read{l,w}() write{l,w}() primitives should use le{16,32}_to_cpu() and
cpu_to_le{16,32}() respectively to ensure device registers are read
correctly in Big Endian CPU configuration.
Per Arnd Bergmann
| Most drivers using readl() or readl_relaxed() expect those to perform byte
| swaps on big-endian architectures, as the registers tend to be fixed endian
This was needed for getting UART to work correctly on a Big Endian ARC.
The ARC accessors originally were fine, and the bug got introduced
inadventently by commit b8a0330239 ("ARCv2: barriers")
Fixes: b8a0330239 ("ARCv2: barriers")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201603100845.30602.arnd@arndb.de
Cc: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [4.2+]
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Lada Trimasova <ltrimas@synopsys.com>
[vgupta: beefed up changelog, added Fixes/stable tags]
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
commit 80f420842f removed the ARC bitops microoptimization but failed
to prune the comments to same effect
Fixes: 80f420842f ("ARC: Make ARC bitops "safer" (add anti-optimization)")
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
There is no real ARC700 based SMP SoC so remove IPI definition.
EZChip's SMP ARC700 is going to use a different intc and IPI provider
anyways.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
ARConnect/MCIP Inter-Core-Interrupt module can't send interrupt to
local core. So use core intc capability to trigger software
interrupt to self, using an unsued IRQ #21.
This showed up as csd deadlock with LTP trace_sched on a dual core
system. This test acts as scheduler fuzzer, triggering all sorts of
schedulting activity. Trouble starts with IPI to self, which doesn't get
delivered (effectively lost due to H/w capability), but the msg intended
to be sent remain enqueued in per-cpu @ipi_data.
All subsequent IPIs to this core from other cores get elided due to the
IPI coalescing optimization in ipi_send_msg_one() where a pending msg
implies an IPI already sent and assumes other core is yet to ack it.
After the elided IPI, other core simply goes into csd_lock_wait()
but never comes out as this core never sees the interrupt.
Fixes STAR 9001008624
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.2]
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
- ARCv2 uses a seperate BCR for {I,D}CCM base address:
ARCompact encoded both base/size in same BCR
- Size encoding in common BCR is different for ARCompact/ARCv2
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
- Corner case of returning to delay slot from interrupt
- Changing default interrupt prioiry level
- Kconfig'ize support for super pages
- Other minor fixes
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Merge tag 'arc-4.5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc
Pull ARC fixes from Vineet Gupta:
"I've been sitting on some of these fixes for a while.
- Corner case of returning to delay slot from interrupt
- Changing default interrupt prioiry level
- Kconfig'ize support for super pages
- Other minor fixes"
* tag 'arc-4.5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc:
ARC: mm: Introduce explicit super page size support
ARCv2: intc: Allow interruption by lowest priority interrupt
ARCv2: Check for LL-SC livelock only if LLSC is enabled
ARC: shrink cpuinfo by not saving full timer BCR
ARCv2: clocksource: Rename GRTC -> GFRC ...
ARCv2: STAR 9000950267: Handle return from intr to Delay Slot #2
MMUv4 supports 2 concurrent page sizes: Normal and Super [4K to 16M]
So far Linux supported a single super page size for a given Normal page,
depending on the software page walking address split.
e.g. we had 11:8:13 address split for 8K page, which meant super page
was 2 ^(8+13) = 2M (given that THP size has to be PMD_SHIFT)
Now we turn this around, by allowing multiple Super Pages in Kconfig
(currently 2M and 16M only) and forcing page walker address split to
PGDIR_SHIFT and PAGE_SHIFT
For configs without Super page, things are same as before and
PGDIR_SHIFT can be hacked to get non default address split
The motivation for this change is a customer who needs 16M super page
and a 8K Normal page combo.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
ARC HS Cores support configurable multiple interrupt priorities of upto
16 levels.
There is processor "interrupt preemption threshhold" in STATUS32.E[4:1]
And several places need to set this up:
1. seed value as kernel is booting
2. seed value for user space programs
3. Arg to SLEEP instruction in idle task (what interrupt prio can wake)
4. Per-IRQ line prioirty (i.e. what is the priority of interrupt
raised by a peripheral or timer or perf counter...
Currently above sites use the highest priority 0. This can be potential
problem when multiple priorities are supported. e.g. user space could
only be interrupted by P0 interrupt, not others...
So turn this over and instead make default interruption level to be
the lowest priority possible 15. This should be fine even if there are
fewer priority levels configured (say two: P0 HIGH, P1 LOW)
This feature also effectively disables FIRQ feature if present in
hardware config. With old code, a P0 interrupt would be FIRQ, needing
special handling (ISR or Register Banks) which is NOT supported yet.
Now it not be P0 (P15 or whatever is lowest prio) so FIRQ is not
triggered.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Move the generic implementation to <linux/dma-mapping.h> now that all
architectures support it and remove the HAVE_DMA_ATTR Kconfig symbol now
that everyone supports them.
[valentinrothberg@gmail.com: remove leftovers in Kconfig]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ARC700 cores with MMU v2 don't have IC_PTAG AUX register and so we only
define ARC_REG_IC_PTAG for MMU versions >= 3.
But current implementation of cache_line_loop_vX() routines assumes
availability of all of them (v2, v3 and v4) simultaneously.
And given undefined ARC_REG_IC_PTAG if CONFIG_MMU_VER=2 we're seeing
compilation problem:
---------------------------------->8-------------------------------
CC arch/arc/mm/cache.o
arch/arc/mm/cache.c: In function '__cache_line_loop_v3':
arch/arc/mm/cache.c:270:13: error: 'ARC_REG_IC_PTAG' undeclared (first use in this function)
aux_tag = ARC_REG_IC_PTAG;
^
arch/arc/mm/cache.c:270:13: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
scripts/Makefile.build:258: recipe for target 'arch/arc/mm/cache.o' failed
---------------------------------->8-------------------------------
The simples fix is to have ARC_REG_IC_PTAG defined regardless MMU
version being used.
We don't use it in cache_line_loop_v2() anyways so who cares.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
This will better reflect its description i.e. "any needed setup..."
and not just do an "IPI request".
Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
The fix which removed linear searching of dwarf (because binary lookup
data always exists) missed out on the fact that modules don't get the
binary lookup tables info. This caused unwinding out of modules to stop
working.
So add binary lookup header setup (equivalent of eh_frame_hdr setup) to
modules as well.
While at it, confine the header setup to within unwinder code,
reducing one API exposed out of unwinder code.
Fixes: 2e22502c08 ARC: dw2 unwind: Remove falllback linear search thru FDE entries
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Although kernel doesn't support the multiple IRQ priority levels provided
by HS38x core intc yet, ensure that the default prio value is used
anyways by relevant code.
SLEEP insn needs to be provided the IRQ priority level which can
interrupt it. This needs to be the default level which maynot
necessarily be 0 as assumed by current code.
This change allows a kernel with ARCV2_IRQ_DEF_PRIO = 1 to boot fine.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
- A bunch of brown paper bag bugs (MAINTAINERS list email, SMP build failure)
- cpu_relax() now compiler barrier for UP as well
- Handling of userspace Bus Errors for ARCompact builds
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Merge tag 'arc-4.4-rc1-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc
Pull ARC fixes from Vineet Gupta:
"Found a couple of brown paper bag bugs with the prev pull request
(including a SMP build breakage report from Guenter). Since these are
urgent I also decided to send over a bunch of other pending fixes
which could have otherwise waited an rc or two.
Summary:
- A bunch of brown paper bag bugs (MAINTAINERS list email, SMP build
failure)
- cpu_relax() now compiler barrier for UP as well
- handling of userspace Bus Errors for ARCompact builds"
* tag 'arc-4.4-rc1-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc:
ARC: Fix silly typo in MAINTAINERS file
ARC: cpu_relax() to be compiler barrier even for UP
ARC: use ASL assembler mnemonic
ARC: [arcompact] Handle bus error from userspace as Interrupt not exception
ARC: remove extraneous header include
ARCv2: lib: memcpy: use local symbols
cpu_relax() on ARC has been barrier only for SMP (and no-op for UP). Per
recent discussions, it is safer to make it a compiler barrier
unconditionally.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/53A7D3AA.9020100@synopsys.com
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Pull locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- More gradual enhancements to atomic ops: new atomic*_read_ctrl()
ops, synchronize atomic_{read,set}() ordering requirements between
architectures, add atomic_long_t bitops. (Peter Zijlstra)
- Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for inc/dec atomics and
use them in various locking primitives: mutex, rtmutex, mcs, rwsem.
This enables weakly ordered architectures (such as arm64) to make
use of more locking related optimizations. (Davidlohr Bueso)
- Implement atomic[64]_{inc,dec}_relaxed() on ARM. (Will Deacon)
- Futex kernel data cache footprint micro-optimization. (Rasmus
Villemoes)
- pvqspinlock runtime overhead micro-optimization. (Waiman Long)
- misc smaller fixlets"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
ARM, locking/atomics: Implement _relaxed variants of atomic[64]_{inc,dec}
locking/rwsem: Use acquire/release semantics
locking/mcs: Use acquire/release semantics
locking/rtmutex: Use acquire/release semantics
locking/mutex: Use acquire/release semantics
locking/asm-generic: Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for inc/dec atomics
atomic: Implement atomic_read_ctrl()
atomic, arch: Audit atomic_{read,set}()
atomic: Add atomic_long_t bitops
futex: Force hot variables into a single cache line
locking/pvqspinlock: Kick the PV CPU unconditionally when _Q_SLOW_VAL
locking/osq: Relax atomic semantics
locking/qrwlock: Rename ->lock to ->wait_lock
locking/Documentation/lockstat: Fix typo - lokcing -> locking
locking/atomics, cmpxchg: Privatize the inclusion of asm/cmpxchg.h
This is the first working implementation of 40-bit physical address
extension on ARCv2.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
That way a single flip of phys_addr_t to 64 bit ensures all places
dealing with physical addresses get correct data
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Implement kmap* API for ARC.
This enables
- permanent kernel maps (pkmaps): :kmap() API
- fixmap : kmap_atomic()
We use a very simple/uniform approach for both (unlike some of the other
arches). So fixmap doesn't use the customary compile time address stuff.
The important semantic is sleep'ability (pkmap) vs. not (fixmap) which
the API guarantees.
Note that this patch only enables highmem for subsequent PAE40 support
as there is no real highmem for ARC in pure 32-bit paradigm as explained
below.
ARC has 2:2 address split of the 32-bit address space with lower half
being translated (virtual) while upper half unstranslated
(0x8000_0000 to 0xFFFF_FFFF). kernel itself is linked at base of
unstranslated space (i.e. 0x8000_0000 onwards), which is mapped to say
DDR 0x0 by external Bus Glue logic (outside the core). So kernel can
potentially access 1.75G worth of memory directly w/o need for highmem.
(the top 256M is taken by uncached peripheral space from 0xF000_0000 to
0xFFFF_FFFF)
In PAE40, hardware can address memory beyond 4G (0x1_0000_0000) while
the logical/virtual addresses remain 32-bits. Thus highmem is required
for kernel proper to be able to access these pages for it's own purposes
(user space is agnostic to this anyways).
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Before we plug in highmem support, some of code needs to be ready for it
- copy_user_highpage() needs to be using the kmap_atomic API
- mk_pte() can't assume page_address()
- do_page_fault() can't assume VMALLOC_END is end of kernel vaddr space
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
MCIP now registers it's own per cpu setup routine (for IPI IRQ request)
using smp_ops.init_irq_cpu().
So no need for platforms to do that. This now completely decouples
platforms from MCIP.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Note this is not part of platform owned static machine_desc,
but more of device owned plat_smp_ops (rather misnamed) which a IPI
provider or some such typically defines.
This will help us seperate out the IPI registration from platform
specific init_cpu_smp() into device specific init_irq_cpu()
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
MCIP now registers it's own probe callback with smp_ops.init_early_smp()
which is called by ARC common code, so no need for platforms to do that.
This decouples the platforms and MCIP and helps confine MCIP details
to it's own file.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
This adds a platform agnostic early SMP init hook which is called on
Master core before calling setup_processor()
setup_arch()
smp_init_cpus()
smp_ops.init_early_smp()
...
setup_processor()
How this helps:
- Used for one time init of certain SMP centric IP blocks, before
calling setup_processor() which probes various bits of core,
possibly including this block
- Currently platforms need to call this IP block init from their
init routines, which doesn't make sense as this is specific to ARC
core and not platform and otherwise requires copy/paste in all
(and hence a possible point of failure)
e.g. MCIP init is called from 2 platforms currently (axs10x and sim)
which will go away once we have this.
This change only adds the hooks but they are empty for now. Next commit
will populate them and remove the explicit init calls from platforms.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
These are not in use for ARC platforms. Moreover DT mechanims exist to
probe them w/o explicit platform calls.
- clocksource drivers can use CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE()
- intc IRQCHIP_DECLARE() calls + cascading inside DT allows external
intc to be probed automatically
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
The reason this was not done so far was lack of genuine IPI_IRQ for
ARC700, as we don't have a SMP version of core yet (which might change
soon thx to EZChip). Nevertheles to increase the build coverage, we
need to allow CONFIG_SMP for ARC700 and still be able to run it on a
UP platform (nsim or AXS101) with a UP Device Tree (SMP-on-UP)
The build itself requires some define for IPI_IRQ and even a dummy
value is fine since that code won't run anyways.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
This frees up some bits to hold more high level info such as PAE being
present, w/o increasing the size of already bloated cpuinfo struct
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
The requirement is to
- Reenable Exceptions (AE cleared)
- Reenable Interrupts (E1/E2 set)
We need to do wiggle these bits into ERSTATUS and call RTIE.
Prev version used the pre-exception STATUS32 as starting point for what
goes into ERSTATUS. This required explicit fixups of U/DE/L bits.
Instead, use the current (in-exception) STATUS32 as starting point.
Being in exception handler U/DE/L can be safely assumed to be correct.
Only AE/E1/E2 need to be fixed.
So the new implementation is slightly better
-Avoids read form memory
-Is 4 bytes smaller for the typical 1 level of intr configuration
-Depicts the semantics more clearly
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Historically this was done by ARC IDE driver, which is long gone.
IRQ core is pretty robust now and already checks if IRQs are enabled
in hard ISRs. Thus no point in checking this in arch code, for every
call of irq enabled.
Further if some driver does do that - let it bring down the system so we
notice/fix this sooner than covering up for sucker
This makes local_irq_enable() - for L1 only case atleast simple enough
so we can inline it.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Implement the TLB flush routine to evict a sepcific Super TLB entry,
vs. moving to a new ASID on every such flush.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
MMUv4 in HS38x cores supports Super Pages which are basis for Linux THP
support.
Normal and Super pages can co-exist (ofcourse not overlap) in TLB with a
new bit "SZ" in TLB page desciptor to distinguish between them.
Super Page size is configurable in hardware (4K to 16M), but fixed once
RTL builds.
The exact THP size a Linx configuration will support is a function of:
- MMU page size (typical 8K, RTL fixed)
- software page walker address split between PGD:PTE:PFN (typical
11:8:13, but can be changed with 1 line)
So for above default, THP size supported is 8K * 256 = 2M
Default Page Walker is 2 levels, PGD:PTE:PFN, which in THP regime
reduces to 1 level (as PTE is folded into PGD and canonically referred
to as PMD).
Thus thp PMD accessors are implemented in terms of PTE (just like sparc)
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
ARC is the only arch with unsigned long type (vs. struct page *).
Historically this was done to avoid the page_address() calls in various
arch hooks which need to get the virtual/logical address of the table.
Some arches alternately define it as pte_t *, and is as efficient as
unsigned long (generated code doesn't change)
Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Pull strscpy string copy function implementation from Chris Metcalf.
Chris sent this during the merge window, but I waffled back and forth on
the pull request, which is why it's going in only now.
The new "strscpy()" function is definitely easier to use and more secure
than either strncpy() or strlcpy(), both of which are horrible nasty
interfaces that have serious and irredeemable problems.
strncpy() has a useless return value, and doesn't NUL-terminate an
overlong result. To make matters worse, it pads a short result with
zeroes, which is a performance disaster if you have big buffers.
strlcpy(), by contrast, is a mis-designed "fix" for strlcpy(), lacking
the insane NUL padding, but having a differently broken return value
which returns the original length of the source string. Which means
that it will read characters past the count from the source buffer, and
you have to trust the source to be properly terminated. It also makes
error handling fragile, since the test for overflow is unnecessarily
subtle.
strscpy() avoids both these problems, guaranteeing the NUL termination
(but not excessive padding) if the destination size wasn't zero, and
making the overflow condition very obvious by returning -E2BIG. It also
doesn't read past the size of the source, and can thus be used for
untrusted source data too.
So why did I waffle about this for so long?
Every time we introduce a new-and-improved interface, people start doing
these interminable series of trivial conversion patches.
And every time that happens, somebody does some silly mistake, and the
conversion patch to the improved interface actually makes things worse.
Because the patch is mindnumbing and trivial, nobody has the attention
span to look at it carefully, and it's usually done over large swatches
of source code which means that not every conversion gets tested.
So I'm pulling the strscpy() support because it *is* a better interface.
But I will refuse to pull mindless conversion patches. Use this in
places where it makes sense, but don't do trivial patches to fix things
that aren't actually known to be broken.
* 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
tile: use global strscpy() rather than private copy
string: provide strscpy()
Make asm/word-at-a-time.h available on all architectures
This patch makes sure that atomic_{read,set}() are at least
{READ,WRITE}_ONCE().
We already had the 'requirement' that atomic_read() should use
ACCESS_ONCE(), and most archs had this, but a few were lacking.
All are now converted to use READ_ONCE().
And, by a symmetry and general paranoia argument, upgrade atomic_set()
to use WRITE_ONCE().
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
