linux.git/arch/arc/kernel/head.S, branch v6.6.131

ARC: [plat-hsdk] Remap CCMs super early in asm boot trampoline

2020-11-02T19:45:09+00:00

ARC HSDK platform stopped booting on released v5.10-rc1, getting stuck
in startup of non master SMP cores.

This was bisected to upstream commit 7fef431be9c9ac25
"(mm/page_alloc: place pages to tail in __free_pages_core())"
That commit itself is harmless, it just exposed a subtle assumption in
our platform code (hence CC'ing linux-mm just as FYI in case some other
arches / platforms trip on it).

The upstream commit is semantically disruptive as it reverses the order
of page allocations (actually it can be good test for hardware
verification to exercise different memory patterns altogether).
For ARC HSDK platform that meant a remapped memory region (pertaining to
unused Closely Coupled Memory) started getting used early for dynamice
allocations, while not effectively remapped on all the cores, triggering
memory error exception on those cores.

The fix is to move the CCM remapping from early platform code to to early core
boot code. And while it is undesirable to riddle common boot code with
platform quirks, there is no other way to do this since the faltering code
involves setting up stack itself so even function calls are not allowed at
that point.

If anyone is interested, all the gory details can be found at Link below.

Link: https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/linux/issues/32
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARCv2: support loop buffer (LPB) disabling

2020-06-18T20:07:24+00:00

On HS cores, loop buffer (LPB) is programmable in runtime and can
be optionally disabled.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: handle DSP presence in HW

2020-03-16T17:23:44+00:00

When DSP extensions are present, some of the regular integer instructions
such as DIV, MACD etc are executed in the DSP unit with semantics alterable
by flags in DSP_CTRL aux register. This register is writable by userspace
and thus can potentially affect corresponding instructions in kernel code,
intentionally or otherwise. So safegaurd kernel by effectively disabling
DSP_CTRL upon bootup and every entry to kernel.

Do note that for this config we simply zero out the DSP_CTRL reg assuming
userspace doesn't really care about DSP. The next patch caters to the DSP
aware userspace where this reg is saved/restored upon kernel entry/exit.

Reviewed-by: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500

2019-06-19T15:09:55+00:00

Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt 
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart 
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal 
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARC: u-boot args: check that magic number is correct

2019-02-25T20:11:01+00:00

In case of devboards we really often disable bootloader and load
Linux image in memory via JTAG. Even if kernel tries to verify
uboot_tag and uboot_arg there is sill a chance that we treat some
garbage in registers as valid u-boot arguments in JTAG case.
E.g. it is enough to have '1' in r0 to treat any value in r2 as
a boot command line.

So check that magic number passed from u-boot is correct and drop
u-boot arguments otherwise. That helps to reduce the possibility
of using garbage as u-boot arguments in JTAG case.

We can safely check U-boot magic value (0x0) in linux passed via
r1 register as U-boot pass it from the beginning. So there is no
backward-compatibility issues.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARCv2: Add explcit unaligned access support (and ability to disable too)

2019-02-25T20:10:58+00:00

As of today we enable unaligned access unconditionally on ARCv2.
Do this under a Kconfig option to allow disable it for test, benchmarking
etc. Also while at it

  - Select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
  - Although gcc defaults to unaligned access (since GNU 2018.03), add the
    right toggles for enabling or disabling as appropriate
  - update bootlog to prints both HW feature status (exists, enabled/disabled)
    and SW status (used / not used).
  - wire up the relaxed memcpy for unaligned access

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
[vgupta: squashed patches, handle gcc -mno-unaligned-access quick]

ARC: enable uboot support unconditionally

2019-02-21T19:03:19+00:00

After reworking U-boot args handling code and adding paranoid
arguments check we can eliminate CONFIG_ARC_UBOOT_SUPPORT and
enable uboot support unconditionally.

For JTAG case we can assume that core registers will come up
reset value of 0 or in worst case we rely on user passing
'-on=clear_regs' to Metaware debugger.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Corentin LABBE 
Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: U-boot: check arguments paranoidly

2019-02-21T19:03:18+00:00

Handle U-boot arguments paranoidly:
 * don't allow to pass unknown tag.
 * try to use external device tree blob only if corresponding tag
   (TAG_DTB) is set.
 * don't check uboot_tag if kernel build with no ARC_UBOOT_SUPPORT.

NOTE:
If U-boot args are invalid we skip them and try to use embedded device
tree blob. We can't panic on invalid U-boot args as we really pass
invalid args due to bug in U-boot code.
This happens if we don't provide external DTB to U-boot and
don't set 'bootargs' U-boot environment variable (which is default
case at least for HSDK board) In that case we will pass
{r0 = 1 (bootargs in r2); r1 = 0; r2 = 0;} to linux which is invalid.

While I'm at it refactor U-boot arguments handling code.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Corentin LABBE 
Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARCv2: Enable unaligned access in early ASM code

2019-02-21T19:03:15+00:00

It is currently done in arc_init_IRQ() which might be too late
considering gcc 7.3.1 onwards (GNU 2018.03) generates unaligned
memory accesses by default

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.4+
Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
[vgupta: rewrote changelog]

ARC: smp-boot: Decouple Non masters waiting API from jump to entry point

2017-01-24T19:12:28+00:00

For run-on-reset SMP configs, non master cores call a routine which
waits until Master gives it a "go" signal (currently using a shared
mem flag). The same routine then jumps off the well known entry point of
all non Master cores i.e. @first_lines_of_secondary

This patch moves out the last part into one single place in early boot
code.

This is better in terms of absraction (the wait API only waits) and
returns, leaving out the "jump off to" part.

In actual implementation this requires some restructuring of the early
boot code as well as Master now jumps to BSS setup explicitly,
vs. falling thru into it before.

Technically this patch doesn't cause any functional change, it just
moves the ugly #ifdef'ry from assembly code to "C"

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta