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Commit dbd1b2da authored by Russell King's avatar Russell King Committed by Samuel Pascua
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ARM: convert all "mov.* pc, reg" to "bx reg" for ARMv6+



ARMv6 and greater introduced a new instruction ("bx") which can be used
to return from function calls.  Recent CPUs perform better when the
"bx lr" instruction is used rather than the "mov pc, lr" instruction,
and this sequence is strongly recommended to be used by the ARM
architecture manual (section A.4.1.1).

We provide a new macro "ret" with all its variants for the condition
code which will resolve to the appropriate instruction.

Rather than doing this piecemeal, and miss some instances, change all
the "mov pc" instances to use the new macro, with the exception of
the "movs" instruction and the kprobes code.  This allows us to detect
the "mov pc, lr" case and fix it up - and also gives us the possibility
of deploying this for other registers depending on the CPU selection.

Reported-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> # Tegra Jetson TK1
Tested-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr> # mioa701_bootresume.S
Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> # Kirkwood
Tested-by: default avatarShawn Guo <shawn.guo@freescale.com>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> # OMAPs
Tested-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> # Armada XP, 375, 385
Acked-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com> # DaVinci
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> # kvm/hyp
Acked-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com> # PXA3xx
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> # Xen
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> # ARMv7M
Tested-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au> # Shmobile
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Backported from Linux 3.17 to Linux 3.4.

Following commands were used :

find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/mov    pc, /ret    /g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/moveq    pc, /reteq    /g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movne    pc, /retne    /g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movhs    pc, /reths    /g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movls    pc, /retls    /g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movlo    pc, /retlo    /g' {} \;

find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/mov     pc, /ret     /g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/moveq     pc, /reteq     /g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movne     pc, /retne     /g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movhs     pc, /reths     /g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movls     pc, /retls     /g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movlo     pc, /retlo     /g' {} \;

find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/mov\tpc, /ret\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/moveq\tpc, /reteq\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movne\tpc, /retne\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movhs\tpc, /reths\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movls\tpc, /retls\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movlo\tpc, /retlo\t/g' {} \;

find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/mov\tpc,/ret\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/moveq\tpc,/reteq\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movw_pc/ret.w/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movne\tpc,/retne\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movhs\tpc,/reths\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movls\tpc,/retls\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movlo\tpc,/retlo\t/g' {} \;

find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/mov\t\tpc, /ret\t\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/moveq\t\tpc, /reteq\t\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movne\t\tpc, /retne\t\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movhs\t\tpc, /reths\t\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movls\t\tpc, /retls\t\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movlo\t\tpc, /retlo\t\t/g' {} \;

find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/mov\t\tpc,/ret\t\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/moveq\t\tpc,/reteq\t\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movne\t\tpc,/retne\t\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movhs\t\tpc,/reths\t\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movls\t\tpc,/retls\t\t/g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movlo\t\tpc,/retlo\t\t/g' {} \;

find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/mov pc,/ret /g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/moveq pc,/reteq /g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movne pc,/retne /g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movhs pc,/reths /g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movls pc,/retls /g' {} \;
find arch/arm -name '*.S' -exec sed -i -e 's/movlo pc,/retlo /g' {} \;

git checkout -- arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
sed -i -e 's/mov    pc, /bx    /g' arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S
sed -i -e 's/mov     pc, /bx     /g' arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S
sed -i -e 's/mov\tpc, /bx\t/g' arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S
sed -i -e 's/mov\tpc,/bx\t/g' arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S
sed -i -e 's/mov\t\tpc, /bx\t\t/g' arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S
sed -i -e 's/mov\t\tpc,/bx\t\t/g' arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S
sed -i -e 's/mov pc,/bx /g' arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S

EOF

 - Patch arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h
 - Patch arch/arm/kernel/entry-header.S
 - Add '#include <asm/assembler.h>' to missing files.
 - Manually patch 'arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S' to add bx

Signed-off-by: default avatararter97 <qkrwngud825@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSamuel Pascua <pascua.samuel.14@gmail.com>
parent 957d4110
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