[PATCH v2 0/3] Fix Thumb-2 undef handling for mixed-arch kernels
Dave Martin
dave.martin at linaro.org
Thu Aug 18 13:01:51 EDT 2011
In kernels which support v6 and v7 platforms in a single binary
such as omap2plus_defconfig for example, undefined instruction
exceptions taken on Thumb instructions are not processed correctly,
because the kernel assumes at build-time that Thumb-2 won't be
supported in userspace.
This series implements a workaround, by allowing the __und_usr
handler to check the CPU architecture at runtime, in affected
kernels.
Changes since v1:
* Because cpu_architecture() is no longer trivial, it has been
moveed back out of line, into setup.c.
Changes since RFC:
* Renamed the global variable to __cpu_architecture and provided
cpu_architecture() as in inline function in <asm/system.h>.
This brings back the old API, but more efficiently.
* Dropped all the patches required to handle the reverted API
change.
* cpu_architecture is now declared __pure, which may lead to
slightly more efficient code in some cases.
* Added BUG_ON() to cpu_architecture() so that if
__cpu_architecture is not set early enough, it gets noticed.
Thanks to Tixy and Nicolas Pitre for their helpful feedback which
helped slim down this series.
Dave Martin (3):
ARM: Make cpu_architecture into a global variable
ARM: entry: Remove unnecessary masking when decoding Thumb-2
instructions
ARM: entry: Fix Thumb-2 undef handling for multi-CPU kernels
arch/arm/include/asm/system.h | 3 +-
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
arch/arm/kernel/setup.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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