linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c, branch v4.10

x86/entry/64: Always run ptregs-using syscalls on the slow path

2016-01-29T08:46:38+00:00

64-bit syscalls currently have an optimization in which they are
called with partial pt_regs.  A small handful require full
pt_regs.

In the 32-bit and compat cases, I cleaned this up by forcing
full pt_regs for all syscalls.  The performance hit doesn't
really matter as the affected system calls are fundamentally
heavy and this is the 32-bit compat case.

I want to clean up the 64-bit case as well, but I don't want to
hurt fast path performance.  To do that, I want to force the
syscalls that use pt_regs onto the slow path.  This will enable
us to make slow path syscalls be real ABI-compliant C functions.

Use the new syscall entry qualification machinery for this.
'stub_clone' is now 'stub_clone/ptregs'.

The next patch will eliminate the stubs, and we'll just have
'sys_clone/ptregs'.

As of this patch, two-phase entry tracing is no longer used.  It
has served its purpose (namely a huge speedup on some workloads
prior to more general opportunistic SYSRET support), and once
the dust settles I'll send patches to back it out.

The implementation is heavily based on a patch from Brian Gerst:

  http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1449666173-15366-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com

Originally-From: Brian Gerst 
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b9beda88460bcefec6e7d792bd44eca9b760b0c4.1454022279.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/syscalls: Add syscall entry qualifiers

2016-01-29T08:46:38+00:00

This will let us specify something like 'sys_xyz/foo' instead of
'sys_xyz' in the syscall table, where the 'foo' qualifier conveys
some extra information to the C code.

The intent is to allow things like sys_execve/ptregs to indicate
that sys_execve() touches pt_regs.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2de06e33dce62556b3ec662006fcb295504e296e.1454022279.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/syscalls: Move compat syscall entry handling into syscalltbl.sh

2016-01-29T08:46:37+00:00

Rather than duplicating the compat entry handling in all
consumers of syscalls_BITS.h, handle it directly in
syscalltbl.sh.  Now we generate entries in syscalls_32.h like:

__SYSCALL_I386(5, sys_open)
__SYSCALL_I386(5, compat_sys_open)

and all of its consumers implicitly get the right entry point.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b7c2b501dc0e6e43050e916b95807c3e2e16e9bb.1454022279.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/syscalls: Remove __SYSCALL_COMMON and __SYSCALL_X32

2016-01-29T08:46:37+00:00

The common/64/x32 distinction has no effect other than
determining which kernels actually support the syscall.  Move
the logic into syscalltbl.sh.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/58d4a95f40e43b894f93288b4a3633963d0ee22e.1454022279.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/syscalls: Give sys_call_ptr_t a useful type

2015-10-09T07:41:08+00:00

Syscalls are asmlinkage functions (on 32-bit kernels), take six
args of type unsigned long, and return long.  Note that uml
could probably be slightly cleaned up on top of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4d3ecc4a169388d47009175408b2961961744e6f.1444091585.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/asm/entry: Move the vsyscall code to arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/

2015-06-04T05:37:37+00:00

The vsyscall code is entry code too, so move it to arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/.

Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar