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* Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-3.17' of ↵Paolo Bonzini2014-08-051-0/+8
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into kvm KVM/ARM New features for 3.17 include: - Fixes and code refactoring for stage2 kvm MMU unmap_range - Support unmapping IPAs on deleting memslots for arm and arm64 - Support MMIO mappings in stage2 faults - KVM VGIC v2 emulation on GICv3 hardware - Big-Endian support for arm/arm64 (guest and host) - Debug Architecture support for arm64 (arm32 is on Christoffer's todo list) Conflicts: virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c [last minute cherry-pick from 3.17 to 3.16]
| * arm64: boot protocol documentation update for GICv3Marc Zyngier2014-07-111-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Linux has some requirements that must be satisfied in order to boot on a system built with a GICv3. Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
* | arm64: Update the Image headerMark Rutland2014-07-101-8/+35
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the kernel Image is stripped of everything past the initial stack, and at runtime the memory is initialised and used by the kernel. This makes the effective minimum memory footprint of the kernel larger than the size of the loaded binary, though bootloaders have no mechanism to identify how large this minimum memory footprint is. This makes it difficult to choose safe locations to place both the kernel and other binaries required at boot (DTB, initrd, etc), such that the kernel won't clobber said binaries or other reserved memory during initialisation. Additionally when big endian support was added the image load offset was overlooked, and is currently of an arbitrary endianness, which makes it difficult for bootloaders to make use of it. It seems that bootloaders aren't respecting the image load offset at present anyway, and are assuming that offset 0x80000 will always be correct. This patch adds an effective image size to the kernel header which describes the amount of memory from the start of the kernel Image binary which the kernel expects to use before detecting memory and handling any memory reservations. This can be used by bootloaders to choose suitable locations to load the kernel and/or other binaries such that the kernel will not clobber any memory unexpectedly. As before, memory reservations are required to prevent the kernel from clobbering these locations later. Both the image load offset and the effective image size are forced to be little-endian regardless of the native endianness of the kernel to enable bootloaders to load a kernel of arbitrary endianness. Bootloaders which wish to make use of the load offset can inspect the effective image size field for a non-zero value to determine if the offset is of a known endianness. To enable software to determine the endinanness of the kernel as may be required for certain use-cases, a new flags field (also little-endian) is added to the kernel header to export this information. The documentation is updated to clarify these details. To discourage future assumptions regarding the value of text_offset, the value at this point in time is removed from the main flow of the documentation (though kept as a compatibility note). Some minor formatting issues in the documentation are also corrected. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <kevin.hilman@linaro.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* doc: arm64: add description of EFI stub supportMark Salter2014-04-301-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | Add explanation of arm64 EFI stub and kernel image header changes needed to masquerade as a PE/COFF application. Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
* arm64: Relax the kernel cache requirements for bootCatalin Marinas2014-04-051-2/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | With system caches for the host OS or architected caches for guest OS we cannot easily guarantee that there are no dirty or stale cache lines for the areas of memory written by the kernel during boot with the MMU off (therefore non-cacheable accesses). This patch adds the necessary cache maintenance during boot and relaxes the booting requirements. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* Docs: arm64: booting: clarify boot requirementsMark Rutland2013-10-241-14/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are a few points in the arm64 booting document which are unclear (such as the initial state of secondary CPUs), and/or have not been documented (PSCI is a supported mechanism for booting secondary CPUs). This patch amends the arm64 boot document to better express the (existing) requirements, and to describe PSCI as a supported booting mechanism. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Cc: Fu Wei <tekkamanninja@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* Documentation/arm64: clarify requirements for DTB placementMark Salter2013-09-051-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | The current description of DTB placement requirements does not quite match the kernel code in head.S: __vet_fdt and __create_page_tables. This patch tweaks the text to match the actual requirements placed on it by the code. Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* arm64: Expand arm64 image headerRoy Franz2013-08-221-3/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Expand the arm64 image header to allow for co-existance with PE/COFF header required by the EFI stub. The PE/COFF format requires the "MZ" header to be at offset 0, and the offset to the PE/COFF header to be at offset 0x3c. The image header is expanded to allow 2 instructions at the beginning to accommodate a benign intruction at offset 0 that includes the "MZ" header, a magic number, and the offset to the PE/COFF header. Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* arm64: Kernel booting and initialisationCatalin Marinas2012-09-171-0/+152
The patch adds the kernel booting and the initial setup code. Documentation/arm64/booting.txt describes the booting protocol on the AArch64 Linux kernel. This is subject to change following the work on boot standardisation, ACPI. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>