This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ARM: 8452/3: PJ4: make coprocessor access sequences buildable in Thumb2 mode
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arm-8452-3-pj4-make-coprocessor-access-sequences-buildable-in-thumb2-mode.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 5008efc83bf85b647aa1cbc44718b1675bbb7444 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 08:24:59 +0100
Subject: ARM: 8452/3: PJ4: make coprocessor access sequences buildable in Thumb2 mode
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 5008efc83bf85b647aa1cbc44718b1675bbb7444 upstream.
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@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/kernel/Makefile | 1 -
arch/arm/kernel/pj4-cp0.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- 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
--- 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(u
__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));
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/arm-8452-3-pj4-make-coprocessor-access-sequences-buildable-in-thumb2-mode.patch