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Thomas Weißschuh 49d7819aa9 ARM: uapi: Drop PSR_ENDSTATE
The symbol PSR_ENDSTATE is pointless for userspace. Drop it from the
UAPI headers and instead inline it into the only two callers.

As as side-effect, remove a leak of an internal kconfig symbol through
the UAPI headers.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
2026-01-30 16:46:17 +01:00
Kefeng Wang 2be9880dc8 kernel: exit: cleanup release_thread()
Only x86 has own release_thread(), introduce a new weak release_thread()
function to clean empty definitions in other ARCHs.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Guo Ren <[email protected]>				[csky]
Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Brian Cain <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>			[powerpc]
Acked-by: Stafford Horne <[email protected]>			[openrisc]
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>		[arm64]
Acked-by: Huacai Chen <[email protected]>			[LoongArch]
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <[email protected]>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Zankel <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <[email protected]>
Cc: Guo Ren <[email protected]> [csky]
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
Cc: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Max Filippov <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Cc: Rich Felker <[email protected]>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <[email protected]>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <[email protected]>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: Xuerui Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
2022-09-11 21:55:07 -07:00
Ard Biesheuvel 9f80ccda53 ARM: 9180/1: Thumb2: align ALT_UP() sections in modules sufficiently
When building for Thumb2, the .alt.smp.init sections that are emitted by
the ALT_UP() patching code may not be 32-bit aligned, even though the
fixup_smp_on_up() routine expects that. This results in alignment faults
at module load time, which need to be fixed up by the fault handler.

So let's align those sections explicitly, and prevent this from occurring.

Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <[email protected]>
2022-01-19 11:10:54 +00:00
Kees Cook 42a20f86dc sched: Add wrapper for get_wchan() to keep task blocked
Having a stable wchan means the process must be blocked and for it to
stay that way while performing stack unwinding.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) <[email protected]> [arm]
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> [arm64]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
2021-10-15 11:25:14 +02:00
Ard Biesheuvel 450abd38fe ARM: kernel: use relative references for UP/SMP alternatives
Currently, the .alt.smp.init section contains the virtual addresses
of the patch sites. Since patching may occur both before and after
switching into virtual mode, this requires some manual handling of
the address when applying the UP alternative.

Let's simplify this by using relative offsets in the table entries:
this allows us to simply add each entry's address to its contents,
regardless of whether we are running in virtual mode or not.

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
2020-10-28 17:05:39 +01:00
Vincenzo Frascino 78c8516141 arm: vdso: Enable arm to use common headers
Enable arm to use only the common headers in the implementation
of the vDSO library.

Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
2020-03-21 15:24:03 +01:00
Alexandre Ghiti dba79c3df4 arm: use generic mmap top-down layout and brk randomization
arm uses a top-down mmap layout by default that exactly fits the generic
functions, so get rid of arch specific code and use the generic version by
selecting ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT.

As ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT selects ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE,
use the generic version of arch_randomize_brk since it also fits.  Note
that this commit also removes the possibility for arm to have elf
randomization and no MMU: without MMU, the security added by randomization
is worth nothing.

Note that it is safe to remove STACK_RND_MASK since it matches the default
value.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Cc: Albert Ou <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: James Hogan <[email protected]>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Burton <[email protected]>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2019-09-24 15:54:12 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner d2912cb15b treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500
Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
Stefan Agner 43947b8890 ARM: 8853/1: drop WASM to work around LLVM issue
Currently LLVM's integrated assembler does not recognize .w form
of the pld instructions (LLVM Bug 40972 [0]):

  ./arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h:133:5: error: invalid instruction
                          "pldw.wt%a0 n"
                           ^
  <inline asm>:2:1: note: instantiated into assembly here
  pldw.w  [r0]
  ^
  1 error generated.

The W macro for generating wide instructions when targeting Thumb-2
is not strictly required for the preload data instructions (pld, pldw)
since they are only available as wide instructions. The GNU assembler
works with or without the .w appended when compiling an Thumb-2 kernel.

Drop the macro to work around LLVM Bug 40972 issue.

[0] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40972

Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
2019-04-23 17:20:53 +01:00
Russell King 5388a5b821 ARM: avoid Cortex-A9 livelock on tight dmb loops
machine_crash_nonpanic_core() does this:

	while (1)
		cpu_relax();

because the kernel has crashed, and we have no known safe way to deal
with the CPU.  So, we place the CPU into an infinite loop which we
expect it to never exit - at least not until the system as a whole is
reset by some method.

In the absence of erratum 754327, this code assembles to:

	b	.

In other words, an infinite loop.  When erratum 754327 is enabled,
this becomes:

1:	dmb
	b	1b

It has been observed that on some systems (eg, OMAP4) where, if a
crash is triggered, the system tries to kexec into the panic kernel,
but fails after taking the secondary CPU down - placing it into one
of these loops.  This causes the system to livelock, and the most
noticable effect is the system stops after issuing:

	Loading crashdump kernel...

to the system console.

The tested as working solution I came up with was to add wfe() to
these infinite loops thusly:

	while (1) {
		cpu_relax();
		wfe();
	}

which, without 754327 builds to:

1:	wfe
	b	1b

or with 754327 is enabled:

1:	dmb
	wfe
	b	1b

Adding "wfe" does two things depending on the environment we're running
under:
- where we're running on bare metal, and the processor implements
  "wfe", it stops us spinning endlessly in a loop where we're never
  going to do any useful work.
- if we're running in a VM, it allows the CPU to be given back to the
  hypervisor and rescheduled for other purposes (maybe a different VM)
  rather than wasting CPU cycles inside a crashed VM.

However, in light of erratum 794072, Will Deacon wanted to see 10 nops
as well - which is reasonable to cover the case where we have erratum
754327 enabled _and_ we have a processor that doesn't implement the
wfe hint.

So, we now end up with:

1:      wfe
        b       1b

when erratum 754327 is disabled, or:

1:      dmb
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        nop
        wfe
        b       1b

when erratum 754327 is enabled.  We also get the dmb + 10 nop
sequence elsewhere in the kernel, in terminating loops.

This is reasonable - it means we get the workaround for erratum
794072 when erratum 754327 is enabled, but still relinquish the dead
processor - either by placing it in a lower power mode when wfe is
implemented as such or by returning it to the hypervisior, or in the
case where wfe is a no-op, we use the workaround specified in erratum
794072 to avoid the problem.

These as two entirely orthogonal problems - the 10 nops addresses
erratum 794072, and the wfe is an optimisation that makes the system
more efficient when crashed either in terms of power consumption or
by allowing the host/other VMs to make use of the CPU.

I don't see any reason not to use kexec() inside a VM - it has the
potential to provide automated recovery from a failure of the VMs
kernel with the opportunity for saving a crashdump of the failure.
A panic() with a reboot timeout won't do that, and reading the
libvirt documentation, setting on_reboot to "preserve" won't either
(the documentation states "The preserve action for an on_reboot event
is treated as a destroy".)  Surely it has to be a good thing to
avoiding having CPUs spinning inside a VM that is doing no useful
work.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
2019-02-01 22:05:50 +00:00
Nick Desaulniers de0d22e50c treewide: remove current_text_addr
Prefer _THIS_IP_ defined in linux/kernel.h.

Most definitions of current_text_addr were the same as _THIS_IP_, but
a few archs had inline assembly instead.

This patch removes the final call site of current_text_addr, making all
of the definitions dead code.

[[email protected]: fix arch/csky/include/asm/processor.h]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2018-10-31 08:54:12 -07:00
Kees Cook 08626a6056 arm: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
While ARM32 carries FPU state in the thread structure that is saved and
restored during signal handling, it doesn't need to declare a usercopy
whitelist, since existing accessors are all either using a bounce buffer
(for which whitelisting isn't checking the slab), are statically sized
(which will bypass the hardened usercopy check), or both.

Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
2018-01-15 12:08:06 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre 5e58811432 ARM: start_thread(): don't always clear all regs
The elf_fdpic binary format driver has to initialize extra registers
beside the stack and program counter as required by the corresponding
ABI. So reinstate them after the regs structure has been cleared.

While at it let's get rid of start_thread_nommu().

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mickael GUENE <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Vincent Abriou <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Andras Szemzo <[email protected]>
2017-09-10 19:31:46 -04:00
Christian Borntraeger 6d0d287891 locking/core: Provide common cpu_relax_yield() definition
No need to duplicate the same define everywhere. Since
the only user is stop-machine and the only provider is
s390, we can use a default implementation of cpu_relax_yield()
in sched.h.

Suggested-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Noam Camus <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: linux-s390 <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
2016-11-17 08:17:36 +01:00
Christian Borntraeger 5bd0b85ba8 locking/core, arch: Remove cpu_relax_lowlatency()
As there are no users left, we can remove cpu_relax_lowlatency()
implementations from every architecture.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Noam Camus <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
2016-11-16 10:15:11 +01:00
Christian Borntraeger 79ab11cdb9 locking/core: Introduce cpu_relax_yield()
For spinning loops people do often use barrier() or cpu_relax().
For most architectures cpu_relax and barrier are the same, but on
some architectures cpu_relax can add some latency.
For example on power,sparc64 and arc, cpu_relax can shift the CPU
towards other hardware threads in an SMT environment.
On s390 cpu_relax does even more, it uses an hypercall to the
hypervisor to give up the timeslice.
In contrast to the SMT yielding this can result in larger latencies.
In some places this latency is unwanted, so another variant
"cpu_relax_lowlatency" was introduced. Before this is used in more
and more places, lets revert the logic and provide a cpu_relax_yield
that can be called in places where yielding is more important than
latency. By default this is the same as cpu_relax on all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Noam Camus <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
2016-11-16 10:15:09 +01:00
Davidlohr Bueso 3a6bfbc91d arch, locking: Ciao arch_mutex_cpu_relax()
The arch_mutex_cpu_relax() function, introduced by 34b133f, is
hacky and ugly. It was added a few years ago to address the fact
that common cpu_relax() calls include yielding on s390, and thus
impact the optimistic spinning functionality of mutexes. Nowadays
we use this function well beyond mutexes: rwsem, qrwlock, mcs and
lockref. Since the macro that defines the call is in the mutex header,
any users must include mutex.h and the naming is misleading as well.

This patch (i) renames the call to cpu_relax_lowlatency  ("relax, but
only if you can do it with very low latency") and (ii) defines it in
each arch's asm/processor.h local header, just like for regular cpu_relax
functions. On all archs, except s390, cpu_relax_lowlatency is simply cpu_relax,
and thus we can take it out of mutex.h. While this can seem redundant,
I believe it is a good choice as it allows us to move out arch specific
logic from generic locking primitives and enables future(?) archs to
transparently define it, similarly to System Z.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Bharat Bhushan <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Chen Liqin <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Zankel <[email protected]>
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Deepthi Dharwar <[email protected]>
Cc: Dominik Dingel <[email protected]>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <[email protected]>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <[email protected]>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <[email protected]>
Cc: James Hogan <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <[email protected]>
Cc: Joseph Myers <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <[email protected]>
Cc: Lennox Wu <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Salter <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Max Filippov <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Neuling <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Burton <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Qais Yousef <[email protected]>
Cc: Qiaowei Ren <[email protected]>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <[email protected]>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Kuo <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Miao <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Stratos Karafotis <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: Vasily Kulikov <[email protected]>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
2014-07-17 12:32:47 +02:00
Will Deacon d8f57aa4bc ARM: prefetch: add support for prefetchw using pldw on SMP ARMv7+ CPUs
SMP ARMv7 CPUs implement the pldw instruction, which allows them to
prefetch data cachelines in an exclusive state.

This patch defines the prefetchw macro using pldw for CPUs that support
it.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
2013-09-30 16:42:55 +01:00
Will Deacon 27a84793e4 ARM: smp_on_up: move inline asm ALT_SMP patching macro out of spinlock.h
Patching UP/SMP alternatives inside inline assembly blocks is useful
outside of the spinlock implementation, where it is used for sev and wfe.

This patch lifts the macro into processor.h and gives it a scarier name
to (a) avoid conflicts in the global namespace and (b) to try and deter
its usage unless you "know what you're doing". The W macro for generating
wide instructions when targetting Thumb-2 is also made available under
the name WASM, to reduce the potential for conflicts with other headers.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
2013-09-30 16:42:55 +01:00
Will Deacon e744dff72b ARM: prefetch: remove redundant "cc" clobber
The pld instruction does not affect the condition flags, so don't bother
clobbering them.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
2013-09-30 16:42:55 +01:00
Will Deacon acfdd4b1f7 ARM: 7791/1: a.out: remove partial a.out support
a.out support on ARM requires that argc, argv and envp are passed in
r0-r2 respectively, which requires hacking load_aout_binary to
prevent argc being clobbered by the return code. Whilst mainline kernels
do set the registers up in start_thread, the aout loader has never
carried the hack in mainline.

Initialising the registers in this way actually goes against the libc
expectations for ELF binaries, where argc, argv and envp are passed on
the stack, with r0 being used to hold a pointer to an exit function for
cleaning up after the dynamic linker if required. If the pointer is
NULL, then it is ignored. When execing an ELF binary, Linux currently
zeroes r0, then sets it to argc and then finally clobbers it with the
return value of the execve syscall, so we actually end up with:

	r0 = 0
	stack[0] = argc
	r1 = stack[1] = argv
	r2 = stack[2] = envp

libc treats r1 and r2 as undefined. The clobbering of r0 by sys_execve
works for user-spawned threads, but when executing an ELF binary from a
kernel thread (via call_usermodehelper), the execve is performed on the
ret_from_fork path, which restores r0 from the saved pt_regs, resulting
in argc being presented to the C library. This has horrible consequences
when the application exits, since we have an exit function registered
using argc, resulting in a jump to hyperspace.

This patch solves the problem by removing the partial a.out support from
arch/arm/ altogether.

Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: Ashish Sangwan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
2013-07-26 12:02:10 +01:00
Al Viro 9e14f828ee arm: split ret_from_fork, simplify kernel_thread() [based on patch by rmk]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
2012-09-30 22:21:36 -04:00
Linus Torvalds ec0d7f18ab Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull fpu state cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree streamlines further aspects of FPU handling by eliminating
  the prepare_to_copy() complication and moving that logic to
  arch_dup_task_struct().

  It also fixes the FPU dumps in threaded core dumps, removes and old
  (and now invalid) assumption plus micro-optimizes the exit path by
  avoiding an FPU save for dead tasks."

Fixed up trivial add-add conflict in arch/sh/kernel/process.c that came
in because we now do the FPU handling in arch_dup_task_struct() rather
than the legacy (and now gone) prepare_to_copy().

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, fpu: drop the fpu state during thread exit
  x86, xsave: remove thread_has_fpu() bug check in __sanitize_i387_state()
  coredump: ensure the fpu state is flushed for proper multi-threaded core dump
  fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()
2012-05-23 10:59:07 -07:00
Suresh Siddha 55ccf3fe3f fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()
Historical prepare_to_copy() is mostly a no-op, duplicated for majority of
the architectures and the rest following the x86 model of flushing the extended
register state like fpu there.

Remove it and use the arch_dup_task_struct() instead.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Zankel <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Salter <[email protected]>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <[email protected]>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <[email protected]>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Kuo <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <[email protected]>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <[email protected]>
Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Chen Liqin <[email protected]>
Cc: Lennox Wu <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
2012-05-16 15:16:26 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 448eca9093 arm: Remove unused cpu_idle_wait()
cpuidle uses a generic function now. Remove the unused code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
2012-05-08 12:35:06 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 12679a2d7e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm
Pull more ARM updates from Russell King.

This got a fair number of conflicts with the <asm/system.h> split, but
also with some other sparse-irq and header file include cleanups.  They
all looked pretty trivial, though.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (59 commits)
  ARM: fix Kconfig warning for HAVE_BPF_JIT
  ARM: 7361/1: provide XIP_VIRT_ADDR for no-MMU builds
  ARM: 7349/1: integrator: convert to sparse irqs
  ARM: 7259/3: net: JIT compiler for packet filters
  ARM: 7334/1: add jump label support
  ARM: 7333/2: jump label: detect %c support for ARM
  ARM: 7338/1: add support for early console output via semihosting
  ARM: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
  ARM: exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS)
  ARM: 7332/1: extract out code patch function from kprobes
  ARM: 7331/1: extract out insn generation code from ftrace
  ARM: 7330/1: ftrace: use canonical Thumb-2 wide instruction format
  ARM: 7351/1: ftrace: remove useless memory checks
  ARM: 7316/1: kexec: EOI active and mask all interrupts in kexec crash path
  ARM: Versatile Express: add NO_IOPORT
  ARM: get rid of asm/irq.h in asm/prom.h
  ARM: 7319/1: Print debug info for SIGBUS in user faults
  ARM: 7318/1: gic: refactor irq_start assignment
  ARM: 7317/1: irq: avoid NULL check in for_each_irq_desc loop
  ARM: 7315/1: perf: add support for the Cortex-A7 PMU
  ...
2012-03-29 16:53:48 -07:00
David Howells 9f97da78bf Disintegrate asm/system.h for ARM
Disintegrate asm/system.h for ARM.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
cc: [email protected]
2012-03-28 18:30:01 +01:00
Mathias Krause e88443cdfc ARM: exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS)
The address limit is already set in flush_old_exec() so this
set_fs(USER_DS) is redundant.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
2012-03-24 09:38:55 +00:00
Olof Johansson fee6a3c33a ARM: 7327/1: need to include asm/system.h in asm/processor.h
For files that include asm/processor.h but not asm/system.h:

arch/arm/mach-msm/include/mach/uncompress.h: In function 'putc':
arch/arm/mach-msm/include/mach/uncompress.h:48:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'smp_mb' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

In this case, smp_mb() is from the cpu_relax() call in the msm putc().

It likely went uncaught when the uncompress.h change went in since the
defconfig didn't enable that code path, but later changes (e76f4750f4:
ARM: debug: arrange Kconfig options more logically) resulted in the
option being on for msm_defconfig and thus exposed it.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
2012-02-15 21:10:49 +00:00
Rob Herring 7dbaa46678 ARM: 7169/1: topdown mmap support
Similar to other architectures, this adds topdown mmap support in user
process address space allocation policy. This allows mmap sizes greater
than 2GB. This support is largely copied from MIPS and the generic
implementations.

The address space randomization is moved into arch_pick_mmap_layout.

Tested on V-Express with ubuntu and a mmap test from here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/861296

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
2011-12-06 11:15:25 +00:00
Russell King 1f0090a1ea Merge branch 'misc' into devel
Conflicts:
	arch/arm/Kconfig
2011-03-16 23:35:25 +00:00
Will Deacon 5dab26af1b ARM: 6784/1: errata: no automatic Store Buffer drain on Cortex-A9
On revisions of the Cortex-A9 prior to r2p0, the Store Buffer does not
have any automatic draining mechanism and therefore a livelock may occur
if an external agent continuously polls a memory location waiting to
observe an update.

This workaround defines cpu_relax() as smp_mb(), preventing correctly
written polling loops from denying visibility of updates to memory.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
2011-03-09 21:40:18 +00:00
Will Deacon 425fc47adb ARM: 6668/1: ptrace: remove single-step emulation code
PTRACE_SINGLESTEP is a ptrace request designed to offer single-stepping
support to userspace when the underlying architecture has hardware
support for this operation.

On ARM, we set arch_has_single_step() to 1 and attempt to emulate hardware
single-stepping by disassembling the current instruction to determine the
next pc and placing a software breakpoint on that location.

Unfortunately this has the following problems:

1.) Only a subset of ARMv7 instructions are supported
2.) Thumb-2 is unsupported
3.) The code is not SMP safe

We could try to fix this code, but it turns out that because of the above
issues it is rarely used in practice.  GDB, for example, uses PTRACE_POKETEXT
and PTRACE_PEEKTEXT to manage breakpoints itself and does not require any
kernel assistance.

This patch removes the single-step emulation code from ptrace meaning that
the PTRACE_SINGLESTEP request will return -EIO on ARM. Portable code must
check the return value from a ptrace call and handle the failure gracefully.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
2011-02-23 17:24:22 +00:00
Will Deacon 864232fa1a ARM: 6357/1: hw-breakpoint: add new ptrace requests for hw-breakpoint interaction
For debuggers to take advantage of the hw-breakpoint framework in the kernel,
it is necessary to expose the API calls via a ptrace interface.

This patch exposes the hardware breakpoints framework as a collection of
virtual registers, accesible using PTRACE_SETHBPREGS and PTRACE_GETHBPREGS
requests. The breakpoints are stored in the debug_info struct of the running
thread.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: S. Karthikeyan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
2010-09-08 10:05:00 +01:00
Will Deacon 534be1d5a2 ARM: 6194/1: change definition of cpu_relax() for ARM11MPCore
Linux expects that if a CPU modifies a memory location, then that
modification will eventually become visible to other CPUs in the system.

On an ARM11MPCore processor, loads are prioritised over stores so it is
possible for a store operation to be postponed if a polling loop immediately
follows it. If the variable being polled indirectly depends on the outstanding
store [for example, another CPU may be polling the variable that is pending
modification] then there is the potential for deadlock if interrupts are
disabled. This deadlock occurs in the KGDB testsuire when executing on an
SMP ARM11MPCore configuration.

This patch changes the definition of cpu_relax() to smp_mb() for ARMv6 cores,
forcing a flushing of the write buffer on SMP systems before the next load
takes place. If the Kernel is not compiled for SMP support, this will expand
to a barrier() as before.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
2010-07-01 10:13:52 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 26584853a4 Add core support for ARMv6/v7 big-endian
Starting with ARMv6, the CPUs support the BE-8 variant of big-endian
(byte-invariant). This patch adds the core support:

- setting of the BE-8 mode via the CPSR.E register for both kernel and
  user threads
- big-endian page table walking
- REV used to rotate instructions read from memory during fault
  processing as they are still little-endian format
- Kconfig and Makefile support for BE-8. The --be8 option must be passed
  to the final linking stage to convert the instructions to
  little-endian

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
2009-05-30 14:00:18 +01:00
Russell King 7e1548a597 Merge branch 'omap3-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6 into devel 2008-12-15 22:13:26 +00:00
Lennert Buytenhek 794baba637 [ARM] 5340/1: fix stack placement after noexecstack changes
Commit 8ec53663d2 ("[ARM] Improve
non-executable support") added support for detecting non-executable
stack binaries.  One of the things it does is to make READ_IMPLIES_EXEC
be set in ->personality if we are running on a CPU that doesn't support
the XN ("Execute Never") page table bit or if we are running a binary
that needs an executable stack.

This exposed a latent bug in ARM's asm/processor.h due to which we'll
end up placing the stack at a very low address, where it will bump into
the heap on any application that uses significant amount of stack or
heap or both, causing many interesting crashes.

Fix this by testing the ADDR_LIMIT_32BIT bit in ->personality instead
of testing for equality against PER_LINUX_32BIT.

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
2008-12-06 08:32:02 +00:00
Russell King 59f0cb0fdd [ARM] remove memzero()
As suggested by Andrew Morton, remove memzero() - it's not supported
on other architectures so use of it is a potential build breaking bug.
Since the compiler optimizes memset(x,0,n) to __memzero() perfectly
well, we don't miss out on the underlying benefits of memzero().

Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
2008-11-27 12:37:59 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre 16f719de62 [ARM] 5196/1: fix inline asm constraints for preload
With gcc 4.3 and later, a pointer that has already been dereferenced is
assumed not to be null since it should have caused a segmentation fault
otherwise, hence any subsequent test against NULL is optimized away.

Current inline asm constraint used in the implementation of prefetch()
makes gcc believe that the pointer is dereferenced even though the PLD
instruction does not load any data and does not cause a segmentation
fault on null pointers, which causes all sorts of interesting results
when reaching the end of a linked lists for example.

Let's use a better constraint to properly represent the actual usage of
the pointer value.

Problem reported by Chris Steel.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
2008-08-16 09:30:05 +01:00
Russell King 4baa992243 [ARM] move include/asm-arm to arch/arm/include/asm
Move platform independent header files to arch/arm/include/asm, leaving
those in asm/arch* and asm/plat* alone.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
2008-08-02 21:32:35 +01:00