History log of /linux-master/arch/um/os-Linux/registers.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 1e41c415 09-Nov-2023 Benjamin Berg <benjamin@sipsolutions.net>

um: Remove unused register save/restore functions

These functions were only used when calling PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL, but this
code has been removed.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 077b7320 13-Sep-2021 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

um: registers: Rename function names to avoid conflicts and build problems

The function names init_registers() and restore_registers() are used
in several net/ethernet/ and gpu/drm/ drivers for other purposes (not
calls to UML functions), so rename them.

This fixes multiple build errors.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 97870c34 25-Aug-2019 Alex Dewar <alex.dewar@gmx.co.uk>

um: Add SPDX headers for files in arch/um/os-Linux

Convert files to use SPDX header. All files are licensed under the GPLv2.

Signed-off-by: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar@gmx.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 37185b33 07-Oct-2012 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

um: get rid of pointless include "..." where include <...> will do

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# fbfe9c84 14-Sep-2011 Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de>

um: Save FPU registers between task switches

Some time ago Jeff prepared 42daba316557 ("uml: stop saving process FP
state") for UML to stop saving the process FP state between task
switches. The assumption was that since with SKAS0 every guest process
runs inside a host process context the host OS will take care of keeping
the proper FP state.

Unfortunately this is not true for multi-threaded applications, where
all guest threads share a single host process context yet all may use
the FPU on their own. Although I haven't verified it I suspect things
to be even worse in SKAS3 mode where all guest processes run inside a
single host process.

The patch reintroduces the saving and restoring of the FP context
between task switches.

[richard@nod.at: Ingo posted this patch in 2009, sadly it was never applied
and got lost. Now in 2011 the problem was reported by Gunnar.]

Signed-off-by: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reported-by: <gunnarlindroth@hotmail.com>
Tested-by: <gunnarlindroth@hotmail.com>
Cc: Stanislav Meduna <stano@meduna.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 3e6f2ac4 04-Feb-2008 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: kill processes instead of panicing kernel

UML was panicing in the case of failures of libc calls which shouldn't happen.
This is an overreaction since a failure from libc doesn't normally mean that
kernel data structures are in an unknown state. Instead, the current process
should just be killed if there is no way to recover.

The case that prompted this was a failure of PTRACE_SETREGS restoring the same
state that was read by PTRACE_GETREGS. It appears that when a process tries
to load a bogus value into a segment register, it segfaults (as expected) and
the value is actually loaded and is seen by PTRACE_GETREGS (not expected).

This case is fixed by forcing a fatal SIGSEGV on the process so that it
immediately dies. fatal_sigsegv was added for this purpose. It was declared
as noreturn, so in order to pursuade gcc that it actually does not return, I
added a call to os_dump_core (and declared it noreturn) so that I get a core
file if somehow the process survives.

All other calls in arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c got the same treatment,
with failures causing the process to die instead of a kernel panic, with some
exceptions.

userspace_tramp exits with status 1 if anything goes wrong there. That will
cause start_userspace to return an error. copy_context_skas0 and
map_stub_pages also now return errors instead of panicing. Callers of thes
functions were changed to check for errors and do something appropriate.
Usually that's to return an error to their callers.
check_skas3_ptrace_faultinfo just exits since that's too early to do anything
else.

save_registers, restore_registers, and init_registers now return status
instead of panicing on failure, with their callers doing something
appropriate.

There were also duplicate declarations of save_registers and restore_registers
in os.h - these are gone.

I noticed and fixed up some whitespace damage.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# d25f2e12 04-Feb-2008 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: use ptrace directly in libc code

Some register accessor cleanups -
userspace() was calling restore_registers and save_registers for no
reason, since userspace() is on the libc side of the house, and these
add no value over calling ptrace directly
init_thread_registers and get_safe_registers were the same thing,
so init_thread_registers is gone

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# a5f6096c 16-Oct-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: floating point signal delivery fixes

Handle floating point state in across signals correctly. UML/i386 needs to
know whether the host does PTRACE_[GS]ETFPXREGS, so an arch_init_registers
hook is added, which on x86_64 does nothing.

UML doesn't save and restore floating point registers on kernel entry and
exit, so they need to be copied between the host process and the sigcontext.
save_fpx_registers and restore_fpx_registers are added for this purpose.
save_fp_registers and restore_fp_registers already exist.

There was a bunch of floating point state conversion code in
arch/um/sys-i386/ptrace.c which isn't needed there, but is needed in signal.c,
so it is moved over.

The i386 code now distinguishes between fp and fpx state and handles them
correctly. The x86_64 code just needs to copy state as-is between the host
process and the stack. There are also some fixes there to pass the correct
address of the floating point state around.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 18baddda 16-Oct-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: rename pt_regs general-purpose register file

Before the removal of tt mode, access to a register on the skas-mode side of a
pt_regs struct looked like pt_regs.regs.skas.regs.regs[FOO]. This was bad
enough, but it became pt_regs.regs.regs.regs[FOO] with the removal of the
union from the middle. To get rid of the run of three "regs", the last field
is renamed to "gp".

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# ba180fd4 16-Oct-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: style fixes pass 3

Formatting changes in the files which have been changed in the course
of folding foo_skas functions into their callers. These include:
copyright updates
header file trimming
style fixes
adding severity to printks

These changes should be entirely non-functional.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 77bf4400 16-Oct-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: remove code made redundant by CHOOSE_MODE removal

This patch makes a number of simplifications enabled by the removal of
CHOOSE_MODE. There were lots of functions that looked like

int foo(args){
foo_skas(args);
}

The bodies of foo_skas are now folded into foo, and their declarations (and
sometimes entire header files) are deleted.

In addition, the union uml_pt_regs, which was a union between the tt and skas
register formats, is now a struct, with the tt-mode arm of the union being
removed.

It turns out that usr2_handler was unused, so it is gone.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 42daba31 16-Oct-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: stop saving process FP state

Throw out a lot of code dealing with saving and restoring floating-point
state. In skas mode, where processes run in a restoring floating-point state
on kernel entry and exit is pointless.

This eliminates most of arch/um/os-Linux/sys-{i386,x86_64}/registers.c. Most
of what remained is now arch-indpendent, and can be moved up to
arch/um/os-Linux/registers.c. Both arches need the jmp_buf accessor
get_thread_reg, and i386 needs {save,restore}_fp_regs because it cheats during
sigreturn by getting the fp state using ptrace rather than copying it out of
the process sigcontext.

After this, it turns out that arch/um/include/skas/mode-skas.h is almost
completely unneeded. The declarations in it are variables which either don't
exist or which don't have global scope. The one exception is
kill_off_processes_skas. If that's removed, this header can be deleted.

This uncovered a bug in user.h, which wasn't correctly making sure that a
size_t definition was available to both userspace and kernelspace files.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>