nommu: Implement dummy early_paging_init()
ARM: 7876/1: clear Thumb-2 IT state on exception handling
ARM: 7874/2: bL_switcher: Remove cpu_hotplug_driver_{lock,unlock}()
ARM: footbridge: fix build warnings for netwinder
ARM: 7873/1: vfp: clear vfp_current_hw_state for dying cpu
ARM: fix misplaced arch_virt_to_idmap()
ARM: 7848/1: mcpm: Implement cpu_kill() to synchronise on powerdown
ARM: 7847/1: mcpm: Factor out logical-to-physical CPU translation
ARM: 7869/1: remove unused XSCALE_PMU Kconfig param
ARM: 7864/1: Handle 64-bit memory in case of 32-bit phys_addr_t
ARM: 7863/1: Let arm_add_memory() always use 64-bit arguments
ARM: 7862/1: pcpu: replace __get_cpu_var_uses
ARM: 7861/1: cacheflush: consolidate single-CPU ARMv7 cache disabling code
...

Merge branch 'devel-stable' into for-next

2013-11-12T10:58:59+00:00

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h
	arch/arm/include/asm/hardirq.h
	arch/arm/kernel/smp.c

ARM: 7858/1: mm: make UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY huge page aware

2013-10-29T11:06:15+00:00

The memory pinning code in uaccess_with_memcpy.c does not check
for HugeTLB or THP pmds, and will enter an infinite loop should
a __copy_to_user or __clear_user occur against a huge page.

This patch adds detection code for huge pages to pin_page_for_write.
As this code can be executed in a fast path it refers to the actual
pmds rather than the vma. If a HugeTLB or THP is found (they have
the same pmd representation on ARM), the page table spinlock is
taken to prevent modification whilst the page is pinned.

On ARM, huge pages are only represented as pmds, thus no huge pud
checks are performed. (For huge puds one would lock the page table
in a similar manner as in the pmd case).

Two helper functions are introduced; pmd_thp_or_huge will check
whether or not a page is huge or transparent huge (which have the
same pmd layout on ARM), and pmd_hugewillfault will detect whether
or not a page fault will occur on write to the page.

Running the following test (with the chunking from read_zero
removed):
 $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=10M count=1024
Gave:  2.3 GB/s backed by normal pages,
       2.9 GB/s backed by huge pages,
       5.1 GB/s backed by huge pages, with page mask=HPAGE_MASK.

After some discussion, it was decided not to adopt the HPAGE_MASK,
as this would have a significant detrimental effect on the overall
system latency due to page_table_lock being held for too long.
This could be revisited if split huge page locks are adopted.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper 
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: bitops: prefetch the destination word for write prior to strex

2013-09-30T15:42:56+00:00

The cost of changing a cacheline from shared to exclusive state can be
significant, especially when this is triggered by an exclusive store,
since it may result in having to retry the transaction.

This patch prefixes our atomic bitops implementation with prefetchw,
to try and grab the line in exclusive state from the start. The testop
macro is left alone, since the barrier semantics limit the usefulness
of prefetching data.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

ARM: delete mach-shark

2013-09-17T10:34:36+00:00

The Shark machine sub-architecture (also known as DNARD, the
DIGITAL Network Appliance Reference Design) lacks a maintainer
able to apply and test patches to modernize the architecture.

It is suspected that the current kernel, while it compiles,
does not even boot on this machine. The listed maintainer has
expressed that he will not be able to spend any time on the
maintenance for the coming year.

So let's delete it from the kernel for now. It can always be
resurrected with git revert if maintenance is resumed.

As the VIA82c505 PCI adapter was only used by this
architecture, that gets deleted too.

Cc: arm@kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Schulz 
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij

ARM: 7835/2: fix modular build of xor_blocks() with NEON enabled

2013-09-09T14:24:47+00:00

Commit 0195659 introduced a NEON accelerated version of the xor_blocks()
function, but it needs the changes in this patch to allow it to be built
as a module rather than statically into the kernel.

This patch creates a separate module xor-neon.ko which exports the NEON
inner xor_blocks() functions depended upon by the regular xor.ko if it
is built with CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON=y

Reported-by: Josh Boyer 
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Signed-off-by: Russell King