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<title>ARM: fix co-processor register typo</title>
<updated>2022-03-11T11:11:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King (Oracle)</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2022-03-09T19:08:42+00:00</published>
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commit 33970b031dc4653cc9dc80f2886976706c4c8ef1 upstream.

In the recent Spectre BHB patches, there was a typo that is only
exposed in certain configurations: mcr p15,0,XX,c7,r5,4 should have
been mcr p15,0,XX,c7,c5,4

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: b9baf5c8c5c3 ("ARM: Spectre-BHB workaround")
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>ARM: Spectre-BHB workaround</title>
<updated>2022-03-11T11:11:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King (Oracle)</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2022-02-10T16:05:45+00:00</published>
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commit b9baf5c8c5c356757f4f9d8180b5e9d234065bc3 upstream.

Workaround the Spectre BHB issues for Cortex-A15, Cortex-A57,
Cortex-A72, Cortex-A73 and Cortex-A75. We also include Brahma B15 as
well to be safe, which is affected by Spectre V2 in the same ways as
Cortex-A15.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
[changes due to lack of SYSTEM_FREEING_INITMEM - gregkh]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>ARM: assembler: introduce adr_l, ldr_l and str_l macros</title>
<updated>2021-03-17T16:06:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-14T08:23:39+00:00</published>
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commit 0b1674638a5c69cbace63278625c199100955490 upstream.

Like arm64, ARM supports position independent code sequences that
produce symbol references with a greater reach than the ordinary
adr/ldr instructions. Since on ARM, the adrl pseudo-instruction is
only supported in ARM mode (and not at all when using Clang), having
a adr_l macro like we do on arm64 is useful, and increases symmetry
as well.

Currently, we use open coded instruction sequences involving literals
and arithmetic operations. Instead, we can use movw/movt pairs on v7
CPUs, circumventing the D-cache entirely.

E.g., on v7+ CPUs, we can emit a PC-relative reference as follows:

       movw         &lt;reg&gt;, #:lower16:&lt;sym&gt; - (1f + 8)
       movt         &lt;reg&gt;, #:upper16:&lt;sym&gt; - (1f + 8)
  1:   add          &lt;reg&gt;, &lt;reg&gt;, pc

For older CPUs, we can emit the literal into a subsection, allowing it
to be emitted out of line while retaining the ability to perform
arithmetic on label offsets.

E.g., on pre-v7 CPUs, we can emit a PC-relative reference as follows:

       ldr          &lt;reg&gt;, 2f
  1:   add          &lt;reg&gt;, &lt;reg&gt;, pc
       .subsection  1
  2:   .long        &lt;sym&gt; - (1b + 8)
       .previous

This is allowed by the assembler because, unlike ordinary sections,
subsections are combined into a single section in the object file, and
so the label references are not true cross-section references that are
visible as relocations. (Subsections have been available in binutils
since 2004 at least, so they should not cause any issues with older
toolchains.)

So use the above to implement the macros mov_l, adr_l, ldr_l and str_l,
all of which will use movw/movt pairs on v7 and later CPUs, and use
PC-relative literals otherwise.

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2020-06-01T22:36:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-01T22:36:32+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - remove a now unnecessary usage of the KERNEL_DS for
   sys_oabi_epoll_ctl()

 - update my email address in a number of drivers

 - decompressor EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel

 - module unwind section handling updates

 - sparsemem Kconfig cleanups

 - make act_mm macro respect THREAD_SIZE

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: 8980/1: Allow either FLATMEM or SPARSEMEM on the multiplatform build
  ARM: 8979/1: Remove redundant ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT setting
  ARM: 8978/1: mm: make act_mm() respect THREAD_SIZE
  ARM: decompressor: run decompressor in place if loaded via UEFI
  ARM: decompressor: move GOT into .data for EFI enabled builds
  ARM: decompressor: defer loading of the contents of the LC0 structure
  ARM: decompressor: split off _edata and stack base into separate object
  ARM: decompressor: move headroom variable out of LC0
  ARM: 8976/1: module: allow arch overrides for .init section names
  ARM: 8975/1: module: fix handling of unwind init sections
  ARM: 8974/1: use SPARSMEM_STATIC when SPARSEMEM is enabled
  ARM: 8971/1: replace the sole use of a symbol with its definition
  ARM: 8969/1: decompressor: simplify libfdt builds
  Update rmk's email address in various drivers
  ARM: compat: remove KERNEL_DS usage in sys_oabi_epoll_ctl()
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<entry>
<title>ARM: uaccess: consolidate uaccess asm to asm/uaccess-asm.h</title>
<updated>2020-05-03T16:30:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-03T12:03:54+00:00</published>
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Consolidate the user access assembly code to asm/uaccess-asm.h.  This
moves the csdb, check_uaccess, uaccess_mask_range_ptr, uaccess_enable,
uaccess_disable, uaccess_save, uaccess_restore macros, and creates two
new ones for exception entry and exit - uaccess_entry and uaccess_exit.

This makes the uaccess_save and uaccess_restore macros private to
asm/uaccess-asm.h.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: 8971/1: replace the sole use of a symbol with its definition</title>
<updated>2020-04-29T12:30:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jian Cai</name>
<email>caij2003@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-29T00:20:11+00:00</published>
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ALT_UP_B macro sets symbol up_b_offset via .equ to an expression
involving another symbol. The macro gets expanded twice when
arch/arm/kernel/sleep.S is assembled, creating a scenario where
up_b_offset is set to another expression involving symbols while its
current value is based on symbols. LLVM integrated assembler does not
allow such cases, and based on the documentation of binutils, "Values
that are based on expressions involving other symbols are allowed, but
some targets may restrict this to only being done once per assembly", so
it may be better to avoid such cases as it is not clearly stated which
targets should support or disallow them. The fix in this case is simple,
as up_b_offset has only one use, so we can replace the use with the
definition and get rid of up_b_offset.

 Link:https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/920

 Reviewed-by: Stefan Agner &lt;stefan@agner.ch&gt;

Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jian Cai &lt;caij2003@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500</title>
<updated>2019-06-19T15:09:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-04T08:11:33+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 8843/1: use unified assembler in headers</title>
<updated>2019-02-26T11:26:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Agner</name>
<email>stefan@agner.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-17T23:56:58+00:00</published>
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Use unified assembler syntax (UAL) in headers. Divided syntax is
considered deprecated. This will also allow to build the kernel
using LLVM's integrated assembler.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner &lt;stefan@agner.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 8812/1: Optimise copy_{from/to}_user for !CPU_USE_DOMAINS</title>
<updated>2018-11-12T10:51:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincent Whitchurch</name>
<email>vincent.whitchurch@axis.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-09T09:09:48+00:00</published>
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ARMv6+ processors do not use CONFIG_CPU_USE_DOMAINS and use privileged
ldr/str instructions in copy_{from/to}_user.  They are currently
unnecessarily using single ldr/str instructions and can use ldm/stm
instructions instead like memcpy does (but with appropriate fixup
tables).

This speeds up a "dd if=foo of=bar bs=32k" on a tmpfs filesystem by
about 4% on my Cortex-A9.

before:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.543848 seconds, 235.4MB/s
before:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.538610 seconds, 237.6MB/s
before:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.544356 seconds, 235.1MB/s
before:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.544364 seconds, 235.1MB/s
before:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.537130 seconds, 238.3MB/s
before:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.533443 seconds, 240.0MB/s
before:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.545691 seconds, 234.6MB/s
before:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.534695 seconds, 239.4MB/s
before:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.540561 seconds, 236.8MB/s
before:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.541025 seconds, 236.6MB/s

 after:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.520445 seconds, 245.9MB/s
 after:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.527846 seconds, 242.5MB/s
 after:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.519510 seconds, 246.4MB/s
 after:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.527231 seconds, 242.8MB/s
 after:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.525030 seconds, 243.8MB/s
 after:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.524236 seconds, 244.2MB/s
 after:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.523659 seconds, 244.4MB/s
 after:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.525018 seconds, 243.8MB/s
 after:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.519249 seconds, 246.5MB/s
 after:134217728 bytes (128.0MB) copied, 0.518527 seconds, 246.9MB/s

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch &lt;vincent.whitchurch@axis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Merge branches 'fixes', 'misc' and 'spectre' into for-next</title>
<updated>2018-10-10T12:53:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-10T12:53:33+00:00</published>
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