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5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Catalin Marinas
6097a07411 Merge tag 'v3.7-rc5' into execve
Linux 3.7-rc5

Conflicts:
	arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
2012-11-13 17:36:07 +00:00
Will Deacon
f483a853b0 arm64: mm: fix booting on systems with no memory below 4GB
Booting on a system with all of its memory above the 4GB boundary breaks
for two reasons:

	(1) We still try to create a non-empty DMA32 zone
	(2) no-bootmem limits allocations to 0xffffffff

This patch fixes these issues for ARM64.

Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2012-11-08 16:06:21 +00:00
Catalin Marinas
16dd46bb78 arm64: No need to set the x0-x2 registers in start_thread()
For historical reasons, ARM used to set r0-r2 in start_thread() to the
first values on the user stack when starting a new user application. The
same logic has been inherited in AArch64. The x0 register is overridden
by the sys_execve() return value so it's always zero on success. The x1
and x2 registers are ignored by AArch64 and EABI AArch32 applications,
so we can safely remove the register setting for both native and compat
user space.

This also fixes a potential fault with the kernel accessing user space
stack directly.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-18 20:14:01 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
c34501d21b arm64: Use generic kernel_thread() implementation
This patch enables CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD on arm64, changes
copy_threads to cope with kernel threads creation and adapts
ret_from_fork accordingly. The arm64-specific kernel_thread
implementation is no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2012-10-17 14:33:31 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
9cce7a435f arm64: CPU support
This patch adds AArch64 CPU specific functionality. It assumes that the
implementation is generic to AArch64 and does not require specific
identification. Different CPU implementations may require the setting of
various ACTLR_EL1 bits but such information is not currently available
and it should ideally be pushed to firmware.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
2012-09-17 13:41:59 +01:00