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Adam Buchbinder
48fc7f7e78 Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
"Whether" is misspelled in various comments across the tree; this
fixes them. No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-11-19 14:31:35 +01:00
Al Viro
17440f171e 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>
2012-06-01 12:58:51 -04:00
David Howells
ae3a197e3d Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
2012-03-28 18:30:02 +01:00
Paul Gortmaker
ead53f22dc powerpc: remove non-required uses of include <linux/module.h>
None of the files touched here are modules, and they are not
exporting any symbols either -- so there is no need to be including
the module.h.  Builds of all the files remains successful.

Even kernel/module.c does not need to include it, since it includes
linux/moduleloader.h instead.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:30:44 -04:00
Christian Dietrich
76462232c2 arch/powerpc: use printk_ratelimited instead of printk_ratelimit
Since printk_ratelimit() shouldn't be used anymore (see comment in
include/linux/printk.h), replace it with printk_ratelimited.

Signed-off-by: Christian Dietrich <christian.dietrich@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-06-29 15:31:01 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
9f0b079320 powerpc: Use MSR_64BIT in places
Use the new MSR_64BIT in a few places. Some of these are already ifdef'ed
for BOOKE vs BOOKS, but it's still clearer, MSR_SF does not immediately
parse as "MSR bit for 64bit".

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-04-27 14:18:44 +10:00
Al Viro
9a81c16b52 powerpc: fix double syscall restarts
Make sigreturn zero regs->trap, make do_signal() do the same on all
paths.  As it is, signal interrupting e.g. read() from fd 512 (==
ERESTARTSYS) with another signal getting unblocked when the first
handler finishes will lead to restart one insn earlier than it ought
to.  Same for multiple signals with in-kernel handlers interrupting
that sucker at the same time.  Same for multiple signals of any kind
interrupting that sucker on 64bit...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-22 09:33:50 -07:00
Josh Boyer
efbda86098 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>
2009-03-27 16:58:24 +11:00
Michael Neuling
16c29d180b powerpc: Fix swapcontext system for VSX + old ucontext size
Since VSX support was added, we now have two sizes of ucontext_t;
the older, smaller size without the extra VSX state, and the new
larger size with the extra VSX state.  A program using the
sys_swapcontext system call and supplying smaller ucontext_t
structures will currently get an EINVAL error if the task has
used VSX (e.g. because of calling library code that uses VSX) and
the old_ctx argument is non-NULL (i.e. the program is asking for
its current context to be saved).  Thus the program will start
getting EINVAL errors on calls that previously worked.

This commit changes this behaviour so that we don't send an EINVAL in
this case.  It will now return the smaller context but the VSX MSR bit
will always be cleared to indicate that the ucontext_t doesn't include
the extra VSX state, even if the task has executed VSX instructions.

Both 32 and 64 bit cases are updated.

[paulus@samba.org - also fix some access_ok() and get_user() calls]

Thanks to Ben Herrenschmidt for noticing this problem.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-10-31 16:12:00 +11:00
Michael Neuling
8873d93b4b powerpc: Remove empty #else from signal_64.c
Remove empty/bogus #else from signal_64.c

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-10-22 11:00:26 +11:00
Michael Neuling
7c29217096 powerpc: fix giveup_vsx to save registers correctly
giveup_vsx didn't save the FPU and VMX regsiters.  Change it to be
like giveup_fpr/altivec which save these registers.

Also update call sites where FPU and VMX are already saved to use the
original giveup_vsx (renamed to __giveup_vsx).

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-15 12:29:23 +10:00
Michael Neuling
c1cb299ead powerpc: fix swapcontext backwards compat. with VSX ucontext changes
When the ucontext changed to add the VSX context, this broke backwards
compatibly on swapcontext.  swapcontext only compares the ucontext size
passed in from the user to the new kernel ucontext size.

This adds a check against the old ucontext size (with VMX but without
VSX).  It also adds some sanity check for ucontexts without VSX, but
where VSX is used according the MSR.  Fixes for both 32 and 64bit
processes on 64bit kernels

Kudos to Paulus for noticing.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-09 16:30:47 +10:00
Michael Neuling
6a274c08f2 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>
2008-07-03 16:58:11 +10:00
Michael Neuling
436db693c4 powerpc: Fix compile error for CONFIG_VSX
Fix compile error when CONFIG_VSX is enabled.

arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c: In function 'restore_sigcontext':
arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c:241: error: 'i' undeclared (first use in this function)

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01 14:47:07 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
fcbc5a976b powerpc: Explicitly copy elements of pt_regs
Gcc 4.3 produced this warning:

arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c: In function 'restore_sigcontext':
arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c:161: warning: array subscript is above array bounds

This is caused by us copying to aliases of elements of the pt_regs
structure.  Make those explicit.

This adds one extra __get_user and unrolls a loop.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01 11:28:59 +10:00
Michael Neuling
ce48b21007 powerpc: Add VSX context save/restore, ptrace and signal support
This patch extends the floating point save and restore code to use the
VSX load/stores when VSX is available.  This will make FP context
save/restore marginally slower on FP only code, when VSX is available,
as it has to load/store 128bits rather than just 64bits.

Mixing FP, VMX and VSX code will get constant architected state.

The signals interface is extended to enable access to VSR 0-31
doubleword 1 after discussions with tool chain maintainers.  Backward
compatibility is maintained.

The ptrace interface is also extended to allow access to VSR 0-31 full
registers.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01 11:28:50 +10:00
Michael Neuling
c6e6771b87 powerpc: Introduce VSX thread_struct and CONFIG_VSX
The layout of the new VSR registers and how they overlap on top of the
legacy FPR and VR registers is:

                   VSR doubleword 0               VSR doubleword 1
          ----------------------------------------------------------------
  VSR[0]  |             FPR[0]            |                              |
          ----------------------------------------------------------------
  VSR[1]  |             FPR[1]            |                              |
          ----------------------------------------------------------------
          |              ...              |                              |
          |              ...              |                              |
          ----------------------------------------------------------------
  VSR[30] |             FPR[30]           |                              |
          ----------------------------------------------------------------
  VSR[31] |             FPR[31]           |                              |
          ----------------------------------------------------------------
  VSR[32] |                             VR[0]                            |
          ----------------------------------------------------------------
  VSR[33] |                             VR[1]                            |
          ----------------------------------------------------------------
          |                              ...                             |
          |                              ...                             |
          ----------------------------------------------------------------
  VSR[62] |                             VR[30]                           |
          ----------------------------------------------------------------
  VSR[63] |                             VR[31]                           |
          ----------------------------------------------------------------

VSX has 64 128bit registers.  The first 32 regs overlap with the FP
registers and hence extend them with and additional 64 bits.  The
second 32 regs overlap with the VMX registers.

This commit introduces the thread_struct changes required to reflect
this register layout.  Ptrace and signals code is updated so that the
floating point registers are correctly accessed from the thread_struct
when CONFIG_VSX is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01 11:28:46 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
0be234a465 [POWERPC] Fix incorrect enabling of VMX when building signal or user context
When building a signal or a ucontext, we can incorrectly set the MSR_VEC
bit of the kernel pt_regs->msr before returning to userspace if the task
-ever- used VMX.

This can lead to funny result if that stack used it in the past, then
"lost" it (ie. it wasn't enabled after a context switch for example)
and then called get_context.  It can end up with VMX enabled and the
registers containing values from some other task.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-06-09 11:32:36 +10:00
Olof Johansson
d0c3d534a4 [POWERPC] Implement logging of unhandled signals
Implement show_unhandled_signals sysctl + support to print when a process
is killed due to unhandled signals just as i386 and x86_64 does.

Default to having it off, unlike x86 that defaults on.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-10-12 14:05:18 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
bf22f6fe2d Merge branch 'for-2.6.23' into merge 2007-07-11 13:28:26 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
ae62fbb5f1 [POWERPC] Fix subtle FP state corruption bug in signal return on SMP
This fixes a bug which can cause corruption of the floating-point state
on return from a signal handler.  If we have a signal handler that has
used the floating-point registers, and it happens to context-switch to
another task while copying the interrupted floating-point state from the
user stack into the thread struct (e.g. because of a page fault, or
because it gets preempted), the context switch code will think that the
FP registers contain valid FP state that needs to be copied into the
thread_struct, and will thus overwrite the values that the signal return
code has put into the thread_struct.

This can occur because we clear the MSR bits that indicate the presence
of valid FP state after copying the state into the thread_struct.  To fix
this we just move the clearing of the MSR bits to before the copy.  A
similar potential problem also occurs with the Altivec state, and this
fixes that in the same way.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-06-26 14:49:11 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
a3f61dc0a5 [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>
2007-06-14 22:29:58 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
f478f5430c [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>
2007-06-14 22:29:58 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
db277e9a67 [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>
2007-06-14 22:29:58 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
69d15f6b35 [POWERPC] Consolidate sys_sigaltstack
sys_sigaltstack is the same on 32bit and 64 and we can consolidate it
to signal.c.  The only difference is that the 32bit code uses ints
for the unused register paramaters and 64bit unsigned long.  I've
changed it to unsigned long because it's the same width on 32bit.

(I also wonder who came up with this awkward calling convention.. :))

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>
2007-06-14 22:29:57 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
22e38f2932 [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>
2007-06-14 22:29:57 +10:00
Randy Dunlap
e63340ae6b header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
7a0c58d051 Merge branch 'merge' 2006-06-12 17:53:34 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
fab5db97e4 [PATCH] powerpc: Implement support for setting little-endian mode via prctl
This adds the PowerPC part of the code to allow processes to change
their endian mode via prctl.

This also extends the alignment exception handler to be able to fix up
alignment exceptions that occur in little-endian mode, both for
"PowerPC" little-endian and true little-endian.

We always enter signal handlers in big-endian mode -- the support for
little-endian mode does not amount to the creation of a little-endian
user/kernel ABI.  If the signal handler returns, the endian mode is
restored to what it was when the signal was delivered.

We have two new kernel CPU feature bits, one for PPC little-endian and
one for true little-endian.  Most of the classic 32-bit processors
support PPC little-endian, and this is reflected in the CPU feature
table.  There are two corresponding feature bits reported to userland
in the AT_HWCAP aux vector entry.

This is based on an earlier patch by Anton Blanchard.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:24:15 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
a5bba930d8 [PATCH] powerpc vdso updates
This patch cleans up some locking & error handling in the ppc vdso and
moves the vdso base pointer from the thread struct to the mm context
where it more logically belongs. It brings the powerpc implementation
closer to Ingo's new x86 one and also adds an arch_vma_name() function
allowing to print [vsdo] in /proc/<pid>/maps if Ingo's x86 vdso patch is
also applied.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 21:20:57 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
7c85d1f9d3 powerpc: Fix machine check problem on 32-bit kernels
This fixes a bug found by Dave Jones that means that it is possible
for userspace to provoke a machine check on 32-bit kernels.  This
also fixes a couple of other places where I found similar problems
by inspection.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 13:02:59 +10:00
Laurent MEYER
11089f08d9 [PATCH] powerpc: fix incorrect SA_ONSTACK behaviour for 64-bit processes
*) When setting a sighandler using sigaction() call, if the flag
SA_ONSTACK is set and no alternate stack is provided via sigaltstack(),
the kernel still try to install the alternate stack. This behavior is
the opposite of the one which is documented in Single Unix
Specifications V3.

*) Also when setting an alternate stack using sigaltstack() with the
flag SS_DISABLE, the kernel try to install the alternate stack on
signal delivery.

These two use cases makes the process crash at signal delivery.

This fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Meyer <meyerlau@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-28 16:45:24 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann
a7f31841a4 [PATCH] powerpc: declare arch syscalls in <asm/syscalls.h>
powerpc currently declares some of its own system calls
in <asm/unistd.h>, but not all of them. That place also
contains remainders of the now almost unused kernel syscall
hack.

 - Add a new <asm/syscalls.h> with clean declarations
 - Include that file from every source that implements one
   of these
 - Get rid of old declarations in <asm/unistd.h>

This patch is required as a base for implementing system
calls from an SPU, but also makes sense as a general
cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-27 14:48:22 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
5164501794 Merge ../linux-2.6 2006-03-09 14:32:05 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
1bd79336a4 powerpc: Fix various syscall/signal/swapcontext bugs
A careful reading of the recent changes to the system call entry/exit
paths revealed several problems, plus some things that could be
simplified and improved:

* 32-bit wasn't testing the _TIF_NOERROR bit in the syscall fast exit
  path, so it was only doing anything with it once it saw some other
  bit being set.  In other words, the noerror behaviour would apply to
  the next system call where we had to reschedule or deliver a signal,
  which is not necessarily the current system call.

* 32-bit wasn't doing the call to ptrace_notify in the syscall exit
  path when the _TIF_SINGLESTEP bit was set.

* _TIF_RESTOREALL was in both _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK and
  _TIF_PERSYSCALL_MASK, which is odd since _TIF_RESTOREALL is only set
  by system calls.  I took it out of _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK.

* On 64-bit, _TIF_RESTOREALL wasn't causing the non-volatile registers
  to be restored (unless perhaps a signal was delivered or the syscall
  was traced or single-stepped).  Thus the non-volatile registers
  weren't restored on exit from a signal handler.  We probably got
  away with it mostly because signal handlers written in C wouldn't
  alter the non-volatile registers.

* On 32-bit I simplified the code and made it more like 64-bit by
  making the syscall exit path jump to ret_from_except to handle
  preemption and signal delivery.

* 32-bit was calling do_signal unnecessarily when _TIF_RESTOREALL was
  set - but I think because of that 32-bit was actually restoring the
  non-volatile registers on exit from a signal handler.

* I changed the order of enabling interrupts and saving the
  non-volatile registers before calling do_syscall_trace_leave; now we
  enable interrupts first.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-08 13:24:22 +11:00
Jon Mason
2ef9481e66 [PATCH] powerpc: trivial: modify comments to refer to new location of files
This patch removes all self references and fixes references to files
in the now defunct arch/ppc64 tree.  I think this accomplises
everything wanted, though there might be a few references I missed.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-10 16:53:51 +11:00
Al Viro
29e646df78 [PATCH] powerpc signal __user annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-08 01:03:46 -05:00
David Woodhouse
f27201da5c [PATCH] TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support for arch/powerpc
Implement the TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag in the new arch/powerpc kernel, for
both 32-bit and 64-bit system call paths.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:30 -08:00
David Woodhouse
150256d8aa [PATCH] Generic sys_rt_sigsuspend()
The TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag allows us to have a generic implementation of
sys_rt_sigsuspend() instead of duplicating it for each architecture.  This
provides such an implementation and makes arch/powerpc use it.

It also tidies up the ppc32 sys_sigsuspend() to use TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
Paul Mackerras
5388fb1025 [PATCH] powerpc: Avoid potential FP corruption with preempt and UP
Heikki Lindholm pointed out that there was a potential race with the
lazy CPU state (FP, VR, EVR) stuff if preempt is enabled.  The race
is that in the process of restoring FP state on sigreturn, the task
gets preempted by a user task that wants to use the FPU.  It will take
an FP unavailable exception, which will write the current FPU state
to the thread_struct, overwriting the values which sigreturn has
stored.  Note that this can only happen on UP since we don't implement
lazy CPU state on SMP.

The fix is to flush the lazy CPU state before updating the
thread_struct.  To do this we re-use the flush_lazy_cpu_state()
function from process.c.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-12 20:09:29 +11:00
David Woodhouse
401d1f029b [PATCH] syscall entry/exit revamp
This cleanup patch speeds up the null syscall path on ppc64 by about 3%,
and brings the ppc32 and ppc64 code slightly closer together.

The ppc64 code was checking current_thread_info()->flags twice in the
syscall exit path; once for TIF_SYSCALL_T_OR_A before disabling
interrupts, and then again for TIF_SIGPENDING|TIF_NEED_RESCHED etc after
disabling interrupts. Now we do the same as ppc32 -- check the flags
only once in the fast path, and re-enable interrupts if necessary in the
ptrace case.

The patch abolishes the 'syscall_noerror' member of struct thread_info
and replaces it with a TIF_NOERROR bit in the flags, which is handled in
the slow path. This shortens the syscall entry code, which no longer
needs to clear syscall_noerror.

The patch adds a TIF_SAVE_NVGPRS flag which causes the syscall exit slow
path to save the non-volatile GPRs into a signal frame. This removes the
need for the assembly wrappers around sys_sigsuspend(),
sys_rt_sigsuspend(), et al which existed solely to save those registers
in advance. It also means I don't have to add new wrappers for ppoll()
and pselect(), which is what I was supposed to be doing when I got
distracted into this...

Finally, it unifies the ppc64 and ppc32 methods of handling syscall exit
directly into a signal handler (as required by sigsuspend et al) by
introducing a TIF_RESTOREALL flag which causes _all_ the registers to be
reloaded from the pt_regs by taking the ret_from_exception path, instead
of the normal syscall exit path which stomps on the callee-saved GPRs.

It appears to pass an LTP test run on ppc64, and passes basic testing on
ppc32 too. Brief tests of ptrace functionality with strace and gdb also
appear OK. I wouldn't send it to Linus for 2.6.15 just yet though :)

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 14:49:01 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
cc657f5392 powerpc: Fix clearing of the FPSCR when invoking a signal handler
As pointed out by Gary Byers, we were clearing the image of the FPSCR
(floating point status and control register) in the thread_struct before
copying it to the user stack when invoking a signal.  Thus the task
would see its FPSCR getting cleared when it took a signal.

While fixing it I noticed that our swapcontext system call was also
clearing FPSCR.  It shouldn't, so I fixed that too.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-15 11:11:32 +11:00
David Gibson
dcad47fc42 [PATCH] powerpc: Kill ppcdebug
The ancient ppcdebug/PPCDBG mechanism is now only used in two places.
First, in the hash setup code, one of the bits allows the size of the
hash table to be reduced by a factor of 8 - which would be better
accomplished with a command line option for that purpose.  The other
was a bunch of bus walking related messages in the iSeries code, which
would seem to be insufficient reason to keep the mechanism.

This patch removes the last traces of this mechanism.

Built and booted on iSeries and pSeries POWER5 LPAR (ARCH=powerpc).

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-07 12:37:45 +11:00
Stephen Rothwell
62f4f47da6 powerpc: move ppc64/kernel/signal.c to arch/powerpc
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-11-03 16:03:20 +11:00
Renamed from arch/ppc64/kernel/signal.c (Browse further)