[PATCHv4 3/7] arm64: Move cpu_resume into the text section

[Mark Rutland]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 08:22:00AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 28 October 2014 09:10, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:
> > On 27 October 2014 21:12, Laura Abbott <lauraa at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> >> The function cpu_resume currently lives in the .data
> >> section. There's no reason for it to be there since
> >> we can use relative instructions without a problem.
> >> Move it to the text section where it belongs.
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa at codeaurora.org>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S | 12 +++++++-----
> >>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>
> >
> > Hi Laura,
> >
> > Apologies for waiting until v4 to bring this up, but I have some minor comments.
> >
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S
> >> index a564b44..5762b16 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S
> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S
> >> @@ -147,12 +147,12 @@ cpu_resume_after_mmu:
> >>         ret
> >>  ENDPROC(cpu_resume_after_mmu)
> >>
> >> -       .data
> >>  ENTRY(cpu_resume)
> >>         bl      el2_setup               // if in EL2 drop to EL1 cleanly
> >>  #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> >>         mrs     x1, mpidr_el1
> >> -       adr     x4, mpidr_hash_ptr
> >> +       adrp    x4, mpidr_hash_ptr
> >> +       add     x4, x4, #:lo12:mpidr_hash_ptr
> >
> > Instead of this change, you could put mpidr_hash_ptr itself in .text as well.
> >
> 
> Actually, looking more closely, it appears mpidr_hash_ptr can be
> dropped completely:
> the address obtained by adrp/add is PC relative, so the whole sequence
> could just be
> 
> adrp x8, mpidr_hash
> add x8, x8, #:lo12:mpidr_hash // x8 = struct mpidr_hash phys address
> 
> (and the ldr and add below can be dropped, and so can mpidr_hash_ptr at the end)

Also, if you update arch/arm64/kernel/suspend.c to drop the extern from
sleep_save_sp and sleep_idmap_phys, you can drop all of the .data from
sleep.S

I gave all of that a go locally and my Juno happily booted to userspace
with cpuidle running. I had to apply Marc's timer fix to get cpuidle to
work at all with v3.18-rc2, but that should be fixed for -rc3.

So with those changes:

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>

Thanks,
Mark.