ARM: move VFP init to an earlier boot stage

In order to use the NEON unit in the kernel, we should
initialize it a bit earlier in the boot process so NEON users
that like to do a quick benchmark at load time (like the
xor_blocks or RAID-6 code) find the NEON/VFP unit already
enabled.

Replaced late_initcall() with core_initcall().

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c
ARM: be strict about FP exceptions in kernel mode

The support code in vfp_support_entry does not care whether the
exception that caused it to be invoked occurred in kernel mode or
in user mode. However, neither condition that could trigger this
exception (lazy restore and VFP bounce to support code) is
currently allowable in kernel mode.

In either case, print a message describing the condition before
letting the undefined instruction handler run its course and trigger
an oops.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
ARM: add support for kernel mode NEON

In order to safely support the use of NEON instructions in
kernel mode, some precautions need to be taken:
- the userland context that may be present in the registers (even
  if the NEON/VFP is currently disabled) must be stored under the
  correct task (which may not be 'current' in the UP case),
- to avoid having to keep track of additional vfpstates for the
  kernel side, disallow the use of NEON in interrupt context
  and run with preemption disabled,
- after use, re-enable preemption and re-enable the lazy restore
  machinery by disabling the NEON/VFP unit.

This patch adds the functions kernel_neon_begin() and
kernel_neon_end() which take care of the above. It also adds
the Kconfig symbol KERNEL_MODE_NEON to enable it.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c
ARM: crypto: add NEON accelerated XOR implementation

Add a source file xor-neon.c (which is really just the reference
C implementation passed through the GCC vectorizer) and hook it
up to the XOR framework.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
ARM: 7835/2: fix modular build of xor_blocks() with NEON enabled

Commit 0195659 introduced a NEON accelerated version of the xor_blocks()
function, but it needs the changes in this patch to allow it to be built
as a module rather than statically into the kernel.

This patch creates a separate module xor-neon.ko which exports the NEON
inner xor_blocks() functions depended upon by the regular xor.ko if it
is built with CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON=y

Reported-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
ARM: only allow kernel mode neon with AEABI

This prevents the linker erroring with:

arm-linux-ld: error: arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.o uses VFP instructions, whereas arch/arm/lib/built-in.o does not
arm-linux-ld: failed to merge target specific data of file arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.o

This is due to the non-neon files being marked as containing FPA data/
instructions (even though they do not) being mixed with files which
contain VFP, which is an incompatible floating point format.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
decompressor: Add LZ4 decompressor module

Date	Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:24:27 +0900

This patch adds support for LZ4 decompression in the Linux Kernel.
LZ4 Decompression APIs for kernel are based on LZ4 implementation
by Yann Collet.

LZ4 homepage : http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/p/lz4.html
LZ4 source repository : http://code.google.com/p/lz4/

Signed-off-by: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com>

v2:
- Clean up code
- Enable unaligned access for ARM v6 and above with
  CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
- Add lz4_decompress() for faster decompression with
  uncompressed output size

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
lib: Add support for LZ4-compressed kernel

Date	Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:24:28 +0900

This patch adds support for extracting LZ4-compressed kernel images,
as well as LZ4-compressed ramdisk images in the kernel boot process.

This depends on the patch below
decompressor: Add LZ4 decompressor module

Signed-off-by: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com>

v2:
- Clean up code
- Use lz4_decompress() for LZ4-compressed kernel during boot-process

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>

Conflicts:
	scripts/Makefile.lib
arm: Add support for LZ4-compressed kernel

Date	Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:24:29 +0900

This patch integrates the LZ4 decompression code to the arm pre-boot code.
And it depends on two patchs below

lib: Add support for LZ4-compressed kernel
decompressor: Add LZ4 decompressor module

Signed-off-by: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com>

v2:
- Apply CFLAGS, -Os to decompress.o to improve decompress
  performance during boot-up process

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/boot/compressed/.gitignore
	arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
	arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c
lib: Add lz4 compressor module

From	Chanho Min <>

This patch adds support for LZ4 compression in the Linux Kernel.
LZ4 Compression APIs for kernel are based on LZ4 implementation
by Yann Collet and changed with kernel coding style.

LZ4 homepage : http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/p/lz4.html
LZ4 source repository : http://code.google.com/p/lz4/
svn revision : r90

Two APIs are added:
lz4_compress() support basic lz4 compression whereas lz4hc_compress() support
high compression or CPU performance get lower but compression ratio get higher.
Also, we require the pre-allocated working memory with the defined size and
destination buffer must be allocated with the size of lz4_compressbound.

Signed-off-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
crypto: Add lz4 Cryptographic API

From	Chanho Min <>

This patch adds support for lz4 and lz4hc compression algorithm
using the lib/lz4/* codebase.
Signed-off-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
lib/lz4/lz4_compress: fix macro usage error

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
LZ4: compression/decompression signedness mismatch (v2)

LZ4 compression and decompression functions require different
in signedness input/output parameters: unsigned char for
compression and signed char for decompression.

Change decompression API to require "(const) unsigned char *".

v2: minor coding style fix.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
vfp: fix build
build: update defconfig
SELinux: reduce overhead of mls_level_isvalid() function call

Date	Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:26:22 -0400

While running the high_systime workload of the AIM7 benchmark on
a 2-socket 12-core Westmere x86-64 machine running 3.8.2 kernel,
it was found that a pretty sizable amount of time was spent in the
SELinux code. Below was the perf trace of the "perf record -a -s"
of a test run at 1500 users:

  3.96%            ls  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] ebitmap_get_bit
  1.44%            ls  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] mls_level_isvalid
  1.33%            ls  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] find_next_bit

The ebitmap_get_bit() was the hottest function in the perf-report
output.  Both the ebitmap_get_bit() and find_next_bit() functions
were, in fact, called by mls_level_isvalid(). As a result, the
mls_level_isvalid() call consumed 6.73% of the total CPU time of all
the 24 virtual CPUs which is quite a lot.

Looking at the mls_level_isvalid() function, it is checking to see
if all the bits set in one of the ebitmap structure are also set in
another one as well as the highest set bit is no bigger than the one
specified by the given policydb data structure. It is doing it in
a bit-by-bit manner. So if the ebitmap structure has many bits set,
the iteration loop will be done many times.

The current code can be rewritten to use a similar algorithm as the
ebitmap_contains() function with an additional check for the highest
set bit. With that change, the perf trace showed that the used CPU
time drop down to just 0.09% of the total which is about 100X less
than before.

  0.04%            ls  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] ebitmap_get_bit
  0.04%            ls  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] mls_level_isvalid
  0.01%            ls  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] find_next_bit

Actually, the remaining ebitmap_get_bit() and find_next_bit() function
calls are made by other kernel routines as the new mls_level_isvalid()
function will not call them anymore.

This patch also improves the high_systime AIM7 benchmark result,
though the improvement is not as impressive as is suggested by the
reduction in CPU time. The table below shows the performance change
on the 2-socket x86-64 system mentioned above.

+--------------+---------------+----------------+-----------------+
|   Workload   | mean % change | mean % change  | mean % change   |
|              | 10-100 users  | 200-1000 users | 1100-2000 users |
+--------------+---------------+----------------+-----------------+
| high_systime |     +0.2%     |     +1.1%      |     +2.4%       |
+--------------+---------------+----------------+-----------------+
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
scripts: remove localversion "+" from kernel version strings

Signed-off-by: faux123 <reioux@gmail.com>