linux.git/arch/arm/vfp, branch v3.13

ARM: 7873/1: vfp: clear vfp_current_hw_state for dying cpu

2013-10-30T22:10:10+00:00

The CPU_DYING notifier is called by cpu stopper task which
does not own the context held in the VFP hardware. Calling
vfp_force_reload() has no effect.
Replace it with clearing vfp_current_hw_state.

Signed-off-by: Yuanyuan Zhong 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: add support for kernel mode NEON

2013-07-08T21:08:51+00:00

In order to safely support the use of NEON instructions in
kernel mode, some precautions need to be taken:
- the userland context that may be present in the registers (even
  if the NEON/VFP is currently disabled) must be stored under the
  correct task (which may not be 'current' in the UP case),
- to avoid having to keep track of additional vfpstates for the
  kernel side, disallow the use of NEON in interrupt context
  and run with preemption disabled,
- after use, re-enable preemption and re-enable the lazy restore
  machinery by disabling the NEON/VFP unit.

This patch adds the functions kernel_neon_begin() and
kernel_neon_end() which take care of the above. It also adds
the Kconfig symbol KERNEL_MODE_NEON to enable it.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre

ARM: be strict about FP exceptions in kernel mode

2013-07-08T21:07:38+00:00

The support code in vfp_support_entry does not care whether the
exception that caused it to be invoked occurred in kernel mode or
in user mode. However, neither condition that could trigger this
exception (lazy restore and VFP bounce to support code) is
currently allowable in kernel mode.

In either case, print a message describing the condition before
letting the undefined instruction handler run its course and trigger
an oops.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre

ARM: move VFP init to an earlier boot stage

2013-07-08T17:22:19+00:00

In order to use the NEON unit in the kernel, we should
initialize it a bit earlier in the boot process so NEON users
that like to do a quick benchmark at load time (like the
xor_blocks or RAID-6 code) find the NEON/VFP unit already
enabled.

Replaced late_initcall() with core_initcall().

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre

ARM: 7729/1: vfp: ensure VFP_arch is non-zero when VFP is not supported

2013-05-22T21:01:37+00:00

Commit d3f79584a8b5 ("ARM: cleanup undefined instruction entry code")
improved the register scheduling when handling undefined instructions.
A side effect of this is that r5 is now used as a temporary, whilst the
VFP probing code relies on r5 containing a non-zero value when VFP is
not supported.

This patch fixes the VFP detection code so that we don't rely on the
contents of r5. Without this patch, Linux dies loudly on CPUs without
VFP support.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: Fix broken commit 0cc41e4a21d43 corrupting kernel messages

2013-03-01T21:09:59+00:00

Commit 0cc41e4a21d43 (arch: remove direct definitions of KERN_
uses) is broken - not enough thought was put into changing:

	.asciz	"string"

to

	.asciz	"string1" "string2"

The problem is that each string gets _separately_ NUL terminated, so
the result is a string containing:

	"string1\0string2\0"

rather than:

	"string1string2\0"

With our new printk levels, this ends up as - eg, KERN_DEBUG "string":

	0x01 0x00 0x07 0x00 "string" 0x00

which produces lots of \x01 in the kernel log.

Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: VFP: fix emulation of second VFP instruction

2013-02-25T16:09:12+00:00

Martin Storsjö reports that the sequence:

        ee312ac1        vsub.f32        s4, s3, s2
        ee702ac0        vsub.f32        s5, s1, s0
        e59f0028        ldr             r0, [pc, #40]
        ee111a90        vmov            r1, s3

on Raspberry Pi (implementor 41 architecture 1 part 20 variant b rev 5)
where s3 is a denormal and s2 is zero results in incorrect behaviour -
the instruction "vsub.f32 s5, s1, s0" is not executed:

        VFP: bounce: trigger ee111a90 fpexc d0000780
        VFP: emulate: INST=0xee312ac1 SCR=0x00000000
        ...

As we can see, the instruction triggering the exception is the "vmov"
instruction, and we emulate the "vsub.f32 s4, s3, s2" but fail to
properly take account of the FPEXC_FP2V flag in FPEXC.  This is because
the test for the second instruction register being valid is bogus, and
will always skip emulation of the second instruction.

Cc: 
Reported-by: Martin Storsjö 
Tested-by: Martin Storsjö 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 7627/1: Predicate preempt logic on PREEMP_COUNT not PREEMPT alone

2013-01-16T16:51:10+00:00

Patrik Kluba reports that the preempt count becomes invalid due
to the preempt_enable() call being unbalanced with a
preempt_disable() call in the vfp assembly routines. This happens
because preempt_enable() and preempt_disable() update preempt
counts under PREEMPT_COUNT=y but the vfp assembly routines do so
under PREEMPT=y. In a configuration where PREEMPT=n and
DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y, PREEMPT_COUNT=y and so the preempt_enable()
call in VFP_bounce() keeps subtracting from the preempt count
until it goes negative.

Fix this by always using PREEMPT_COUNT to decided when to update
preempt counts in the ARM assembly code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd 
Reported-by: Patrik Kluba 
Tested-by: Patrik Kluba 
Cc:  # 2.6.30
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 7566/1: vfp: fix save and restore when running on pre-VFPv3 and CONFIG_VFPv3 set

2012-10-29T10:04:05+00:00

After commit 846a136881b8f73c1f74250bf6acfaa309cab1f2 ("ARM: vfp: fix
saving d16-d31 vfp registers on v6+ kernels"), the OMAP 2430SDP board
started crashing during boot with omap2plus_defconfig:

[    3.875122] mmcblk0: mmc0:e624 SD04G 3.69 GiB
[    3.915954]  mmcblk0: p1
[    4.086639] Internal error: Oops - undefined instruction: 0 [#1] SMP ARM
[    4.093719] Modules linked in:
[    4.096954] CPU: 0    Not tainted  (3.6.0-02232-g759e00b #570)
[    4.103149] PC is at vfp_reload_hw+0x1c/0x44
[    4.107666] LR is at __und_usr_fault_32+0x0/0x8

It turns out that the context save/restore fix unmasked a latent bug
in commit 5aaf254409f8d58229107b59507a8235b715a960 ("ARM: 6203/1: Make
VFPv3 usable on ARMv6").  When CONFIG_VFPv3 is set, but the kernel is
booted on a pre-VFPv3 core, the code attempts to save and restore the
d16-d31 VFP registers.  These are only present on non-D16 VFPv3+, so
this results in an undefined instruction exception.  The code didn't
crash before commit 846a136 because the save and restore code was
only touching d0-d15, present on all VFP.

Fix by implementing a request from Russell King to add a new HWCAP
flag that affirmatively indicates the presence of the d16-d31
registers:

   http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=135013547905283&w=2

and some feedback from Måns to clarify the name of the HWCAP flag.

Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Tony Lindgren 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Dave Martin 
Cc: Måns Rullgård 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 7483/1: vfp: only advertise VFPv4 in hwcaps if CONFIG_VFPv3 is enabled

2012-08-11T08:15:57+00:00

VFPv4 support depends on the VFPv3 context save/restore code, so only
advertise support in the hwcaps if the kernel can actually handle it.

Cc:  # 3.1+
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Russell King