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Pull arm64 support from Catalin Marinas:
 "Linux support for the 64-bit ARM architecture (AArch64)

  Features currently supported:
   - 39-bit address space for user and kernel (each)
   - 4KB and 64KB page configurations
   - Compat (32-bit) user applications (ARMv7, EABI only)
   - Flattened Device Tree (mandated for all AArch64 platforms)
   - ARM generic timers"

* tag 'arm64-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64: (35 commits)
  arm64: ptrace: remove obsolete ptrace request numbers from user headers
  arm64: Do not set the SMP/nAMP processor bit
  arm64: MAINTAINERS update
  arm64: Build infrastructure
  arm64: Miscellaneous header files
  arm64: Generic timers support
  arm64: Loadable modules
  arm64: Miscellaneous library functions
  arm64: Performance counters support
  arm64: Add support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace
  arm64: Debugging support
  arm64: Floating point and SIMD
  arm64: 32-bit (compat) applications support
  arm64: User access library functions
  arm64: Signal handling support
  arm64: VDSO support
  arm64: System calls handling
  arm64: ELF definitions
  arm64: SMP support
  arm64: DMA mapping API
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152 changes: 152 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
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Booting AArch64 Linux
=====================

Author: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Date : 07 September 2012

This document is based on the ARM booting document by Russell King and
is relevant to all public releases of the AArch64 Linux kernel.

The AArch64 exception model is made up of a number of exception levels
(EL0 - EL3), with EL0 and EL1 having a secure and a non-secure
counterpart. EL2 is the hypervisor level and exists only in non-secure
mode. EL3 is the highest priority level and exists only in secure mode.

For the purposes of this document, we will use the term `boot loader'
simply to define all software that executes on the CPU(s) before control
is passed to the Linux kernel. This may include secure monitor and
hypervisor code, or it may just be a handful of instructions for
preparing a minimal boot environment.

Essentially, the boot loader should provide (as a minimum) the
following:

1. Setup and initialise the RAM
2. Setup the device tree
3. Decompress the kernel image
4. Call the kernel image


1. Setup and initialise RAM
---------------------------

Requirement: MANDATORY

The boot loader is expected to find and initialise all RAM that the
kernel will use for volatile data storage in the system. It performs
this in a machine dependent manner. (It may use internal algorithms
to automatically locate and size all RAM, or it may use knowledge of
the RAM in the machine, or any other method the boot loader designer
sees fit.)


2. Setup the device tree
-------------------------

Requirement: MANDATORY

The device tree blob (dtb) must be no bigger than 2 megabytes in size
and placed at a 2-megabyte boundary within the first 512 megabytes from
the start of the kernel image. This is to allow the kernel to map the
blob using a single section mapping in the initial page tables.


3. Decompress the kernel image
------------------------------

Requirement: OPTIONAL

The AArch64 kernel does not currently provide a decompressor and
therefore requires decompression (gzip etc.) to be performed by the boot
loader if a compressed Image target (e.g. Image.gz) is used. For
bootloaders that do not implement this requirement, the uncompressed
Image target is available instead.


4. Call the kernel image
------------------------

Requirement: MANDATORY

The decompressed kernel image contains a 32-byte header as follows:

u32 magic = 0x14000008; /* branch to stext, little-endian */
u32 res0 = 0; /* reserved */
u64 text_offset; /* Image load offset */
u64 res1 = 0; /* reserved */
u64 res2 = 0; /* reserved */

The image must be placed at the specified offset (currently 0x80000)
from the start of the system RAM and called there. The start of the
system RAM must be aligned to 2MB.

Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met:

- Quiesce all DMA capable devices so that memory does not get
corrupted by bogus network packets or disk data. This will save
you many hours of debug.

- Primary CPU general-purpose register settings
x0 = physical address of device tree blob (dtb) in system RAM.
x1 = 0 (reserved for future use)
x2 = 0 (reserved for future use)
x3 = 0 (reserved for future use)

- CPU mode
All forms of interrupts must be masked in PSTATE.DAIF (Debug, SError,
IRQ and FIQ).
The CPU must be in either EL2 (RECOMMENDED in order to have access to
the virtualisation extensions) or non-secure EL1.

- Caches, MMUs
The MMU must be off.
Instruction cache may be on or off.
Data cache must be off and invalidated.
External caches (if present) must be configured and disabled.

- Architected timers
CNTFRQ must be programmed with the timer frequency.
If entering the kernel at EL1, CNTHCTL_EL2 must have EL1PCTEN (bit 0)
set where available.

- Coherency
All CPUs to be booted by the kernel must be part of the same coherency
domain on entry to the kernel. This may require IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED
initialisation to enable the receiving of maintenance operations on
each CPU.

- System registers
All writable architected system registers at the exception level where
the kernel image will be entered must be initialised by software at a
higher exception level to prevent execution in an UNKNOWN state.

The boot loader is expected to enter the kernel on each CPU in the
following manner:

- The primary CPU must jump directly to the first instruction of the
kernel image. The device tree blob passed by this CPU must contain
for each CPU node:

1. An 'enable-method' property. Currently, the only supported value
for this field is the string "spin-table".

2. A 'cpu-release-addr' property identifying a 64-bit,
zero-initialised memory location.

It is expected that the bootloader will generate these device tree
properties and insert them into the blob prior to kernel entry.

- Any secondary CPUs must spin outside of the kernel in a reserved area
of memory (communicated to the kernel by a /memreserve/ region in the
device tree) polling their cpu-release-addr location, which must be
contained in the reserved region. A wfe instruction may be inserted
to reduce the overhead of the busy-loop and a sev will be issued by
the primary CPU. When a read of the location pointed to by the
cpu-release-addr returns a non-zero value, the CPU must jump directly
to this value.

- Secondary CPU general-purpose register settings
x0 = 0 (reserved for future use)
x1 = 0 (reserved for future use)
x2 = 0 (reserved for future use)
x3 = 0 (reserved for future use)
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Memory Layout on AArch64 Linux
==============================

Author: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Date : 20 February 2012

This document describes the virtual memory layout used by the AArch64
Linux kernel. The architecture allows up to 4 levels of translation
tables with a 4KB page size and up to 3 levels with a 64KB page size.

AArch64 Linux uses 3 levels of translation tables with the 4KB page
configuration, allowing 39-bit (512GB) virtual addresses for both user
and kernel. With 64KB pages, only 2 levels of translation tables are
used but the memory layout is the same.

User addresses have bits 63:39 set to 0 while the kernel addresses have
the same bits set to 1. TTBRx selection is given by bit 63 of the
virtual address. The swapper_pg_dir contains only kernel (global)
mappings while the user pgd contains only user (non-global) mappings.
The swapper_pgd_dir address is written to TTBR1 and never written to
TTBR0.


AArch64 Linux memory layout:

Start End Size Use
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
0000000000000000 0000007fffffffff 512GB user

ffffff8000000000 ffffffbbfffcffff ~240GB vmalloc

ffffffbbfffd0000 ffffffbcfffdffff 64KB [guard page]

ffffffbbfffe0000 ffffffbcfffeffff 64KB PCI I/O space

ffffffbbffff0000 ffffffbcffffffff 64KB [guard page]

ffffffbc00000000 ffffffbdffffffff 8GB vmemmap

ffffffbe00000000 ffffffbffbffffff ~8GB [guard, future vmmemap]

ffffffbffc000000 ffffffbfffffffff 64MB modules

ffffffc000000000 ffffffffffffffff 256GB memory


Translation table lookup with 4KB pages:

+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
|63 56|55 48|47 40|39 32|31 24|23 16|15 8|7 0|
+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| | | | | |
| | | | | v
| | | | | [11:0] in-page offset
| | | | +-> [20:12] L3 index
| | | +-----------> [29:21] L2 index
| | +---------------------> [38:30] L1 index
| +-------------------------------> [47:39] L0 index (not used)
+-------------------------------------------------> [63] TTBR0/1


Translation table lookup with 64KB pages:

+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
|63 56|55 48|47 40|39 32|31 24|23 16|15 8|7 0|
+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| | | | |
| | | | v
| | | | [15:0] in-page offset
| | | +----------> [28:16] L3 index
| | +--------------------------> [41:29] L2 index (only 38:29 used)
| +-------------------------------> [47:42] L1 index (not used)
+-------------------------------------------------> [63] TTBR0/1
6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions MAINTAINERS
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F: arch/arm/mach-pxa/z2.c
F: arch/arm/mach-pxa/include/mach/z2.h

ARM64 PORT (AARCH64 ARCHITECTURE)
M: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
L: [email protected] (moderated for non-subscribers)
S: Maintained
F: arch/arm64/

ASC7621 HARDWARE MONITOR DRIVER
M: George Joseph <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
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