linux.git/arch/nds32/kernel/stacktrace.c, branch master

nds32: Remove the architecture

2022-03-07T12:54:59+00:00

The nds32 architecture, also known as AndeStar V3, is a custom 32-bit
RISC target designed by Andes Technologies. Support was added to the
kernel in 2016 as the replacement RISC-V based V5 processors were
already announced, and maintained by (current or former) Andes
employees.

As explained by Alan Kao, new customers are now all using RISC-V,
and all known nds32 users are already on longterm stable kernels
provided by Andes, with no development work going into mainline
support any more.

While the port is still in a reasonably good shape, it only gets
worse over time without active maintainers, so it seems best
to remove it before it becomes unusable. As always, if it turns
out that there are mainline users after all, and they volunteer
to maintain the port in the future, the removal can be reverted.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YhdWNLUhk+x9RAzU@yamatobi.andestech.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220302065213.82702-1-alankao@andestech.com/
Link: https://www.andestech.com/en/products-solutions/andestar-architecture/
Signed-off-by: Alan Kao 
[arnd: rewrite changelog to provide more background]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

nds32: Add macro definition for offset of lp register on stack

2018-09-04T06:45:19+00:00

Use macro to replace the magic number.

Signed-off-by: Zong Li 
Acked-by: Greentime Hu 
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu

nds32/stack: Get real return address by using ftrace_graph_ret_addr

2018-09-04T06:45:18+00:00

Function graph tracer has modified the return address to
'return_to_handler' on stack, and provide the 'ftrace_graph_ret_addr' to
get the real return address.

Signed-off-by: Zong Li 
Acked-by: Greentime Hu 
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu

nds32: Fix the symbols undefined issue by exporting them.

2018-05-23T05:26:20+00:00

It broke the 'allmodconfig' build.
  LD      vmlinux
  SYSMAP  System.map
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 5028 modules
ERROR: "flush_dcache_page" [net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpcrdma.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "empty_zero_page" [net/ceph/libceph.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "save_stack_trace" [kernel/backtracetest.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "clear_page" [fs/ocfs2/dlm/ocfs2_dlm.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "copy_page" [fs/nilfs2/nilfs2.ko] undefined!
...

Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann

nds32: Exception handling

2018-02-22T02:44:31+00:00

This patch includes the exception/interrupt entries, pt_reg structure and
related accessors.

/* Unaligned accessing handling*/
Andes processors cannot load/store information which is not naturally
aligned on the bus, i.e., loading a 4 byte data whose start address must
be divisible by 4. If unaligned data accessing is happened, data
unaligned exception will be triggered and user will get SIGSEGV or
kernel oops according to the unaligned address. In order to make user be
able to load/store data from an unaligned address, software load/store
emulation is implemented in arch/nds32/mm/alignment.c to address data
unaligned exception.

Unaligned accessing handling is disabled by default because it is not a
normal case. User can enable this feature by following steps.

A. Compile time:
    1. Enable kernel config CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP
B. Run time:
    1. Enter /proc/sys/nds32/unaligned_acess folder
    2. Write 1 to file enable_mode to enable unaligned accessing
       handling. User can disable it by writing 0 to this file.
    3. Write 1 to file debug to show which unaligned address is under
       processing. User can disable it by writing 0 to this file.

However, unaligned accessing handler cannot work if this unaligned
address is not accessible such as protection violation. On this
condition, the default behaviors for addressing data unaligned exception
still happen

Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen 
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann