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[v2] ARM: PJ4: make coprocessor access sequences buildable in Thumb2 mode

Message ID 1450768869-13450-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
State Accepted
Commit 5008efc83bf85b647aa1cbc44718b1675bbb7444
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Ard Biesheuvel Dec. 22, 2015, 7:21 a.m. UTC
The PJ4 inline asm sequence to write to cp15 cannot be built in Thumb-2
mode, due to the way it performs arithmetic on the program counter, so it
is built in ARM mode instead. However, building C files in ARM mode under
CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL is problematic, since the instrumentation performed
by subsystems like ftrace does not expect having to deal with interworking
branches.

Since the sequence in question is simply a poor man's ISB instruction,
let's use a straight 'isb' instead when building in Thumb2 mode. Thumb2
implies V7, so 'isb' should always be supported in that case.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

---
 arch/arm/kernel/Makefile  | 1 -
 arch/arm/kernel/pj4-cp0.c | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

-- 
2.1.4


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Comments

Ard Biesheuvel Dec. 22, 2015, 12:19 p.m. UTC | #1
On 22 December 2015 at 13:09, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 08:21:09AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

>> The PJ4 inline asm sequence to write to cp15 cannot be built in Thumb-2

>> mode, due to the way it performs arithmetic on the program counter, so it

>> is built in ARM mode instead. However, building C files in ARM mode under

>> CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL is problematic, since the instrumentation performed

>> by subsystems like ftrace does not expect having to deal with interworking

>> branches.

>>

>> Since the sequence in question is simply a poor man's ISB instruction,

>> let's use a straight 'isb' instead when building in Thumb2 mode. Thumb2

>> implies V7, so 'isb' should always be supported in that case.

>

> I think, given how close Christmas is, and I suspect that the merge

> window will be opening shortly afterwards, it'll be better to drop

> the change and sort it out in the new year, rather than trying to

> rush this in, especially as we're already at the 3rd iteration of

> this supposedly simple change.  It obviously isn't quite as simple

> as it looks.

>


I agree. Please apply it whenever you feel it is appropriate to do so.

Apologies for the trouble

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Patch

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile b/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile
index af9e59bf3831..3c789496297f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@  obj-$(CONFIG_IWMMXT)		+= iwmmxt.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS)	+= perf_regs.o perf_callchain.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS)	+= perf_event_xscale.o perf_event_v6.o \
 				   perf_event_v7.o
-CFLAGS_pj4-cp0.o		:= -marm
 AFLAGS_iwmmxt.o			:= -Wa,-mcpu=iwmmxt
 obj-$(CONFIG_ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY)  += topology.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_VDSO)		+= vdso.o
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/pj4-cp0.c b/arch/arm/kernel/pj4-cp0.c
index 8153e36b2491..7c9248b74d3f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/pj4-cp0.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/pj4-cp0.c
@@ -66,9 +66,13 @@  static void __init pj4_cp_access_write(u32 value)
 
 	__asm__ __volatile__ (
 		"mcr	p15, 0, %1, c1, c0, 2\n\t"
+#ifdef CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL
+		"isb\n\t"
+#else
 		"mrc	p15, 0, %0, c1, c0, 2\n\t"
 		"mov	%0, %0\n\t"
 		"sub	pc, pc, #4\n\t"
+#endif
 		: "=r" (temp) : "r" (value));
 }