History log of /linux-master/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 6fcb1397 17-Sep-2023 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

powerpc: Replace GPL 2.0+ README.legal boilerplate with SPDX

Upstream Linux never had a "README.legal" file, but it was present
in early source releases of Linux/m68k. It contained a simple copyright
notice and a link to a version of the "COPYING" file that predated the
addition of the "only valid GPL version is v2" clause.

Get rid of the references to non-existent files by replacing the
boilerplate with SPDX license identifiers.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/d91725ff1ed5d4b6ba42474e2ebfeebe711cba23.1695031668.git.geert@linux-m68k.org


# 94746890 06-Oct-2022 Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

powerpc: Don't add __powerpc_ prefix to syscall entry points

When using syscall wrappers the __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() and related macros
add a "__powerpc_" prefix to all syscall entry points.

So for example sys_mmap becomes __powerpc_sys_mmap.

This risks breaking workflows and tools that expect the old naming
scheme. At a minimum setting a breakpoint on eg. sys_mmap with gdb no
longer works.

There seems to be no compelling reason to add the "__powerpc_" prefix,
other than that it follows what some other arches do (x86, arm64, s390).

But unlike other arches powerpc doesn't always enable syscall wrappers,
so the syscall entry points can change name depending on CONFIG options.

For those reasons drop the "__powerpc_" prefix, reverting to the
existing naming.

Doing so reveals two prototypes in signal.h that have the incorrect type
when syscall wrappers are enabled. There are already prototypes for both
functions in syscalls.h, so drop the ones from signal.h.

Fixes: 7e92e01b7245 ("powerpc: Provide syscall wrapper")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221006135940.1223988-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au


# 5499802b 15-Nov-2021 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc/signal32: Fix sigset_t copy

The conversion from __copy_from_user() to __get_user() by
commit d3ccc9781560 ("powerpc/signal: Use __get_user() to copy
sigset_t") introduced a regression in __get_user_sigset() for
powerpc/32. The bug was subsequently moved into
unsafe_get_user_sigset().

The bug is due to the copied 64 bit value being truncated to
32 bits while being assigned to dst->sig[0]

The regression was reported by users of the Xorg packages distributed in
Debian/powerpc --

"The symptoms are that the fb screen goes blank, with the backlight
remaining on and no errors logged in /var/log; wdm (or startx) run
with no effect (I tried logging in in the blind, with no effect).
And they are hard to kill, requiring 'kill -KILL ...'"

Fix the regression by copying each word of the sigset, not only the
first one.

__get_user_sigset() was tentatively optimised to copy 64 bits at once
in order to minimise KUAP unlock/lock impact, but the unsafe variant
doesn't suffer that, so it can just copy words.

Fixes: 887f3ceb51cd ("powerpc/signal32: Convert do_setcontext[_tm]() to user access block")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13+
Reported-by: Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Stan Johnson <userm57@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/99ef38d61c0eb3f79c68942deb0c35995a93a777.1636966353.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu


# bc581dba 08-May-2021 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc/signal: Fix possible build failure with unsafe_copy_fpr_{to/from}_user

When neither CONFIG_VSX nor CONFIG_PPC_FPU_REGS are selected,
unsafe_copy_fpr_to_user() and unsafe_copy_fpr_from_user() are
doing nothing.

Then, unless the 'label' operand is used elsewhere, GCC complains
about it being defined but not used.

To fix that, add an impossible 'goto label'.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cadc0a328bc8e6c5bf133193e7547d5c10ae7895.1620465920.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu


# 887f3ceb 19-Mar-2021 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc/signal32: Convert do_setcontext[_tm]() to user access block

Add unsafe_get_user_sigset() and transform PPC32 get_sigset_t()
into an unsafe version unsafe_get_sigset_t().

Then convert do_setcontext() and do_setcontext_tm() to use
user_read_access_begin/end.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9273ba664db769b8d9c7540ae91395e346e4945e.1616151715.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu


# 7c11f889 19-Mar-2021 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc/signal: Add unsafe_copy_ck{fpr/vsx}_from_user

Add unsafe_copy_ckfpr_from_user() and unsafe_copy_ckvsx_from_user()

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1040687aa27553d19f749f7fb48f0c07af98ee2d.1616151715.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu


# d3ccc978 26-Feb-2021 Christopher M. Riedl <cmr@codefail.de>

powerpc/signal: Use __get_user() to copy sigset_t

Usually sigset_t is exactly 8B which is a "trivial" size and does not
warrant using __copy_from_user(). Use __get_user() directly in
anticipation of future work to remove the trivial size optimizations
from __copy_from_user().

The ppc32 implementation of get_sigset_t() previously called
copy_from_user() which, unlike __copy_from_user(), calls access_ok().
Replacing this w/ __get_user() (no access_ok()) is fine here since both
callsites in signal_32.c are preceded by an earlier access_ok().

Signed-off-by: Christopher M. Riedl <cmr@codefail.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210227011259.11992-11-cmr@codefail.de


# 609355df 26-Feb-2021 Christopher M. Riedl <cmr@codefail.de>

powerpc/signal: Add unsafe_copy_{vsx, fpr}_from_user()

Reuse the "safe" implementation from signal.c but call unsafe_get_user()
directly in a loop to avoid the intermediate copy into a local buffer.

Signed-off-by: Christopher M. Riedl <cmr@codefail.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210227011259.11992-3-cmr@codefail.de


# b3484a1d 18-Aug-2020 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc/signal: Create 'unsafe' versions of copy_[ck][fpr/vsx]_to_user()

For the non VSX version, that's trivial. Just use unsafe_copy_to_user()
instead of __copy_to_user().

For the VSX version, remove the intermediate step through a buffer and
use unsafe_put_user() directly. This generates a far smaller code which
is acceptable to inline, see below:

Standard VSX version:

0000000000000000 <.copy_fpr_to_user>:
0: 7c 08 02 a6 mflr r0
4: fb e1 ff f8 std r31,-8(r1)
8: 39 00 00 20 li r8,32
c: 39 24 0b 80 addi r9,r4,2944
10: 7d 09 03 a6 mtctr r8
14: f8 01 00 10 std r0,16(r1)
18: f8 21 fe 71 stdu r1,-400(r1)
1c: 39 41 00 68 addi r10,r1,104
20: e9 09 00 00 ld r8,0(r9)
24: 39 4a 00 08 addi r10,r10,8
28: 39 29 00 10 addi r9,r9,16
2c: f9 0a 00 00 std r8,0(r10)
30: 42 00 ff f0 bdnz 20 <.copy_fpr_to_user+0x20>
34: e9 24 0d 80 ld r9,3456(r4)
38: 3d 42 00 00 addis r10,r2,0
3a: R_PPC64_TOC16_HA .toc
3c: eb ea 00 00 ld r31,0(r10)
3e: R_PPC64_TOC16_LO_DS .toc
40: f9 21 01 70 std r9,368(r1)
44: e9 3f 00 00 ld r9,0(r31)
48: 81 29 00 20 lwz r9,32(r9)
4c: 2f 89 00 00 cmpwi cr7,r9,0
50: 40 9c 00 18 bge cr7,68 <.copy_fpr_to_user+0x68>
54: 4c 00 01 2c isync
58: 3d 20 40 00 lis r9,16384
5c: 79 29 07 c6 rldicr r9,r9,32,31
60: 7d 3d 03 a6 mtspr 29,r9
64: 4c 00 01 2c isync
68: 38 a0 01 08 li r5,264
6c: 38 81 00 70 addi r4,r1,112
70: 48 00 00 01 bl 70 <.copy_fpr_to_user+0x70>
70: R_PPC64_REL24 .__copy_tofrom_user
74: 60 00 00 00 nop
78: e9 3f 00 00 ld r9,0(r31)
7c: 81 29 00 20 lwz r9,32(r9)
80: 2f 89 00 00 cmpwi cr7,r9,0
84: 40 9c 00 18 bge cr7,9c <.copy_fpr_to_user+0x9c>
88: 4c 00 01 2c isync
8c: 39 20 ff ff li r9,-1
90: 79 29 00 44 rldicr r9,r9,0,1
94: 7d 3d 03 a6 mtspr 29,r9
98: 4c 00 01 2c isync
9c: 38 21 01 90 addi r1,r1,400
a0: e8 01 00 10 ld r0,16(r1)
a4: eb e1 ff f8 ld r31,-8(r1)
a8: 7c 08 03 a6 mtlr r0
ac: 4e 80 00 20 blr

'unsafe' simulated VSX version (The ... are only nops) using
unsafe_copy_fpr_to_user() macro:

unsigned long copy_fpr_to_user(void __user *to,
struct task_struct *task)
{
unsafe_copy_fpr_to_user(to, task, failed);
return 0;
failed:
return 1;
}

0000000000000000 <.copy_fpr_to_user>:
0: 39 00 00 20 li r8,32
4: 39 44 0b 80 addi r10,r4,2944
8: 7d 09 03 a6 mtctr r8
c: 7c 69 1b 78 mr r9,r3
...
20: e9 0a 00 00 ld r8,0(r10)
24: f9 09 00 00 std r8,0(r9)
28: 39 4a 00 10 addi r10,r10,16
2c: 39 29 00 08 addi r9,r9,8
30: 42 00 ff f0 bdnz 20 <.copy_fpr_to_user+0x20>
34: e9 24 0d 80 ld r9,3456(r4)
38: f9 23 01 00 std r9,256(r3)
3c: 38 60 00 00 li r3,0
40: 4e 80 00 20 blr
...
50: 38 60 00 01 li r3,1
54: 4e 80 00 20 blr

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/29f6c4b8e7a5bbc61e6a8801b78bbf493f9f819e.1597770847.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu


# 7fe8f773 18-Aug-2020 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc/signal: Refactor bad frame logging

The logging of bad frame appears half a dozen of times
and is pretty similar.

Create signal_fault() fonction to perform that logging.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fa094445c119fc00315e1c13783b493346306c6a.1597770847.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu


# c180cb30 18-Aug-2020 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc/signal: Call get_tm_stackpointer() from get_sigframe()

Instead of calling get_tm_stackpointer() from the caller, call it
directly from get_sigframe(). This avoids a double call and
allows get_tm_stackpointer() to become static and be inlined
into get_sigframe() by GCC.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/abfdc105b8b28c4eb3ab9a26297d17f302b600ea.1597770847.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu


# b6254ced 18-Aug-2020 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc/signal: Don't manage floating point regs when no FPU

There is no point in copying floating point regs when there
is no FPU and MATH_EMULATION is not selected.

Create a new CONFIG_PPC_FPU_REGS bool that is selected by
CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION and CONFIG_PPC_FPU, and use it to
opt out everything related to fp_state in thread_struct.

The asm const used only by fpu.S are opted out with CONFIG_PPC_FPU
as fpu.S build is conditionnal to CONFIG_PPC_FPU.

The following app spends approx 8.1 seconds system time on an 8xx
without the patch, and 7.0 seconds with the patch (13.5% reduction).

On an 832x, it spends approx 2.6 seconds system time without
the patch and 2.1 seconds with the patch (19% reduction).

void sigusr1(int sig) { }

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int i = 100000;

signal(SIGUSR1, sigusr1);
for (;i--;)
raise(SIGUSR1);
exit(0);
}

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7569070083e6cd5b279bb5023da601aba3c06f3c.1597770847.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu


# 95593e93 18-Aug-2020 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc/signal: Move inline functions in signal.h

To really be inlined, the functions need to be defined in the
same C file as the caller, or in an included header.

Move functions defined inline from signal .c in signal.h

Fixes: 3dd4eb83a9c0 ("powerpc: move common register copy functions from signal_32.c to signal.c")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/35b1bd44a1a66f5bcf9b457a1c480ac8d5ef50b2.1597770847.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu


# 68b34588 25-Feb-2020 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

powerpc/64/sycall: Implement syscall entry/exit logic in C

System call entry and particularly exit code is beyond the limit of
what is reasonable to implement in asm.

This conversion moves all conditional branches out of the asm code,
except for the case that all GPRs should be restored at exit.

Null syscall test is about 5% faster after this patch, because the
exit work is handled under local_irq_disable, and the hard mask and
pending interrupt replay is handled after that, which avoids games
with MSR.

mpe: Includes subsequent fixes from Nick:

This fixes 4 issues caught by TM selftests. First was a tm-syscall bug
that hit due to tabort_syscall being called after interrupts were
reconciled (in a subsequent patch), which led to interrupts being
enabled before tabort_syscall was called. Rather than going through an
un-reconciling interrupts for the return, I just go back to putting
the test early in asm, the C-ification of that wasn't a big win
anyway.

Second is the syscall return _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK check would go into
an infinite loop if _TIF_RESTORE_TM became set. The asm code uses
_TIF_USER_WORK_MASK to brach to slowpath which includes
restore_tm_state.

Third is system call return was not calling restore_tm_state, I missed
this completely (alhtough it's in the return from interrupt C
conversion because when the asm syscall code encountered problems it
would branch to the interrupt return code.

Fourth is MSR_VEC missing from restore_math, which was caught by
tm-unavailable selftest taking an unexpected facility unavailable
interrupt when testing VSX unavailble exception with MSR.FP=1
MSR.VEC=1. Fourth case also has a fixup in a subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200225173541.1549955-26-npiggin@gmail.com


# f3675644 02-May-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

powerpc/syscalls: signal_{32, 64} - switch to SYSCALL_DEFINE

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
[mpe: Fix sys_debug_setcontext() prototype to return long]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# b53875c4 25-Feb-2018 Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>

powerpc: Add missing prototypes for sys_sigreturn() & sys_rt_sigreturn()

Two functions did not have a prototype defined in signal.h header. Fix
the following two warnings (treated as errors in W=1):

arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c:1135:6: error: no previous prototype for ‘sys_rt_sigreturn’
arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c:1422:6: error: no previous prototype for ‘sys_sigreturn’

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 000ec280 23-Sep-2016 Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>

powerpc: tm: Rename transct_(*) to ck(\1)_state

Make the structures being used for checkpointed state named
consistently with the pt_regs/ckpt_regs.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# d1199431 23-Sep-2016 Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>

powerpc: signals: Stop using current in signal code

Much of the signal code takes a pt_regs on which it operates. Over
time the signal code has needed to know more about the thread than
what pt_regs can supply, this information is obtained as needed by
using 'current'.

This approach is not strictly incorrect however it does mean that
there is now a hard requirement that the pt_regs being passed around
does belong to current, this is never checked. A safer approach is for
the majority of the signal functions to take a task_struct from which
they can obtain pt_regs and any other information they need. The
caveat that the task_struct they are passed must be current doesn't go
away but can more easily be checked for.

Functions called from outside powerpc signal code are passed a pt_regs
and they can confirm that the pt_regs is that of current and pass
current to other functions, furthurmore, powerpc signal functions can
check that the task_struct they are passed is the same as current
avoiding possible corruption of current (or the task they are passed)
if this assertion ever fails.

CC: paulus@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 446957ba 24-Feb-2016 Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>

powerpc: Fix misspellings in comments.

Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 129b69df 02-Mar-2014 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

powerpc: Use get_signal() signal_setup_done()

Use the more generic functions get_signal() signal_setup_done()
for signal delivery.
This inverts also the return codes of setup_*frame() to follow the
kernel convention.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 2b3f8e87 26-May-2013 Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>

powerpc/tm: Fix userspace stack corruption on signal delivery for active transactions

When in an active transaction that takes a signal, we need to be careful with
the stack. It's possible that the stack has moved back up after the tbegin.
The obvious case here is when the tbegin is called inside a function that
returns before a tend. In this case, the stack is part of the checkpointed
transactional memory state. If we write over this non transactionally or in
suspend, we are in trouble because if we get a tm abort, the program counter
and stack pointer will be back at the tbegin but our in memory stack won't be
valid anymore.

To avoid this, when taking a signal in an active transaction, we need to use
the stack pointer from the checkpointed state, rather than the speculated
state. This ensures that the signal context (written tm suspended) will be
written below the stack required for the rollback. The transaction is aborted
becuase of the treclaim, so any memory written between the tbegin and the
signal will be rolled back anyway.

For signals taken in non-TM or suspended mode, we use the
normal/non-checkpointed stack pointer.

Tested with 64 and 32 bit signals

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.9
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>


# 2b0a576d 13-Feb-2013 Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>

powerpc: Add new transactional memory state to the signal context

This adds the new transactional memory archtected state to the signal context
in both 32 and 64 bit.

Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>


# 17440f17 27-Apr-2012 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

powerpc: get rid of restore_sigmask()

... it's just a call of set_current_blocked() now

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 77097ae5 27-Apr-2012 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

most of set_current_blocked() callers want SIGKILL/SIGSTOP removed from set

Only 3 out of 63 do not. Renamed the current variant to __set_current_blocked(),
added set_current_blocked() that will exclude unblockable signals, switched
open-coded instances to it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 18b246fa 21-Feb-2012 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

powerpc: Fix various issues with return to userspace

We have a few problems when returning to userspace. This is a
quick set of fixes for 3.3, I'll look into a more comprehensive
rework for 3.4. This fixes:

- We kept interrupts soft-disabled when schedule'ing or calling
do_signal when returning to userspace as a result of a hardware
interrupt.

- Rename do_signal to do_notify_resume like all other archs (and
do_signal_pending back to do_signal, which it was before Roland
changed it).

- Add the missing call to key_replace_session_keyring() to
do_notify_resume().

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
---


# efbda860 25-Mar-2009 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

powerpc: Sanitize stack pointer in signal handling code

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 <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>


# a465f9b6 21-Feb-2009 Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

powerpc: Move is_32bit_task

Move is_32bit_task into asm/thread_info.h, that allows us to test for
32/64bit tasks without an ugly CONFIG_PPC64 ifdef.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>


# 2e074004 17-Aug-2008 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

x86, um: get rid of uml signal.h

the only theoretical reason for it these days is ppc; aside of uml/ppc
being dead, do_signal() would be happier in arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.h
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>


# 6a274c08 01-Jul-2008 Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>

powerpc: Clean up copy_to/from_user for vsx and fpr

This merges and cleans up some of the ugly copy/to from user code
which is required for the new fpr and vsx layout in the thread_struct.

Also fixes some hard coded buffer sizes and removes a redundant
fpr_flush_to_thread.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>


# 2f97cd39 03-Jun-2007 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

[POWERPC] Less ifdef's in signal.c/signal.h

This patch moves things around a little bit in the new common signal.c
and signal.h files to remove the last #ifdef in the middle of the
common do_signal().

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>


# a3f61dc0 04-Jun-2007 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

[POWERPC] Merge creation of signal frame

The code for creating signal frames was still duplicated and split
in strange ways between 32 and 64 bits, including the SA_ONSTACK
handling being in do_signal on 32 bits but inside handle_rt_signal
on 64 bits etc...

This moves the 64 bits get_sigframe() to the generic signal.c,
cleans it a bit, moves the access_ok() call done by all callers to
it as well, and adapts/cleanups the 3 different signal handling cases
to use that common function.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>


# f478f543 03-Jun-2007 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

[POWERPC] Consolidate do_signal

do_signal has exactly the same behaviour on 32bit and 64bit and 32bit
compat on 64bit for handling 32bit signals. Consolidate all these
into one common function in signal.c. The only odd left over is
the try_to_free in the 32bit version that no other architecture has
in mainline (only in i386 for some odd SuSE release). We should
probably get rid of it in a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>


# db277e9a 03-Jun-2007 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

[POWERPC] Consolidate restore_sigmask

restore_sigmask is exactly the same on 32 and 64bit, so move it to
common code. Also move _BLOCKABLE to signal.h to avoid defining it
multiple times.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>


# 22e38f29 03-Jun-2007 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

[POWERPC] Make syscall restart code more common

This patch moves the code in signal_32.c and signal_64.c for handling
syscall restart into a common signal.c file and converge around a single
implementation that is based on the 32 bits one, using trap, ccr
and r3 rather than the special "result" field for deciding what to do.

The "result" field is now pretty much deprecated. We still set it for
the sake of whatever might rely on it in userland but we no longer use
it's content.

This, along with a previous patch that enables ptracers to write to
"trap" and "orig_r3" should allow gdb to properly handle syscall
restarting.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>