- 25 Nov, 2014 1 commit
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Will Deacon authored
update_insn_emulation_mode() returns 0 on success, so we should be treating any non-zero values as failure, rather than the other way around. Otherwise, writes to the sysctl file controlling the emulation are ignored and immediately rolled back. Reported-by: Gene Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 21 Nov, 2014 1 commit
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Will Deacon authored
Translation faults that occur due to the input address being outside of the address range mapped by the relevant base register are reported as level 0 faults in ESR.DFSC. If the faulting access cannot be resolved by the kernel (e.g. because it is not mapped by a vma), then we report "input address range fault" on the console. This was fine until we added support for 48-bit VAs, which actually place PGDs at level 0 and can trigger faults for invalid addresses that are within the range of the page tables. This patch changes the string to report "level 0 translation fault", which is far less confusing. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 20 Nov, 2014 9 commits
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Will Deacon authored
Having the instruction emulation submenu underneath "platform selection" is a great way to hide options we don't want people to use, but somewhat confusing when you stumble across it there. Move the menuconfig option underneath "kernel features", where it makes a bit more sense. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Punit Agrawal authored
Introduce an event to trace the usage of emulated instructions. The trace event is intended to help identify and encourage the migration of legacy software using the emulation features. Use this event to trace usage of swp and CP15 barrier emulation. Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Punit Agrawal authored
The CP15 barrier instructions (CP15ISB, CP15DSB and CP15DMB) are deprecated in the ARMv7 architecture, superseded by ISB, DSB and DMB instructions respectively. Some implementations may provide the ability to disable the CP15 barriers by disabling the CP15BEN bit in SCTLR_EL1. If not enabled, the encodings for these instructions become undefined. To support legacy software using these instructions, this patch register hooks to - * emulate CP15 barriers and warn the user about their use * toggle CP15BEN in SCTLR_EL1 Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Punit Agrawal authored
The SWP instruction was deprecated in the ARMv6 architecture. The ARMv7 multiprocessing extensions mandate that SWP/SWPB instructions are treated as undefined from reset, with the ability to enable them through the System Control Register SW bit. With ARMv8, the option to enable these instructions through System Control Register was dropped as well. To support legacy applications using these instructions, port the emulation of the SWP and SWPB instructions from the arm port to arm64. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Punit Agrawal authored
Typically, providing support for legacy instructions requires emulating the behaviour of instructions whose encodings have become undefined. If the instructions haven't been removed from the architecture, there maybe an option in the implementation to turn on/off the support for these instructions. Create common infrastructure to support legacy instruction emulation. In addition to emulation, also provide an option to support hardware execution when supported. The default execution mode (one of undef, emulate, hw exeuction) is dependent on the state of the instruction (deprecated or obsolete) in the architecture and can specified at the time of registering the instruction handlers. The runtime state of the emulation can be controlled by writing to individual nodes in sysctl. The expected default behaviour is documented as part of this patch. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Punit Agrawal authored
Port support for AArch32 instruction condition code checking from arm to arm64. Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Punit Agrawal authored
Add support to register hooks for undefined instructions. The handlers will be called when the undefined instruction and the processor state (as contained in pstate) match criteria used at registration. Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Steve Capper authored
The generic this_cpu operations disable interrupts to ensure that the requested operation is protected from pre-emption. For arm64, this is overkill and can hurt throughput and latency. This patch provides arm64 specific implementations for the this_cpu operations. Rather than disable interrupts, we use the exclusive monitor or atomic operations as appropriate. The following operations are implemented: add, add_return, and, or, read, write, xchg. We also wire up a cmpxchg implementation from cmpxchg.h. Testing was performed using the percpu_test module and hackbench on a Juno board running 3.18-rc4. Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Mark Rutland authored
We currently allocate different levels of page tables with a variety of differing flags, and the PGALLOC_GFP flags, intended for use when allocating any level of page table, are only used for ptes in pte_alloc_one. On x86, PGALLOC_GFP is used for all page table allocations. Currently the major differences are: * __GFP_NOTRACK -- Needed to ensure page tables are always accessible in the presence of kmemcheck to prevent recursive faults. Currently kmemcheck cannot be selected for arm64. * __GFP_REPEAT -- Causes the allocator to try to reclaim pages and retry upon a failure to allocate. * __GFP_ZERO -- Sometimes passed explicitly, sometimes zalloc variants are used. While we've no encountered issues so far, it would be preferable to be consistent. This patch ensures all levels of table are allocated in the same manner, with PGALLOC_GFP. Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 18 Nov, 2014 1 commit
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Yann Droneaud authored
Since commit 8a0a9bd4 ('random: make get_random_int() more random'), get_random_int() returns a random value for each call, so comment and hack introduced in mmap_rnd() as part of commit 1d18c47c ('arm64: MMU fault handling and page table management') are incorrects. Commit 1d18c47c seems to use the same hack introduced by commit a5adc91a ('powerpc: Ensure random space between stack and mmaps'), latter copied in commit 5a0efea0 ('sparc64: Sharpen address space randomization calculations.'). But both architectures were cleaned up as part of commit fa8cbaaf ('powerpc+sparc64/mm: Remove hack in mmap randomize layout') as hack is no more needed since commit 8a0a9bd4. So the present patch removes the comment and the hack around get_random_int() on AArch64's mmap_rnd(). Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 17 Nov, 2014 2 commits
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Catalin Marinas authored
Commit a469abd0 (ARM: elf: add new hwcap for identifying atomic ldrd/strd instructions) introduces HWCAP_ELF for 32-bit ARM applications. As LPAE is always present on arm64, report the corresponding compat HWCAP to user space. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.11+ Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Will Deacon authored
On architectures with hardware broadcasting of TLB invalidation messages , it makes sense to reduce the range of the mmu_gather structure when unmapping page ranges based on the dirty address information passed to tlb_remove_tlb_entry. arm64 already does this by directly manipulating the start/end fields of the gather structure, but this confuses the generic code which does not expect these fields to change and can end up calculating invalid, negative ranges when forcing a flush in zap_pte_range. This patch moves the minimal range calculation out of the arm64 code and into the generic implementation, simplifying zap_pte_range in the process (which no longer needs to care about start/end, since they will point to the appropriate ranges already). With the range being tracked by core code, the need_flush flag is dropped in favour of checking that the end of the range has actually been set. Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 14 Nov, 2014 3 commits
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Will Deacon authored
The push/pop instructions can be suboptimal when saving/restoring large amounts of data to/from the stack, for example on entry/exit from the kernel. This is because: (1) They act on descending addresses (i.e. the newly decremented sp), which may defeat some hardware prefetchers (2) They introduce an implicit dependency between each instruction, as the sp has to be updated in order to resolve the address of the next access. This patch removes the push/pop instructions from our kernel entry/exit macros in favour of ldp/stp plus offset. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Will Deacon authored
Using an explicit adr instruction to set the link register to point at ret_fast_syscall/ret_to_user can defeat branch and return stack predictors. Instead, use the standard calling instructions (bl, blr) and have an unconditional branch as the following instruction. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Mark Rutland authored
Commit d7a49086 (arm64: cpuinfo: print info for all CPUs) attempted to clean up /proc/cpuinfo, but due to concerns regarding further changes was reverted in commit 5e39977e (Revert "arm64: cpuinfo: print info for all CPUs"). There are two major issues with the arm64 /proc/cpuinfo format currently: * The "Features" line describes (only) the 64-bit hwcaps, which is problematic for some 32-bit applications which attempt to parse it. As the same names are used for analogous ISA features (e.g. aes) despite these generally being architecturally unrelated, it is not possible to simply append the 64-bit and 32-bit hwcaps in a manner that might not be misleading to some applications. Various potential solutions have appeared in vendor kernels. Typically the format of the Features line varies depending on whether the task is 32-bit. * Information is only printed regarding a single CPU. This does not match the ARM format, and does not provide sufficient information in big.LITTLE systems where CPUs are heterogeneous. The CPU information printed is queried from the current CPU's registers, which is racy w.r.t. cross-cpu migration. This patch attempts to solve these issues. The following changes are made: * When a task with a LINUX32 personality attempts to read /proc/cpuinfo, the "Features" line contains the decoded 32-bit hwcaps, as with the arm port. Otherwise, the decoded 64-bit hwcaps are shown. This aligns with the behaviour of COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE and COMPAT_ELF_PLATFORM. In the absense of compat support, the Features line is empty. The set of hwcaps injected into a task's auxval are unaffected. * Properties are printed per-cpu, as with the ARM port. The per-cpu information is queried from pre-recorded cpu information (as used by the sanity checks). * As with the previous attempt at fixing up /proc/cpuinfo, the hardware field is removed. The only users so far are 32-bit applications tied to particular boards, so no portable applications should be affected, and this should prevent future tying to particular boards. The following differences remain: * No model_name is printed, as this cannot be queried from the hardware and cannot be provided in a stable fashion. Use of the CPU {implementor,variant,part,revision} fields is sufficient to identify a CPU and is portable across arm and arm64. * The following system-wide properties are not provided, as they are not possible to provide generally. Programs relying on these are already tied to particular (32-bit only) boards: - Hardware - Revision - Serial No software has yet been identified for which these remaining differences are problematic. Cc: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com> Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Serban Constantinescu <serban.constantinescu@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: cross-distro@lists.linaro.org Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 07 Nov, 2014 2 commits
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
Replace two instances of 'ldr xN, =(constant)' in the world switch hot path with 'mov' instructions. Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
Replace ldr xN, =<symbol> with adrp/add or adrp/ldr [as appropriate] in the implementation of _mcount(), which may be called very often. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 06 Nov, 2014 7 commits
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Mark Rutland authored
In certain debugging scenarios it's useful to know the physical ID (i.e. the MPIDR_EL1.Aff* fields) of the boot CPU, but we don't currently log this as we do for 32-bit ARM kernels. This patch makes the kernel log the physical ID of the boot CPU early in the boot process. The CPU logical map initialisation is folded in to smp_setup_processor_id (which contrary to its name is also called by UP kernels). This is called before setup_arch, so should not adversely affect existing cpu_logical_map users. Acked-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisis <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
This patch implements the AES key schedule generation using ARMv8 Crypto Instructions. It replaces the table based C implementation in aes_generic.ko, which means we can drop the dependency on that module. Tested-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> Acked-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Geoff Levand authored
Some of the macros defined in kvm_arm.h are useful in assembly files, but are not compatible with the assembler. Change any C language integer constant definitions using appended U, UL, or ULL to the UL() preprocessor macro. Also, add a preprocessor include of the asm/memory.h file which defines the UL() macro. Fixes build errors like these when using kvm_arm.h in assembly source files: Error: unexpected characters following instruction at operand 3 -- `and x0,x1,#((1U<<25)-1)' Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
This installs the machine name as recorded by setup_machine_fdt() as dump stack arch description. This results in the string to be included in call stack dumps, as is shown here: ... Bad mode in Synchronous Abort handler detected, code 0x84000005 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.18.0-rc2+ #548 > Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) task: ffffffc07c870000 ti: ffffffc07c878000 task.ti: ffffffc07c878000 PC is at 0x0 ... Note that systems that support DMI/SMBIOS may override this later. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Steve Capper authored
The arm64 architecture has the ability to exclusively load and store a pair of registers from an address (ldxp/stxp). Also the SLUB can take advantage of a cmpxchg_double implementation to avoid taking some locks. This patch provides an implementation of cmpxchg_double for 64-bit pairs, and activates the logic required for the SLUB to use these functions (HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE and HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE). Also definitions of this_cpu_cmpxchg_8 and this_cpu_cmpxchg_double_8 are wired up to cmpxchg_local and cmpxchg_double_local (rather than the stock implementations that perform non-atomic operations with interrupts disabled) as they are used by the SLUB. On a Juno platform running on only the A57s I get quite a noticeable performance improvement with 5 runs of hackbench on v3.17: Baseline | With Patch -----------------+----------- Mean 119.2312 | 106.1782 StdDev 0.4919 | 0.4494 (times taken to complete `./hackbench 100 process 1000', in seconds) Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Joonwoo Park authored
Optimize memcpy_{from,to}io() and memset_io() by transferring in 64 bit as much as possible with minimized barrier usage. This simplest optimization brings faster throughput compare to current byte-by-byte read and write with barrier in the loop. Code's skeleton is taken from the powerpc. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20141020133304.GH23751@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.comReviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Trilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Min-Hua Chen authored
Use phys_addr_t for physical address in alloc_init_pud. Although phys_addr_t and unsigned long are 64 bit in arm64, it is better to use phys_addr_t to describe physical addresses. Signed-off-by: Min-Hua Chen <orca.chen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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- 05 Nov, 2014 11 commits
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git://git.linaro.org/people/ard.biesheuvel/linux-armWill Deacon authored
Pull UEFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel: - fixes for compliance with PE/COFF and UEFI specs - added support for SMBIOS, including upcoming version 3.0 - cleanups and diagnostic output improvements Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Mark Rutland authored
In the absence of a DTB configuration table, the EFI stub will happily continue attempting to boot a kernel, despite the fact that this kernel may not function without a description of the hardware. In this case, as with a typo'd "dtb=" option (e.g. "dbt=") or many other possible failures, the only output seen by the user will be the rather terse output from the EFI stub: EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel... To aid those attempting to debug such failures, this patch adds a notice when no DTB is found, making the output more helpful: EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel... EFI stub: Generating empty DTB Additionally, a positive acknowledgement is added when a user-specified DTB is in use: EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel... EFI stub: Using DTB from command line Similarly, a positive acknowledgement is added when a DTB from a configuration table is in use: EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel... EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Acked-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
This sets the DMI string, containing system type, serial number, firmware version etc. as dump stack arch description, so that oopses and other kernel stack dumps automatically have this information included, if available. Tested-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
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Yi Li authored
SMBIOS is important for server hardware vendors. It implements a spec for providing descriptive information about the platform. Things like serial numbers, physical layout of the ports, build configuration data, and the like. Signed-off-by: Yi Li <yi.li@linaro.org> Tested-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com> Tested-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
The DMTF SMBIOS reference spec v3.0.0 defines a new 64-bit entry point, which enables support for SMBIOS structure tables residing at a physical offset over 4 GB. This is especially important for upcoming arm64 platforms whose system RAM resides entirely above the 4 GB boundary. For the UEFI case, this code attempts to detect the new SMBIOS 3.0 header magic at the offset passed in the SMBIOS3_TABLE_GUID UEFI configuration table. If this configuration table is not provided, or if we fail to parse the header, we fall back to using the legacy SMBIOS_TABLE_GUID configuration table. This is in line with the spec, that allows both configuration tables to be provided, but mandates that they must point to the same structure table, unless the version pointed to by the 64-bit entry point is a superset of the 32-bit one. For the non-UEFI case, the detection logic is modified to look for the SMBIOS 3.0 header magic before it looks for the legacy header magic. Note that this patch is based on version 3.0.0d [draft] of the specification, which is expected not to deviate from the final version in ways that would affect the correctness of this implementation. Tested-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com> Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> Tested-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
This adds support to the UEFI side for detecting the presence of a SMBIOS 3.0 64-bit entry point. This allows the actual SMBIOS structure table to reside at a physical offset over 4 GB, which cannot be supported by the legacy SMBIOS 32-bit entry point. Since the firmware can legally provide both entry points, store the SMBIOS 3.0 entry point in a separate variable, and let the DMI decoding layer decide which one will be used. Tested-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com> Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
The EFI_CONFIG_TABLES bit already gets set by efi_config_init(), so there is no reason to set it again after this function returns successfully. Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
Instead of reserving the memory regions based on which types we know need to be reserved, consider only regions of the following types as free for general use by the OS: EFI_LOADER_CODE EFI_LOADER_DATA EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY Note that this also fixes a problem with the original code, which would misidentify a EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA region as not reserved if it does not have the EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute set. However, it is perfectly legal for the firmware not to request a virtual mapping for EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA regions that contain configuration tables, in which case the EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute would not be set. Acked-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
Change our PE/COFF header to use the minimum file alignment of 512 bytes (0x200), as mandated by the PE/COFF spec v8.3 Also update the linker script so that the Image file itself is also a round multiple of FileAlignment. Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
Position independent AArch64 code needs to be linked and loaded at the same relative offset from a 4 KB boundary, or adrp/add and adrp/ldr pairs will not work correctly. (This is how PC relative symbol references with a 4 GB reach are emitted) We need to declare this in the PE/COFF header, otherwise the PE/COFF loader may load the Image and invoke the stub at an offset which violates this rule. Reviewed-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
After the EFI stub has done its business, it jumps into the kernel by branching to offset #0 of the loaded Image, which is where it expects to find the header containing a 'branch to stext' instruction. However, the UEFI spec 2.1.1 states the following regarding PE/COFF image loading: "A UEFI image is loaded into memory through the LoadImage() Boot Service. This service loads an image with a PE32+ format into memory. This PE32+ loader is required to load all sections of the PE32+ image into memory." In other words, it is /not/ required to load parts of the image that are not covered by a PE/COFF section, so it may not have loaded the header at the expected offset, as it is not covered by any PE/COFF section. So instead, jump to 'stext' directly, which is at the base of the PE/COFF .text section, by supplying a symbol 'stext_offset' to efi-entry.o which contains the relative offset of stext into the Image. Also replace other open coded calculations of the same value with a reference to 'stext_offset' Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
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- 26 Oct, 2014 3 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-socLinus Torvalds authored
Pull ARM SoC fixes from Olof Johansson: "Another week, another small batch of fixes. Most of these make zynq, socfpga and sunxi platforms work a bit better: - due to new requirements for regulators, DWMMC on socfpga broke past v3.17 - SMP spinup fix for socfpga - a few DT fixes for zynq - another option (FIXED_REGULATOR) for sunxi is needed that used to be selected by other options but no longer is. - a couple of small DT fixes for at91 - ...and a couple for i.MX" * tag 'armsoc-for-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: ARM: dts: imx28-evk: Let i2c0 run at 100kHz ARM: i.MX6: Fix "emi" clock name typo ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: enable CONFIG_MMC_DW_ROCKCHIP ARM: sunxi_defconfig: enable CONFIG_REGULATOR_FIXED_VOLTAGE ARM: dts: socfpga: Add a 3.3V fixed regulator node ARM: dts: socfpga: Fix SD card detect ARM: dts: socfpga: rename gpio nodes ARM: at91/dt: sam9263: fix PLLB frequencies power: reset: at91-reset: fix power down register MAINTAINERS: add atmel ssc driver maintainer entry arm: socfpga: fix fetching cpu1start_addr for SMP ARM: zynq: DT: trivial: Fix mc node ARM: zynq: DT: Add cadence watchdog node ARM: zynq: DT: Add missing reference for memory-controller ARM: zynq: DT: Add missing reference for ADC ARM: zynq: DT: Add missing address for L2 pl310 ARM: zynq: DT: Remove 222 MHz OPP ARM: zynq: DT: Fix GEM register area size
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro: "overlayfs merge + leak fix for d_splice_alias() failure exits" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: overlayfs: embed middle into overlay_readdir_data overlayfs: embed root into overlay_readdir_data overlayfs: make ovl_cache_entry->name an array instead of pointer overlayfs: don't hold ->i_mutex over opening the real directory fix inode leaks on d_splice_alias() failure exits fs: limit filesystem stacking depth overlay: overlay filesystem documentation overlayfs: implement show_options overlayfs: add statfs support overlay filesystem shmem: support RENAME_WHITEOUT ext4: support RENAME_WHITEOUT vfs: add RENAME_WHITEOUT vfs: add whiteout support vfs: export check_sticky() vfs: introduce clone_private_mount() vfs: export __inode_permission() to modules vfs: export do_splice_direct() to modules vfs: add i_op->dentry_open()
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