ARM: 7880/1: Clear the IT state independent of the Thumb-2 mode
authorT.J. Purtell <tj@mobisocial.us>
Wed, 6 Nov 2013 17:38:05 +0000 (18:38 +0100)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 08:07:04 +0000 (10:07 +0200)
commit 6ecf830e5029598732e04067e325d946097519cb upstream.

The ARM architecture reference specifies that the IT state bits in the
PSR must be all zeros in ARM mode or behavior is unspecified.  On the
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4/Krait architecture CPUs the processor continues
to consider the IT state bits while in ARM mode.  This makes it so
that some instructions are skipped by the CPU.

Signed-off-by: T.J. Purtell <tj@mobisocial.us>
[rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk: fixed whitespace formatting in patch]
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
arch/arm/kernel/signal.c

index ab330422527203417472a21727b1062c8a38e70f..1aa5ecdd1b3da1824967e28031f15a419dec57e4 100644 (file)
@@ -375,12 +375,18 @@ setup_return(struct pt_regs *regs, struct ksignal *ksig,
                 */
                thumb = handler & 1;
 
-               if (thumb) {
-                       cpsr |= PSR_T_BIT;
 #if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 7
-                       /* clear the If-Then Thumb-2 execution state */
-                       cpsr &= ~PSR_IT_MASK;
+               /*
+                * Clear the If-Then Thumb-2 execution state
+                * ARM spec requires this to be all 000s in ARM mode
+                * Snapdragon S4/Krait misbehaves on a Thumb=>ARM
+                * signal transition without this.
+                */
+               cpsr &= ~PSR_IT_MASK;
 #endif
+
+               if (thumb) {
+                       cpsr |= PSR_T_BIT;
                } else
                        cpsr &= ~PSR_T_BIT;
        }