litmus-rt.git/arch/arm/lib, branch master

ARM: ensure delay timer has sufficient accuracy for delays

2015-04-14T21:28:07+00:00

We have recently had an example of someone wanting to use a 90kHz timer
for the software delay loop.

udelay() needs to have at least microsecond resolution to allow drivers
access to a delay mechanism with a reasonable chance of delaying the
period they requested within at least a 50% marging of error, especially
for small delays.

Discussion about the udelay() accuracy can be found at:
	https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/9/37

Reject timers which are unable to supply this level of resolution.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8322/1: keep .text and .fixup regions closer together

2015-03-29T22:11:56+00:00

This moves all fixup snippets to the .text.fixup section, which is
a special section that gets emitted along with the .text section
for each input object file, i.e., the snippets are kept much closer
to the code they refer to, which helps prevent linker failure on
large kernels.

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

ARM: 8285/1: remove ARMv3 user access code again

2015-01-16T14:49:08+00:00

This code was restored with commit 080fc66fb5 ("ARM: Bring back ARMv3 IO
and user access code") because the RiscPC memory bus does not understand
half-word load/stores.  However only the IO code needed restoring since
the alternative user access code contains no half-word accesses, is
already used when CONFIG_PREEMPT is set and runs faster on a StrongARM.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8225/1: Add unwinding support for memory copy functions

2014-11-27T16:00:25+00:00

The memory copy functions(memcpy, __copy_from_user, __copy_to_user)
never had unwinding annotations added. Currently, when accessing
invalid pointer by these functions occurs the backtrace shown will
stop at these functions or some completely unrelated function.
Add unwinding annotations in hopes of getting a more useful backtrace
in following cases:
1. die on accessing invalid pointer by these functions
2. kprobe trapped at any instruction within these functions
3. interrupted at any instruction within these functions

Signed-off-by: Lin Yongting 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8224/1: Add unwinding support for memmove function

2014-11-27T16:00:24+00:00

The memmove function never had unwinding annotations added.
Currently, when accessing invalid pointer by memmove occurs the
backtrace shown will stop at memmove or some completely unrelated
function. Add unwinding annotations in hopes of getting a more
useful backtrace in following cases:
1. die on accessing invalid pointer by memmove
2. kprobe trapped at any instruction within memmove
3. interrupted at any instruction within memmove

Signed-off-by: Lin Yongting 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8223/1: Add unwinding support for __memzero function

2014-11-27T16:00:23+00:00

The __memzero function never had unwinding annotations added.
Currently, when accessing invalid pointer by __memzero occurs the
backtrace shown will stop at __memzero or some completely unrelated
function. Add unwinding annotations in hopes of getting a more
useful backtrace in following cases:
1. die on accessing invalid pointer by __memzero
2. kprobe trapped at any instruction within __memzero
3. interrupted at any instruction within __memzero

Signed-off-by: Lin Yongting 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8204/1: Add unwinding support for memset function

2014-11-21T15:24:49+00:00

The memset function never had unwinding annotations added.
Currently, when accessing NULL pointer by memset occurs the
backtrace shown will stop at memset or some completely unrelated
function. Add unwinding annotations in hopes of getting a more
useful backtrace when accessing NULL pointer by memset, kprobe
or interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Lin Yongting 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8137/1: fix get_user BE behavior for target variable with size of 8 bytes

2014-09-12T16:38:59+00:00

e38361d 'ARM: 8091/2: add get_user() support for 8 byte types' commit
broke V7 BE get_user call when target var size is 64 bit, but '*ptr' size
is 32 bit or smaller. e38361d changed type of __r2 from 'register
unsigned long' to 'register typeof(x) __r2 asm("r2")' i.e before the change
even when target variable size was 64 bit, __r2 was still 32 bit.
But after e38361d commit, for target var of 64 bit size, __r2 became 64
bit and now it should occupy 2 registers r2, and r3. The issue in BE case
that r3 register is least significant word of __r2 and r2 register is most
significant word of __r2. But __get_user_4 still copies result into r2 (most
significant word of __r2). Subsequent code copies from __r2 into x, but
for situation described it will pick up only garbage from r3 register.

Special __get_user_64t_(124) functions are introduced. They are similar to
corresponding __get_user_(124) function but result stored in r3 register
(lsw in case of 64 bit __r2 in BE image). Those function are used by
get_user macro in case of BE and target var size is 64bit.

Also changed __get_user_lo8 name into __get_user_32t_8 to get consistent
naming accross all cases.

Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky 
Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

Merge tag 'soc-for-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

2014-08-08T18:14:29+00:00

Pull ARM SoC platform changes from Olof Johansson:
 "This is the bulk of new SoC enablement and other platform changes for
  3.17:

   - Samsung S5PV210 has been converted to DT and multiplatform
   - Clock drivers and bindings for some of the lower-end i.MX 1/2
     platforms
   - Kirkwood, one of the popular Marvell platforms, is folded into the
     mvebu platform code, removing mach-kirkwood
   - Hwmod data for TI AM43xx and DRA7 platforms
   - More additions of Renesas shmobile platform support
   - Removal of plat-samsung contents that can be removed with S5PV210
     being multiplatform/DT-enabled and the other two old platforms
     being removed

  New platforms (most with only basic support right now):

   - Hisilicon X5HD2 settop box chipset is introduced
   - Mediatek MT6589 (mobile chipset) is introduced
   - Broadcom BCM7xxx settop box chipset is introduced

  + as usual a lot other pieces all over the platform code"

* tag 'soc-for-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (240 commits)
  ARM: hisi: remove smp from machine descriptor
  power: reset: move hisilicon reboot code
  ARM: dts: Add hix5hd2-dkb dts file.
  ARM: debug: Rename Hi3716 to HIX5HD2
  ARM: hisi: enable hix5hd2 SoC
  ARM: hisi: add ARCH_HISI
  MAINTAINERS: add entry for Broadcom ARM STB architecture
  ARM: brcmstb: select GISB arbiter and interrupt drivers
  ARM: brcmstb: add infrastructure for ARM-based Broadcom STB SoCs
  ARM: configs: enable SMP in bcm_defconfig
  ARM: add SMP support for Broadcom mobile SoCs
  Documentation: arm: misc updates to Marvell EBU SoC status
  Documentation: arm: add URLs to public datasheets for the Marvell Armada XP SoC
  ARM: mvebu: fix build without platforms selected
  ARM: mvebu: add cpuidle support for Armada 38x
  ARM: mvebu: add cpuidle support for Armada 370
  cpuidle: mvebu: add Armada 38x support
  cpuidle: mvebu: add Armada 370 support
  cpuidle: mvebu: rename the driver from armada-370-xp to mvebu-v7
  ARM: mvebu: export the SCU address
  ...

ARM: 8091/2: add get_user() support for 8 byte types

2014-07-18T11:29:34+00:00

Recent contributions, including to DRM and binder, introduce 64-bit
values in their interfaces. A common motivation for this is to allow
the same ABI for 32- and 64-bit userspaces (and therefore also a shared
ABI for 32/64 hybrid userspaces). Anyhow, the developers would like to
avoid gotchas like having to use copy_from_user().

This feature is already implemented on x86-32 and the majority of other
32-bit architectures. The current list of get_user_8 hold out
architectures are: arm, avr32, blackfin, m32r, metag, microblaze,
mn10300, sh.

Credit:

    My name sits rather uneasily at the top of this patch. The v1 and
    v2 versions of the patch were written by Rob Clark and to produce v4
    I mostly copied code from Russell King and H. Peter Anvin. However I
    have mangled the patch sufficiently that *blame* is rightfully mine
    even if credit should more widely shared.

Changelog:

v5: updated to use the ret macro (requested by Russell King)
v4: remove an inlined add on big endian systems (spotted by Russell King),
    used __ARMEB__ rather than BIG_ENDIAN (to match rest of file),
    cleared r3 on EFAULT during __get_user_8.
v3: fix a couple of checkpatch issues
v2: pass correct size to check_uaccess, and better handling of narrowing
    double word read with __get_user_xb() (Russell King's suggestion)
v1: original

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson 
Signed-off-by: Russell King