ARM: 8150/3: fiq: Replace default FIQ handler

This patch introduces a new default FIQ handler that is structured in a
similar way to the existing ARM exception handler and result in the FIQ
being handled by C code running on the SVC stack (despite this code run
in the FIQ handler is subject to severe limitations with respect to
locking making normal interaction with the kernel impossible).

This default handler allows concepts that on x86 would be handled using
NMIs to be realized on ARM.

Credit:

    This patch is a near complete re-write of a patch originally
    provided by Anton Vorontsov. Today only a couple of small fragments
    survive, however without Anton's work to build from this patch would
    not exist. Thanks also to Russell King for spoonfeeding me a variety
    of fixes during the review cycle.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
index c8e4bb714944..58348631671d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/irq.h>
 
 #include <linux/atomic.h>
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
@@ -467,6 +468,31 @@ asmlinkage void do_unexp_fiq (struct pt_regs *regs)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Handle FIQ similarly to NMI on x86 systems.
+ *
+ * The runtime environment for NMIs is extremely restrictive
+ * (NMIs can pre-empt critical sections meaning almost all locking is
+ * forbidden) meaning this default FIQ handling must only be used in
+ * circumstances where non-maskability improves robustness, such as
+ * watchdog or debug logic.
+ *
+ * This handler is not appropriate for general purpose use in drivers
+ * platform code and can be overrideen using set_fiq_handler.
+ */
+asmlinkage void __exception_irq_entry handle_fiq_as_nmi(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);
+
+	nmi_enter();
+
+	/* nop. FIQ handlers for special arch/arm features can be added here. */
+
+	nmi_exit();
+
+	set_irq_regs(old_regs);
+}
+
+/*
  * bad_mode handles the impossible case in the vectors.  If you see one of
  * these, then it's extremely serious, and could mean you have buggy hardware.
  * It never returns, and never tries to sync.  We hope that we can at least