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[ARM] 3256/1: Make the function-returning ldm's use sp as the base register

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Patch from Catalin Marinas

If the low interrupt latency mode is enabled for the CPU (from ARMv6
onwards), the ldm/stm instructions are no longer atomic. An ldm instruction
restoring the sp and pc registers can be interrupted immediately after sp
was updated but before the pc. If this happens, the CPU restores the base
register to the value before the ldm instruction but if the base register
is not sp, the interrupt routine will corrupt the stack and the restarted
ldm instruction will load garbage.

Note that future ARM cores might always run in the low interrupt latency
mode.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Catalin Marinas
2006-01-12 16:53:51 +00:00
committed by Russell King
parent ece5f7b3c4
commit 90303b1023
4 changed files with 13 additions and 11 deletions
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arch/arm/lib/csumpartialcopyuser.S
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@ -18,11 +18,13 @@
.text
.macro save_regs
mov ip, sp
stmfd sp!, {r1 - r2, r4 - r8, fp, ip, lr, pc}
sub fp, ip, #4
.endm
.macro load_regs,flags
ldm\flags fp, {r1, r2, r4-r8, fp, sp, pc}
.macro load_regs
ldmfd sp, {r1, r2, r4-r8, fp, sp, pc}
.endm
.macro load1b, reg1
@ -100,5 +102,5 @@
6002: teq r2, r1
strneb r0, [r1], #1
bne 6002b
load_regs ea
load_regs
.previous