[PATCH v2 6/9] arm64: call __enable_mmu as an ordinary function for secondary/resume
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Tue Aug 30 07:07:55 PDT 2016
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 04:36:03PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> This updates the secondary and cpu_resume call sites to simply call
> __enable_mmu as an ordinary function, with a bl instruction. This
> requires the callers to be covered by .idmap.text.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 14 ++++++--------
> arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S | 10 +++-------
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
Can we please fold this with patch 5?
>From my PoV the combined diff is simpler to follow, and by doing so we
avoid a few temporary issues (misleading comment above __enable_mmu, fun
and games with the lr) that the series is generally cleaning up.
>From a quick look at __idmap_text_{start,end}, we have plenty of
headroom in the idmap page, so moving a few more things in there is fine
by me.
FWIW, With the two patches folded:
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Thanks,
Mark.
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> index 3e08e51578d5..c112c153821e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> @@ -634,6 +634,7 @@ ENTRY(__boot_cpu_mode)
> * This provides a "holding pen" for platforms to hold all secondary
> * cores are held until we're ready for them to initialise.
> */
> + .pushsection ".idmap.text", "ax"
> ENTRY(secondary_holding_pen)
> bl el2_setup // Drop to EL1, w0=cpu_boot_mode
> bl set_cpu_boot_mode_flag
> @@ -663,10 +664,12 @@ secondary_startup:
> * Common entry point for secondary CPUs.
> */
> bl __cpu_setup // initialise processor
> -
> - adr_l lr, __secondary_switch // address to jump to after enabling the MMU
> - b __enable_mmu
> + bl __enable_mmu
> + ldr x8, =__secondary_switched
> + br x8
> ENDPROC(secondary_startup)
> + .ltorg
> + .popsection
>
> __secondary_switched:
> adr_l x5, vectors
> @@ -812,8 +815,3 @@ __primary_switch:
> ldr x8, =__primary_switched
> br x8
> ENDPROC(__primary_switch)
> -
> -__secondary_switch:
> - ldr x8, =__secondary_switched
> - br x8
> -ENDPROC(__secondary_switch)
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S
> index 4bce95cd656a..1d4aba6fcc7a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S
> @@ -95,19 +95,15 @@ ENTRY(__cpu_suspend_enter)
> ret
> ENDPROC(__cpu_suspend_enter)
>
> + .pushsection ".idmap.text", "ax"
> ENTRY(cpu_resume)
> bl el2_setup // if in EL2 drop to EL1 cleanly
> bl __cpu_setup
> /* enable the MMU early - so we can access sleep_save_stash by va */
> - adr_l lr, _resume_switched /* __enable_mmu will branch here */
> - b __enable_mmu
> -ENDPROC(cpu_resume)
> -
> - .pushsection ".idmap.text", "ax"
> -_resume_switched:
> + bl __enable_mmu
> ldr x8, =_cpu_resume
> br x8
> -ENDPROC(_resume_switched)
> +ENDPROC(cpu_resume)
> .ltorg
> .popsection
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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