[PATCH v2 2/8] ARM: vfp: Remove workaround for Feroceon CPUs

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Wed May 17 14:28:02 PDT 2023


Feroceon CPUs have a non-standard implementation of VFP which reports
synchronous VFP exceptions using the async VFP flag. This requires a
workaround which is difficult to reconcile with other implementations,
making it tricky to support both versions in a single image.

Since this is a v5 CPU, it is not supported by armhf and so the
likelihood that anybody is using this with recent distros/kernels and
rely on the VFP at the same time is extremely low. So let's just disable
VFP support on these cores, so we can remove the workaround.

This will help future development to support v5 and v6 CPUs with a
single kernel image.

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm/mm/proc-feroceon.S | 4 ++++
 arch/arm/vfp/vfphw.S        | 4 ----
 arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c    | 8 +++++---
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-feroceon.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-feroceon.S
index 61ce82aca6f0d603..072ff9b451f846bf 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-feroceon.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-feroceon.S
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ ENTRY(cpu_feroceon_proc_init)
 	movne	r2, r2, lsr #2			@ turned into # of sets
 	sub	r2, r2, #(1 << 5)
 	stmia	r1, {r2, r3}
+#ifdef CONFIG_VFP
+	mov	r1, #1				@ disable quirky VFP
+	str_l	r1, VFP_arch_feroceon, r2
+#endif
 	ret	lr
 
 /*
diff --git a/arch/arm/vfp/vfphw.S b/arch/arm/vfp/vfphw.S
index a4610d0f321527cc..0aeb60ac3b5376a8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/vfp/vfphw.S
+++ b/arch/arm/vfp/vfphw.S
@@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ ENTRY(vfp_support_entry)
 	beq	vfp_reload_hw		@ then the hw state needs reloading
 	VFPFSTMIA r4, r5		@ save the working registers
 	VFPFMRX	r5, FPSCR		@ current status
-#ifndef CONFIG_CPU_FEROCEON
 	tst	r1, #FPEXC_EX		@ is there additional state to save?
 	beq	1f
 	VFPFMRX	r6, FPINST		@ FPINST (only if FPEXC.EX is set)
@@ -118,7 +117,6 @@ ENTRY(vfp_support_entry)
 	beq	1f
 	VFPFMRX	r8, FPINST2		@ FPINST2 if needed (and present)
 1:
-#endif
 	stmia	r4, {r1, r5, r6, r8}	@ save FPEXC, FPSCR, FPINST, FPINST2
 vfp_reload_hw:
 
@@ -153,7 +151,6 @@ vfp_reload_hw:
 	VFPFLDMIA r10, r5		@ reload the working registers while
 					@ FPEXC is in a safe state
 	ldmia	r10, {r1, r5, r6, r8}	@ load FPEXC, FPSCR, FPINST, FPINST2
-#ifndef CONFIG_CPU_FEROCEON
 	tst	r1, #FPEXC_EX		@ is there additional state to restore?
 	beq	1f
 	VFPFMXR	FPINST, r6		@ restore FPINST (only if FPEXC.EX is set)
@@ -161,7 +158,6 @@ vfp_reload_hw:
 	beq	1f
 	VFPFMXR	FPINST2, r8		@ FPINST2 if needed (and present)
 1:
-#endif
 	VFPFMXR	FPSCR, r5		@ restore status
 
 @ The context stored in the VFP hardware is up to date with this thread
diff --git a/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c b/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c
index 08d5dfcf70796eea..95628e57807b1e79 100644
--- a/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c
+++ b/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c
@@ -42,7 +42,11 @@ static bool have_vfp __ro_after_init;
  * Used in startup: set to non-zero if VFP checks fail
  * After startup, holds VFP architecture
  */
-static unsigned int __initdata VFP_arch;
+static unsigned int VFP_arch;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FEROCEON
+extern unsigned int VFP_arch_feroceon __alias(VFP_arch);
+#endif
 
 /*
  * The pointer to the vfpstate structure of the thread which currently
@@ -357,14 +361,12 @@ void VFP_bounce(u32 trigger, u32 fpexc, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	}
 
 	if (fpexc & FPEXC_EX) {
-#ifndef CONFIG_CPU_FEROCEON
 		/*
 		 * Asynchronous exception. The instruction is read from FPINST
 		 * and the interrupted instruction has to be restarted.
 		 */
 		trigger = fmrx(FPINST);
 		regs->ARM_pc -= 4;
-#endif
 	} else if (!(fpexc & FPEXC_DEX)) {
 		/*
 		 * Illegal combination of bits. It can be caused by an
-- 
2.39.2




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