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MIPS: Consistently declare TLB functions 
Since at least the beginning of the git era we've declared our TLB
exception handling functions inconsistently. They're actually functions,
but we declare them as arrays of u32 where each u32 is an encoded
instruction. This has always been the case for arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c, and
has also been true for arch/mips/kernel/traps.c since commit
86a1708a9d ("MIPS: Make tlb exception handler definitions and
declarations match.") which aimed for consistency but did so by
consistently making the our C code inconsistent with our assembly.

This is all usually harmless, but when using GCC 7 or newer to build a
kernel targeting microMIPS (ie. CONFIG_CPU_MICROMIPS=y) it becomes
problematic. With microMIPS bit 0 of the program counter indicates the
ISA mode. When bit 0 is zero instructions are decoded using the standard
MIPS32 or MIPS64 ISA. When bit 0 is one instructions are decoded using
microMIPS. This means that function pointers become odd - their least
significant bit is one for microMIPS code. We work around this in cases
where we need to access code using loads & stores with our
msk_isa16_mode() macro which simply clears bit 0 of the value it is
given:

  #define msk_isa16_mode(x) ((x) & ~0x1)

For example we do this for our TLB load handler in
build_r4000_tlb_load_handler():

  u32 *p = (u32 *)msk_isa16_mode((ulong)handle_tlbl);

We then write code to p, expecting it to be suitably aligned (our LEAF
macro aligns functions on 4 byte boundaries, so (ulong)handle_tlbl will
give a value one greater than a multiple of 4 - ie. the start of a
function on a 4 byte boundary, with the ISA mode bit 0 set).

This worked fine up to GCC 6, but GCC 7 & onwards is smart enough to
presume that handle_tlbl which we declared as an array of u32s must be
aligned sufficiently that bit 0 of its address will never be set, and as
a result optimize out msk_isa16_mode(). This leads to p having an
address with bit 0 set, and when we go on to attempt to store code at
that address we take an address error exception due to the unaligned
memory access.

This leads to an exception prior to the kernel having configured its own
exception handlers, so we jump to whatever handlers the bootloader
configured. In the case of QEMU this results in a silent hang, since it
has no useful general exception vector.

Fix this by consistently declaring our TLB-related functions as
functions. For handle_tlbl(), handle_tlbs() & handle_tlbm() we do this
in asm/tlbex.h & we make use of the existing declaration of
tlbmiss_handler_setup_pgd() in asm/mmu_context.h. Our TLB handler
generation code in arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c is adjusted to deal with these
definitions, in most cases simply by casting the function pointers to
u32 pointers.

This allows us to include asm/mmu_context.h in arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c to
get the definitions of tlbmiss_handler_setup_pgd & pgd_current, removing
some needless duplication. Consistently using msk_isa16_mode() on
function pointers means we no longer need the
tlbmiss_handler_setup_pgd_start symbol so that is removed entirely.

Now that we're declaring our functions as functions GCC stops optimizing
out msk_isa16_mode() & a microMIPS kernel built with either GCC 7.3.0 or
8.1.0 boots successfully.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
2018-08-10 17:27:53 -07:00
arch MIPS: Consistently declare TLB functions 2018-08-10 17:27:53 -07:00
block for-linus-20180623 2018-06-24 06:33:54 +08:00
certs docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-06-24 06:31:54 +08:00
Documentation MIPS: ath79: Fix the USB PHY reset names 2018-07-26 11:21:28 -07:00
drivers MIPS: Loongson: Add Loongson-3A R3.1 basic support 2018-07-23 17:53:34 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs binfmt_elf: Respect error return from `regset->active' 2018-07-19 13:46:34 -07:00
include MIPS: Add FP_MODE regset support 2018-07-19 13:58:44 -07:00
init dma-mapping: move all DMA mapping code to kernel/dma 2018-06-14 08:50:37 +02:00
ipc ipc: use new return type vm_fault_t 2018-06-15 07:55:25 +09:00
kernel dma-noncoherent: add a arch_sync_dma_for_cpu_all hook 2018-06-24 09:27:27 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-24 19:36:16 +08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm for-linus-20180623 2018-06-24 06:33:54 +08:00
net NFS client bugfixes for Linux 4.18 2018-06-22 06:21:34 +09:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.18 2018-06-12 13:11:26 -07:00
scripts tracing: Fix SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION=1 build due to bad merge with -mrecord-mcount 2018-06-21 15:12:56 -04:00
security docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
sound docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-24 20:29:15 +08:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM: arm64: Prevent KVM_COMPAT from being selected 2018-06-21 17:17:50 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
.cocciconfig
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'asoc-4.17' into asoc-4.18 for compress dependencies 2018-04-26 12:24:28 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: add basic helper macros to scripts/Kconfig.include 2018-05-29 03:31:19 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-24 19:59:52 +08:00
Makefile Linux 4.18-rc2 2018-06-24 20:54:29 +08:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.