Jon Eibertzon writes:
> We have noticed that the I-cache is disabled while waiting for
> interrupt in cpu_arm926_do_idle in arch/arm/mm/proc-arm926.S
> and we are curious to know why, because this causes us a great
> performance hit when executing in FIQ-handlers. Is it assumed
> here that every individual FIQ-handler re-enables the I-cache?

The I-cache disable is an errata workaround, so the solution is to
disable FIQs across the section with the I-cache disabled.
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

L_PTE_ASID is not really required to be stored in every PTE, since we
can identify it via the address passed to set_pte_at().  So, create
set_pte_ext() which takes the address of the PTE to set, the Linux
PTE value, and the additional CPU PTE bits which aren't encoded in
the Linux PTE value.
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Don't set HWCAP_VFP in the processor support file; not only does it
depend on the processor features, but it also depends on the support
code being present.  Therefore, only set it if the support code
detects that we have a VFP coprocessor attached.

Also, move the VFP handling of the coprocessor access register into
the VFP support code.
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

These files want to provide/access ELF hwcap information, so should
be including asm/elf.h rather than asm/procinfo.h
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Patch from Catalin Marinas

The ARM926EJ-S CPU has the VFP coprocessor and therefore it should be shown
in the /proc/cpuinfo if CONFIG_VFP is enabled.
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NJörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

On some CPUs, bit 4 of section mappings means "update the
cache when written to".  On others, this bit is required to
be one, and others it's required to be zero.  Finally, on
ARMv6 and above, setting it turns on "no execute" and prevents
speculative prefetches.

With all these combinations, no one value fits all CPUs, so we
have to pick a value depending on the CPU type, and the area
we're mapping.
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Most MMU-based CPUs have a restriction on the setting of the data cache
enable and mmu enable bits in the control register, whereby if the data
cache is enabled, the MMU must also be enabled.  Enabling the data
cache without the MMU is an invalid combination.

However, there are CPUs where the data cache can be enabled without the
MMU.

In order to allow these CPUs to take advantage of that, provide a
method whereby each proc-*.S file defines the control regsiter value
for use with nommu (with the MMU disabled.)  Later on, when we add
support for enabling the MMU on these devices, we can adjust the
"crval" macro to also enable the data cache for nommu.
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

The "id(wb)BRR" suffix reports which CPU debugging options were (or
were not) selected at kernel build time.  Rather than have every
proc-*.S file implement this, report the control register value,
from which this information can be deduced.
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

In noMMU mode, various of functions which are defined in mm/proc-*.S
is not valid or needed to be avoided. i.g. switch_mm is not needed,
just returns and this makes the I & D caches are valid which shows
great improvement of performance including task switching and IPC.
Signed-off-by: NHyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

asm/hardware.h is not required for the majority of processor support
files, ioremap support, mm initialisation, acorn IO support, nor
the debug code (which picks up its machine specific includes via
debug-macros.S)
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Move the hardware PMD and PTE page table definitions from pgtable.h
into pgtable-hwdef.h, and include pgtable-hwdef.h as necessary.
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Patch from Ben Dooks

The `make buildcheck` is erroneously reporting that the .proc.info
list is referencing items in the .init section as it is not itself
postfixed with .init
Signed-off-by: NBen Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!