ARM: convert all "mov.* pc, reg" to "bx reg" for ARMv6+
ARMv6 and greater introduced a new instruction ("bx") which can be used
to return from function calls. Recent CPUs perform better when the
"bx lr" instruction is used rather than the "mov pc, lr" instruction,
and this sequence is strongly recommended to be used by the ARM
architecture manual (section A.4.1.1).
We provide a new macro "ret" with all its variants for the condition
code which will resolve to the appropriate instruction.
Rather than doing this piecemeal, and miss some instances, change all
the "mov pc" instances to use the new macro, with the exception of
the "movs" instruction and the kprobes code. This allows us to detect
the "mov pc, lr" case and fix it up - and also gives us the possibility
of deploying this for other registers depending on the CPU selection.
Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> # Tegra Jetson TK1
Tested-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr> # mioa701_bootresume.S
Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> # Kirkwood
Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@freescale.com>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> # OMAPs
Tested-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> # Armada XP, 375, 385
Acked-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com> # DaVinci
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> # kvm/hyp
Acked-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com> # PXA3xx
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> # Xen
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> # ARMv7M
Tested-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au> # Shmobile
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
index 3db2c2f..71abb60 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
#endif
ENTRY(cpu_v7_proc_init)
- mov pc, lr
+ ret lr
ENDPROC(cpu_v7_proc_init)
ENTRY(cpu_v7_proc_fin)
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
bic r0, r0, #0x1000 @ ...i............
bic r0, r0, #0x0006 @ .............ca.
mcr p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0 @ disable caches
- mov pc, lr
+ ret lr
ENDPROC(cpu_v7_proc_fin)
/*
@@ -71,20 +71,20 @@
ENTRY(cpu_v7_do_idle)
dsb @ WFI may enter a low-power mode
wfi
- mov pc, lr
+ ret lr
ENDPROC(cpu_v7_do_idle)
ENTRY(cpu_v7_dcache_clean_area)
ALT_SMP(W(nop)) @ MP extensions imply L1 PTW
ALT_UP_B(1f)
- mov pc, lr
+ ret lr
1: dcache_line_size r2, r3
2: mcr p15, 0, r0, c7, c10, 1 @ clean D entry
add r0, r0, r2
subs r1, r1, r2
bhi 2b
dsb ishst
- mov pc, lr
+ ret lr
ENDPROC(cpu_v7_dcache_clean_area)
string cpu_v7_name, "ARMv7 Processor"
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
dsb @ WFI may enter a low-power mode
wfi
dsb @barrier
- mov pc, lr
+ ret lr
ENDPROC(cpu_pj4b_do_idle)
#else
globl_equ cpu_pj4b_do_idle, cpu_v7_do_idle
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@
bic r0, r0, r5 @ clear bits them
orr r0, r0, r6 @ set them
THUMB( orr r0, r0, #1 << 30 ) @ Thumb exceptions
- mov pc, lr @ return to head.S:__ret
+ ret lr @ return to head.S:__ret
ENDPROC(__v7_setup)
.align 2