[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ARM: update FIQ support for relocation of vectors" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ARM: update FIQ support for relocation of vectors

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.7.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 0b0722de218787e114f9589e89e4ed4d4b5c5d7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 01:03:17 +0100
Subject: ARM: update FIQ support for relocation of vectors

commit e39e3f3ebfef03450cf7bfa7a974a8c61f7980c8 upstream.

FIQ should no longer copy the FIQ code into the user visible vector
page.  Instead, it should use the hidden page.  This change makes
that happen.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S |  3 +++
 arch/arm/kernel/fiq.c        | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
index c19779f..4c28aff 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
@@ -1162,6 +1162,9 @@ vector_addrexcptn:
 vector_fiq:
 	subs	pc, lr, #4

+	.globl	vector_fiq_offset
+	.equ	vector_fiq_offset, vector_fiq
+
 	.section .vectors, "ax", %progbits
 __vectors_start:
 	W(b)	vector_rst
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/fiq.c b/arch/arm/kernel/fiq.c
index 2adda11..25442f4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/fiq.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/fiq.c
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@
 #include <asm/irq.h>
 #include <asm/traps.h>

+#define FIQ_OFFSET ({					\
+		extern void *vector_fiq_offset;		\
+		(unsigned)&vector_fiq_offset;		\
+	})
+
 static unsigned long no_fiq_insn;

 /* Default reacquire function
@@ -80,13 +85,16 @@ int show_fiq_list(struct seq_file *p, int prec)
 void set_fiq_handler(void *start, unsigned int length)
 {
 #if defined(CONFIG_CPU_USE_DOMAINS)
-	memcpy((void *)0xffff001c, start, length);
+	void *base = (void *)0xffff0000;
 #else
-	memcpy(vectors_page + 0x1c, start, length);
+	void *base = vectors_page;
 #endif
-	flush_icache_range(0xffff001c, 0xffff001c + length);
+	unsigned offset = FIQ_OFFSET;
+
+	memcpy(base + offset, start, length);
+	flush_icache_range(0xffff0000 + offset, 0xffff0000 + offset + length);
 	if (!vectors_high())
-		flush_icache_range(0x1c, 0x1c + length);
+		flush_icache_range(offset, offset + length);
 }

 int claim_fiq(struct fiq_handler *f)
@@ -144,6 +152,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(disable_fiq);

 void __init init_FIQ(int start)
 {
-	no_fiq_insn = *(unsigned long *)0xffff001c;
+	unsigned offset = FIQ_OFFSET;
+	no_fiq_insn = *(unsigned long *)(0xffff0000 + offset);
 	fiq_start = start;
 }
--
1.8.1.2