kernel/arch/arm/lib/clear_user.S, branch linux-5.1.y

ARM: 8844/1: use unified assembler in assembly files

2019-02-26T11:26:07Z

Use unified assembler syntax (UAL) in assembly files. Divided syntax is considered deprecated. This will also allow to build the kernel using LLVM's integrated assembler. Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Russell King

Revert "arm: move exports to definitions"

2016-11-23T10:00:03Z

This reverts commit 4dd1837d7589f468ed109556513f476e7a7f9121. Moving the exports for assembly code into the assembly files breaks KSYM trimming, but also breaks modversions. While fixing the KSYM trimming is trivial, fixing modversions brings us to a technically worse position that we had prior to the above change: - We end up with the prototype definitions divorsed from everything else, which means that adding or removing assembly level ksyms become more fragile: * if adding a new assembly ksyms export, a missed prototype in asm-prototypes.h results in a successful build if no module in the selected configuration makes use of the symbol. * when removing a ksyms export, asm-prototypes.h will get forgotten, with armksyms.c, you'll get a build error if you forget to touch the file. - We end up with the same amount of include files and prototypes, they're just in a header file instead of a .c file with their exports. As for lines of code, we don't get much of a size reduction: (original commit) 47 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 208 deletions(-) (fix for ksyms trimming) 7 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (two fixes for modversions) 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) which results in a net total of only 25 lines deleted. As there does not seem to be much benefit from this change of approach, revert the change. Signed-off-by: Russell King

arm: move exports to definitions

2016-08-08T03:47:21Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

ARM: 8438/1: Add unwinding to __clear_user_std()

2015-10-03T15:36:45Z

Add unwinding annotations so that unwinding from this function works properly. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: uaccess: provide uaccess_save_and_enable() and uaccess_restore()

2015-08-25T15:14:43Z

Provide uaccess_save_and_enable() and uaccess_restore() to permit control of userspace visibility to the kernel, and hook these into the appropriate places in the kernel where we need to access userspace. Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8322/1: keep .text and .fixup regions closer together

2015-03-29T22:11:56Z

This moves all fixup snippets to the .text.fixup section, which is a special section that gets emitted along with the .text section for each input object file, i.e., the snippets are kept much closer to the code they refer to, which helps prevent linker failure on large kernels. Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 6110/1: Fix Thumb-2 kernel builds when UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY is enabled

2010-05-08T09:45:26Z

The patch adds the ENDPROC declarations for the __copy_to_user_std and __clear_user_std functions. Without these, the compiler generates BXL to ARM when compiling the kernel in Thumb-2 mode. Reported-by: Kyungmin Park Tested-by: Kyungmin Park Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: fix build error in arch/arm/kernel/process.c

2010-04-21T07:45:21Z

/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 .previous does 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

Thumb-2: Implement the unified arch/arm/lib functions

2009-07-24T11:32:57Z

This patch adds the ARM/Thumb-2 unified support for the arch/arm/lib/* files. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

[ARM] allow for alternative __copy_to_user/__clear_user implementations

2009-05-30T02:34:45Z

This allows for optional alternative implementations of __copy_to_user and __clear_user, with a possible runtime fallback to the standard version when the alternative provides no gain over that standard version. This is done by making the standard __copy_to_user into a weak alias for the symbol __copy_to_user_std. Same thing for __clear_user. Those two functions are particularly good candidates to have alternative implementations for, since they rely on the STRT instruction which has lower performances than STM instructions on some CPU cores such as the ARM1176 and Marvell Feroceon. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre