The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.
After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.
Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
are flagged as __cpuinit -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid
of these warnings. In any case, they are temporary and harmless.
This removes all the arch/arc uses of the __cpuinit macros from
all C files. Currently arc does not have any __CPUINIT used in
assembly files.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
LOAD_FAULT_PTE macro is expected to set r2 with faulting vaddr.
However in case of CONFIG_ARC_DBG_TLB_MISS_COUNT, it was getting
clobbered with statistics collection code.
Fix latter by using a different register.
Note that only I-TLB Miss handler was potentially affected.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
* No need to check for READ access in I-TLB Miss handler
* Redundant PAGE_PRESENT update in PTE
Post TLB entry installation, in updating PTE for software accessed/dity
bits, no need to update PAGE_PRESENT since it will already be set.
Infact the entry won't have installed if !PAGE_PRESENT.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
* DWARF unwinder related
+ Force DWARF2 compliant .debug_frame (gcc 4.8 defaults to DWARF4
which kernel unwinder can't grok).
+ Discard the additional .eh_frame generated
+ Discard the dwarf4 debug info generated by -gdwarf-2 for normal
no debug case
* 4.8 already uses arc600 multilibs for -mno-mpy
* switch to using uclibc compiler (to get -mmedium-calls and -mno-sdata)
and also since buildroot can only use 1 toolchain
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Otherwise early boot exceptions such as instructions errors due to
configuration mismatch between kernel and hardware go off to la-la land,
as opposed to hitting the handler and panic()'ing properly.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
With ECR now part of pt_regs
* No need to propagate from lowest asm handlers as arg
* No need to save it in tsk->thread.cause_code
* Avoid bit chopping to access the bit-fields
More code consolidation, cleanup
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
pt_regs->event was set with artificial values to identify the low level
system event (syscall trap / breakpoint trap / exceptions / interrupts)
With r8 saving out of the way, the full word can be used to save real
ECR (Exception Cause Register) which helps idenify the event naturally,
including additional info such as cause code, param.
Only for Interrupts, where ECR is not applicable, do we resort to
synthetic non ECR values.
SAVE_ALL_TRAP/EXCEPTIONS can now be merged as they both use ECR with
different runtime values.
The ptrace helpers now use the sub-fields of ECR to distinguish the
events (e.g. vector 0x25 is trap, param 0 is syscall...)
The following benefits will follow:
(1) This centralizes the location of where ECR is saved and will allow
the cleanup of task->thread.cause_code ECR placeholder which is set
in non-uniform way. Then ARC VM code can safely rely on it being
there for purpose of finer grained VM_EXEC dcache flush (based on
exec fault: I-TLB Miss)
(2) Further, ECR being passed around from low level handlers as arg can
be eliminated as it is part of standard reg-file in pt_regs
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Historically, pt_regs have had orig_r8, an overloaded container for
(1) backup copy of r8 (syscall number Trap Exceptions)
(2) additional system state: (syscall/Exception/Interrupt)
There is no point in keeping (1) since syscall number is never clobbered
in-place, in pt_regs, unlike r0 which duals as first syscall arg as well
as syscall return value and in case of syscall restart, the orig arg0
needs restoring (from orig_r0) after having been updated in-place with
syscall ret value.
This further paves way to convert (2) to contain ECR itself (rather than
current madeup values)
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
(This is a VERY IMP change for low level interrupt/exception handling)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
WHAT
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
* User 25 now saved in pt_regs->user_r25 (vs. tsk->thread_info.user_r25)
* This allows Low level interrupt code to unconditionally save r25
(vs. the prev version which would only do it for U->K transition).
Ofcourse for nested interrupts, only the pt_regs->user_r25 of
bottom-most frame is useful.
* simplifies the interrupt prologue/epilogue
* Needed for ARCv2 ISA code and done here to keep design similar with
ARCompact event handling
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
WHY
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
With CONFIG_ARC_CURR_IN_REG, r25 is used to cache "current" task pointer
in kernel mode. So when entering kernel mode from User Mode
- user r25 is specially safe-kept (it being a callee reg is NOT part of
pt_regs which are saved by default on each interrupt/trap/exception)
- r25 loaded with current task pointer.
Further, if interrupt was taken in kernel mode, this is skipped since we
know that r25 already has valid "current" pointer.
With 2 level of interrupts in ARCompact ISA, detecting this is difficult
but still possible, since we could be in kernel mode but r25 not already saved
(in fact the stack itself might not have been switched).
A. User mode
B. L1 IRQ taken
C. L2 IRQ taken (while on 1st line of L1 ISR)
So in #C, although in kernel mode, r25 not saved (infact SP not
switched at all)
Given that ARcompact has manual stack switching, we could use a bit of
trickey - The low level code would make sure that SP is only set to kernel
mode value at the very end (after saving r25). So a non kernel mode SP,
even if in kernel mode, meant r25 was NOT saved.
The same paradigm won't work in ARCv2 ISA since SP is auto-switched so
it's setting can't be delayed/constrained.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
This paves way for further simplifications.
There's an overhead of 1 insn for the non-common case of interrupt taken
from kernel mode.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
* use artificial PUSH/POP contructs for CORE Reg save/restore to stack
* use artificial PUSHAX/POPAX contructs for Auxiliary Space regs
* macro'ize multiple copies of callee-reg-save/restore (SAVE_R13_TO_R24)
* use BIC insn for inverse-and operation
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
This is trickier than prev two:
* context switching code saves kernel mode callee regs in the format of
struct callee_regs thus needs adjustment. This also reduces the height
of topmost kernel stack frame by 1 word.
* Since kernel stack unwinder is sensitive to height of topmost kernel
stack frame, that needs a word of adjustment too.
ptrace needs a bit of updating since pt_regs now diverges from
user_regs_struct.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Historically, pt_regs would end at offset of 1 word from end of stack
page.
----------------- -> START of page (task->stack)
| |
| thread_info |
-----------------
| |
^ ~ ~
| ~ ~
| | |
| | | <---- pt_regs used to END here
-----------------
| 1 word GUTTER |
----------------- -> End of page (START of kernel stack)
This required special "one-off" considerations in low level code.
The root cause is very likely assumption of "empty" SP by the original
ARC kernel hackers, despite ARC700 always been "full" SP.
So finally RIP one word gutter !
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
This can be ascertained within do_page_fault() since it gets the full
ECR (Exception Cause Register).
Further, for both the callers of do_page_fault(): Prot-V / D-TLB-Miss,
the cause sub-fields in ECR are same for same type of access, making the
code much more simpler.
D-TLB-Miss [LD] 0x00_21_01_00
Prot-V [LD] 0x00_23_01_00
^^
D-TLB-Miss [ST] 0x00_21_02_00
Prot-V [ST] 0x00_23_02_00
^^
D-TLB-Miss [EX] 0x00_21_03_00
Prot-V [EX] 0x00_23_03_00
^^
This helps code consolidation, which is even better when moving code from
assembler to "C".
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
1. For VM_EXEC based delayed dcache/icache flush, reduces the number of
flushes.
2. Makes this security feature ON by default rather than OFF before.
3. Applications can use mprotect() to selectively override this.
4. ELF binaries have a GNU_STACK segment which can easily override the
kernel default permissions.
For nested-functions/trampolines, gcc already auto-enables executable
stack in elf. Others needing this can use -Wl,-z,execstack option.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Non-congruent SRC page in copy_user_page() is dcache clean in the end -
so record that fact, to avoid a subsequent extraneous flush.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
* Number of (i|d)cache ways can be retrieved from BCRs and hence no need
to cross check with with built-in constants
* Use of IS_ENABLED() to check for a Kconfig option
* is_not_cache_aligned() not used anymore
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
* Move the various sub-system defines/types into relevant files/functions
(reduces compilation time)
* move CPU specific stuff out of asm/tlb.h into asm/mmu.h
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
This fixes the following:
- CONFIG_ARC_SERIAL_BAUD is only defined when CONFIG_SERIAL_ARC is defined.
Make sure that it isn't referenced otherwise.
- There is no use for initializing arc_uart_info[] when CONFIG_SERIAL_ARC is
not defined.
[vgupta: tweaked changelog title, used IS_ENABLED() kconfig helper]
Signed-off-by: Mischa Jonker <mjonker@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
gdbserver inserting a breakpoint ends up calling copy_user_page() for a
code page. The generic version of which (non-aliasing config) didn't set
the PG_arch_1 bit hence update_mmu_cache() didn't sync dcache/icache for
corresponding dynamic loader code page - causing garbade to be executed.
So now aliasing versions of copy_user_highpage()/clear_page() are made
default. There is no significant overhead since all of special alias
handling code is compiled out for non-aliasing build
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
The current code uses 2 bits for determining page's dcache color, thus
sorting pages into 4 bins, whereas the aliasing dcache really has 2 bins
(8k page, 64k dcache - 4 way-set-assoc).
This can cause extraneous flushes - e.g. color 0 and 2.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
The VM_EXEC check in update_mmu_cache() was getting optimized away
because of a stupid error in definition of macro addr_not_cache_congruent()
The intention was to have the equivalent of following:
if (a || (1 ? b : 0))
but we ended up with following:
if (a || 1 ? b : 0)
And because precedence of '||' is more that that of '?', gcc was optimizing
away evaluation of <a>
Nasty Repercussions:
1. For non-aliasing configs it would mean some extraneous dcache flushes
for non-code pages if U/K mappings were not congruent.
2. For aliasing config, some needed dcache flush for code pages might
be missed if U/K mappings were congruent.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
This manifested as grep failing psuedo-randomly:
-------------->8---------------------
[ARCLinux]$ ip address show lo | grep inet
[ARCLinux]$ ip address show lo | grep inet
[ARCLinux]$ ip address show lo | grep inet
[ARCLinux]$
[ARCLinux]$ ip address show lo | grep inet
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
-------------->8---------------------
ARC700 MMU provides fully orthogonal permission bits per page:
Ur, Uw, Ux, Kr, Kw, Kx
The user mode page permission templates used to have all Kernel mode
access bits enabled.
This caused a tricky race condition observed with uClibc buffered file
read and UNIX pipes.
1. Read access to an anon mapped page in libc .bss: write-protected
zero_page mapped: TLB Entry installed with Ur + K[rwx]
2. grep calls libc:getc() -> buffered read layer calls read(2) with the
internal read buffer in same .bss page.
The read() call is on STDIN which has been redirected to a pipe.
read(2) => sys_read() => pipe_read() => copy_to_user()
3. Since page has Kernel-write permission (despite being user-mode
write-protected), copy_to_user() suceeds w/o taking a MMU TLB-Miss
Exception (page-fault for ARC). core-MM is unaware that kernel
erroneously wrote to the reserved read-only zero-page (BUG #1)
4. Control returns to userspace which now does a write to same .bss page
Since Linux MM is not aware that page has been modified by kernel, it
simply reassigns a new writable zero-init page to mapping, loosing the
prior write by kernel - effectively zero'ing out the libc read buffer
under the hood - hence grep doesn't see right data (BUG #2)
The fix is to make all kernel-mode access permissions mirror the
user-mode ones. Note that the kernel still has full access to pages,
when accessed directly (w/o MMU) - this fix ensures that kernel-mode
access in copy_to_from() path uses the same faulting access model as for
pure user accesses to keep MM fully aware of page state.
The issue is peudo-random because it only shows up if the TLB entry
installed in #1 is present at the time of #3. If it is evicted out, due
to TLB pressure or some-such, then copy_to_user() does take a TLB Miss
Exception, with a routine write-to-anon COW processing installing a
fresh page for kernel writes and also usable as it is in userspace.
Further the issue was dormant for so long as it depends on where the
libc internal read buffer (in .bss) is mapped at runtime.
If it happens to reside in file-backed data mapping of libc (in the
page-aligned slack space trailing the file backed data), loader zero
padding the slack space, does the early cow page replacement, setting
things up at the very beginning itself.
With gcc 4.8 based builds, the libc buffer got pushed out to a real
anon mapping which triggers the issue.
Reported-by: Anton Kolesov <akolesov@synopsys.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Flush and INVALIDATE the dcache page.
This helper is only used for writeback of CODE pages to memory. So
there's no value in keeping the dcache lines around. Infact it is risky
as a writeback on natural eviction under pressure can cause un-needed
writeback with weird issues on aliasing dcache configurations.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
The TB10x platform port includes a custom mechanism using to set up
default pin controller configurations using abilis,simple-default
pin configurations of nodes compatible with abilis,simple-pinctrl. This
mechanism is redundant with the Linux standard "default" pin
configuration, see commit ab78029ecc
"drivers/pinctrl: grab default handles from device core".
This patch removes the TB10x custom mechanism in favour of the Linux
standard.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@abilis.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
I'm satisified with testing, specially with fuse which has historically given
grief to VIPT arches (ARM/PARISC...)
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Merge tag 'arc-v3.10-rc1-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc
Pull second set of arc arch updates from Vineet Gupta:
"Aliasing VIPT dcache support for ARC
I'm satisified with testing, specially with fuse which has
historically given grief to VIPT arches (ARM/PARISC...)"
* tag 'arc-v3.10-rc1-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc:
ARC: [TB10x] Remove GENERIC_GPIO
ARC: [mm] Aliasing VIPT dcache support 4/4
ARC: [mm] Aliasing VIPT dcache support 3/4
ARC: [mm] Aliasing VIPT dcache support 2/4
ARC: [mm] Aliasing VIPT dcache support 1/4
ARC: [mm] refactor the core (i|d)cache line ops loops
ARC: [mm] serious bug in vaddr based icache flush
* Support for two new platforms based on ARC700
- Abilis TB10x SoC [Chritisian/Pierrick]
- Simulator only System-C Model [Mischa]
* ARC specific MM improvements
- Avoid full TLB flush (ASID increment) on munmap (even single page)
- VIPT Cache Flushing improvements
+ Delayed dcache flush for non-aliasing dcache (big performance boost)
+ icache flush aliasing agnostic (no need to kill all possible aliases)
* Others
- Avoid needless rebuild of DTB files for every kernel build
- Remove builtin cmdline as that is already provided by DeviceTree/bootargs
- Fixing unaligned access emulation corner case
- checkpatch fixes [Sachin]
- Various fixlets [Noam]
- Minor build failures/cleanups
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Merge tag 'arc-v3.10-rc1-part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc
Pull ARC port updates from Vineet Gupta:
"Support for two new platforms based on ARC700:
- Abilis TB10x SoC [Chritisian/Pierrick]
- Simulator only System-C Model [Mischa]
ARC specific MM improvements:
- Avoid full TLB flush (ASID increment) on munmap (even single page)
- VIPT Cache Flushing improvements
+ Delayed dcache flush for non-aliasing dcache (big performance boost)
+ icache flush aliasing agnostic (no need to kill all possible aliases)
Others:
- Avoid needless rebuild of DTB files for every kernel build
- Remove builtin cmdline as that is already provided by DeviceTree/bootargs
- Fixing unaligned access emulation corner case
- checkpatch fixes [Sachin]
- Various fixlets [Noam]
- Minor build failures/cleanups"
* tag 'arc-v3.10-rc1-part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: (35 commits)
ARC: [mm] Lazy D-cache flush (non aliasing VIPT)
ARC: [mm] micro-optimize page size icache invalidate
ARC: [mm] remove the pessimistic all-alias-invalidate icache helpers
ARC: [mm] consolidate icache/dcache sync code
ARC: [mm] optimise icache flush for kernel mappings
ARC: [mm] optimise icache flush for user mappings
ARC: [mm] optimize needless full mm TLB flush on munmap
ARC: Add support for nSIM OSCI System C model
ARC: [TB10x] Adapt device tree to new compatible string
ARC: [TB10x] Add support for TB10x platform
ARC: [TB10x] Device tree of TB100 and TB101 Development Kits
ARC: Prepare interrupt code for external controllers
ARC: Allow embedded arc-intc to be properly placed in DT intc hierarchy
ARC: [cmdline] Don't overwrite u-boot provided bootargs
ARC: [cmdline] Remove CONFIG_CMDLINE
ARC: [plat-arcfpga] defconfig update
ARC: unaligned access emulation broken if callee-reg dest of LD/ST
ARC: unaligned access emulation error handling consolidation
ARC: Debug/crash-printing Improvements
ARC: fix typo with clock speed
...
This is the meat of the series which prevents any dcache alias creation
by always keeping the U and K mapping of a page congruent.
If a mapping already exists, and other tries to access the page, prev
one is flushed to physical page (wback+inv)
Essentially flush_dcache_page()/copy_user_highpage() create K-mapping
of a page, but try to defer flushing, unless U-mapping exist.
When page is actually mapped to userspace, update_mmu_cache() flushes
the K-mapping (in certain cases this can be optimised out)
Additonally flush_cache_mm(), flush_cache_range(), flush_cache_page()
handle the puring of stale userspace mappings on exit/munmap...
flush_anon_page() handles the existing U-mapping for anon page before
kernel reads it via the GUP path.
Note that while not complete, this is enough to boot a simple
dynamically linked Busybox based rootfs
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
This preps the low level dcache flush helpers to take vaddr argument in
addition to the existing paddr to properly flush the VIPT dcache
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Nothing semantical
* simplify the alignement code by using & operation only
* rename variables clearly as paddr
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
vaddr used to index the cache was clipped from the wrong end, and thus
would potentially fail to flush the correct lines.
The problem was dorment for so long because up until the recent
optimizations it was only used for ptrace break-point only flushes.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
flush_dcache_page( ) is MM hook to ensure that a page has consistent
views between kernel and userspace. Thus it is called when
* kernel writes to a page which at some later point could get mapped to
userspace (so kernel mapping needs to be flushed-n-inv)
* kernel is about to read from a page with possible userspace mappings
(so userspace mappings needs to be made coherent with kernel ones)
However for Non aliasing VIPT dcache, any userspace mapping will always
be congruent to kernel mapping. Thus d-cache need need not be flushed at
all (or delayed indefinitely).
The only reason it does need to be flushed is when mapping code pages.
Since icache doesn't snoop dcache, those dirty dcache lines need to be
written back to memory and icache line invalidated so that icache lines
fetch will get the right data.
Decent gains on LMBench fork/exec/sh and File I/O micro-benchmarks.
(1) FPGA @ 80 MHZ
Processor, Processes - times in microseconds - smaller is better
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Host OS Mhz null null open slct sig sig fork exec sh
call I/O stat clos TCP inst hndl proc proc proc
--------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
3.9-rc6-a Linux 3.9.0-r 80 4.79 8.72 66.7 116. 239. 8.39 30.4 4798 14.K 34.K
3.9-rc6-b Linux 3.9.0-r 80 4.79 8.62 65.4 111. 239. 8.35 29.0 3995 12.K 30.K
3.9-rc7-c Linux 3.9.0-r 80 4.79 9.00 66.1 106. 239. 8.61 30.4 2858 10.K 24.K
^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^
File & VM system latencies in microseconds - smaller is better
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Host OS 0K File 10K File Mmap Prot Page 100fd
Create Delete Create Delete Latency Fault Fault selct
--------- ------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- ----- ------- -----
3.9-rc6-a Linux 3.9.0-r 317.8 204.2 1122.3 375.1 3522.0 4.288 20.7 126.8
3.9-rc6-b Linux 3.9.0-r 298.7 223.0 1141.6 367.8 3531.0 4.866 20.9 126.4
3.9-rc7-c Linux 3.9.0-r 278.4 179.2 862.1 339.3 3705.0 3.223 20.3 126.6
^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^
(2) Customer Silicon @ 500 MHz (166 MHz mem)
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Host OS Mhz null null open slct sig sig fork exec sh
call I/O stat clos TCP inst hndl proc proc proc
--------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
abilis-ba Linux 3.9.0-r 497 0.71 1.38 4.58 12.0 35.5 1.40 3.89 2070 5525 13.K
abilis-ca Linux 3.9.0-r 497 0.71 1.40 4.61 11.8 35.6 1.37 3.92 1411 4317 10.K
^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
start address is already page aligned and size is const PAGE_SIZE,
thus fixups for alignment not needed in generated code.
bloat-o-meter vmlinux-mm5 vmlinux
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-32 (-32)
function old new delta
__inv_icache_page 82 50 -32
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
