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Ard Biesheuvel fd863653ad ARM: assembler: introduce adr_l, ldr_l and str_l macros 
commit 0b1674638a upstream.

Like arm64, ARM supports position independent code sequences that
produce symbol references with a greater reach than the ordinary
adr/ldr instructions. Since on ARM, the adrl pseudo-instruction is
only supported in ARM mode (and not at all when using Clang), having
a adr_l macro like we do on arm64 is useful, and increases symmetry
as well.

Currently, we use open coded instruction sequences involving literals
and arithmetic operations. Instead, we can use movw/movt pairs on v7
CPUs, circumventing the D-cache entirely.

E.g., on v7+ CPUs, we can emit a PC-relative reference as follows:

       movw         <reg>, #:lower16:<sym> - (1f + 8)
       movt         <reg>, #:upper16:<sym> - (1f + 8)
  1:   add          <reg>, <reg>, pc

For older CPUs, we can emit the literal into a subsection, allowing it
to be emitted out of line while retaining the ability to perform
arithmetic on label offsets.

E.g., on pre-v7 CPUs, we can emit a PC-relative reference as follows:

       ldr          <reg>, 2f
  1:   add          <reg>, <reg>, pc
       .subsection  1
  2:   .long        <sym> - (1b + 8)
       .previous

This is allowed by the assembler because, unlike ordinary sections,
subsections are combined into a single section in the object file, and
so the label references are not true cross-section references that are
visible as relocations. (Subsections have been available in binutils
since 2004 at least, so they should not cause any issues with older
toolchains.)

So use the above to implement the macros mov_l, adr_l, ldr_l and str_l,
all of which will use movw/movt pairs on v7 and later CPUs, and use
PC-relative literals otherwise.

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2021-03-17 17:06:26 +01:00
arch ARM: assembler: introduce adr_l, ldr_l and str_l macros 2021-03-17 17:06:26 +01:00
block blk-settings: align max_sectors on "logical_block_size" boundary 2021-03-04 11:38:22 +01:00
certs certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion 2021-03-04 11:37:59 +01:00
crypto crypto: mips/poly1305 - enable for all MIPS processors 2021-03-17 17:06:10 +01:00
Documentation drivers/base/memory: don't store phys_device in memory blocks 2021-03-17 17:06:25 +01:00
drivers mmc: sdhci: Update firmware interface API 2021-03-17 17:06:26 +01:00
fs ext4: don't try to processed freed blocks until mballoc is initialized 2021-03-17 17:06:25 +01:00
include scsi: target: core: Add cmd length set before cmd complete 2021-03-17 17:06:25 +01:00
init kgdb: fix to kill breakpoints on initmem after boot 2021-03-04 11:38:46 +01:00
ipc ipc: adjust proc_ipc_sem_dointvec definition to match prototype 2020-09-05 12:14:29 -07:00
kernel sysctl.c: fix underflow value setting risk in vm_table 2021-03-17 17:06:25 +01:00
lib kasan: fix memory corruption in kasan_bitops_tags test 2021-03-17 17:06:25 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/deprecated: add Zlib license text 2020-09-16 14:33:49 +02:00
mm Revert "mm, slub: consider rest of partial list if acquire_slab() fails" 2021-03-17 17:06:13 +01:00
net net: dsa: tag_mtk: fix 802.1ad VLAN egress 2021-03-17 17:06:22 +01:00
samples samples, bpf: Add missing munmap in xdpsock 2021-03-17 17:06:12 +01:00
scripts ftrace: Have recordmcount use w8 to read relp->r_info in arm64_is_fake_mcount 2021-03-09 11:11:14 +01:00
security tomoyo: recognize kernel threads correctly 2021-03-09 11:11:15 +01:00
sound ASoC: Intel: sof_sdw: add quirk for HP Spectre x360 convertible 2021-03-11 14:17:29 +01:00
tools perf report: Fix -F for branch & mem modes 2021-03-17 17:06:17 +01:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
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Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-12-10 15:30:13 -08:00
Makefile kbuild: clamp SUBLEVEL to 255 2021-03-17 17:06:25 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -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.

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.