This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ARM: virt: simplify __hyp_stub_install epilog
to the 3.7-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arm-virt-simplify-__hyp_stub_install-epilog.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From d01723479e6a6c70c83295f7847477a016d5e14a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 17:44:15 +0000
Subject: ARM: virt: simplify __hyp_stub_install epilog
From: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
commit d01723479e6a6c70c83295f7847477a016d5e14a upstream.
__hyp_stub_install duplicates quite a bit of safe_svcmode_maskall
by forcing the CPU back to SVC. This is unnecessary, as
safe_svcmode_maskall is called just after.
Furthermore, the way we build SPSR_hyp is buggy as we fail to mask
the interrupts, leading to interesting behaviours on TC2 + UEFI.
The fix is to simply remove this code and rely on safe_svcmode_maskall
to do the right thing.
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Harry Liebel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/arm/kernel/hyp-stub.S | 12 +++---------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/hyp-stub.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/hyp-stub.S
@@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ ENTRY(__hyp_stub_install_secondary)
* Eventually, CPU-specific code might be needed -- assume not for now
*
* This code relies on the "eret" instruction to synchronize the
- * various coprocessor accesses.
+ * various coprocessor accesses. This is done when we switch to SVC
+ * (see safe_svcmode_maskall).
*/
@ Now install the hypervisor stub:
adr r7, __hyp_stub_vectors
@@ -155,14 +156,7 @@ THUMB( orr r7, #(1 << 30) ) @ HSCTLR.TE
1:
#endif
- bic r7, r4, #MODE_MASK
- orr r7, r7, #SVC_MODE
-THUMB( orr r7, r7, #PSR_T_BIT )
- msr spsr_cxsf, r7 @ This is SPSR_hyp.
-
- __MSR_ELR_HYP(14) @ msr elr_hyp, lr
- __ERET @ return, switching to SVC mode
- @ The boot CPU mode is left in r4.
+ bx lr @ The boot CPU mode is left in r4.
ENDPROC(__hyp_stub_install_secondary)
__hyp_stub_do_trap:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.7/arm-virt-simplify-__hyp_stub_install-epilog.patch
queue-3.7/arm-virt-boot-secondary-cpus-through-the-right-entry-point.patch
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