The kernel doesn't officially need to interwork, but using BX
wherever appropriate will help educate people into good assembler
coding habits.
BX is appropriate here because this code is predicated on
__LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Switch the set/clear/change bitops to use the word-based exclusive
operations, which are only present in a wider range of ARM architectures
than the byte-based exclusive operations.
Tested record:
- Nicolas Pitre: ext3,rw,le
- Sourav Poddar: nfs,le
- Will Deacon: ext3,rw,le
- Tony Lindgren: ext3+nfs,le
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar@ti.com>
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Add additional instructions to our assembly bitops functions to ensure
that they only operate on word-aligned pointers. This will be necessary
when we switch these operations to use the word-based exclusive
operations.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
We perform the microseconds to loops calculation using a number of
multiplies and shift rights. Each shift right rounds down the
resulting value, which can result in delays shorter than requested.
Ensure that we always round up.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The find_next_bit, find_first_bit, find_next_zero_bit
and find_first_zero_bit functions were not properly
clamping to the maxbit argument at the bit level. They
were instead only checking maxbit at the byte level.
To fix this, add a compare and a conditional move
instruction to the end of the common bit-within-the-
byte code used by all the functions and be sure not to
clobber the maxbit argument before it is used.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: James Jones <jajones@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch removes the domain switching functionality via the set_fs and
__switch_to functions on cores that have a TLS register.
Currently, the ioremap and vmalloc areas share the same level 1 page
tables and therefore have the same domain (DOMAIN_KERNEL). When the
kernel domain is modified from Client to Manager (via the __set_fs or in
the __switch_to function), the XN (eXecute Never) bit is overridden and
newer CPUs can speculatively prefetch the ioremap'ed memory.
Linux performs the kernel domain switching to allow user-specific
functions (copy_to/from_user, get/put_user etc.) to access kernel
memory. In order for these functions to work with the kernel domain set
to Client, the patch modifies the LDRT/STRT and related instructions to
the LDR/STR ones.
The user pages access rights are also modified for kernel read-only
access rather than read/write so that the copy-on-write mechanism still
works. CPU_USE_DOMAINS gets disabled only if the hardware has a TLS register
(CPU_32v6K is defined) since writing the TLS value to the high vectors page
isn't possible.
The user addresses passed to the kernel are checked by the access_ok()
function so that they do not point to the kernel space.
Tested-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (291 commits)
ARM: AMBA: Add pclk support to AMBA bus infrastructure
ARM: 6278/2: fix regression in RealView after the introduction of pclk
ARM: 6277/1: mach-shmobile: Allow users to select HZ, default to 128
ARM: 6276/1: mach-shmobile: remove duplicate NR_IRQS_LEGACY
ARM: 6246/1: mmci: support larger MMCIDATALENGTH register
ARM: 6245/1: mmci: enable hardware flow control on Ux500 variants
ARM: 6244/1: mmci: add variant data and default MCICLOCK support
ARM: 6243/1: mmci: pass power_mode to the translate_vdd callback
ARM: 6274/1: add global control registers definition header file for nuc900
mx2_camera: fix type of dma buffer virtual address pointer
mx2_camera: Add soc_camera support for i.MX25/i.MX27
arm/imx/gpio: add spinlock protection
ARM: Add support for the LPC32XX arch
ARM: LPC32XX: Arch config menu supoport and makefiles
ARM: LPC32XX: Phytec 3250 platform support
ARM: LPC32XX: Misc support functions
ARM: LPC32XX: Serial support code
ARM: LPC32XX: System suspend support
ARM: LPC32XX: GPIO, timer, and IRQ drivers
ARM: LPC32XX: Clock driver
...
Using the parent functions frame pointer to access our arguments is
completely wrong, whether or not we're building with frame pointers
or not. What we should be using is the stack pointer to get at the
word above the registers we stacked ourselves.
Reported-by: Bosko Radivojevic <bosko.radivojevic@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Bosko Radivojevic <bosko.radivojevic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This hasn't been actively maintained for a long time, only receiving
the occasional build update when things break. I doubt anyone has
one of these on their desks anymore.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The patch adds the ENDPROC declarations for the __copy_to_user_std and
__clear_user_std functions. Without these, the compiler generates BXL to
ARM when compiling the kernel in Thumb-2 mode.
Reported-by: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
/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>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
When compiling the kernel to Thumb-2, using a 16-bit NOP in the
memmove() implementation causes the preceding ADD PC instruction to
branch incorrectly in the middle of a 32-bit LDR or STR instruction. The
memmove() code is now similar to the memcpy() template.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Optimized version of copy_page() was written with assumption that cache
line size is 32 bytes. On Cortex-A8 cache line size is 64 bytes.
This patch tries to generalize copy_page() to work with any cache line
size if cache line size is multiple of 16 and page size is multiple of
two cache line size.
After this optimization we've got ~25% speedup on OMAP3(tested in
userspace).
There is test for kernelspace which trigger copy-on-write after fork():
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define BUF_SIZE (10000*4096)
#define NFORK 200
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
char *buf = malloc(BUF_SIZE);
int i;
memset(buf, 0, BUF_SIZE);
for(i = 0; i < NFORK; i++) {
if (fork()) {
wait(NULL);
} else {
int j;
for(j = 0; j < BUF_SIZE; j+= 4096)
buf[j] = (j & 0xFF) + 1;
break;
}
}
free(buf);
return 0;
}
Before optimization this test takes ~66 seconds, after optimization
takes ~56 seconds.
Signed-off-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Due to problems at cam.org, my nico@cam.org email address is no longer
valid. FRom now on, nico@fluxnic.net should be used instead.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Before this patch enabling and disabling irqs in assembler code and by
the hardware wasn't tracked completly.
I had to transpose two instructions in arch/arm/lib/bitops.h because
restore_irqs doesn't preserve the flags with CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS=y
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Since the Thumb-2 instructions can be 16-bit wide, data in the .text
sections may not be aligned to a 32-bit word and this leads to unaligned
exceptions. This patch does not affect the ARM code generation.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Previous size thresholds were guessed from various user space benchmarks
using a kernel with and without the alternative uaccess option. This
is however not as precise as a kernel based test to measure the real
speed of each method.
This adds a simple test bench to show the time needed for each method.
With this, the optimal size treshold for the alternative implementation
can be determined with more confidence. It appears that the optimal
threshold for both copy_to_user and clear_user is around 64 bytes. This
is not a surprise knowing that the memcpy and memset implementations
need at least 64 bytes to achieve maximum throughput.
One might suggest that such test be used to determine the optimal
threshold at run time instead, but results are near enough to 64 on
tested targets concerned by this alternative copy_to_user implementation,
so adding some overhead associated with a variable threshold is probably
not worth it for now.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Because the alternate copy_to_user implementation has a higher setup cost
than the standard implementation, the size of the memory area to copy
is tested and the standard implementation invoked instead when that size
is too small. Still, that test is made after the processor has preserved
a bunch of registers on the stack which have to be reloaded right away
needlessly in that case, causing a measurable performance regression
compared to plain usage of the standard implementation only.
To make the size test overhead negligible, let's factorize it out of
the alternate copy_to_user function where it is clear to the compiler
that no stack frame is needed. Thanks to CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND allowing
for frame pointers to be disabled and tail call optimization to kick in,
the overhead in the small copy case becomes only 3 assembly instructions.
A similar trick is applied to clear_user as well.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
This implements {copy_to,clear}_user() by faulting in the userland
pages and then using the regular kernel mem{cpy,set}() to copy the
data (while holding the page table lock). This is a win if the regular
mem{cpy,set}() implementations are faster than the user copy functions,
which is the case e.g. on Feroceon, where 8-word STMs (which memcpy()
uses under the right conditions) give significantly higher memory write
throughput than a sequence of individual 32bit stores.
Here are numbers for page sized buffers on some Feroceon cores:
- copy_to_user on Orion5x goes from 51 MB/s to 83 MB/s
- clear_user on Orion5x goes from 89MB/s to 314MB/s
- copy_to_user on Kirkwood goes from 240 MB/s to 356 MB/s
- clear_user on Kirkwood goes from 367 MB/s to 1108 MB/s
- copy_to_user on Disco-Duo goes from 248 MB/s to 398 MB/s
- clear_user on Disco-Duo goes from 328 MB/s to 1741 MB/s
Because the setup cost is non negligible, this is worthwhile only if
the amount of data to copy is large enough. The operation falls back
to the standard implementation when the amount of data is below a certain
threshold. This threshold was determined empirically, however some targets
could benefit from a lower runtime determined value for optimal results
eventually.
In the copy_from_user() case, this technique does not provide any
worthwhile performance gain due to the fact that any kind of read access
allocates the cache and subsequent 32bit loads are just as fast as the
equivalent 8-word LDM.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Tested-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
This allows for optional alternative implementations of __copy_to_user
and __clear_user, with a possible runtime fallback to the standard
version when the alternative provides no gain over that standard
version. This is done by making the standard __copy_to_user into a weak
alias for the symbol __copy_to_user_std. Same thing for __clear_user.
Those two functions are particularly good candidates to have alternative
implementations for, since they rely on the STRT instruction which has
lower performances than STM instructions on some CPU cores such as
the ARM1176 and Marvell Feroceon.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Mathieu Desnoyers pointed out that the ARM barriers were lacking:
- cmpxchg, xchg and atomic add return need memory barriers on
architectures which can reorder the relative order in which memory
read/writes can be seen between CPUs, which seems to include recent
ARM architectures. Those barriers are currently missing on ARM.
- test_and_xxx_bit were missing SMP barriers.
So put these barriers in. Provide separate atomic_add/atomic_sub
operations which do not require barriers.
Reported-Reviewed-and-Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The CLPS7500 platform has not built since 2.6.22-git7 and there
seems to be no interest in fixing it. So, remove the platform
support.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
As suggested by Andrew Morton, remove memzero() - it's not supported
on other architectures so use of it is a potential build breaking bug.
Since the compiler optimizes memset(x,0,n) to __memzero() perfectly
well, we don't miss out on the underlying benefits of memzero().
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Since the other assembly functions do not seem to save the frame
pointer onto the stack, this patch changes the csum_partial_copy_*
functions to behave in the same way.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The last strnebt instruction has a post-index of 1 but the address
register is set to 0 in the next instruction, so no need for
post-indexing.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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>
Remove includes of asm/hardware.h in addition to asm/arch/hardware.h.
Then, since asm/hardware.h only exists to include asm/arch/hardware.h,
update everything to directly include asm/arch/hardware.h and remove
asm/hardware.h.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Move platform independent header files to arch/arm/include/asm, leaving
those in asm/arch* and asm/plat* alone.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This is a natural extension following the previous patch.
Non Feroceon based targets are unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
The implementation for memory copy functions on ARM had a (disabled)
provision for aligning the source pointer before loading registers with
data. Turns out that aligning the _destination_ pointer is much more
useful, as the read side is already sufficiently helped with the use of
preload.
So this changes the definition of the CALGN() macro to target the
destination pointer instead, and turns it on for Feroceon processors
where the gain is very noticeable.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
This code is currently disabled, which explains why no one was affected.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
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>
MMUless systems have only one address space for all threads, so
both the usual access_ok() checks, and the exception handling do
not make much sense.
Hence, discard the fixup and exception tables at link time, use
memcpy/memset for the user copy/clearing functions, and define
the permission check macros to be constants.
Some of this patch was derived from the equivalent patch by
Hyok S. Choi.
Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Back in the days when we had armo (26-bit) and armv (32-bit) combined,
we had an additional layer to the uaccess macros to ensure correct
typing. Since we no longer have 26-bit in this tree, we no longer
need this layer, so eliminate it.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
As for RETINSTR/LOADREGS macros, these were for compatibility
with 26-bit ARMs. No longer required, so remove them.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Dave Martin
Russell King
James Jones
Catalin Marinas
Linus Torvalds
Tejun Heo
Kirill A. Shutemov
Nicolas Pitre
Russell King
Uwe Kleine-König
Nicolas Pitre
Lennert Buytenhek
Jean-Christophe DUBOIS
Simon Arlott
Jörn Engel