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Brian Gerst
052acad48a x86: Merge sys_sigaltstack
Change 32-bit sys_sigaltstack to PTREGSCALL2, and merge with 64-bit.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260403316-5679-5-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-12-09 16:28:59 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ed9216c171 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (84 commits)
  KVM: VMX: Fix comparison of guest efer with stale host value
  KVM: s390: Fix prefix register checking in arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c
  KVM: Drop user return notifier when disabling virtualization on a cpu
  KVM: VMX: Disable unrestricted guest when EPT disabled
  KVM: x86 emulator: limit instructions to 15 bytes
  KVM: s390: Make psw available on all exits, not just a subset
  KVM: x86: Add KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS
  KVM: VMX: Report unexpected simultaneous exceptions as internal errors
  KVM: Allow internal errors reported to userspace to carry extra data
  KVM: Reorder IOCTLs in main kvm.h
  KVM: x86: Polish exception injection via KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG
  KVM: only clear irq_source_id if irqchip is present
  KVM: x86: disallow KVM_{SET,GET}_LAPIC without allocated in-kernel lapic
  KVM: x86: disallow multiple KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP
  KVM: VMX: Remove vmx->msr_offset_efer
  KVM: MMU: update invlpg handler comment
  KVM: VMX: move CR3/PDPTR update to vmx_set_cr3
  KVM: remove duplicated task_switch check
  KVM: powerpc: Fix BUILD_BUG_ON condition
  KVM: VMX: Use shared msr infrastructure
  ...

Trivial conflicts due to new Kconfig options in arch/Kconfig and kernel/Makefile
2009-12-08 08:02:38 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker
0f8f86c7bd Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint
Conflicts:
	kernel/Makefile
	kernel/trace/Makefile
	kernel/trace/trace.h
	samples/Makefile

Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development
branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of
perf events.
2009-10-18 01:12:33 +02:00
Avi Kivity
7c68af6e32 core, x86: Add user return notifiers
Add a general per-cpu notifier that is called whenever the kernel is
about to return to userspace.  The notifier uses a thread_info flag
and existing checks, so there is no impact on user return or context
switch fast paths.

This will be used initially to speed up KVM task switching by lazily
updating MSRs.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1253342422-13811-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-10-01 12:12:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
df58bee21e Merge branch 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (21 commits)
  x86, mce: Fix compilation with !CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in mce-severity.c
  x86, mce: CE in last bank prevents panic by unknown MCE
  x86, mce: Fake panic support for MCE testing
  x86, mce: Move debugfs mce dir creating to mce.c
  x86, mce: Support specifying raise mode for software MCE injection
  x86, mce: Support specifying context for software mce injection
  x86, mce: fix reporting of Thermal Monitoring mechanism enabled
  x86, mce: remove never executed code
  x86, mce: add missing __cpuinit tags
  x86, mce: fix "mce" boot option handling for CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE
  x86, mce: don't log boot MCEs on Pentium M (model == 13) CPUs
  x86: mce: Lower maximum number of banks to architecture limit
  x86: mce: macros to compute banks MSRs
  x86: mce: Move per bank data in a single datastructure
  x86: mce: Move code in mce.c
  x86: mce: Rename CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE to CONFIG_X86_MCE
  x86: mce: Remove old i386 machine check code
  x86: mce: Update X86_MCE description in x86/Kconfig
  x86: mce: Make CONFIG_X86_ANCIENT_MCE dependent on CONFIG_X86_MCE
  x86, mce: use atomic_inc_return() instead of add by 1
  ...

Manually fixed up trivial conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
2009-09-17 21:07:08 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
dca2d6ac09 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c

Semantic conflict fixed in:
	arch/x86/kvm/x86.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 12:18:15 +02:00
David Howells
ee18d64c1f KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6]
Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring onto its parent.  This
replaces the parent's session keyring.  Because the COW credential code does
not permit one process to change another process's credentials directly, the
change is deferred until userspace next starts executing again.  Normally this
will be after a wait*() syscall.

To support this, three new security hooks have been provided:
cred_alloc_blank() to allocate unset security creds, cred_transfer() to fill in
the blank security creds and key_session_to_parent() - which asks the LSM if
the process may replace its parent's session keyring.

The replacement may only happen if the process has the same ownership details
as its parent, and the process has LINK permission on the session keyring, and
the session keyring is owned by the process, and the LSM permits it.

Note that this requires alteration to each architecture's notify_resume path.
This has been done for all arches barring blackfin, m68k* and xtensa, all of
which need assembly alteration to support TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME.  This allows the
replacement to be performed at the point the parent process resumes userspace
execution.

This allows the userspace AFS pioctl emulation to fully emulate newpag() and
the VIOCSETTOK and VIOCSETTOK2 pioctls, all of which require the ability to
alter the parent process's PAG membership.  However, since kAFS doesn't use
PAGs per se, but rather dumps the keys into the session keyring, the session
keyring of the parent must be replaced if, for example, VIOCSETTOK is passed
the newpag flag.

This can be tested with the following program:

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <keyutils.h>

	#define KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT	18

	#define OSERROR(X, S) do { if ((long)(X) == -1) { perror(S); exit(1); } } while(0)

	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
		key_serial_t keyring, key;
		long ret;

		keyring = keyctl_join_session_keyring(argv[1]);
		OSERROR(keyring, "keyctl_join_session_keyring");

		key = add_key("user", "a", "b", 1, keyring);
		OSERROR(key, "add_key");

		ret = keyctl(KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT);
		OSERROR(ret, "KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT");

		return 0;
	}

Compiled and linked with -lkeyutils, you should see something like:

	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
	Session Keyring
	       -3 --alswrv   4043  4043  keyring: _ses
	355907932 --alswrv   4043    -1   \_ keyring: _uid.4043
	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag
	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
	Session Keyring
	       -3 --alswrv   4043  4043  keyring: _ses
	1055658746 --alswrv   4043  4043   \_ user: a
	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag hello
	[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
	Session Keyring
	       -3 --alswrv   4043  4043  keyring: hello
	340417692 --alswrv   4043  4043   \_ user: a

Where the test program creates a new session keyring, sticks a user key named
'a' into it and then installs it on its parent.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
Andi Kleen
c1ebf83561 x86: mce: Rename CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE to CONFIG_X86_MCE
Drop the CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE symbol and change all
references to it to check for CONFIG_X86_MCE directly.

No code changes

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-07-09 18:39:47 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
eadb8a091b Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/Kconfig
	arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
	arch/x86/power/cpu.c
	arch/x86/power/cpu_32.c
	kernel/Makefile

Semantic conflict:
	arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts, move from put_cpu_no_sched() to
              put_cpu() in arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-17 12:56:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0d5959723e Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mce3
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irq.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts above.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11 23:31:52 +02:00
Andi Kleen
9b1beaf2b5 x86, mce: support action-optional machine checks
Newer Intel CPUs support a new class of machine checks called recoverable
action optional.

Action Optional means that the CPU detected some form of corruption in
the background and tells the OS about using a machine check
exception. The OS can then take appropiate action, like killing the
process with the corrupted data or logging the event properly to disk.

This is done by the new generic high level memory failure handler added
in a earlier patch. The high level handler takes the address with the
failed memory and does the appropiate action, like killing the process.

In this version of the patch the high level handler is stubbed out
with a weak function to not create a direct dependency on the hwpoison
branch.

The high level handler cannot be directly called from the machine check
exception though, because it has to run in a defined process context to
be able to sleep when taking VM locks (it is not expected to sleep for a
long time, just do so in some exceptional cases like lock contention)

Thus the MCE handler has to queue a work item for process context,
trigger process context and then call the high level handler from there.

This patch adds two path to process context: through a per thread kernel
exit notify_user() callback or through a high priority work item.
The first runs when the process exits back to user space, the other when
it goes to sleep and there is no higher priority process.

The machine check handler will schedule both, and whoever runs first
will grab the event. This is done because quick reaction to this
event is critical to avoid a potential more fatal machine check
when the corruption is consumed.

There is a simple lock less ring buffer to queue the corrupted
addresses between the exception handler and the process context handler.
Then in process context it just calls the high level VM code with
the corrupted PFNs.

The code adds the required code to extract the failed address from
the CPU's machine check registers. It doesn't try to handle all
possible cases -- the specification has 6 different ways to specify
memory address -- but only the linear address.

Most of the required checking has been already done earlier in the
mce_severity rule checking engine.  Following the Intel
recommendations Action Optional errors are only enabled for known
situations (encoded in MCACODs). The errors are ignored otherwise,
because they are action optional.

v2: Improve comment, disable preemption while processing ring buffer
    (reported by Ying Huang)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-03 14:48:59 -07:00
Andi Kleen
9ff36ee966 x86, mce: rename mce_notify_user to mce_notify_irq
Rename the mce_notify_user function to mce_notify_irq. The next
patch will split the wakeup handling of interrupt context
and of process context and it's better to give it a clearer
name for this.

Contains a fix from Ying Huang

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-03 14:48:04 -07:00
K.Prasad
da0cdc14f5 hw-breakpoints: modify signal handling code to refrain from re-enabling HW Breakpoints
This patch disables re-enabling of Hardware Breakpoint registers through
the signal handling code. This is now done during from hw_breakpoint_handler().

Original-patch-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 22:46:59 +02:00
Andi Kleen
4efc0670ba x86, mce: use 64bit machine check code on 32bit
The 64bit machine check code is in many ways much better than
the 32bit machine check code: it is more specification compliant,
is cleaner, only has a single code base versus one per CPU,
has better infrastructure for recovery, has a cleaner way to communicate
with user space etc. etc.

Use the 64bit code for 32bit too.

This is the second attempt to do this. There was one a couple of years
ago to unify this code for 32bit and 64bit.  Back then this ran into some
trouble with K7s and was reverted.

I believe this time the K7 problems (and some others) are addressed.
I went over the old handlers and was very careful to retain
all quirks.

But of course this needs a lot of testing on old systems. On newer
64bit capable systems I don't expect much problems because they have been
already tested with the 64bit kernel.

I made this a CONFIG for now that still allows to select the old
machine check code. This is mostly to make testing easier,
if someone runs into a problem we can ask them to try
with the CONFIG switched.

The new code is default y for more coverage.

Once there is confidence the 64bit code works well on older hardware
too the CONFIG_X86_OLD_MCE and the associated code can be easily
removed.

This causes a behaviour change for 32bit installations. They now
have to install the mcelog package to be able to log
corrected machine checks.

The 64bit machine check code only handles CPUs which support the
standard Intel machine check architecture described in the IA32 SDM.
The 32bit code has special support for some older CPUs which
have non standard machine check architectures, in particular
WinChip C3 and Intel P5.  I made those a separate CONFIG option
and kept them for now. The WinChip variant could be probably
removed without too much pain, it doesn't really do anything
interesting. P5 is also disabled by default (like it
was before) because many motherboards have it miswired, but
according to Alan Cox a few embedded setups use that one.

Forward ported/heavily changed version of old patch, original patch
included review/fixes from Thomas Gleixner, Bert Wesarg.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-28 09:24:13 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
925d519ab8 perf_counter: unify and fix delayed counter wakeup
While going over the wakeup code I noticed delayed wakeups only work
for hardware counters but basically all software counters rely on
them.

This patch unifies and generalizes the delayed wakeup to fix this
issue.

Since we're dealing with NMI context bits here, use a cmpxchg() based
single link list implementation to track counters that have pending
wakeups.

[ This should really be generic code for delayed wakeups, but since we
  cannot use cmpxchg()/xchg() in generic code, I've let it live in the
  perf_counter code. -- Eric Dumazet could use it to aggregate the
  network wakeups. ]

Furthermore, the x86 method of using TIF flags was flawed in that its
quite possible to end up setting the bit on the idle task, loosing the
wakeup.

The powerpc method uses per-cpu storage and does appear to be
sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090330171023.153932974@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:36 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f541ae326f Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core-v2
Merge reason: we have gathered quite a few conflicts, need to merge upstream

Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
	arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
	arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
	arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
	arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c
	include/linux/sched.h
	kernel/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:02:57 +02:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
0f8f308925 x86: signal: check sas_ss_size instead of sas_ss_flags()
Impact: fix redundant and incorrect check

Oleg Nesterov noticed wrt commit:

  14fc9fb: x86: signal: check signal stack overflow properly

>> No need to check SA_ONSTACK if we're already using alternate signal stack.
>
> Yes, but this also mean that we don't need sas_ss_flags() under
> "if (!onsigstack)",

Checking on_sig_stack() in sas_ss_flags() at get_sigframe() is redundant
and not correct on 64 bit. To check sas_ss_size is enough.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: roland@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <49CBB54C.5080201@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-01 17:13:17 +02:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
14fc9fbc70 x86: signal: check signal stack overflow properly
Impact: cleanup

Check alternate signal stack overflow with proper stack pointer.
The stack pointer of the next signal frame is different if that
task has i387 state.

On x86_64, redzone would be included.

No need to check SA_ONSTACK if we're already using alternate signal stack.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49C2874D.3080002@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-20 19:01:31 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
2505170211 x86, signals: fix xine & firefox bustage
Impact: fix bad frame in rt_sigreturn on 64-bit

After commit 97286a2b64 some applications
fail to return from signal handler:

[  145.150133] firefox[3250] bad frame in rt_sigreturn frame:00007f902b44eb28 ip:352e80b307 sp:7f902b44ef70 orax:ffffffffffffffff in libpthread-2.9.so[352e800000+17000]
[  665.519017] firefox[5420] bad frame in rt_sigreturn frame:00007faa8deaeb28 ip:352e80b307 sp:7faa8deaef70 orax:ffffffffffffffff in libpthread-2.9.so[352e800000+17000]

The root cause is forgetting to keep 64 byte aligned value of
fpstate for next stack pointer calculation.

Reported-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
LKML-Reference: <49AC85C1.7060600@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-03 09:03:12 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
1fae0279ce x86: signal: introduce helper align_sigframe()
Impact: cleanup

Introduce helper align_sigframe() to align stack pointer for signal frame.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-28 09:17:31 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
75779f0526 x86: signal: unify get_sigframe()
Impact: cleanup

Unify get_sigframe().

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-28 09:17:30 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
36a4526583 x86: signal: use 16 bytes boundary for rt_sigframe
Impact: cleanup

Supporting xsave/xrestore introduces 64 bytes boundary for save_i387_xstate().
16 bytes boundary is OK for rt_sigframe.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-28 09:17:30 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
97286a2b64 x86: signal: intrroduce get_sigframe() and replace get_sigstack()
Impact: cleanup

Introduce get_sigframe() like 32-bit to replace get_sigstack().
Move the i387 stuff into get_sigframe().

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-28 09:17:29 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
144b0712dd x86: signal: add __user annotation
Impact: cleanup

Add missing __user annotation to the parameter of get_sigframe().
Also change cast type to void __user * of *fpstate.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-28 09:17:29 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
b1864e9a1a Merge branch 'x86/core' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/Kconfig
	arch/x86/kernel/apic.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
2009-02-13 09:49:38 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin
7445250927 x86: merge sys_rt_sigreturn between 32 and 64 bits
Impact: cleanup

With the recent changes in the 32-bit code to make system calls which
use struct pt_regs take a pointer, sys_rt_sigreturn() have become
identical between 32 and 64 bits, and both are empty wrappers around
do_rt_sigreturn().  Remove both wrappers and rename both to
sys_rt_sigreturn().

Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-11 16:31:40 -08:00
Brian Gerst
b12bdaf11f x86: use regparm(3) for passed-in pt_regs pointer
Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy
user register state or to modifiy it.  This patch adds stubs to load
the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes
the syscalls to take the pointer as an argument instead of relying on
the assumption that the pt_regs structure overlaps the function
arguments.

Drop the use of regparm(1) due to concern about gcc bugs, and to move
in the direction of the eventual removal of regparm(0) for asmlinkage.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-11 14:00:56 -08:00
Brian Gerst
253f29a4ae x86: pass in pt_regs pointer for syscalls that need it
Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy
user register state or to modifiy it.  This patch adds stubs to load
the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes
the syscalls to regparm(1) to receive the pt_regs pointer as the
first argument.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 12:40:45 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
95fd4845ed Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
	drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
	kernel/irq/handle.c
2009-02-11 09:22:04 +01:00
Tejun Heo
d9a89a26e0 x86: add %gs accessors for x86_32
Impact: cleanup

On x86_32, %gs is handled lazily.  It's not saved and restored on
kernel entry/exit but only when necessary which usually is during task
switch but there are few other places.  Currently, it's done by
calling savesegment() and loadsegment() explicitly.  Define
get_user_gs(), set_user_gs() and task_user_gs() and use them instead.

While at it, clean up register access macros in signal.c.

This cleans up code a bit and will help future changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10 00:41:58 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
5d96218b4a Merge branch 'x86/uaccess' into core/percpu 2009-02-10 00:40:48 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
98e3d45eda x86: signal: use {get|put}_user_try and catch
Impact: use new framework

Use {get|put}_user_try, catch, and _ex in arch/x86/kernel/signal.c.

Note: this patch contains "WARNING: line over 80 characters", because when
introducing new block I insert an indent to avoid mistakes by edit.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-23 17:17:38 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
552b8aa4d1 Revert "x86: signal: change type of paramter for sys_rt_sigreturn()"
This reverts commit 4217458daf.

Justin Madru bisected this commit, it was causing weird Firefox
crashes.

The reason is that GCC mis-optimizes (re-uses) the on-stack parameters of
the calling frame, which corrupts the syscall return pt_regs state and
thus corrupts user-space register state.

So we go back to the slightly less clean but more optimization-safe
method of getting to pt_regs. Also add a comment to explain this.

Resolves: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12505

Reported-and-bisected-by: Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com>
Tested-by: Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-21 09:43:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
e1df957670 Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	fs/exec.c
	include/linux/init_task.h

Simple context conflicts.
2008-12-29 09:45:15 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
41af86fad3 x86: signal: move sigframe.h to arch/x86/include/asm
Impact: cleanup, move header file

Move arch/x86/kernel/sigframe.h to arch/x86/include/asm/sigframe.h.
It will be used in arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18 11:28:54 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
f5223763a6 x86: signal: move ia32 func declarations into arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
Impact: cleanup

Move declarations of ia32_setup_rt_frame() and ia32_setup_frame() into
arch/x86/kernel/signal.c.

This is for future use of sigframe.h.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18 11:28:52 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
ae417bb487 x86: signal: use signal_fault() in sys_sigreturn()
Impact: cleanup

Call signal_fault() in error route of sys_sigreturn().
Change log level to KERN_EMERG if current is init.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16 23:06:07 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
241771ef01 performance counters: x86 support
Implement performance counters for x86 Intel CPUs.

It's simplified right now: the PERFMON CPU feature is assumed,
which is available in Core2 and later Intel CPUs.

The design is flexible to be extended to more CPU types as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 15:47:15 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
4217458daf x86: signal: change type of paramter for sys_rt_sigreturn()
Impact: cleanup on 32-bit

Peter pointed this parameter can be changed.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 15:21:35 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
5ceb40da9b x86: signal: unify signal_{32|64}.c
Impact: cleanup

Unify signal_{32|64}.c! Mechanic unification - the two
files are the same.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 05:11:56 +01:00
Renamed from arch/x86/kernel/signal_32.c (Browse further)