History log of /linux-master/arch/mips/include/asm/sigcontext.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 16f77de8 18-Jun-2014 Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>

Revert "MIPS: Save/restore MSA context around signals"

This reverts commit eec43a224cf1 "MIPS: Save/restore MSA context around
signals" and the MSA parts of ca750649e08c "MIPS: kernel: signal:
Prevent save/restore FPU context in user memory" (the restore path of
which appears incorrect anyway...).

The reverted patch took care not to break compatibility with userland
users of struct sigcontext, but inadvertantly changed the offset of the
uc_sigmask field of struct ucontext. Thus Linux v3.15 breaks the
userland ABI. The MSA context will need to be saved via some other
opt-in mechanism, but for now revert the change to reduce the fallout.

This will have minimal impact upon use of MSA since the only supported
CPU which includes it (the P5600) is 32-bit and therefore requires that
the experimental CONFIG_MIPS_O32_FP64_SUPPORT Kconfig option be selected
before the kernel will set FR=1 for a task, a requirement for MSA use.
Thus the users of MSA are limited to known small groups of people & this
patch won't be breaking any previously working MSA-using userland
outside of experimental settings.

[ralf@linux-mips.org: Fixed rejects.]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7107/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>


# eec43a22 13-Feb-2014 Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>

MIPS: Save/restore MSA context around signals

This patch extends sigcontext in order to hold the most significant 64
bits of each vector register in addition to the MSA control & status
register. The least significant 64 bits are already saved as the scalar
FP context. This makes things a little awkward since the least & most
significant 64 bits of each vector register are not contiguous in
memory. Thus the copy_u & insert instructions are used to transfer the
values of the most significant 64 bits via GP registers.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6533/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>


# 61730c53 09-Oct-2012 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/mips/include/asm

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>


# ae612fb0 30-Jan-2009 Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>

headers_check fix: mips, sigcontext.h

fix the following 'make headers_check' warning:

usr/include/asm-mips/sigcontext.h:57: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>


# 384740dc 16-Sep-2008 Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

MIPS: Move headfiles to new location below arch/mips/include

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>