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2010-10-04ARM: Allow SMP kernels to boot on UP systemsRussell King
UP systems do not implement all the instructions that SMP systems have, so in order to boot a SMP kernel on a UP system, we need to rewrite parts of the kernel. Do this using an 'alternatives' scheme, where the kernel code and data is modified prior to initialization to replace the SMP instructions, thereby rendering the problematical code ineffectual. We use the linker to generate a list of 32-bit word locations and their replacement values, and run through these replacements when we detect a UP system. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-04-21ARM: fix build error in arch/arm/kernel/process.cRussell King
/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s:1952: Error: can't resolve `.text' {.text section} - `.LFB1077' This is caused because: .section .data .section .text .section .text .previous does not return us to the .text section, but the .data section; this makes use of .previous dangerous if the ordering of previous sections is not known. Fix up the other users of .previous; .pushsection and .popsection are a safer pairing to use than .section and .previous. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-08-15Merge branch 'for-rmk-2.6.32' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/ukl/linux-2.6 ↵Russell King
into devel-stable
2009-08-13Complete irq tracing support for ARMUwe Kleine-König
Before this patch enabling and disabling irqs in assembler code and by the hardware wasn't tracked completly. I had to transpose two instructions in arch/arm/lib/bitops.h because restore_irqs doesn't preserve the flags with CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS=y Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
2009-07-24Thumb-2: Implement the unified arch/arm/lib functionsCatalin Marinas
This patch adds the ARM/Thumb-2 unified support for the arch/arm/lib/* files. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-07-24Thumb-2: Implementation of the unified start-up and exceptions codeCatalin Marinas
This patch implements the ARM/Thumb-2 unified kernel start-up and exception handling code. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-05-28[ARM] barriers: improve xchg, bitops and atomic SMP barriersRussell King
Mathieu Desnoyers pointed out that the ARM barriers were lacking: - cmpxchg, xchg and atomic add return need memory barriers on architectures which can reorder the relative order in which memory read/writes can be seen between CPUs, which seems to include recent ARM architectures. Those barriers are currently missing on ARM. - test_and_xxx_bit were missing SMP barriers. So put these barriers in. Provide separate atomic_add/atomic_sub operations which do not require barriers. Reported-Reviewed-and-Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-02[ARM] move include/asm-arm to arch/arm/include/asmRussell King
Move platform independent header files to arch/arm/include/asm, leaving those in asm/arch* and asm/plat* alone. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>