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* ARM64: ACPI: Update documentation for latest specification versionAl Stone2016-06-212-170/+213
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The ACPI 6.1 specification was recently released at the end of January 2016, but the arm64 kernel documentation for the use of ACPI was written for the 5.1 version of the spec. There were significant additions to the spec that had not yet been mentioned -- for example, the 6.0 mechanisms added to make it easier to define processors and low power idle states, as well as the 6.1 addition allowing regular interrupts (not just from GPIO) be used to signal ACPI general purpose events. This patch reflects going back through and examining the specs in detail and updating content appropriately. Whilst there, a few odds and ends of typos were caught as well. This brings the documentation up to date with ACPI 6.1 for arm64. Signed-off-by: Al Stone <al.stone@linaro.org> Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* irqchip/gicv3-its: numa: Enable workaround for Cavium thunderx erratum 23144Ganapatrao Kulkarni2016-06-021-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | The erratum fixes the hang of ITS SYNC command by avoiding inter node io and collections/cpu mapping on thunderx dual-socket platform. This fix is only applicable for Cavium's ThunderX dual-socket platform. Reviewed-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@caviumnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
* Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v4.7' of ↵Linus Torvalds2016-05-191-0/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel: "The updates include: - rate limiting for the VT-d fault handler - remove statistics code from the AMD IOMMU driver. It is unused and should be replaced by something more generic if needed - per-domain pagesize-bitmaps in IOMMU core code to support systems with different types of IOMMUs - support for ACPI devices in the AMD IOMMU driver - 4GB mode support for Mediatek IOMMU driver - ARM-SMMU updates from Will Deacon: - support for 64k pages with SMMUv1 implementations (e.g MMU-401) - remove open-coded 64-bit MMIO accessors - initial support for 16-bit VMIDs, as supported by some ThunderX SMMU implementations - a couple of errata workarounds for silicon in the field - various fixes here and there" * tag 'iommu-updates-v4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (44 commits) iommu/arm-smmu: Use per-domain page sizes. iommu/amd: Remove statistics code iommu/dma: Finish optimising higher-order allocations iommu: Allow selecting page sizes per domain iommu: of: enforce const-ness of struct iommu_ops iommu: remove unused priv field from struct iommu_ops iommu/dma: Implement scatterlist segment merging iommu/arm-smmu: Clear cache lock bit of ACR iommu/arm-smmu: Support SMMUv1 64KB supplement iommu/arm-smmu: Decouple context format from kernel config iommu/arm-smmu: Tidy up 64-bit/atomic I/O accesses io-64-nonatomic: Add relaxed accessor variants iommu/arm-smmu: Work around MMU-500 prefetch errata iommu/arm-smmu: Convert ThunderX workaround to new method iommu/arm-smmu: Differentiate specific implementations iommu/arm-smmu: Workaround for ThunderX erratum #27704 iommu/arm-smmu: Add support for 16 bit VMID iommu/amd: Move get_device_id() and friends to beginning of file iommu/amd: Don't use IS_ERR_VALUE to check integer values iommu/amd: Signedness bug in acpihid_device_group() ...
| * iommu/arm-smmu: Work around MMU-500 prefetch errataRobin Murphy2016-05-031-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | MMU-500 erratum #841119 is tickled by a particular set of circumstances interacting with the next-page prefetcher. Since said prefetcher is quite dumb and actually detrimental to performance in some cases (by causing unwanted TLB evictions for non-sequential access patterns), we lose very little by turning it off, and what we gain is a guarantee that the erratum is never hit. As a bonus, the same workaround will also prevent erratum #826419 once v7 short descriptor support is implemented. CC: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
| * iommu/arm-smmu: Workaround for ThunderX erratum #27704Tirumalesh Chalamarla2016-05-031-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Due to erratum #27704, the CN88xx SMMUv2 implementation supports only shared ASID and VMID numberspaces. This patch ensures that ASID and VMIDs are unique across all SMMU instances on affected Cavium systems. Signed-off-by: Tirumalesh Chalamarla <tchalamarla@caviumnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Akula Geethasowjanya <Geethasowjanya.Akula@caviumnetworks.com> [will: commit message, comments and formatting] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
* | arm64: add the initrd region to the linear mapping explicitlyArd Biesheuvel2016-04-141-0/+4
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of going out of our way to relocate the initrd if it turns out to occupy memory that is not covered by the linear mapping, just add the initrd to the linear mapping. This puts the burden on the bootloader to pass initrd= and mem= options that are mutually consistent. Note that, since the placement of the linear region in the PA space is also dependent on the placement of the kernel Image, which may reside anywhere in memory, we may still end up with a situation where the initrd and the kernel Image are simply too far apart to be covered by the linear region. Since we now leave it up to the bootloader to pass the initrd in memory that is guaranteed to be accessible by the kernel, add a mention of this to the arm64 boot protocol specification as well. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
* arm64: Add workaround for Cavium erratum 27456Andrew Pinski2016-02-261-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | On ThunderX T88 pass 1.x through 2.1 parts, broadcast TLBI instructions may cause the icache to become corrupted if it contains data for a non-current ASID. This patch implements the workaround (which invalidates the local icache when switching the mm) by using code patching. Signed-off-by: Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* arm64: allow kernel Image to be loaded anywhere in physical memoryArd Biesheuvel2016-02-181-7/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This relaxes the kernel Image placement requirements, so that it may be placed at any 2 MB aligned offset in physical memory. This is accomplished by ignoring PHYS_OFFSET when installing memblocks, and accounting for the apparent virtual offset of the kernel Image. As a result, virtual address references below PAGE_OFFSET are correctly mapped onto physical references into the kernel Image regardless of where it sits in memory. Special care needs to be taken for dealing with memory limits passed via mem=, since the generic implementation clips memory top down, which may clip the kernel image itself if it is loaded high up in memory. To deal with this case, we simply add back the memory covering the kernel image, which may result in more memory to be retained than was passed as a mem= parameter. Since mem= should not be considered a production feature, a panic notifier handler is installed that dumps the memory limit at panic time if one was set. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* arm64: Documentation: add list of software workarounds for errataWill Deacon2015-12-111-0/+58
| | | | | | | | | It's not immediately obvious which hardware errata are worked around in the Linux kernel for an arbitrary kernel tree, so add a file to keep track of what we're working around. Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
* Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds2015-11-041-1/+6
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: - "genirq: Introduce generic irq migration for cpu hotunplugged" patch merged from tip/irq/for-arm to allow the arm64-specific part to be upstreamed via the arm64 tree - CPU feature detection reworked to cope with heterogeneous systems where CPUs may not have exactly the same features. The features reported by the kernel via internal data structures or ELF_HWCAP are delayed until all the CPUs are up (and before user space starts) - Support for 16KB pages, with the additional bonus of a 36-bit VA space, though the latter only depending on EXPERT - Implement native {relaxed, acquire, release} atomics for arm64 - New ASID allocation algorithm which avoids IPI on roll-over, together with TLB invalidation optimisations (using local vs global where feasible) - KASan support for arm64 - EFI_STUB clean-up and isolation for the kernel proper (required by KASan) - copy_{to,from,in}_user optimisations (sharing the memcpy template) - perf: moving arm64 to the arm32/64 shared PMU framework - L1_CACHE_BYTES increased to 128 to accommodate Cavium hardware - Support for the contiguous PTE hint on kernel mapping (16 consecutive entries may be able to use a single TLB entry) - Generic CONFIG_HZ now used on arm64 - defconfig updates * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (91 commits) arm64/efi: fix libstub build under CONFIG_MODVERSIONS ARM64: Enable multi-core scheduler support by default arm64/efi: move arm64 specific stub C code to libstub arm64: page-align sections for DEBUG_RODATA arm64: Fix build with CONFIG_ZONE_DMA=n arm64: Fix compat register mappings arm64: Increase the max granular size arm64: remove bogus TASK_SIZE_64 check arm64: make Timer Interrupt Frequency selectable arm64/mm: use PAGE_ALIGNED instead of IS_ALIGNED arm64: cachetype: fix definitions of ICACHEF_* flags arm64: cpufeature: declare enable_cpu_capabilities as static genirq: Make the cpuhotplug migration code less noisy arm64: Constify hwcap name string arrays arm64/kvm: Make use of the system wide safe values arm64/debug: Make use of the system wide safe value arm64: Move FP/ASIMD hwcap handling to common code arm64/HWCAP: Use system wide safe values arm64/capabilities: Make use of system wide safe value arm64: Delay cpu feature capability checks ...
| * arm64: Add page size to the kernel image headerArd Biesheuvel2015-10-191-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the page size to the arm64 kernel image header so that one can infer the PAGESIZE used by the kernel. This will be helpful to diagnose failures to boot the kernel with page size not supported by the CPU. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* | arm64: Update booting requirements for GICv3 in GICv2 modeMarc Zyngier2015-10-091-1/+10
|/ | | | | | | | | | | The current requirements do not describe the case where a GICv3 system gets booted with system register access disabled, and expect the kernel to drive GICv3 in GICv2 mode. Describe the expected settings for that particular case. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
* arm64/Documentation: clarify wording regarding memory below the ImageArd Biesheuvel2015-07-291-4/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Clarify that the memory below the start of the image but inside the region covered by the linear mapping has no special significance to the kernel, and may be used by the firmware provided that it is marked as reserved. Also, fix up some whitespace errors. Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
* arm64: use fixmap region for permanent FDT mappingArd Biesheuvel2015-06-021-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, the FDT blob needs to be in the same 512 MB region as the kernel, so that it can be mapped into the kernel virtual memory space very early on using a minimal set of statically allocated translation tables. Now that we have early fixmap support, we can relax this restriction, by moving the permanent FDT mapping to the fixmap region instead. This way, the FDT blob may be anywhere in memory. This also moves the vetting of the FDT to mmu.c, since the early init code in head.S does not handle mapping of the FDT anymore. At the same time, fix up some comments in head.S that have gone stale. Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* ARM64 / ACPI: additions of ACPI documentation for arm64Al Stone2015-03-261-0/+593
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One more documentation file are also being added: A section by section review of the ACPI spec (acpi_object_usage.txt) to note recommendations and prohibitions on the use of the numerous ACPI tables and objects. This sets out the current expectations of the firmware by Linux very explicitly (or as explicitly as I can, for now). CC: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> CC: Yi Li <phoenix.liyi@huawei.com> CC: Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@redhat.com> CC: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwinc@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Al Stone <al.stone@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
* Documentation: ACPI for ARM64Graeme Gregory2015-03-261-0/+505
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add documentation for the guidelines of how to use ACPI on ARM64. Reviewed-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Yi Li <phoenix.liyi@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwinc@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Al Stone <al.stone@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
* arm64: Emulate SETEND for AArch32 tasksSuzuki K. Poulose2015-01-231-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Emulate deprecated 'setend' instruction for AArch32 bit tasks. setend [le/be] - Sets the endianness of EL0 On systems with CPUs which support mixed endian at EL0, the hardware support for the instruction can be enabled by setting the SCTLR_EL1.SED bit. Like the other emulated instructions it is controlled by an entry in /proc/sys/abi/. For more information see : Documentation/arm64/legacy_instructions.txt The instruction is emulated by setting/clearing the SPSR_EL1.E bit, which will be reflected in the PSTATE.E in AArch32 context. This patch also restores the native endianness for the execution of signal handlers, since the process could have changed the endianness. Note: All CPUs on the system must have mixed endian support at EL0. Once the handler is registered, hotplugging a CPU which doesn't support mixed endian, could lead to unexpected results/behavior in applications. Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* arm64: Emulate CP15 Barrier instructionsPunit Agrawal2014-11-201-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The CP15 barrier instructions (CP15ISB, CP15DSB and CP15DMB) are deprecated in the ARMv7 architecture, superseded by ISB, DSB and DMB instructions respectively. Some implementations may provide the ability to disable the CP15 barriers by disabling the CP15BEN bit in SCTLR_EL1. If not enabled, the encodings for these instructions become undefined. To support legacy software using these instructions, this patch register hooks to - * emulate CP15 barriers and warn the user about their use * toggle CP15BEN in SCTLR_EL1 Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
* arm64: Port SWP/SWPB emulation support from armPunit Agrawal2014-11-201-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The SWP instruction was deprecated in the ARMv6 architecture. The ARMv7 multiprocessing extensions mandate that SWP/SWPB instructions are treated as undefined from reset, with the ability to enable them through the System Control Register SW bit. With ARMv8, the option to enable these instructions through System Control Register was dropped as well. To support legacy applications using these instructions, port the emulation of the SWP and SWPB instructions from the arm port to arm64. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
* arm64: Add framework for legacy instruction emulationPunit Agrawal2014-11-201-0/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Typically, providing support for legacy instructions requires emulating the behaviour of instructions whose encodings have become undefined. If the instructions haven't been removed from the architecture, there maybe an option in the implementation to turn on/off the support for these instructions. Create common infrastructure to support legacy instruction emulation. In addition to emulation, also provide an option to support hardware execution when supported. The default execution mode (one of undef, emulate, hw exeuction) is dependent on the state of the instruction (deprecated or obsolete) in the architecture and can specified at the time of registering the instruction handlers. The runtime state of the emulation can be controlled by writing to individual nodes in sysctl. The expected default behaviour is documented as part of this patch. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
* Documentation/arm64/memory.txt: fix typoAlex Bennée2014-10-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | There is no swapper_pgd_dir, it meant swapper_pg_dir. Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-3.17' of ↵Paolo Bonzini2014-08-051-0/+8
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into kvm KVM/ARM New features for 3.17 include: - Fixes and code refactoring for stage2 kvm MMU unmap_range - Support unmapping IPAs on deleting memslots for arm and arm64 - Support MMIO mappings in stage2 faults - KVM VGIC v2 emulation on GICv3 hardware - Big-Endian support for arm/arm64 (guest and host) - Debug Architecture support for arm64 (arm32 is on Christoffer's todo list) Conflicts: virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c [last minute cherry-pick from 3.17 to 3.16]
| * arm64: boot protocol documentation update for GICv3Marc Zyngier2014-07-111-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Linux has some requirements that must be satisfied in order to boot on a system built with a GICv3. Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
* | arm64: Add support for 48-bit VA space with 64KB page configurationCatalin Marinas2014-07-231-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch allows support for 3 levels of page tables with 64KB page configuration allowing 48-bit VA space. The pgd is no longer a full PAGE_SIZE (PTRS_PER_PGD is 64) and (swapper|idmap)_pg_dir are not fully populated (pgd_alloc falls back to kzalloc). Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Tested-by: Jungseok Lee <jungseoklee85@gmail.com>
* | arm64: Determine the vmalloc/vmemmap space at build time based on VA_BITSCatalin Marinas2014-07-231-83/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rather than guessing what the maximum vmmemap space should be, this patch allows the calculation based on the VA_BITS and sizeof(struct page). The vmalloc space extends to the beginning of the vmemmap space. Since the virtual kernel memory layout now depends on the build configuration, this patch removes the detailed description in Documentation/arm64/memory.txt in favour of information printed during kernel booting. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Tested-by: Jungseok Lee <jungseoklee85@gmail.com>
* | arm64: Add a description on 48-bit address space with 4KB pagesJungseok Lee2014-07-231-8/+51
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds memory layout and translation lookup information about 48-bit address space with 4K pages. The description is based on 4 levels of translation tables. Signed-off-by: Jungseok Lee <jays.lee@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Sungjinn Chung <sungjinn.chung@samsung.com> Acked-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Tested-by: Jungseok Lee <jungseoklee85@gmail.com>
* | arm64: Update the Image headerMark Rutland2014-07-101-8/+35
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the kernel Image is stripped of everything past the initial stack, and at runtime the memory is initialised and used by the kernel. This makes the effective minimum memory footprint of the kernel larger than the size of the loaded binary, though bootloaders have no mechanism to identify how large this minimum memory footprint is. This makes it difficult to choose safe locations to place both the kernel and other binaries required at boot (DTB, initrd, etc), such that the kernel won't clobber said binaries or other reserved memory during initialisation. Additionally when big endian support was added the image load offset was overlooked, and is currently of an arbitrary endianness, which makes it difficult for bootloaders to make use of it. It seems that bootloaders aren't respecting the image load offset at present anyway, and are assuming that offset 0x80000 will always be correct. This patch adds an effective image size to the kernel header which describes the amount of memory from the start of the kernel Image binary which the kernel expects to use before detecting memory and handling any memory reservations. This can be used by bootloaders to choose suitable locations to load the kernel and/or other binaries such that the kernel will not clobber any memory unexpectedly. As before, memory reservations are required to prevent the kernel from clobbering these locations later. Both the image load offset and the effective image size are forced to be little-endian regardless of the native endianness of the kernel to enable bootloaders to load a kernel of arbitrary endianness. Bootloaders which wish to make use of the load offset can inspect the effective image size field for a non-zero value to determine if the offset is of a known endianness. To enable software to determine the endinanness of the kernel as may be required for certain use-cases, a new flags field (also little-endian) is added to the kernel header to export this information. The documentation is updated to clarify these details. To discourage future assumptions regarding the value of text_offset, the value at this point in time is removed from the main flow of the documentation (though kept as a compatibility note). Some minor formatting issues in the documentation are also corrected. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <kevin.hilman@linaro.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* doc: arm64: add description of EFI stub supportMark Salter2014-04-301-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | Add explanation of arm64 EFI stub and kernel image header changes needed to masquerade as a PE/COFF application. Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
* Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-04-081-2/+8
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux Pull second set of arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: "A second pull request for this merging window, mainly with fixes and docs clarification: - Documentation clarification on CPU topology and booting requirements - Additional cache flushing during boot (needed in the presence of external caches or under virtualisation) - DMA range invalidation fix for non cache line aligned buffers - Build failure fix with !COMPAT - Kconfig update for STRICT_DEVMEM" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: arm64: Fix DMA range invalidation for cache line unaligned buffers arm64: Add missing Kconfig for CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM arm64: fix !CONFIG_COMPAT build failures Revert "arm64: virt: ensure visibility of __boot_cpu_mode" arm64: Relax the kernel cache requirements for boot arm64: Update the TCR_EL1 translation granule definitions for 16K pages ARM: topology: Make it clear that all CPUs need to be described
| * arm64: Relax the kernel cache requirements for bootCatalin Marinas2014-04-051-2/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With system caches for the host OS or architected caches for guest OS we cannot easily guarantee that there are no dirty or stale cache lines for the areas of memory written by the kernel during boot with the MMU off (therefore non-cacheable accesses). This patch adds the necessary cache maintenance during boot and relaxes the booting requirements. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* | arm64: add early_ioremap supportMark Salter2014-04-071-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for early IO or memory mappings which are needed before the normal ioremap() is usable. This also adds fixmap support for permanent fixed mappings such as that used by the earlyprintk device register region. Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* arm64: Extend the PCI I/O space to 16MBCatalin Marinas2014-02-261-6/+10
| | | | | | | The patch moves the PCI I/O space (currently at 64K) before the earlyprintk mapping and extends it to 16MB. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* arm64: Use 42-bit address space with 64K pagesCatalin Marinas2013-11-051-1/+26
| | | | | | | | | | This patch expands the VA_BITS to 42 when the 64K page configuration is enabled allowing 2TB kernel linear mapping. Linux still uses 2 levels of page tables in this configuration with pgd now being a full page. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
* Docs: arm64: booting: clarify boot requirementsMark Rutland2013-10-241-14/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are a few points in the arm64 booting document which are unclear (such as the initial state of secondary CPUs), and/or have not been documented (PSCI is a supported mechanism for booting secondary CPUs). This patch amends the arm64 boot document to better express the (existing) requirements, and to describe PSCI as a supported booting mechanism. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Cc: Fu Wei <tekkamanninja@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* arm64: Fix memory layout typoCatalin Marinas2013-10-241-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* arm64: documentation: tighten up tagged pointer documentationWill Deacon2013-09-201-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit d50240a5f6ce ("arm64: mm: permit use of tagged pointers at EL0") added support for tagged pointers in userspace, but the corresponding update to Documentation/ contained some imprecise statements. This patch fixes up some minor ambiguities in the text, hopefully making it more clear about exactly what the kernel expects from user virtual addresses. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* Documentation/arm64: clarify requirements for DTB placementMark Salter2013-09-051-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | The current description of DTB placement requirements does not quite match the kernel code in head.S: __vet_fdt and __create_page_tables. This patch tweaks the text to match the actual requirements placed on it by the code. Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* arm64: mm: permit use of tagged pointers at EL0Will Deacon2013-09-031-0/+34
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | TCR.TBI0 can be used to cause hardware address translation to ignore the top byte of userspace virtual addresses. Whilst not especially useful in standard C programs, this can be used by JITs to `tag' pointers with various pieces of metadata. This patch enables this bit for AArch64 Linux, and adds a new file to Documentation/arm64/ which describes some potential caveats when using tagged virtual addresses. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* arm64: Expand arm64 image headerRoy Franz2013-08-221-3/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Expand the arm64 image header to allow for co-existance with PE/COFF header required by the EFI stub. The PE/COFF format requires the "MZ" header to be at offset 0, and the offset to the PE/COFF header to be at offset 0x3c. The image header is expanded to allow 2 instructions at the beginning to accommodate a benign intruction at offset 0 that includes the "MZ" header, a magic number, and the offset to the PE/COFF header. Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* arm64: KVM: document kernel object mappings in HYPMarc Zyngier2013-06-121-0/+7
| | | | | | | | HYP mode has access to some of the kernel pages. Document the memory mapping and the offset between kernel VA and HYP VA. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
* arm64: Add simple earlyprintk supportCatalin Marinas2013-01-221-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for "earlyprintk=" parameter on the kernel command line. The format is: earlyprintk=<name>[,<addr>][,<options>] where <name> is the name of the (UART) device, e.g. "pl011", <addr> is the I/O address. The <options> aren't currently used. The mapping of the earlyprintk device is done very early during kernel boot and there are restrictions on which functions it can call. A special early_io_map() function is added which creates the mapping from the pre-defined EARLY_IOBASE to the device I/O address passed via the kernel parameter. The pgd entry corresponding to EARLY_IOBASE is pre-populated in head.S during kernel boot. Only PL011 is currently supported and it is assumed that the interface is already initialised by the boot loader before the kernel is started. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
* Documentation: Fixes a word in Documentation/arm64/memory.txtTekkaman Ninja2012-11-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Fixes a term in Documentation/arm64/memory.txt The modification is based on Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>'s suggestion: "memory" in "ffffffc000000000 ffffffffffffffff 256GB memory" should be treated as "kernel logical memory map". Signed-off-by: Fu Wei <tekkamanninja@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* arm64: Move PCI_IOBASE closer to MODULES_VADDRCatalin Marinas2012-10-231-6/+6
| | | | | | | This is to reuse the same pmd table that is sparsely populated with the modules space. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* arm64: MMU definitionsCatalin Marinas2012-09-171-0/+73
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The virtual memory layout is described in Documentation/arm64/memory.txt. This patch adds the MMU definitions for the 4KB and 64KB translation table configurations. The SECTION_SIZE is 2MB with 4KB page and 512MB with 64KB page configuration. PHYS_OFFSET is calculated at run-time and stored in a variable (no run-time code patching at this stage). On the current implementation, both user and kernel address spaces are 512G (39-bit) each with a maximum of 256G for the RAM linear mapping. Linux uses 3 levels of translation tables with the 4K page configuration and 2 levels with the 64K configuration. Extending the memory space beyond 39-bit with the 4K pages or 42-bit with 64K pages requires an additional level of translation tables. The SPARSEMEM configuration is global to all AArch64 platforms and allows for 1GB sections with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled by default. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
* arm64: Kernel booting and initialisationCatalin Marinas2012-09-171-0/+152
The patch adds the kernel booting and the initial setup code. Documentation/arm64/booting.txt describes the booting protocol on the AArch64 Linux kernel. This is subject to change following the work on boot standardisation, ACPI. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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