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* ARC: Remove explicit passing around of ECRVineet Gupta2013-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | With ECR now part of pt_regs * No need to propagate from lowest asm handlers as arg * No need to save it in tsk->thread.cause_code * Avoid bit chopping to access the bit-fields More code consolidation, cleanup Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
* ARC: pt_regs update #4: r25 saved/restored unconditionallyVineet Gupta2013-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (This is a VERY IMP change for low level interrupt/exception handling) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * User 25 now saved in pt_regs->user_r25 (vs. tsk->thread_info.user_r25) * This allows Low level interrupt code to unconditionally save r25 (vs. the prev version which would only do it for U->K transition). Ofcourse for nested interrupts, only the pt_regs->user_r25 of bottom-most frame is useful. * simplifies the interrupt prologue/epilogue * Needed for ARCv2 ISA code and done here to keep design similar with ARCompact event handling ----------------------------------------------------------------------- WHY ------------------------------------------------------------------------- With CONFIG_ARC_CURR_IN_REG, r25 is used to cache "current" task pointer in kernel mode. So when entering kernel mode from User Mode - user r25 is specially safe-kept (it being a callee reg is NOT part of pt_regs which are saved by default on each interrupt/trap/exception) - r25 loaded with current task pointer. Further, if interrupt was taken in kernel mode, this is skipped since we know that r25 already has valid "current" pointer. With 2 level of interrupts in ARCompact ISA, detecting this is difficult but still possible, since we could be in kernel mode but r25 not already saved (in fact the stack itself might not have been switched). A. User mode B. L1 IRQ taken C. L2 IRQ taken (while on 1st line of L1 ISR) So in #C, although in kernel mode, r25 not saved (infact SP not switched at all) Given that ARcompact has manual stack switching, we could use a bit of trickey - The low level code would make sure that SP is only set to kernel mode value at the very end (after saving r25). So a non kernel mode SP, even if in kernel mode, meant r25 was NOT saved. The same paradigm won't work in ARCv2 ISA since SP is auto-switched so it's setting can't be delayed/constrained. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
* ARC: pt_regs update #3: Remove unused gutter at start of callee_regsVineet Gupta2013-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is trickier than prev two: * context switching code saves kernel mode callee regs in the format of struct callee_regs thus needs adjustment. This also reduces the height of topmost kernel stack frame by 1 word. * Since kernel stack unwinder is sensitive to height of topmost kernel stack frame, that needs a word of adjustment too. ptrace needs a bit of updating since pt_regs now diverges from user_regs_struct. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
* ARC: pt_regs update #1: Align pt_regs end with end of kernel stack pageVineet Gupta2013-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Historically, pt_regs would end at offset of 1 word from end of stack page. ----------------- -> START of page (task->stack) | | | thread_info | ----------------- | | ^ ~ ~ | ~ ~ | | | | | | <---- pt_regs used to END here ----------------- | 1 word GUTTER | ----------------- -> End of page (START of kernel stack) This required special "one-off" considerations in low level code. The root cause is very likely assumption of "empty" SP by the original ARC kernel hackers, despite ARC700 always been "full" SP. So finally RIP one word gutter ! Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
* ARC: SMP supportVineet Gupta2013-02-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ARC common code to enable a SMP system + ISS provided SMP extensions. ARC700 natively lacks SMP support, hence some of the core features are are only enabled if SoCs have the necessary h/w pixie-dust. This includes: -Inter Processor Interrupts (IPI) -Cache coherency -load-locked/store-conditional ... The low level exception handling would be completely broken in SMP because we don't have hardware assisted stack switching. Thus a fair bit of this code is repurposing the MMU_SCRATCH reg for event handler prologues to keep them re-entrant. Many thanks to Rajeshwar Ranga for his initial "major" contributions to SMP Port (back in 2008), and to Noam Camus and Gilad Ben-Yossef for help with resurrecting that in 3.2 kernel (2012). Note that this platform code is again singleton design pattern - so multiple SMP platforms won't build at the moment - this deficiency is addressed in subsequent patches within this series. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rajeshwar Ranga <rajeshwar.ranga@gmail.com> Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
* ARC: [optim] Cache "current" in Register r25Vineet Gupta2013-02-15
| | | | Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
* ARC: Process-creation/scheduling/idle-loopVineet Gupta2013-02-11
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* ARC: Fundamental ARCH data-types/definesVineet Gupta2013-02-11
* L1_CACHE_SHIFT * PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_OFFSET * struct pt_regs, struct user_regs_struct * struct thread_struct, cpu_relax(), task_pt_regs(), start_thread(), ... * struct thread_info, THREAD_SIZE, INIT_THREAD_INFO(), TIF_*, ... * BUG() * ELF_* * Elf_* To disallow user-space visibility into some of the core kernel data-types such as struct pt_regs, #ifdef __KERNEL__ which also makes the UAPI header spit (further patch in the series) to NOT export it to asm/uapi/ptrace.h Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas.bonn@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>