[PATCH] ARM: PJ4: make coprocessor access sequences buildable in Thumb2 mode

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Thu Dec 17 07:25:12 PST 2015


The PJ4 inline asm sequence to write to cp15 cannot be built in Thumb-2
mode, due to the way it performs arithmetic on the program counter, so it
is built in ARM mode instead. However, building C files in ARM mode under
CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL is problematic, since the instrumentation performed
by subsystems like ftrace does not expect having to deal with interworking
branches.

Since the sequence in question is simply a poor man's ISB instruction,
let's use a straight 'isb' instead. Unlike Xscale, where this code
originated, PJ4 is strictly ARMv7 so this should always be supported.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/Makefile  |  1 -
 arch/arm/kernel/pj4-cp0.c | 10 +++-------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile b/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile
index af9e59bf3831..3c789496297f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_IWMMXT)		+= iwmmxt.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS)	+= perf_regs.o perf_callchain.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS)	+= perf_event_xscale.o perf_event_v6.o \
 				   perf_event_v7.o
-CFLAGS_pj4-cp0.o		:= -marm
 AFLAGS_iwmmxt.o			:= -Wa,-mcpu=iwmmxt
 obj-$(CONFIG_ARM_CPU_TOPOLOGY)  += topology.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_VDSO)		+= vdso.o
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/pj4-cp0.c b/arch/arm/kernel/pj4-cp0.c
index 8153e36b2491..a311977d795d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/pj4-cp0.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/pj4-cp0.c
@@ -62,14 +62,10 @@ static u32 __init pj4_cp_access_read(void)
 
 static void __init pj4_cp_access_write(u32 value)
 {
-	u32 temp;
-
 	__asm__ __volatile__ (
-		"mcr	p15, 0, %1, c1, c0, 2\n\t"
-		"mrc	p15, 0, %0, c1, c0, 2\n\t"
-		"mov	%0, %0\n\t"
-		"sub	pc, pc, #4\n\t"
-		: "=r" (temp) : "r" (value));
+		"mcr	p15, 0, %0, c1, c0, 2\n\t"
+		"isb\n\t"
+		: : "r" (value));
 }
 
 static int __init pj4_get_iwmmxt_version(void)
-- 
2.5.0




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