The ARM compiler inserts calls to __aeabi_idiv() and
__aeabi_uidiv() when it needs to perform division on signed and
unsigned integers. If a processor has support for the sdiv and
udiv instructions, the kernel may overwrite the beginning of those
functions with those instructions and a "bx lr" to get better
performance.
To ensure that those functions are aligned to a 32-bit word for easier
patching (which might not always be the case in Thumb mode) and that
the two patched instructions end up in the same cache line, a 8-byte
alignment is enforced when ARM_PATCH_IDIV is selected.
This was heavily inspired by a previous patch from Stephen Boyd.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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>
The software division functions never had unwinding annotations
added. Currently, when a division by zero occurs the backtrace shown
will stop at Ldiv0 or some completely unrelated function. Add
unwinding annotations in hopes of getting a more useful backtrace
when a division by zero occurs.
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
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>
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>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
The ARM EABI defines new names for GCC helper functions.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
We must make sure that assembly code that modifies the stack pointer
before calling a C function does it so it remains 64-bit aligned.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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!
Nicolas Pitre
Antonio Ospite
Russell King
Laura Abbott
Nicolas Pitre
Catalin Marinas
Nicolas Pitre
Linus Torvalds