Kernel space needs very little in the way of BTC maintanence as most
mappings which are created and destroyed are non-executable, and so
could never enter the instruction stream.
The case which does warrant BTC maintanence is when a module is loaded.
This creates a new executable mapping, but at that point the pages have
not been initialized with code and data, so at that point they contain
unpredictable information. Invalidating the BTC at this stage serves
little useful purpose.
Before we execute module code, we call flush_icache_range(), which deals
with the BTC maintanence requirements. This ensures that we have a BTC
maintanence operation before we execute code via the newly created
mapping.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
UP systems do not implement all the instructions that SMP systems have,
so in order to boot a SMP kernel on a UP system, we need to rewrite
parts of the kernel.
Do this using an 'alternatives' scheme, where the kernel code and data
is modified prior to initialization to replace the SMP instructions,
thereby rendering the problematical code ineffectual. We use the linker
to generate a list of 32-bit word locations and their replacement values,
and run through these replacements when we detect a UP system.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The standard I-cache Invalidate All (ICIALLU) and Branch Predication
Invalidate All (BPIALL) operations are not automatically broadcast to
the other CPUs in an ARMv7 MP system. The patch adds the Inner Shareable
variants, ICIALLUIS and BPIALLIS, if ARMv7 and SMP.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
ARMv7 SMP hardware can handle the TLB maintenance operations
broadcasting in hardware so that the software can avoid the costly IPIs.
This patch adds the necessary checks (the MMFR3 CPUID register) to avoid
the broadcasting if already supported by the hardware.
(this patch is based on the work done by Tony Thompson @ ARM)
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arm is placing some code in the .text.init section, but it does not
reference that section in its linker scripts.
This change moves this code from the .text.init section to the
.init.text section, which is presumably where it belongs.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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>
We are currently using the ARMv6 operations but need to duplicate some
of the code because of the introduction of the new CPU barrier
instructions in ARMv7.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
