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authorDave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>2012-11-22 12:50:43 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2012-11-23 13:02:03 +0000
commit5010192d5ae589002c4453d6c6e662e5e9acae59 (patch)
tree268a95f0e369be3534a7ac1c82a53c590c43e77f /arch
parentARM: 7572/1: proc-v6.S: fix comment (diff)
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ARM: 7583/1: decompressor: Enable unaligned memory access for v6 and above
Modern GCC can generate code which makes use of the CPU's native unaligned memory access capabilities. This is useful for the C decompressor implementations used for unpacking compressed kernels. This patch disables alignment faults and enables the v6 unaligned access model on CPUs which support these features (i.e., v6 and later), allowing full unaligned access support for C code in the decompressor. The decompressor C code must not be built to assume that unaligned access works if support for v5 or older platforms is included in the kernel. For correct code generation, C decompressor code must always use the get_unaligned and put_unaligned accessors when dealing with unaligned pointers, regardless of this patch. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
index 90275f036cd1..49ca86e37b8d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
@@ -652,6 +652,15 @@ __setup_mmu: sub r3, r4, #16384 @ Page directory size
mov pc, lr
ENDPROC(__setup_mmu)
+@ Enable unaligned access on v6, to allow better code generation
+@ for the decompressor C code:
+__armv6_mmu_cache_on:
+ mrc p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0 @ read SCTLR
+ bic r0, r0, #2 @ A (no unaligned access fault)
+ orr r0, r0, #1 << 22 @ U (v6 unaligned access model)
+ mcr p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0 @ write SCTLR
+ b __armv4_mmu_cache_on
+
__arm926ejs_mmu_cache_on:
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_DCACHE_WRITETHROUGH
mov r0, #4 @ put dcache in WT mode
@@ -694,6 +703,9 @@ __armv7_mmu_cache_on:
bic r0, r0, #1 << 28 @ clear SCTLR.TRE
orr r0, r0, #0x5000 @ I-cache enable, RR cache replacement
orr r0, r0, #0x003c @ write buffer
+ bic r0, r0, #2 @ A (no unaligned access fault)
+ orr r0, r0, #1 << 22 @ U (v6 unaligned access model)
+ @ (needed for ARM1176)
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8
orr r0, r0, #1 << 25 @ big-endian page tables
@@ -914,7 +926,7 @@ proc_types:
.word 0x0007b000 @ ARMv6
.word 0x000ff000
- W(b) __armv4_mmu_cache_on
+ W(b) __armv6_mmu_cache_on
W(b) __armv4_mmu_cache_off
W(b) __armv6_mmu_cache_flush