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<title>linux.git/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile, branch v6.18.21</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>arch: use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN) for vmlinux.lds</title>
<updated>2025-06-07T05:38:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-02T18:12:54+00:00</published>
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The extra-y syntax is deprecated. Instead, use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN),
which behaves equivalently.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;n.schier@avm.de&gt;
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The extra-y syntax is deprecated. Instead, use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN),
which behaves equivalently.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;n.schier@avm.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 9433/2: implement cacheinfo support</title>
<updated>2025-01-14T12:29:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Baryshkov</name>
<email>dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-14T11:54:52+00:00</published>
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On ARMv7 / v7m machines read CTR and CLIDR registers to provide
information regarding the cache topology. Earlier machines should
describe full cache topology in the device tree.

Note, this follows the ARM64 cacheinfo support and provides only minimal
support required to bootstrap cache info. All useful properties should
be decribed in Device Tree.

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov &lt;dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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On ARMv7 / v7m machines read CTR and CLIDR registers to provide
information regarding the cache topology. Earlier machines should
describe full cache topology in the device tree.

Note, this follows the ARM64 cacheinfo support and provides only minimal
support required to bootstrap cache info. All useful properties should
be decribed in Device Tree.

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov &lt;dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/arm: Move 32-bit PMU drivers to drivers/perf/</title>
<updated>2024-07-03T13:07:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Herring (Arm)</name>
<email>robh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-26T22:32:27+00:00</published>
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It is preferred to put drivers under drivers/ rather than under arch/.
The PMU drivers also depend on arm_pmu.c, so it's better to place them
all together.

Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240626-arm-pmu-3-9-icntr-v2-3-c9784b4f4065@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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It is preferred to put drivers under drivers/ rather than under arch/.
The PMU drivers also depend on arm_pmu.c, so it's better to place them
all together.

Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240626-arm-pmu-3-9-icntr-v2-3-c9784b4f4065@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2024-03-23T16:17:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-23T16:17:03+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - remove a misuse of kernel-doc comment

 - use "Call trace:" for backtraces like other architectures

 - implement copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed() to fix a LKDTM test

 - add a "cut here" line for prefetch aborts

 - remove unnecessary Kconfing entry for FRAME_POINTER

 - remove iwmmxy support for PJ4/PJ4B cores

 - use bitfield helpers in ptrace to improve readabililty

 - check if folio is reserved before flushing

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: 9359/1: flush: check if the folio is reserved for no-mapping addresses
  ARM: 9354/1: ptrace: Use bitfield helpers
  ARM: 9352/1: iwmmxt: Remove support for PJ4/PJ4B cores
  ARM: 9353/1: remove unneeded entry for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
  ARM: 9351/1: fault: Add "cut here" line for prefetch aborts
  ARM: 9350/1: fault: Implement copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed()
  ARM: 9349/1: unwind: Add missing "Call trace:" line
  ARM: 9334/1: mm: init: remove misuse of kernel-doc comment
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - remove a misuse of kernel-doc comment

 - use "Call trace:" for backtraces like other architectures

 - implement copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed() to fix a LKDTM test

 - add a "cut here" line for prefetch aborts

 - remove unnecessary Kconfing entry for FRAME_POINTER

 - remove iwmmxy support for PJ4/PJ4B cores

 - use bitfield helpers in ptrace to improve readabililty

 - check if folio is reserved before flushing

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: 9359/1: flush: check if the folio is reserved for no-mapping addresses
  ARM: 9354/1: ptrace: Use bitfield helpers
  ARM: 9352/1: iwmmxt: Remove support for PJ4/PJ4B cores
  ARM: 9353/1: remove unneeded entry for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
  ARM: 9351/1: fault: Add "cut here" line for prefetch aborts
  ARM: 9350/1: fault: Implement copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed()
  ARM: 9349/1: unwind: Add missing "Call trace:" line
  ARM: 9334/1: mm: init: remove misuse of kernel-doc comment
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 9352/1: iwmmxt: Remove support for PJ4/PJ4B cores</title>
<updated>2024-02-26T10:16:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-14T07:03:24+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
PJ4 is a v7 core that incorporates a iWMMXt coprocessor. However, GCC
does not support this combination (its iWMMXt configuration always
implies v5te), and so there is no v6/v7 user space that actually makes
use of this, beyond generic support for things like setjmp() that
preserve/restore the iWMMXt register file using generic LDC/STC
instructions emitted in assembler.  As [0] appears to imply, this logic
is triggered for the init process at boot, and so most user threads will
have a iWMMXt register context associated with it, even though it is
never used.

At this point, it is highly unlikely that such GCC support will ever
materialize (and Clang does not implement support for iWMMXt to begin
with).

This means that advertising iWMMXt support on these cores results in
context switch overhead without any associated benefit, and so it is
better to simply ignore the iWMMXt unit on these systems. So rip out the
support. Doing so also fixes the issue reported in [0] related to UNDEF
handling of co-processor #0/#1 instructions issued from user space
running in Thumb2 mode.

The PJ4 cores are used in four platforms: Armada 370/xp, Dove (Cubox,
d2plug), MMP2 (xo-1.75) and Berlin (Google TV). Out of these, only the
first is still widely used, but that one actually doesn't have iWMMXt
but instead has only VFPV3-D16, and so it is not impacted by this
change.

Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218427 [0]

Fixes: 8bcba70cb5c22 ("ARM: entry: Disregard Thumb undef exception ...")
Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jisheng Zhang &lt;jszhang@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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PJ4 is a v7 core that incorporates a iWMMXt coprocessor. However, GCC
does not support this combination (its iWMMXt configuration always
implies v5te), and so there is no v6/v7 user space that actually makes
use of this, beyond generic support for things like setjmp() that
preserve/restore the iWMMXt register file using generic LDC/STC
instructions emitted in assembler.  As [0] appears to imply, this logic
is triggered for the init process at boot, and so most user threads will
have a iWMMXt register context associated with it, even though it is
never used.

At this point, it is highly unlikely that such GCC support will ever
materialize (and Clang does not implement support for iWMMXt to begin
with).

This means that advertising iWMMXt support on these cores results in
context switch overhead without any associated benefit, and so it is
better to simply ignore the iWMMXt unit on these systems. So rip out the
support. Doing so also fixes the issue reported in [0] related to UNDEF
handling of co-processor #0/#1 instructions issued from user space
running in Thumb2 mode.

The PJ4 cores are used in four platforms: Armada 370/xp, Dove (Cubox,
d2plug), MMP2 (xo-1.75) and Berlin (Google TV). Out of these, only the
first is still widely used, but that one actually doesn't have iWMMXt
but instead has only VFPV3-D16, and so it is not impacted by this
change.

Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218427 [0]

Fixes: 8bcba70cb5c22 ("ARM: entry: Disregard Thumb undef exception ...")
Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jisheng Zhang &lt;jszhang@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch, crash: move arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() out to file vmcore_info.c</title>
<updated>2024-02-24T01:48:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Baoquan He</name>
<email>bhe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-29T13:50:33+00:00</published>
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Nathan reported below building error:

=====
$ curl -LSso .config https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/plain/community/linux-edge/config-edge.armv7
$ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- olddefconfig all
..
arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.o: in function `arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo':
machine_kexec.c:(.text+0x488): undefined reference to `vmcoreinfo_append_str'
====

On architecutres, like arm, s390, ppc, sh, function
arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() is located in machine_kexec.c and it can
only be compiled in when CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y.

That's not right because arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() is used to export
arch specific vmcoreinfo. CONFIG_VMCORE_INFO is supposed to control its
compiling in. However, CONFIG_VMVCORE_INFO could be independent of
CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, e.g CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y will select CONFIG_VMVCORE_INFO.
Or CONFIG_KEXEC/CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE is set while CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is
not set, it will report linking error.

So, on arm, s390, ppc and sh, move arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo out to
a new file vmcore_info.c. Let CONFIG_VMCORE_INFO decide if compiling in
arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove stray newlines at eof]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240129135033.157195-3-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240126045551.GA126645@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/T/#u
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Klara Modin &lt;klarasmodin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Cc: Pingfan Liu &lt;piliu@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Yang Li &lt;yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Nathan reported below building error:

=====
$ curl -LSso .config https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/plain/community/linux-edge/config-edge.armv7
$ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- olddefconfig all
..
arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.o: in function `arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo':
machine_kexec.c:(.text+0x488): undefined reference to `vmcoreinfo_append_str'
====

On architecutres, like arm, s390, ppc, sh, function
arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() is located in machine_kexec.c and it can
only be compiled in when CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y.

That's not right because arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() is used to export
arch specific vmcoreinfo. CONFIG_VMCORE_INFO is supposed to control its
compiling in. However, CONFIG_VMVCORE_INFO could be independent of
CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, e.g CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y will select CONFIG_VMVCORE_INFO.
Or CONFIG_KEXEC/CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE is set while CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is
not set, it will report linking error.

So, on arm, s390, ppc and sh, move arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo out to
a new file vmcore_info.c. Let CONFIG_VMCORE_INFO decide if compiling in
arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove stray newlines at eof]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240129135033.157195-3-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240126045551.GA126645@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/T/#u
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Klara Modin &lt;klarasmodin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Cc: Pingfan Liu &lt;piliu@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Yang Li &lt;yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/Kconfig.kexec: drop select of KEXEC for CRASH_DUMP</title>
<updated>2023-12-07T00:12:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Baoquan He</name>
<email>bhe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-28T05:44:57+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Ignat Korchagin complained that a potential config regression was
introduced by commit 89cde455915f ("kexec: consolidate kexec and crash
options into kernel/Kconfig.kexec").  Before the commit, CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
has no dependency on CONFIG_KEXEC.  After the commit, CRASH_DUMP selects
KEXEC.  That enforces system to have CONFIG_KEXEC=y as long as
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=Y which people may not want.

In Ignat's case, he sets CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y, CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y and
CONFIG_KEXEC=n because kexec_load interface could have security issue if
kernel/initrd has no chance to be signed and verified.

CRASH_DUMP has select of KEXEC because Eric, author of above commit, met a
LKP report of build failure when posting patch of earlier version.  Please
see below link to get detail of the LKP report:

    https://lore.kernel.org/all/3e8eecd1-a277-2cfb-690e-5de2eb7b988e@oracle.com/T/#u

In fact, that LKP report is triggered because arm's &lt;asm/kexec.h&gt; is
wrapped in CONFIG_KEXEC ifdeffery scope.  That is wrong.  CONFIG_KEXEC
controls the enabling/disabling of kexec_load interface, but not kexec
feature.  Removing the wrongly added CONFIG_KEXEC ifdeffery scope in
&lt;asm/kexec.h&gt; of arm allows us to drop the select KEXEC for CRASH_DUMP. 
Meanwhile, change arch/arm/kernel/Makefile to let machine_kexec.o
relocate_kernel.o depend on KEXEC_CORE.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231128054457.659452-1-bhe@redhat.com
Fixes: 89cde455915f ("kexec: consolidate kexec and crash options into kernel/Kconfig.kexec")
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ignat Korchagin &lt;ignat@cloudflare.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ignat Korchagin &lt;ignat@cloudflare.com&gt;	[compile-time only]
Tested-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric DeVolder &lt;eric_devolder@yahoo.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric DeVolder &lt;eric_devolder@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Ignat Korchagin complained that a potential config regression was
introduced by commit 89cde455915f ("kexec: consolidate kexec and crash
options into kernel/Kconfig.kexec").  Before the commit, CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
has no dependency on CONFIG_KEXEC.  After the commit, CRASH_DUMP selects
KEXEC.  That enforces system to have CONFIG_KEXEC=y as long as
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=Y which people may not want.

In Ignat's case, he sets CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y, CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y and
CONFIG_KEXEC=n because kexec_load interface could have security issue if
kernel/initrd has no chance to be signed and verified.

CRASH_DUMP has select of KEXEC because Eric, author of above commit, met a
LKP report of build failure when posting patch of earlier version.  Please
see below link to get detail of the LKP report:

    https://lore.kernel.org/all/3e8eecd1-a277-2cfb-690e-5de2eb7b988e@oracle.com/T/#u

In fact, that LKP report is triggered because arm's &lt;asm/kexec.h&gt; is
wrapped in CONFIG_KEXEC ifdeffery scope.  That is wrong.  CONFIG_KEXEC
controls the enabling/disabling of kexec_load interface, but not kexec
feature.  Removing the wrongly added CONFIG_KEXEC ifdeffery scope in
&lt;asm/kexec.h&gt; of arm allows us to drop the select KEXEC for CRASH_DUMP. 
Meanwhile, change arch/arm/kernel/Makefile to let machine_kexec.o
relocate_kernel.o depend on KEXEC_CORE.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231128054457.659452-1-bhe@redhat.com
Fixes: 89cde455915f ("kexec: consolidate kexec and crash options into kernel/Kconfig.kexec")
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ignat Korchagin &lt;ignat@cloudflare.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ignat Korchagin &lt;ignat@cloudflare.com&gt;	[compile-time only]
Tested-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric DeVolder &lt;eric_devolder@yahoo.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric DeVolder &lt;eric_devolder@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T23:22:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T23:22:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=4cb1fc6fffe4910845e183d1a2dfe9509ba1062c'/>
<id>4cb1fc6fffe4910845e183d1a2dfe9509ba1062c</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - update unwinder to cope with module PLTs

 - enable UBSAN on ARM

 - improve kernel fault message

 - update UEFI runtime page tables dump

 - avoid clang's __aeabi_uldivmod generated in NWFPE code

 - disable FIQs on CPU shutdown paths

 - update XOR register usage

 - a number of build updates (using .arch, thread pointer, removal of
   lazy evaluation in Makefile)

 - conversion of stacktrace code to stackwalk

 - findbit assembly updates

 - hwcap feature updates for ARMv8 CPUs

 - instruction dump updates for big-endian platforms

 - support for function error injection

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (31 commits)
  ARM: 9279/1: support function error injection
  ARM: 9277/1: Make the dumped instructions are consistent with the disassembled ones
  ARM: 9276/1: Refactor dump_instr()
  ARM: 9275/1: Drop '-mthumb' from AFLAGS_ISA
  ARM: 9274/1: Add hwcap for Speculative Store Bypassing Safe
  ARM: 9273/1: Add hwcap for Speculation Barrier(SB)
  ARM: 9272/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_AA32I8MM
  ARM: 9271/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_AA32BF16
  ARM: 9270/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_FHM
  ARM: 9269/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_DotProd
  ARM: 9268/1: vfp: Add hwcap FPHP and ASIMDHP for FEAT_FP16
  ARM: 9267/1: Define Armv8 registers in AArch32 state
  ARM: findbit: add unwinder information
  ARM: findbit: operate by words
  ARM: findbit: convert to macros
  ARM: findbit: provide more efficient ARMv7 implementation
  ARM: findbit: document ARMv5 bit offset calculation
  ARM: 9259/1: stacktrace: Convert stacktrace to generic ARCH_STACKWALK
  ARM: 9258/1: stacktrace: Make stack walk callback consistent with generic code
  ARM: 9265/1: pass -march= only to compiler
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - update unwinder to cope with module PLTs

 - enable UBSAN on ARM

 - improve kernel fault message

 - update UEFI runtime page tables dump

 - avoid clang's __aeabi_uldivmod generated in NWFPE code

 - disable FIQs on CPU shutdown paths

 - update XOR register usage

 - a number of build updates (using .arch, thread pointer, removal of
   lazy evaluation in Makefile)

 - conversion of stacktrace code to stackwalk

 - findbit assembly updates

 - hwcap feature updates for ARMv8 CPUs

 - instruction dump updates for big-endian platforms

 - support for function error injection

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (31 commits)
  ARM: 9279/1: support function error injection
  ARM: 9277/1: Make the dumped instructions are consistent with the disassembled ones
  ARM: 9276/1: Refactor dump_instr()
  ARM: 9275/1: Drop '-mthumb' from AFLAGS_ISA
  ARM: 9274/1: Add hwcap for Speculative Store Bypassing Safe
  ARM: 9273/1: Add hwcap for Speculation Barrier(SB)
  ARM: 9272/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_AA32I8MM
  ARM: 9271/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_AA32BF16
  ARM: 9270/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_FHM
  ARM: 9269/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_DotProd
  ARM: 9268/1: vfp: Add hwcap FPHP and ASIMDHP for FEAT_FP16
  ARM: 9267/1: Define Armv8 registers in AArch32 state
  ARM: findbit: add unwinder information
  ARM: findbit: operate by words
  ARM: findbit: convert to macros
  ARM: findbit: provide more efficient ARMv7 implementation
  ARM: findbit: document ARMv5 bit offset calculation
  ARM: 9259/1: stacktrace: Convert stacktrace to generic ARCH_STACKWALK
  ARM: 9258/1: stacktrace: Make stack walk callback consistent with generic code
  ARM: 9265/1: pass -march= only to compiler
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 9263/1: use .arch directives instead of assembler command line flags</title>
<updated>2022-11-08T18:36:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
<email>ndesaulniers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-24T19:44:41+00:00</published>
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Similar to commit a6c30873ee4a ("ARM: 8989/1: use .fpu assembler
directives instead of assembler arguments").

GCC and GNU binutils support setting the "sub arch" via -march=,
-Wa,-march, target function attribute, and .arch assembler directive.

Clang was missing support for -Wa,-march=, but this was implemented in
clang-13.

The behavior of both GCC and Clang is to
prefer -Wa,-march= over -march= for assembler and assembler-with-cpp
sources, but Clang will warn about the -march= being unused.

clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-march=armv6k'
[-Wunused-command-line-argument]

Since most assembler is non-conditionally assembled with one sub arch
(modulo arch/arm/delay-loop.S which conditionally is assembled as armv4
based on CONFIG_ARCH_RPC, and arch/arm/mach-at91/pm-suspend.S which is
conditionally assembled as armv7-a based on CONFIG_CPU_V7), prefer the
.arch assembler directive.

Add a few more instances found in compile testing as found by Arnd and
Nathan.

Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/1d51c699b9e2ebc5bcfdbe85c74cc871426333d4
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48894
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1195
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1315

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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Similar to commit a6c30873ee4a ("ARM: 8989/1: use .fpu assembler
directives instead of assembler arguments").

GCC and GNU binutils support setting the "sub arch" via -march=,
-Wa,-march, target function attribute, and .arch assembler directive.

Clang was missing support for -Wa,-march=, but this was implemented in
clang-13.

The behavior of both GCC and Clang is to
prefer -Wa,-march= over -march= for assembler and assembler-with-cpp
sources, but Clang will warn about the -march= being unused.

clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-march=armv6k'
[-Wunused-command-line-argument]

Since most assembler is non-conditionally assembled with one sub arch
(modulo arch/arm/delay-loop.S which conditionally is assembled as armv4
based on CONFIG_ARCH_RPC, and arch/arm/mach-at91/pm-suspend.S which is
conditionally assembled as armv7-a based on CONFIG_CPU_V7), prefer the
.arch assembler directive.

Add a few more instances found in compile testing as found by Arnd and
Nathan.

Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/1d51c699b9e2ebc5bcfdbe85c74cc871426333d4
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48894
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1195
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1315

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2022-10-10T19:00:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-10T19:00:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=8afc66e8d43be8edcf442165b70d50dd33091e68'/>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Remove potentially incomplete targets when Kbuid is interrupted by
   SIGINT etc in case GNU Make may miss to do that when stderr is piped
   to another program.

 - Rewrite the single target build so it works more correctly.

 - Fix rpm-pkg builds with V=1.

 - List top-level subdirectories in ./Kbuild.

 - Ignore auto-generated __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* symbols in
   kallsyms.

 - Avoid two different modules in lib/zstd/ having shared code, which
   potentially causes building the common code as build-in and modular
   back-and-forth.

 - Unify two modpost invocations to optimize the build process.

 - Remove head-y syntax in favor of linker scripts for placing
   particular sections in the head of vmlinux.

 - Bump the minimal GNU Make version to 3.82.

 - Clean up misc Makefiles and scripts.

* tag 'kbuild-v6.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (41 commits)
  docs: bump minimal GNU Make version to 3.82
  ia64: simplify esi object addition in Makefile
  Revert "kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option"
  kbuild: rebuild .vmlinux.export.o when its prerequisite is updated
  kbuild: move modules.builtin(.modinfo) rules to Makefile.vmlinux_o
  zstd: Fixing mixed module-builtin objects
  kallsyms: ignore __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* symbols
  kallsyms: take the input file instead of reading stdin
  kallsyms: drop duplicated ignore patterns from kallsyms.c
  kbuild: reuse mksysmap output for kallsyms
  mksysmap: update comment about __crc_*
  kbuild: remove head-y syntax
  kbuild: use obj-y instead extra-y for objects placed at the head
  kbuild: hide error checker logs for V=1 builds
  kbuild: re-run modpost when it is updated
  kbuild: unify two modpost invocations
  kbuild: move vmlinux.o rule to the top Makefile
  kbuild: move .vmlinux.objs rule to Makefile.modpost
  kbuild: list sub-directories in ./Kbuild
  Makefile.compiler: replace cc-ifversion with compiler-specific macros
  ...
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Remove potentially incomplete targets when Kbuid is interrupted by
   SIGINT etc in case GNU Make may miss to do that when stderr is piped
   to another program.

 - Rewrite the single target build so it works more correctly.

 - Fix rpm-pkg builds with V=1.

 - List top-level subdirectories in ./Kbuild.

 - Ignore auto-generated __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* symbols in
   kallsyms.

 - Avoid two different modules in lib/zstd/ having shared code, which
   potentially causes building the common code as build-in and modular
   back-and-forth.

 - Unify two modpost invocations to optimize the build process.

 - Remove head-y syntax in favor of linker scripts for placing
   particular sections in the head of vmlinux.

 - Bump the minimal GNU Make version to 3.82.

 - Clean up misc Makefiles and scripts.

* tag 'kbuild-v6.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (41 commits)
  docs: bump minimal GNU Make version to 3.82
  ia64: simplify esi object addition in Makefile
  Revert "kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option"
  kbuild: rebuild .vmlinux.export.o when its prerequisite is updated
  kbuild: move modules.builtin(.modinfo) rules to Makefile.vmlinux_o
  zstd: Fixing mixed module-builtin objects
  kallsyms: ignore __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* symbols
  kallsyms: take the input file instead of reading stdin
  kallsyms: drop duplicated ignore patterns from kallsyms.c
  kbuild: reuse mksysmap output for kallsyms
  mksysmap: update comment about __crc_*
  kbuild: remove head-y syntax
  kbuild: use obj-y instead extra-y for objects placed at the head
  kbuild: hide error checker logs for V=1 builds
  kbuild: re-run modpost when it is updated
  kbuild: unify two modpost invocations
  kbuild: move vmlinux.o rule to the top Makefile
  kbuild: move .vmlinux.objs rule to Makefile.modpost
  kbuild: list sub-directories in ./Kbuild
  Makefile.compiler: replace cc-ifversion with compiler-specific macros
  ...
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