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AKASHI Takahiro 819e50e25d arm64: Add ftrace support
This patch implements arm64 specific part to support function tracers,
such as function (CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER), function_graph
(CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER) and function profiler
(CONFIG_FUNCTION_PROFILER).

With 'function' tracer, all the functions in the kernel are traced with
timestamps in ${sysfs}/tracing/trace. If function_graph tracer is
specified, call graph is generated.

The kernel must be compiled with -pg option so that _mcount() is inserted
at the beginning of functions. This function is called on every function's
entry as long as tracing is enabled.
In addition, function_graph tracer also needs to be able to probe function's
exit. ftrace_graph_caller() & return_to_handler do this by faking link
register's value to intercept function's return path.

More details on architecture specific requirements are described in
Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt.

Reviewed-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2014-05-29 09:08:08 +01:00
zhichang.yuan 0a42cb0a6f arm64: lib: Implement optimized string length routines
This patch, based on Linaro's Cortex Strings library, adds
an assembly optimized strlen() and strnlen() functions.

Signed-off-by: Zhichang Yuan <zhichang.yuan@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2014-05-23 15:17:12 +01:00
zhichang.yuan 192c4d902f arm64: lib: Implement optimized string compare routines
This patch, based on Linaro's Cortex Strings library, adds
an assembly optimized strcmp() and strncmp() functions.

Signed-off-by: Zhichang Yuan <zhichang.yuan@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2014-05-23 15:16:59 +01:00
zhichang.yuan d875c9b372 arm64: lib: Implement optimized memcmp routine
This patch, based on Linaro's Cortex Strings library, adds
an assembly optimized memcmp() function.

Signed-off-by: Zhichang Yuan <zhichang.yuan@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2014-05-23 15:07:57 +01:00
Will Deacon 12a0ef7b0a arm64: use generic strnlen_user and strncpy_from_user functions
This patch implements the word-at-a-time interface for arm64 using the
same algorithm as ARM. We use the fls64 macro, which expands to a clz
instruction via a compiler builtin. Big-endian configurations make use
of the implementation from asm-generic.

With this implemented, we can replace our byte-at-a-time strnlen_user
and strncpy_from_user functions with the optimised generic versions.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2013-12-19 17:43:06 +00:00
Catalin Marinas 2a3f912c78 arm64: Export __copy_in_user() to modules
This function may be called from loadable modules, so it needs
exporting.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Loc Ho <lho@apm.com>
2013-10-24 15:47:19 +01:00
Chen Gang 726dcaa158 arm64: kernel: compiling issue, need 'EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page)'
Need 'EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page)' if building with allmodconfig.

The related errors:
  ERROR: "clear_page" [fs/ocfs2/dlm/ocfs2_dlm.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "clear_page" [fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "clear_page" [fs/gfs2/gfs2.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "clear_page" [fs/fuse/fuse.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "clear_page" [fs/ext3/ext3.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "clear_page" [fs/ext2/ext2.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "clear_page" [fs/exofs/libore.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "clear_page" [fs/exofs/exofs.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "clear_page" [drivers/block/brd.ko] undefined!

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2013-05-24 17:31:03 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 6247958653 arm64: klib: Optimised atomic bitops
This patch implements the AArch64-specific atomic bitops functions using
exclusive memory accesses to avoid locking.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2013-03-21 17:39:31 +00:00
Catalin Marinas 2b8cac814c arm64: klib: Optimised string functions
This patch introduces AArch64-specific string functions (strchr,
strrchr).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2013-03-21 17:39:30 +00:00
Catalin Marinas 4a8992271c arm64: klib: Optimised memory functions
This patch introduces AArch64-specific memory functions (memcpy,
memmove, memchr, memset). These functions are not optimised for any CPU
implementation but can be used as a starting point once hardware is
available.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2013-03-21 17:39:29 +00:00
Catalin Marinas a2c91547b5 arm64: Fix build error with !SMP
The __atomic_hash is only defined when SMP is enabled but the
arm64ksyms.c exports it even for the UP case.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2013-03-18 10:42:14 +00:00
Marc Zyngier f27bb139c3 arm64: Miscellaneous library functions
This patch adds udelay, memory and bit operations together with the
ksyms exports.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
2012-09-17 13:42:18 +01:00