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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-06 22:09:44 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-06 22:09:44 +0400
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Merge tag 'arm64-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64
Pull ARM64 update from Catalin Marinas: - User tagged pointers support (top 8-bit of user pointers automatically ignored by the CPU). - Kernel mode NEON (no users for arm64 yet but work in progress). - arm64 kernel Image header extended to accommodate future EFI stub. - Remove BogoMIPS reporting (not relevant, it's just the timer frequency). - Clean-up (EM_AARCH64/EM_ARM to elf-em.h, ELF notes in read-only segment, unused variable). - Bug-fixes (RAM boundaries not 2MB aligned, perf, includes). * tag 'arm64-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64: Documentation/arm64: clarify requirements for DTB placement arm64: mm: permit use of tagged pointers at EL0 Move the EM_ARM and EM_AARCH64 definitions to uapi/linux/elf-em.h arm64: Remove unused cpu_name ascii in arch/arm64/mm/proc.S arm64: delay: don't bother reporting bogomips in /proc/cpuinfo arm64: Fix mapping of memory banks not ending on a PMD_SIZE boundary arm64: move elf notes into readonly segment arm64: Enable interrupts in the EL0 undef handler arm64: Expand arm64 image header ARM64: include: asm: include "asm/types.h" in "pgtable-2level-types.h" and "pgtable-3level-types.h" arm64: add support for kernel mode NEON arm64: perf: fix ARMv8 EVTYPE_MASK to include NSH bit arm64: perf: fix group validation when using enable_on_exec
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm64/booting.txt22
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt34
2 files changed, 50 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
index 9c4d388daddc..98df4a03807e 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ sees fit.)
Requirement: MANDATORY
-The device tree blob (dtb) must be no bigger than 2 megabytes in size
-and placed at a 2-megabyte boundary within the first 512 megabytes from
-the start of the kernel image. This is to allow the kernel to map the
+The device tree blob (dtb) must be placed on an 8-byte boundary within
+the first 512 megabytes from the start of the kernel image and must not
+cross a 2-megabyte boundary. This is to allow the kernel to map the
blob using a single section mapping in the initial page tables.
@@ -68,13 +68,23 @@ Image target is available instead.
Requirement: MANDATORY
-The decompressed kernel image contains a 32-byte header as follows:
+The decompressed kernel image contains a 64-byte header as follows:
- u32 magic = 0x14000008; /* branch to stext, little-endian */
- u32 res0 = 0; /* reserved */
+ u32 code0; /* Executable code */
+ u32 code1; /* Executable code */
u64 text_offset; /* Image load offset */
+ u64 res0 = 0; /* reserved */
u64 res1 = 0; /* reserved */
u64 res2 = 0; /* reserved */
+ u64 res3 = 0; /* reserved */
+ u64 res4 = 0; /* reserved */
+ u32 magic = 0x644d5241; /* Magic number, little endian, "ARM\x64" */
+ u32 res5 = 0; /* reserved */
+
+
+Header notes:
+
+- code0/code1 are responsible for branching to stext.
The image must be placed at the specified offset (currently 0x80000)
from the start of the system RAM and called there. The start of the
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..264e9841563a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+ Tagged virtual addresses in AArch64 Linux
+ =========================================
+
+Author: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
+Date : 12 June 2013
+
+This document briefly describes the provision of tagged virtual
+addresses in the AArch64 translation system and their potential uses
+in AArch64 Linux.
+
+The kernel configures the translation tables so that translations made
+via TTBR0 (i.e. userspace mappings) have the top byte (bits 63:56) of
+the virtual address ignored by the translation hardware. This frees up
+this byte for application use, with the following caveats:
+
+ (1) The kernel requires that all user addresses passed to EL1
+ are tagged with tag 0x00. This means that any syscall
+ parameters containing user virtual addresses *must* have
+ their top byte cleared before trapping to the kernel.
+
+ (2) Tags are not guaranteed to be preserved when delivering
+ signals. This means that signal handlers in applications
+ making use of tags cannot rely on the tag information for
+ user virtual addresses being maintained for fields inside
+ siginfo_t. One exception to this rule is for signals raised
+ in response to debug exceptions, where the tag information
+ will be preserved.
+
+ (3) Special care should be taken when using tagged pointers,
+ since it is likely that C compilers will not hazard two
+ addresses differing only in the upper bits.
+
+The architecture prevents the use of a tagged PC, so the upper byte will
+be set to a sign-extension of bit 55 on exception return.