04 Nov, 2010
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This patch removes the domain switching functionality via the set_fs and
__switch_to functions on cores that have a TLS register.Currently, the ioremap and vmalloc areas share the same level 1 page
tables and therefore have the same domain (DOMAIN_KERNEL). When the
kernel domain is modified from Client to Manager (via the __set_fs or in
the __switch_to function), the XN (eXecute Never) bit is overridden and
newer CPUs can speculatively prefetch the ioremap'ed memory.Linux performs the kernel domain switching to allow user-specific
functions (copy_to/from_user, get/put_user etc.) to access kernel
memory. In order for these functions to work with the kernel domain set
to Client, the patch modifies the LDRT/STRT and related instructions to
the LDR/STR ones.The user pages access rights are also modified for kernel read-only
access rather than read/write so that the copy-on-write mechanism still
works. CPU_USE_DOMAINS gets disabled only if the hardware has a TLS register
(CPU_32v6K is defined) since writing the TLS value to the high vectors page
isn't possible.The user addresses passed to the kernel are checked by the access_ok()
function so that they do not point to the kernel space.Tested-by: Anton Vorontsov
Cc: Tony Lindgren
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas
Signed-off-by: Russell King
21 Apr, 2010
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/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s:1952: Error: can't resolve `.text' {.text section} - `.LFB1077'This is caused because:
.section .data
.section .text
.section .text
.previousdoes not return us to the .text section, but the .data section; this
makes use of .previous dangerous if the ordering of previous sections
is not known.Fix up the other users of .previous; .pushsection and .popsection are
a safer pairing to use than .section and .previous.Signed-off-by: Russell King
01 Sep, 2008
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This declaration specifies the "function" type and size for various
assembly functions, mainly needed for generating the correct branch
instructions in Thumb-2.Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas
Signed-off-by: Russell King
29 Jun, 2006
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Back in the days when we had armo (26-bit) and armv (32-bit) combined,
we had an additional layer to the uaccess macros to ensure correct
typing. Since we no longer have 26-bit in this tree, we no longer
need this layer, so eliminate it.Signed-off-by: Russell King
25 Jun, 2006
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As for RETINSTR, LOADREGS is a left-over from the 26-bit days.
Remove it.Signed-off-by: Russell King
12 Nov, 2005
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Patch from Nicolas Pitre
For assembly labels to actually be local they must start with ".L" and
not only "." otherwise they still remain visible in the final link and
clutter kallsyms needlessly, and possibly make for unclear symbolic
backtrace. This patch simply inserts a"L" where appropriate. The code
itself is unchanged.Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King
05 Nov, 2005
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Patch from Nicolas Pitre
ARM processors that have pld instructions are not using those copy_user
implementation anymore. Let's remove the useless PLD lines which were
half wrong anyway.Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King
02 Nov, 2005
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Patch from Nicolas Pitre
Required for future enhancement patches.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King
17 Apr, 2005
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.Let it rip!
