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2021-08-24ARC: mm: move MMU specific bits out of entry code ...Vineet Gupta
... to avoid polluting shared entry code (across three ISA variants) with ISA/MMU specific code. Cc: Jose Abreu <joabreu@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org>
2021-05-10ARC: entry: fix off-by-one error in syscall number validationVineet Gupta
We have NR_syscall syscalls from [0 .. NR_syscall-1]. However the check for invalid syscall number is "> NR_syscall" as opposed to >=. This off-by-one error erronesously allows "NR_syscall" to be treated as valid syscall causeing out-of-bounds access into syscall-call table ensuing a crash (holes within syscall table have a invalid-entry handler but this is beyond the array implementing the table). This problem showed up on v5.6 kernel when testing glibc 2.33 (v5.10 kernel capable, includng faccessat2 syscall 439). The v5.6 kernel has NR_syscalls=439 (0 to 438). Due to the bug, 439 passed by glibc was not handled as -ENOSYS but processed leading to a crash. Link: https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/linux/issues/48 Reported-by: Shahab Vahedi <shahab@synopsys.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2021-01-07ARC: unbork 5.11 bootup: fix snafu in _TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL handlingVineet Gupta
Linux 5.11.rcX was failing to boot on ARC HSDK board. Turns out we have a couple of issues, this being the first one, and I'm to blame as I didn't pay attention during review. TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL support requires checking multiple TIF_* bits in kernel return code path. Old code only needed to check a single bit so BBIT0 <TIF_SIGPENDING> worked. New code needs to check multiple bits so AND <bit-mask> instruction. So needs to use bit mask variant _TIF_SIGPENDING Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Fixes: 53855e12588743ea128 ("arc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL") Link: https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/linux/issues/34 Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2020-11-09arc: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNALJens Axboe
Wire up TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL handling for arc. Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-06-16ARC: entry: fix potential EFA clobber when TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEVineet Gupta
Trap handler for syscall tracing reads EFA (Exception Fault Address), in case strace wants PC of trap instruction (EFA is not part of pt_regs as of current code). However this EFA read is racy as it happens after dropping to pure kernel mode (re-enabling interrupts). A taken interrupt could context-switch, trigger a different task's trap, clobbering EFA for this execution context. Fix this by reading EFA early, before re-enabling interrupts. A slight side benefit is de-duplication of FAKE_RET_FROM_EXCPN in trap handler. The trap handler is common to both ARCompact and ARCv2 builds too. This just came out of code rework/review and no real problem was reported but is clearly a potential problem specially for strace. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2020-01-31Merge tag 'arc-5.6-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc Pull ARC updates from Vineet Gupta: - Wire up clone3 syscall - ARCv2 FPU state save/restore across context switch - AXS10x platform and misc fixes * tag 'arc-5.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: ARCv2: fpu: preserve userspace fpu state ARC: fpu: declutter code, move bits out into fpu.h ARC: wireup clone3 syscall ARC: [plat-axs10x]: Add missing multicast filter number to GMAC node ARC: update feature support for jump-labels
2020-01-15ARC: wireup clone3 syscallVineet Gupta
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2019-12-08sched/rt, ARC: Use CONFIG_PREEMPTIONThomas Gleixner
CONFIG_PREEMPTION is selected by CONFIG_PREEMPT and by CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT. Both PREEMPT and PREEMPT_RT require the same functionality which today depends on CONFIG_PREEMPT. Switch the entry code over to use CONFIG_PREEMPTION. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191015191821.11479-5-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-07-08ARC: entry: EV_Trap expects r10 (vs. r9) to have exception causeVineet Gupta
avoids 1 MOV instruction in light of double load/store code Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2019-06-19treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500Thomas Gleixner
Based on 2 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as published by the free software foundation this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as published by the free software foundation # extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net> Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-09-01ARC: Re-enable MMU upon Machine Check exceptionJose Abreu
I recently came upon a scenario where I would get a double fault machine check exception tiriggered by a kernel module. However the ensuing crash stacktrace (ksym lookup) was not working correctly. Turns out that machine check auto-disables MMU while modules are allocated in kernel vaddr spapce. This patch re-enables the MMU before start printing the stacktrace making stacktracing of modules work upon a fatal exception. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jose Abreu <joabreu@synopsys.com> Reviewed-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> [vgupta: moved code into low level handler to avoid in 2 places]
2016-09-30ARC: entry: make ret_from_system_call local labelVineet Gupta
This essentially removes ENTRY() assembler annotation for this symbol since it didn't have a pairing END() This in ahead of introducing cfi pseudo ops in ENTRY/END which expects paired cfi_startproc/cfi_endproc | ../arch/arc/kernel/entry.S: Assembler messages: | ../arch/arc/kernel/entry.S:270: Error: previous CFI entry not closed (missing .cfi_endproc) | ../scripts/Makefile.build:326: recipe for target 'arch/arc/kernel/entry-arcv2.o' failed | make[4]: *** [arch/arc/kernel/entry-arcv2.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2016-09-30ARC: dw2 unwind: switch to .eh_frame based unwindingVineet Gupta
So finally after almost 8 years of dealing with .debug_frame, we are finally switching to .eh_frame. The reason being stripped kernel binaries had non-functional unwinder as .debug_frame was gone. Also, in general .eh_frame seems more common way of doing unwinding. This also folds a revert of f52e126cc747 ("ARC: unwind: ensure that .debug_frame is generated (vs. .eh_frame)") to ensure that we start getting .eh_frame Reported-by: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-11-14ARC: [arcompact] Handle bus error from userspace as Interrupt not exceptionVineet Gupta
Bus errors from userspace on ARCompact based cores are handled by core as a high priority L2 interrupt but current code treated it as interrupt Handling an interrupt like exception is certainly not going to go unnoticed. (and it worked so far as we never saw a Bus error from userspace until IPPK guys tested a DDR controller with ECC error detection etc hence needed to explicitly trigger/handle such errors) - So move mem_service exception handler from common code into ARCv2 code. - In ARCompact code, define mem_service as L2 interrupt handler which just drops down to pure kernel mode and goes of to enqueue SIGBUS Reported-by: Nelson Pereira <npereira@synopsys.com> Tested-by: Ana Martins <amartins@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-08-20ARC: change some branchs to jumps to resolve linkage errorsYuriy Kolerov
When kernel's binary becomes large enough (32M and more) errors may occur during the final linkage stage. It happens because the build system uses short relocations for ARC by default. This problem may be easily resolved by passing -mlong-calls option to GCC to use long absolute jumps (j) instead of short relative branchs (b). But there are fragments of pure assembler code exist which use branchs in inappropriate places and cause a linkage error because of relocations overflow. First of these fragments is .fixup insertion in futex.h and unaligned.c. It inserts a code in the separate section (.fixup) with branch instruction. It leads to the linkage error when kernel becomes large. Second of these fragments is calling scheduler's functions (common kernel code) from entry.S of ARC's code. When kernel's binary becomes large it may lead to the linkage error because scheduler may occur far enough from ARC's code in the final binary. Signed-off-by: Yuriy Kolerov <yuriy.kolerov@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-06-19ARC: entry.S: micro-optimize Trap handlerVineet Gupta
Elide the need to re-read ECR in Trap handler by ensuring that EXCEPTION_PROLOGUE does that at the very end just before returning to Trap handler ARCv2 EXCEPTION_PROLOGUE already did that, so same for ARcompact and the common trap handler adjusted to use cached ECR Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-06-19ARC: entry.S: move some code around for cache locality in return pathVineet Gupta
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-06-19ARC: entry.S: split into ARCompact ISA specific, common bitsVineet Gupta
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-06-19ARC: entry.S: Ensure that restore_regs is local to compilation unitVineet Gupta
This fixes the possible link/relo errors, since restore_regs will be provided by ISA code, but called from ARC common code. The .L prefix reassures binutils that it will be in same compilation unit. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-06-19ARC: entry.S: comments cleanupVineet Gupta
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-06-19ARC: entry.S: Trap handler to use r10 for syscall vs. brkpt decisionVineet Gupta
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-06-19ARC: entry.S: FAKE_RET_FROM_EXCPN can always use r9Vineet Gupta
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-06-19ARC: entry.S: confine EXCEPTION_* macros to one fileVineet Gupta
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-06-19ARC: entry.S: canonical'ize EXCEPTION_{PROLOGUE,EPILOGUE}Vineet Gupta
-EXCEPTION_EPILOGUE introduced -EXCEPTION_PROLOGUE now also includes reg file saving Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-06-19ARC: entry.S: Introduce INTERRUPT_{PROLOGUE,EPILOGUE}Vineet Gupta
-common'ize macros for level 1 and level 2 interrupts Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-06-19ARC: entry.S: common'ize scrtach reg freeup in intr + exceptionsVineet Gupta
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-02-02ARC: add some more comments to ret_from_forkVineet Gupta
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2014-05-05ARC: Fixed spelling errors within commentsTerence Eden
[vgupta: fixed changelong + added Randy's suggestion] Signed-off-by: Terence Eden <github.com@shkspr.mobi> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2014-04-30ARC: !PREEMPT: Ensure Return to kernel mode is IRQ safeVineet Gupta
There was a very small race window where resume to kernel mode from a Exception Path (or pure kernel mode which is true for most of ARC exceptions anyways), was not disabling interrupts in restore_regs, clobbering the exception regs Anton found the culprit call flow (after many sleepless nights) | 1. we got a Trap from user land | 2. started to service it. | 3. While doing some stuff on user-land memory (I think it is padzero()), | we got a DataTlbMiss | 4. On return from it we are taking "resume_kernel_mode" path | 5. NEED_RESHED is not set, so we go to "return from exception" path in | restore regs. | 6. there seems to be IRQ happening Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #3.10, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14 Cc: Anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com> Cc: Francois Bedard <Francois.Bedard@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-03-26ARC: switch to generic ENTRY/END assembler annotationsVineet Gupta
With commit 9df62f054406 "arch: use ASM_NL instead of ';'" the generic macros can handle the arch specific newline quirk. Hence we can get rid of ARC asm macros and use the "C" style macros. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-11-06ARC: Add support for irqflags tracing and lockdepVineet Gupta
Lockdep required a small fix to stacktrace API which was incorrectly unwindign out of __switch_to for the current call frame. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-11-06ARC: Reduce #ifdef'ery for unaligned access emulationVineet Gupta
Emulation not enabled is treated as if the fixup failed, so no need for special #ifdef checks. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-11-06ARC: Change calling convention of do_page_fault()Vineet Gupta
switch the args (address, pt_regs) to match with all the other "C" exception handlers. This removes the awkwardness in EV_ProtV for page fault vs. unaligned access. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-08-26ARC: Entry Handler tweaks: Optimize away redundant IRQ_DISABLE_SAVEVineet Gupta
In the exception return path, for both U/K cases, intr are already disabled (for various existing reasons). So when we drop down to @restore_regs, we need not redo that. There was subtle issue - when intr were NOT being disabled for ret-to-kernel-but-no-preemption case - now fixed by moving the IRQ_DISABLE further up in @resume_kernel_mode. So what do we gain: * Shaves off a few insn in return path. * Eliminates the need for IRQ_DISABLE_SAVE assembler macro for ARCv2 hence allows for entry code sharing. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-08-26ARC: Exception Handlers Code consolidationVineet Gupta
After the recent cleanups, all the exception handlers now have same boilerplate prologue code. Move that into common macro. This reduces readability but helps greatly with sharing / duplicating entry code with ARCv2 ISA where the handlers are pretty much the same, just the entry prologue is different (due to hardware assist). Also while at it, add the missing FAKE_RET_FROM_EXCPN calls in couple of places to drop down to pure kernel mode (from exception mode) before jumping off into "C" code. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-06-26ARC: Remove explicit passing around of ECRVineet Gupta
With ECR now part of pt_regs * No need to propagate from lowest asm handlers as arg * No need to save it in tsk->thread.cause_code * Avoid bit chopping to access the bit-fields More code consolidation, cleanup Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-06-26ARC: pt_regs update #5: Use real ECR for pt_regs->event vs. synth valuesVineet Gupta
pt_regs->event was set with artificial values to identify the low level system event (syscall trap / breakpoint trap / exceptions / interrupts) With r8 saving out of the way, the full word can be used to save real ECR (Exception Cause Register) which helps idenify the event naturally, including additional info such as cause code, param. Only for Interrupts, where ECR is not applicable, do we resort to synthetic non ECR values. SAVE_ALL_TRAP/EXCEPTIONS can now be merged as they both use ECR with different runtime values. The ptrace helpers now use the sub-fields of ECR to distinguish the events (e.g. vector 0x25 is trap, param 0 is syscall...) The following benefits will follow: (1) This centralizes the location of where ECR is saved and will allow the cleanup of task->thread.cause_code ECR placeholder which is set in non-uniform way. Then ARC VM code can safely rely on it being there for purpose of finer grained VM_EXEC dcache flush (based on exec fault: I-TLB Miss) (2) Further, ECR being passed around from low level handlers as arg can be eliminated as it is part of standard reg-file in pt_regs Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-06-22ARC: pt_regs update #4: r25 saved/restored unconditionallyVineet Gupta
(This is a VERY IMP change for low level interrupt/exception handling) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * User 25 now saved in pt_regs->user_r25 (vs. tsk->thread_info.user_r25) * This allows Low level interrupt code to unconditionally save r25 (vs. the prev version which would only do it for U->K transition). Ofcourse for nested interrupts, only the pt_regs->user_r25 of bottom-most frame is useful. * simplifies the interrupt prologue/epilogue * Needed for ARCv2 ISA code and done here to keep design similar with ARCompact event handling ----------------------------------------------------------------------- WHY ------------------------------------------------------------------------- With CONFIG_ARC_CURR_IN_REG, r25 is used to cache "current" task pointer in kernel mode. So when entering kernel mode from User Mode - user r25 is specially safe-kept (it being a callee reg is NOT part of pt_regs which are saved by default on each interrupt/trap/exception) - r25 loaded with current task pointer. Further, if interrupt was taken in kernel mode, this is skipped since we know that r25 already has valid "current" pointer. With 2 level of interrupts in ARCompact ISA, detecting this is difficult but still possible, since we could be in kernel mode but r25 not already saved (in fact the stack itself might not have been switched). A. User mode B. L1 IRQ taken C. L2 IRQ taken (while on 1st line of L1 ISR) So in #C, although in kernel mode, r25 not saved (infact SP not switched at all) Given that ARcompact has manual stack switching, we could use a bit of trickey - The low level code would make sure that SP is only set to kernel mode value at the very end (after saving r25). So a non kernel mode SP, even if in kernel mode, meant r25 was NOT saved. The same paradigm won't work in ARCv2 ISA since SP is auto-switched so it's setting can't be delayed/constrained. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-06-22ARC: Entry Handler tweaks: Simplify branch for in-kernel preemptionVineet Gupta
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-06-22ARC: Entry Handler tweaks: Avoid hardcoded LIMMS for ECR valuesVineet Gupta
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-06-22ARC: [mm] Remove @write argument to do_page_fault()Vineet Gupta
This can be ascertained within do_page_fault() since it gets the full ECR (Exception Cause Register). Further, for both the callers of do_page_fault(): Prot-V / D-TLB-Miss, the cause sub-fields in ECR are same for same type of access, making the code much more simpler. D-TLB-Miss [LD] 0x00_21_01_00 Prot-V [LD] 0x00_23_01_00 ^^ D-TLB-Miss [ST] 0x00_21_02_00 Prot-V [ST] 0x00_23_02_00 ^^ D-TLB-Miss [EX] 0x00_21_03_00 Prot-V [EX] 0x00_23_03_00 ^^ This helps code consolidation, which is even better when moving code from assembler to "C". Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-05-07ARC: unaligned access emulation broken if callee-reg dest of LD/STVineet Gupta
The fixup code correctly updates the callee-regs on stack, but fails to unwind it into actual register file. Thus userspace won't see the update. Reported-by: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-05-07ARC: unaligned access emulation error handling consolidationVineet Gupta
If CONFIG_ARC_MISALIGN_ACCESS is not enabled, or if the fixup fails, call the same error handler: same signal/si_code to user (SIGBUS) Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-03-20ARC: Fix the typo in event identifier flags used by ptraceVineet Gupta
orig_r8_IS_EXCPN and orig_r8_IS_BRKPT were same values due to a copy/paste error. Although it looks bad and is wrong, it really doesn't affect gdb working. orig_r8_IS_BRKPT is the one relevant to debugging (breakpoints), since it is used to provide EFA vs. ERET to a ptrace "stop_pc" request. So when gdb has inserted a breakpoint, orig_r8_IS_BRKPT is already set, and anything else (i.e. orig_r8_IS_EXCPN) becoming same as it, really doesn't hurt gdb. The corollary case, could be nasty but nobody uses the ptrace "stop_pc" request in that case Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-03-11ARC: ABIv3: fork/vfork wrappers not needed in "no-legacy-syscall" ABIVineet Gupta
When switching to clone() only ABI - I missed out pruning the low level asm syscall wrappers Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-02-15ARC: Fix pt_orig_r8 accessVineet Gupta
Syscall restarting fixes made pt_regs->orig_r8 a short word, which was not reflected in the assembler code - thus could potentially break gdb debugging. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-02-15ARC: Support for single cycle Close Coupled Mem (CCM)Vineet Gupta
* Includes mapping of CCMs in address space * Annotations to move arbitrary code/data into CCM * Moving some of the critical code/data into CCM * Runtime detection/reporting Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2013-02-15ARC: Unaligned access emulationVineet Gupta
ARC700 doesn't natively support unaligned access, but can be emulated -Unaligned Access Exception -Disassembly at the Fault address to find the exact insn (long/short) Also per Arnd's comment, we runtime control it using 2 sysctl knobs: * SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW: Runtime enable/disble * SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN: Warn on each emulation attempt Originally contributed by Tim Yao <tim.yao@amlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Tim Yao <tim.yao@amlogic.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2013-02-15ARC: DWARF2 .debug_frame based stack unwinderVineet Gupta
-Originally written by Rajeshwar Ranga -Derived off of generic unwinder in 2.6.19 and adapted to ARC Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Rajeshwar Ranga <rajeshwar.ranga@gmail.com>
2013-02-15ARC: SMP supportVineet Gupta
ARC common code to enable a SMP system + ISS provided SMP extensions. ARC700 natively lacks SMP support, hence some of the core features are are only enabled if SoCs have the necessary h/w pixie-dust. This includes: -Inter Processor Interrupts (IPI) -Cache coherency -load-locked/store-conditional ... The low level exception handling would be completely broken in SMP because we don't have hardware assisted stack switching. Thus a fair bit of this code is repurposing the MMU_SCRATCH reg for event handler prologues to keep them re-entrant. Many thanks to Rajeshwar Ranga for his initial "major" contributions to SMP Port (back in 2008), and to Noam Camus and Gilad Ben-Yossef for help with resurrecting that in 3.2 kernel (2012). Note that this platform code is again singleton design pattern - so multiple SMP platforms won't build at the moment - this deficiency is addressed in subsequent patches within this series. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rajeshwar Ranga <rajeshwar.ranga@gmail.com> Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>