linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c, branch v3.4.78

powerpc/signals: Improved mark VSX not saved with small contexts fix

2013-12-04T18:50:33+00:00

commit ec67ad82814bee92251fd963bf01c7a173856555 upstream.

In a recent patch:
  commit c13f20ac48328b05cd3b8c19e31ed6c132b44b42
  Author: Michael Neuling 
  powerpc/signals: Mark VSX not saved with small contexts

We fixed an issue but an improved solution was later discussed after the patch
was merged.

Firstly, this patch doesn't handle the 64bit signals case, which could also hit
this issue (but has never been reported).

Secondly, the original patch isn't clear what MSR VSX should be set to.  The
new approach below always clears the MSR VSX bit (to indicate no VSX is in the
context) and sets it only in the specific case where VSX is available (ie. when
VSX has been used and the signal context passed has space to provide the
state).

This reverts the original patch and replaces it with the improved solution.  It
also adds a 64 bit version.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/signals: Mark VSX not saved with small contexts

2013-11-29T18:50:36+00:00

commit c13f20ac48328b05cd3b8c19e31ed6c132b44b42 upstream.

The VSX MSR bit in the user context indicates if the context contains VSX
state.  Currently we set this when the process has touched VSX at any stage.

Unfortunately, if the user has not provided enough space to save the VSX state,
we can't save it but we currently still set the MSR VSX bit.

This patch changes this to clear the MSR VSX bit when the user doesn't provide
enough space.  This indicates that there is no valid VSX state in the user
context.

This is needed to support get/set/make/swapcontext for applications that use
VSX but only provide a small context.  For example, getcontext in glibc
provides a smaller context since the VSX registers don't need to be saved over
the glibc function call.  But since the program calling getcontext may have
used VSX, the kernel currently says the VSX state is valid when it's not.  If
the returned context is then used in setcontext (ie. a small context without
VSX but with MSR VSX set), the kernel will refuse the context.  This situation
has been reported by the glibc community.

Based on patch from Carlos O'Donell.

Tested-by: Haren Myneni 
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC

2012-03-28T17:30:02+00:00

Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org

powerpc: Use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()

2012-03-07T06:06:09+00:00

As described in e6fa16ab ("signal: sigprocmask() should do
retarget_shared_pending()") the modification of current->blocked is
incorrect as we need to check whether the signal we're about to block
is pending in the shared queue.

Also, use the new helper function introduced in commit 5e6292c0f28f
("signal: add block_sigmask() for adding sigmask to current->blocked")
which centralises the code for updating current->blocked after
successfully delivering a signal and reduces the amount of duplicate
code across architectures. In the past some architectures got this
code wrong, so using this helper function should stop that from
happening again.

Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/signal32: Fix sigset_t conversion when copying to user

2011-11-17T05:41:10+00:00

On PPC64, put_sigset_t converts a sigset_t to a compat_sigset_t
before copying it to userspace. There is a typo in the case that
we have 4 words to copy, meaning that we corrupt the compat_sigset_t.

It appears that _NSIG_WORDS can't be greater than 2 at the moment
so this code is probably always optimised away anyway.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

arch/powerpc: use printk_ratelimited instead of printk_ratelimit

2011-06-29T05:31:01+00:00

Since printk_ratelimit() shouldn't be used anymore (see comment in
include/linux/printk.h), replace it with printk_ratelimited.

Signed-off-by: Christian Dietrich 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: fix double syscall restarts

2010-09-22T16:33:50+00:00

Make sigreturn zero regs->trap, make do_signal() do the same on all
paths.  As it is, signal interrupting e.g. read() from fd 512 (==
ERESTARTSYS) with another signal getting unblocked when the first
handler finishes will lead to restart one insn earlier than it ought
to.  Same for multiple signals with in-kernel handlers interrupting
that sucker at the same time.  Same for multiple signals of any kind
interrupting that sucker on 64bit...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

powerpc/booke: Add support for advanced debug registers

2010-02-17T03:03:17+00:00

powerpc/booke: Add support for advanced debug registers

From: Dave Kleikamp 

Based on patches originally written by Torez Smith.

This patch defines context switch and trap related functionality
for BookE specific Debug Registers. It adds support to ptrace()
for setting and getting BookE related Debug Registers

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp 
Cc: Torez Smith  
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: David Gibson 
Cc: Josh Boyer 
Cc: Kumar Gala 
Cc: Sergio Durigan Junior 
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann 
Cc: linuxppc-dev list 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/booke: Introduce new CONFIG options for advanced debug registers

2010-02-17T03:03:16+00:00

powerpc/booke: Introduce new CONFIG options for advanced debug registers

From: Dave Kleikamp 

Introduce new config options to simplify the ifdefs pertaining to the
advanced debug registers for booke and 40x processors:

CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS - boolean: true for dac-based processors
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_IACS - number of IAC registers
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DACS - number of DAC registers
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DVCS - number of DVC registers
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DAC_RANGE - DAC ranges supported

Beginning conservatively, since I only have the facilities to test 440
hardware.  I believe all 40x and booke platforms support at least 2 IAC
and 2 DAC registers.  For 440, 4 IAC and 2 DVC registers are enabled, as
well as the DAC ranges.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp 
Acked-by: David Gibson 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Sanitize stack pointer in signal handling code

2009-03-27T05:58:24+00:00

On powerpc64 machines running 32-bit userspace, we can get garbage bits in the
stack pointer passed into the kernel.  Most places handle this correctly, but
the signal handling code uses the passed value directly for allocating signal
stack frames.

This fixes the issue by introducing a get_clean_sp function that returns a
sanitized stack pointer.  For 32-bit tasks on a 64-bit kernel, the stack
pointer is masked correctly.  In all other cases, the stack pointer is simply
returned.

Additionally, we pass an 'is_32' parameter to get_sigframe now in order to
get the properly sanitized stack.  The callers are know to be 32 or 64-bit
statically.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt