[PATCH v2 5/6] ARM: mm: Update runtime patching code to THUMB2 mode

Sricharan R r.sricharan at ti.com
Sat Aug 3 08:51:49 EDT 2013


Hi Nicolas,

On Saturday 03 August 2013 09:10 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>
>> From: Sricharan R <r.sricharan at ti.com>
>>
>> Update the runtime patching  code to support Thumb2. In testing the
>> 64 bit patching code, the issue was uncovered.
>>
>> For better review, the patch is kept separate. If needed it can be
>> merged into "ARM: LPAE: Correct virt_to_phys patching for 64 bit
>> physical addresses"
>>
>> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
>> Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sricharan R <r.sricharan at ti.com>
>> [santosh.shilimkar at ti.com: reduced #ifdef, updated commit log]
>> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/kernel/head.S |   69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>>  1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
>> index aa3b0f7..a70d330 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
>> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
>> @@ -573,62 +573,73 @@ ENDPROC(__fixup_pv_table)
>>  
>>  	.text
>>  __fixup_a_pv_table:
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL
>> -	lsls	r6, #24
>> -	beq	2f
>> -	clz	r7, r6
>> -	lsr	r6, #24
>> -	lsl	r6, r7
>> -	bic	r6, #0x0080
>> -	lsrs	r7, #1
>> -	orrcs	r6, #0x0080
>> -	orr	r6, r6, r7, lsl #12
>> -	orr	r6, #0x4000
>> -	b	2f
>> -1:	add     r7, r3
>> -	ldrh	ip, [r7, #2]
>> -	and	ip, 0x8f00
>> -	orr	ip, r6	@ mask in offset bits 31-24
>> -	strh	ip, [r7, #2]
>> -2:	cmp	r4, r5
>> -	ldrcc	r7, [r4], #4	@ use branch for delay slot
>> -	bcc	1b
>> -	bx	lr
>> -#else
>>  	adr	r0, 5f
>>  	b	4f
>>  1:	ldr	ip, [r7, r3]
>> + THUMB(	1:	add	r7, r3)
>> + THUMB(	ldrh	ip, [r7])
>> + THUMB(	ldrh	r6, [r7, #2])
>> + THUMB(	orr	ip, r6, ip, lsl #16)
>> + ARM( 1: ldr	ip, [r7, r3])
>>  	lsr	r6, ip, #20		@ extract opcode
> Please don't do this.
>
> - Remember my comment about using mnemonics such as "lsr" in an 
>   ARM-mode compiled kernel when old binutils are used.
 Ok, i will remove this to be generic.
> - There is rather little commonalities between the patching of ARM 
>   instructions vs Thumb instructions.  Especially after you take into 
>   account my previous comments.  Interlacing them makes it harder 
>   to follow as well in this case.
>
>
> Nicolas
 Ok, then i will keep it under #ifdef CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL
 as it was originally.

Regards,
 Sricharan
 



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