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Russell King 1929ab8c68 [ARM] Fix thread struct allocator for SMP case
The ARM thread struct allocator is racy on SMP systems.  Fix it by
turning it into a per-cpu based allocator.  This also allows keeps
the cache cache warm for thread structs and kernel stacks.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-05-09 22:14:28 +01:00
Uwe Zeisberger 2eb9d31571 [ARM] 3496/1: more constants for asm-offsets.h
Patch from Uwe Zeisberger

added the following constants:
- MACHINFO_TYPE
- MACHINFO_NAME
- MACHINFO_PHYSIO
- MACHINFO_PGOFFIO
- PROCINFO_INITFUNC
- PROCINFO_MMUFLAGS

and removed their definition from head.S and head-nommu.S

Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger <Uwe_Zeisberger@digi.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-05-05 15:11:14 +01:00
Hyok S. Choi 3b920cef34 [ARM] nommu: trivial fixups for head-nommu.S and the Makefile
This patch fix compilation problem of start-up codes.
(head-nommu.S, arch/arm/kernel/Makefile)

Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-04-24 09:45:35 +01:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 036999d501 [ARM] for_each_possible_cpu
for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs.  We've had mistakes
in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been
iterating across only online or present CPUs.  This is inefficient and
possibly buggy.

We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the
future.

This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-04-20 21:48:02 +01:00
Andrew Morton 1c97b73e89 [ARM] add_memory() build fix
This is back again.  Offending patch is x86_64-mm-hotadd-reserve.patch

arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:435: error: conflicting types for 'add_memory'
include/linux/memory_hotplug.h:102: error: previous declaration of 'add_memory' was here
arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:435: error: conflicting types for 'add_memory'
include/linux/memory_hotplug.h:102: error: previous declaration of 'add_memory' was here

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-04-20 21:41:18 +01:00
Kyle McMartin 894b5779ce [PATCH] No arch-specific strpbrk implementations
While cleaning up parisc_ksyms.c earlier, I noticed that strpbrk wasn't
being exported from lib/string.c.  Investigating further, I noticed a
changeset that removed its export and added it to _ksyms.c on a few more
architectures.  The justification was that "other arches do it."

I think this is wrong, since no architecture currently defines
__HAVE_ARCH_STRPBRK, there's no reason for any of them to be exporting it
themselves.  Therefore, consolidate the export to lib/string.c.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
Catalin Marinas adeff42236 [ARM] 3470/1: Clear the HWCAP bits for the disabled kernel features
Patch from Catalin Marinas

Glibc interprets the HWCAP bits and decides on what features to use.
However, even if the features are present in the hardware, they are not
always supported by the kernel and hence the corresponding bits have to be
cleared from the elf_hwcap variable.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-04-10 21:32:35 +01:00
Lennert Buytenhek 23759dc643 [ARM] 3439/2: xsc3: add I/O coherency support
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek

This patch adds support for the I/O coherent cache available on the
xsc3.  The approach is to provide a simple API to determine whether the
chipset supports coherency by calling arch_is_coherent() and then
setting the appropriate system memory PTE and PMD bits.  In addition,
we call this API on dma_alloc_coherent() and dma_map_single() calls.
A generic version exists that will compile out all the coherency-related
code that is not needed on the majority of ARM systems.

Note that we do not check for coherency in the dma_alloc_writecombine()
function as that still requires a special PTE setting.  We also don't
touch dma_mmap_coherent() as that is a special ARM-only API that is by
definition only used on non-coherent system.

Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-04-02 00:07:39 +01:00
Komal Shah 344b215b0d [ARM] 3437/1: Kill duplicate exports of string library functions
Patch from Komal Shah

This patch fixes the duplicate exports of string library functions.

Signed-off-by: Komal Shah <komal_shah802003@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-04-01 12:13:30 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 5b67e8dd5a Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  [ARM] 3424/2: ixp23xx: fix uncompress.h for recent CRLF decompressor change
  [ARM] 3434/1: pxa i2s amsl define
  [ARM] 3425/1: xsc3: need to include pgtable-hwdef.h
  [ARM] Allow un-muxed syscalls to be available for everyone
  [ARM] 3420/1: Missing clobber in example code
  [ARM] nommu: fixups for the exception vectors
  [ARM] nommu: add nommu specific Kconfig and MMUEXT variable in Makefile
  [ARM] nommu: start-up code
  [ARM] nommu: MPU support in boot/compressed/head.S
2006-03-31 21:33:07 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 0cb3463f04 [PATCH] unexport get_wchan
The only user of get_wchan is the proc fs - and proc can't be built modular.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:19:01 -08:00
Paul Brook 6896eec029 [ARM] 3420/1: Missing clobber in example code
Patch from Paul Brook

The example code in the source documentation for __kernel_dmb
clobbers r0 but doesn't list it the asm clobber list.

Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-28 22:19:29 +01:00
Russell King ae574a5d7a Merge nommu tree 2006-03-28 22:05:10 +01:00
Hyok S. Choi c760fc1997 [ARM] nommu: fixups for the exception vectors
The high page vector (0xFFFF0000) does not supported in nommu mode.
This patch allows the vectors to be 0x00000000 or the begining of DRAM
in nommu mode.

Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-27 15:18:50 +01:00
Hyok S. Choi 75d90832d5 [ARM] nommu: start-up code
This patch adds nommu version start-up code head-nommu.S.
The common part of the start-up codes is moved to head-common.S.

Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-27 14:58:25 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre 2ce9804fbd [ARM] 3030/2: fix permission check in the obscur cmpxchg syscall
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

Quoting RMK:

|pte_write() just says that the page _may_ be writable. It doesn't say
|that the MMU is programmed to allow writes. If pte_dirty() doesn't
|return true, that means that the page is _not_ writable from userspace.
|If you write to it from kernel mode (without using put_user) you'll
|bypass the MMU read-only protection and may end up writing to a page
|owned by two separate processes.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-25 22:44:05 +00:00
Russell King 0003cedfc5 Merge nommu tree
Fix merge conflict in arch/arm/mm/proc-xscale.S

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-25 22:08:55 +00:00
Russell King 091c539f08 [ARM] SMP: don't set cpu_*_map in smp_prepare_boot_cpu
The recent addition of boot_cpu_init() implements the initialisation
of the online, present and possible cpu maps for the boot CPU, so
there is no reason to duplicate this in the architecture
smp_prepare_boot_cpu() hook.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-25 21:37:29 +00:00
Russell King 9c42954dfd [ARM] Move enable_irq and disable_irq to assembler.h
5d25ac038a broke VFP builds due to
enable_irq not being defined as an assembly macro.  Move it to
assembler.h so everyone can use it.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-23 16:59:37 +00:00
Russell King bec1b81936 [ARM] Quieten spurious IRQ detection
Only issue a "nobody cared" warning after 99900 spurious interrupts.
This avoids the occasional spurious interrupt causing warnings, as
per x86.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-22 10:22:58 +00:00
Russell King d2a02b93cf [ARM] Convert kmalloc+memset to kzalloc
Convert all uses of kmalloc followed by memset to use kzalloc instead.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-21 22:06:17 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre a61ea9326d [ARM] 3261/2: remove phys_ram from struct machine_desc (part 3)
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

This field is redundent since it must be equal to PHYS_OFFSET anyway.

There is no reference to it anymore so remove it at last.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-21 22:05:58 +00:00
Russell King 5d25ac038a [ARM] Move IRQ enable after coprocessor number decode
Allow the individual coprocessor handlers to decide when to enable
interrupts, rather than unconditionally enabling them.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-21 22:05:50 +00:00
Russell King f78f104368 [ARM] Remove unnecessary asm/hardware.h includes
asm/hardware.h is not required for the majority of processor support
files, ioremap support, mm initialisation, acorn IO support, nor
the debug code (which picks up its machine specific includes via
debug-macros.S)

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-21 22:05:50 +00:00
Russell King 0f44ba1d1e [ARM] Move read of processor ID out of lookup_processor_type()
Read the processor ID at boot, and save it in "processor_id" as we
did before.  Later, when we re-parse the CPU type in the setup.c code,
re-use the value stored in "processor_id".

This allows a cleaner work-around for noMMU devices without CP#15.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-21 22:03:22 +00:00
Hyok S. Choi f24284adcd [ARM] noMMU: block sys_fork in nommu mode
The sys_fork is not supported in nommu mode. The other syscalls
that is not supported in nommu mode are to be defined as cond_signal
in kernel/sys_ni.c.

Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-21 22:03:19 +00:00
Ben Dooks 4333298965 [ARM] 3362/1: [cleanup] - duplicate decleration of mem_fclk_21285
Patch from Ben Dooks

arch/arm/kernel/setup.c declares mem_fclk_21285 when
this is already declared in include/asm-arm/system.h

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-15 23:18:08 +00:00
Ben Dooks 0fc1c83212 [ARM] 3365/1: [cleanup] header for compat.c exported functions
Patch from Ben Dooks

arch/arm/kernel/compat.c exports two functions,
convert_to_tag_list and squash_mem_tags which
are not defined in any header files, and not
used outside arch/arm/kernel.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-15 23:17:30 +00:00
Ben Dooks 84dff1a730 [ARM] 3363/1: [cleanup] process.c - fix warnings
Patch from Ben Dooks

Fix the following warnings from sparse:

arch/arm/kernel/process.c:86:6: warning: symbol 'default_idle' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/arm/kernel/process.c:378:5: warning: symbol 'dump_fpu' was not declared.   Should it be static?

Include <linux/elfcore.h> for dump_fpu() decleration, and
make default_idle() static as it is not used outside the file.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-15 23:17:23 +00:00
Russell King 17320a9644 [ARM] Fix "thead" typo
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-15 14:57:13 +00:00
Russell King cdaabbd74b [ARM] iwmmxt thread state alignment
This patch removes the reliance of iwmmxt on hand coded alignments.
Since thread_info is always 8K aligned, specifying that fpstate is
8-byte aligned achieves the same effect without needing to resort
to hand coded alignments.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-12 22:36:06 +00:00
Tony Lindgren 69239749e1 [PATCH] fix next_timer_interrupt() for hrtimer
Also from Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Function next_timer_interrupt() got broken with a recent patch
6ba1b91213 as sys_nanosleep() was moved to
hrtimer.  This broke things as next_timer_interrupt() did not check hrtimer
tree for next event.

Function next_timer_interrupt() is needed with dyntick (CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ,
VST) implementations, as the system can be in idle when next hrtimer event
was supposed to happen.  At least ARM and S390 currently use
next_timer_interrupt().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-06 18:40:44 -08:00
Russell King 43cc19816b [ARM] CONFIG_CPU_MPCORE -> CONFIG_CPU_32v6K
CONFIG_CPU_MPCORE has never been a configuration symbol - it should
be CONFIG_CPU_32v6K.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-22 21:13:28 +00:00
Russell King 31867499b2 [ARM] Add panic-on-oops support
Although you could ask the kernel for panic-on-oops, it remained
non-functional because the architecture specific code fragment had
not been implemented.  Add it, so it works as advertised.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-22 09:33:22 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre 6c0fa49b18 [ARM] 3338/1: old ABI compat: sys_socketcall
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

Commit 99595d0237 forgot to intercept
sys_socketcall as well.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-16 22:36:13 +00:00
Russell King 7bbb794031 [ARM] Fix SMP initialisation oops
A change to the SMP initialisation caused the following oops:

 CPU1: Booted secondary processor
 CPU1: D VIPT write-back cache
 CPU1: I cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 4, 32 byte lines, 256 sets
 CPU1: D cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 4, 32 byte lines, 256 sets
 <7>Calibrating delay loop... 83.14 BogoMIPS (lpj=415744)
 <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000001c
 ...
 PC is at enqueue_task+0x1c/0x64
 LR is at activate_task+0xcc/0xe4

SMP initialisation now requires cpu_possible_map to be initialised in
setup_arch().  Move this from smp_prepare_cpus() to smp_init_cpus()
and call it from our setup_arch() if CONFIG_SMP is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-16 11:08:09 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre 5964eae835 [ARM] 3310/1: add a comment about the possible __kuser_cmpxchg transient false
negative

Patch from Nicolas Pitre

The pre ARMv5 implementation can be aborted if an exception occurs in
the middle of it.  Because of that, the ARMv6 implementation doesn't
re-attempt the operation on a failed strex either.  Let's make this
transient nature of such a false positive more explicit in the
definition.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-08 21:19:37 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre 49bca4c281 [ARM] 3309/1: disable the pre-ARMv5 NPTL kernel helper in the non MMU case
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

The cmpxchg emulation on pre-ARMv5 relies on user code executed from a
kernel address.  If the operation cannot complete atomically, it is
aborted from the usr_entry macro by clearing the Z flag.  This clearing
of the Z flag is done whenever the user pc is above TASK_SIZE.

However this "pc >= TASK_SIZE" test cannot work in the non MMU case.
Worse: the current code will corrupt the Z flag on every entry to the
kernel.

Let's disable it in the non MMU case for now.  Using NPTL on non MMU
targets needs to be worked out anyway.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-08 21:19:37 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre 99595d0237 [ARM] 3308/1: old ABI compat: struct sockaddr_un
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

struct sockaddr_un loses its padding with EABI.  Since the size of the
structure is used as a validation test in unix_mkname(), we need to
change the length argument to 110 whenever it is 112.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-08 21:19:36 +00:00
Al Viro fa1b4f91d6 [ARM] safer handling of syscall table padding
ARM entry-common.S needs to know syscall table size; in itself that would
not be a problem, but there's an additional constraint - some of the
instructions using it want a constant that would be a multiple of 4.
So we have to pad syscall table with sys_ni_syscall and that's where
the trouble begins.  .rept pseudo-op wants a constant expression for
number of repetitions and subtraction of two labels (before and after
syscall table) doesn't always get simplified to constant early enough
for .rept.  If labels end up in different frags, we lose.  And while
the frag size is large enough (slightly below 4Kb), the syscall table
is about 1/3 of that.  We used to get away with that, but the recent
changes had been enough to trigger the breakage.

Proper fix is simple: have a macro (CALL(x)) to populate the table
instead of using explicit .long x and the first time we include calls.S
have it defined to .equ NR_syscalls,NR_syscalls+1.  Then we can find
the proper amount of padding on the first inclusion simply by looking
at NR_syscalls at that time.  And that will be constant, no matter what.

Moreover, the same trick kills the need of having an estimate of padded
NR_syscalls - it will be calculated for free at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-19 12:57:01 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre 5e0974459d [ARM] 3271/1: ARM EABI: fix calling of cmpxchg syscall emulation
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

This is kernel provided user space code.

Since a syscall is used, it has to be updated to work with EABI.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-18 22:38:49 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre fcca538b83 [ARM] 3270/1: ARM EABI: fix sigreturn and rt_sigreturn
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

The signal return path consists of user code provided by the kernel.
Since a syscall is used, it has to be updated to work with EABI.

Noticed by Daniel Jacobowitz.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-18 22:38:47 +00:00
Linus Torvalds 8d5c315059 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2006-01-14 19:43:21 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre 3f471126ee [ARM] 3262/4: allow ptraced syscalls to be overriden
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

This is needed by strace to properly handle the tracing of some system
calls. It could be useful for other applications as well.

Based on an earlier patch from Daniel Jacobowitz.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-14 19:30:04 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre dd35afc22b [ARM] 3110/5: old ABI compat: multi-ABI syscall entry support
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

This patch adds the required code to support both user space ABIs at
the same time. A second syscall table is created to include legacy ABI
syscalls that need an ABI compat wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-14 16:36:12 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre 687ad01914 [ARM] 3109/1: old ABI compat: syscall wrappers for ABI impedance matching
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

The difference between EABI and the legacy ABI may affect either
structure member alignment and/or argument register selection.

The patch has the details.

Included are wrappers for the following syscalls:

  sys_stat64
  sys_lstat64
  sys_fstat64
  sys_fcntl64
  sys_epoll_ctl
  sys_epoll_wait
  sys_ipc
  sys_semop
  sys_semtimedop
  sys_pread64
  sys_pwrite64
  sys_truncate64
  sys_ftruncate64
  sys_readahead

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-14 16:35:31 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre 713c481519 [ARM] 3108/2: old ABI compat: statfs64 and fstatfs64
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

struct statfs64 has extra padding with EABI growing its size from 84 to
88. This struct is now __attribute__((packed,aligned(4))) with a small
assembly wrapper to force the sz argument to 84 if it is 88 to avoid
copying the extra padding over user space memory unexpecting it.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-14 16:35:03 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre 3f2829a315 [ARM] 3105/4: ARM EABI: new syscall entry convention
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

For a while we wanted to change the way syscalls were called on ARM.
Instead of encoding the syscall number in the swi instruction which
requires reading back the instruction from memory to extract that number
and polluting the data cache, it was decided that simply storing the
syscall number into r7 would be more efficient. Since this represents
an ABI change then making that change at the same time as EABI support
is the right thing to do.

It is now expected that EABI user space binaries put the syscall number
into r7 and use "swi 0" to call the kernel. Syscall register argument
are also expected to have "EABI arrangement" i.e. 64-bit arguments
should be put in a pair of registers from an even register number.

Example with long ftruncate64(unsigned int fd, loff_t length):

	legacy ABI:
	- put fd into r0
	- put length into r1-r2
	- use "swi #(0x900000 + 194)" to call the kernel

	new ARM EABI:
	- put fd into r0
	- put length into r2-r3 (skipping over r1)
	- put 194 into r7
	- use "swi 0" to call the kernel

Note that it is important to use 0 for the swi argument as backward
compatibility with legacy ABI user space relies on this.
The syscall macros in asm-arm/unistd.h were also updated to support
both ABIs and implement the right call method automatically.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-14 16:31:29 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre ba95e4e4a0 [ARM] 3104/1: ARM EABI: new helper function names
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

The ARM EABI defines new names for GCC helper functions.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-14 16:18:29 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre 499b2ea11f [ARM] 3103/1: ARM EABI: stack pointer must be 64-bit aligned (part 2)
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

We must make sure that assembly code that modifies the stack pointer
before calling a C function does it so it remains 64-bit aligned.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-14 16:18:09 +00:00