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Russell King 6ebbf2ce43 ARM: convert all "mov.* pc, reg" to "bx reg" for ARMv6+
ARMv6 and greater introduced a new instruction ("bx") which can be used
to return from function calls.  Recent CPUs perform better when the
"bx lr" instruction is used rather than the "mov pc, lr" instruction,
and this sequence is strongly recommended to be used by the ARM
architecture manual (section A.4.1.1).

We provide a new macro "ret" with all its variants for the condition
code which will resolve to the appropriate instruction.

Rather than doing this piecemeal, and miss some instances, change all
the "mov pc" instances to use the new macro, with the exception of
the "movs" instruction and the kprobes code.  This allows us to detect
the "mov pc, lr" case and fix it up - and also gives us the possibility
of deploying this for other registers depending on the CPU selection.

Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> # Tegra Jetson TK1
Tested-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr> # mioa701_bootresume.S
Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> # Kirkwood
Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@freescale.com>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> # OMAPs
Tested-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> # Armada XP, 375, 385
Acked-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com> # DaVinci
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> # kvm/hyp
Acked-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com> # PXA3xx
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> # Xen
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> # ARMv7M
Tested-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au> # Shmobile
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2014-07-18 12:29:04 +01:00
Russell King ef41b5c924 ARM: make kernel oops easier to read
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 <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2013-12-29 12:32:30 +00:00
Laura Abbott b380ab4f85 ARM: 7068/1: process: change from __backtrace to dump_stack in show_regs
Currently, show_regs calls __backtrace which does
nothing if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is not set. Switch to
dump_stack which handles both CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER and
CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND correctly.

__backtrace is now superseded by dump_stack in general
and show_regs was the last caller so remove __backtrace
as well.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-10-17 09:12:41 +01:00
Russell King 4260415f6a ARM: fix build error in arch/arm/kernel/process.c
/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s:1952: Error: can't resolve `.text' {.text section} - `.LFB1077'

This is caused because:

	.section .data
	.section .text
	.section .text
	.previous

does not return us to the .text section, but the .data section; this
makes use of .previous dangerous if the ordering of previous sections
is not known.

Fix up the other users of .previous; .pushsection and .popsection are
a safer pairing to use than .section and .previous.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-04-21 08:45:21 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 8b592783a2 Thumb-2: Implement the unified arch/arm/lib functions
This patch adds the ARM/Thumb-2 unified support for the arch/arm/lib/*
files.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-07-24 12:32:57 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 93ed397011 [ARM] 5227/1: Add the ENDPROC declarations to the .S files
This declaration specifies the "function" type and size for various
assembly functions, mainly needed for generating the correct branch
instructions in Thumb-2.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-09-01 12:06:34 +01:00
Russell King 7ab3f8d595 [ARM] Add ability to dump exception stacks to kernel backtraces
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-04-21 20:34:34 +01:00
Jörn Engel 6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Russell King 583e7f5d36 [ARM] nommu: backtrace code must not reference a discarded section
The code in "1007:" is in the .fixup section, which in the mmuless
case is discarded.  Since this code is referenced from the .text
section, it causes an link error.  Move this code into the .text
section instead.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-06-28 17:59:57 +01:00
Russell King 1b93a71755 [ARM] Remove LOADREGS macro
As for RETINSTR, LOADREGS is a left-over from the 26-bit days.
Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-06-25 11:23:45 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre 1d6760a3ac [ARM] 3524/1: ARM EABI: more 64-bit aligned stack fixes
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

Assembly code that calls C code must ensure the C code sees a 64-bit
aligned stack pointer.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-05-16 11:39:31 +01:00
Malcolm Parsons 3ee357f0f3 [ARM] 3399/1: Fix link problem when CONFIG_PRINTK is disabled
Patch from Malcolm Parsons

Printking a backtrace requires printk, so disable backtrace code
when printk is disabled.

Without this patch, a kernel with CONFIG_PRINTK disabled does not link:

arch/arm/lib/lib.a(backtrace.o): In function `c_backtrace':
arch/arm/lib/backtrace.S:(.text+0x108): undefined reference to `printk'
arch/arm/lib/backtrace.S:(.text+0x11c): undefined reference to `printk'
arch/arm/lib/lib.a(backtrace.o):(.fixup+0x8): undefined reference to `printk'

Signed-off-by: Malcolm Parsons <malcolm.parsons@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-25 21:58:03 +00:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00