History log of /arch/arm/nwfpe/entry.S
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6ebbf2ce437b33022d30badd49dc94d33ecfa498 30-Jun-2014 Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> ARM: convert all "mov.* pc, reg" to "bx reg" for ARMv6+

ARMv6 and greater introduced a new instruction ("bx") which can be used
to return from function calls. Recent CPUs perform better when the
"bx lr" instruction is used rather than the "mov pc, lr" instruction,
and this sequence is strongly recommended to be used by the ARM
architecture manual (section A.4.1.1).

We provide a new macro "ret" with all its variants for the condition
code which will resolve to the appropriate instruction.

Rather than doing this piecemeal, and miss some instances, change all
the "mov pc" instances to use the new macro, with the exception of
the "movs" instruction and the kprobes code. This allows us to detect
the "mov pc, lr" case and fix it up - and also gives us the possibility
of deploying this for other registers depending on the CPU selection.

Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> # Tegra Jetson TK1
Tested-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr> # mioa701_bootresume.S
Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> # Kirkwood
Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@freescale.com>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> # OMAPs
Tested-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> # Armada XP, 375, 385
Acked-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com> # DaVinci
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> # kvm/hyp
Acked-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com> # PXA3xx
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> # Xen
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> # ARMv7M
Tested-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au> # Shmobile
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
e7f626db83689f55089717a6d771c57afe1adc1a 12-Dec-2011 Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@arm.com> ARM: 7207/1: Use generic ARM instruction set condition code checks for nwfpe.

This patch changes the nwfpe implementation to use the new generic
ARM instruction set condition code checks, rather than a local
implementation. It also removes the existing condition code checking,
which has been used for the generic support (in kernel/opcodes.{ch}).

This code has not been tested beyond building, linking and booting.

Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
4260415f6a3b92c5c986398d96c314df37a4ccbf 19-Apr-2010 Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> ARM: fix build error in arch/arm/kernel/process.c

/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 <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
c1f438f5eec867707022e5f33bec5e91ec12f6e7 25-Sep-2007 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [ARM] 4581/1: Fix the conditional execution of the NWFPE instructions

Starting with ARMv7-A, conditional execution of undefined instructions
can trigger an exception even if the condition check fails. This patch
modifies the NWFPE support to check the condition before emulating the
instruction.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 17-Apr-2005 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Linux-2.6.12-rc2

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!