Switch struct sigcontext (defined in <asm/sigcontext*.h>) to using
register names withut e- or r-prefixes for both 32- and 64-bit x86.
This is intended as a preliminary step in unifying this code between
architectures.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Switch struct user_regs_struct (defined in <asm/user.h>, which is no
longer exported to userspace) to using register names without e- or
r-prefixes for both 32 and 64 bit x86. This is intended as a
preliminary step in unifying this code between architectures.
Also, be a bit more strict in truncating 32-bit "extended" segment
register values to 16 bits.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We have a lot of code which differs only by the naming of specific
members of structures that contain registers. In order to enable
additional unifications, this patch drops the e- or r- size prefix
from the register names in struct pt_regs, and drops the x- prefixes
for segment registers on the 32-bit side.
This patch also performs the equivalent renames in some additional
places that might be candidates for unification in the future.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The patch to suppress bitops-related warnings added a pile of ugly
casts. Many of these were related to the management of x86 CPU
capabilities. Clean these up by adding specific set/clear_cpu_cap
macros, and use them consistently.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This unifies the set/clear/test bit functions of asm/bitops.h.
I have not attempted to merge the bit-finding functions, since they
rely on the machine word size and can't be easily restructured to work
generically without a lot of #ifdefs. In particular, the 64-bit code
can assume the presence of conditional move instructions, whereas
32-bit needs to be more careful.
The inline assembly for the bit operations has been changed to remove
explicit sizing hints on the instructions, so the assembler will pick
the appropriate instruction forms depending on the architecture and
the context.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
'for_each_possible_cpu(i)' when there's a _remote possibility_ of
dereferencing a non-allocated per_cpu variable involved.
All files except mm/vmstat.c are x86 arch.
Thanks to pageexec@freemail.hu for pointing this out.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This adds the PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK request on x86, matching the ia64 feature.
The implementation comes from the generic ptrace code and relies on the
low-level machine support provided by arch_has_block_step() et al.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This adjusts the x86 kprobes implementation to cope with per-thread
MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR being set for user mode. I haven't delved deep
enough into the kprobes code to be really sure this covers all the
cases where the user-mode BTF setting needs to be cleared or restored.
It looks about right to me.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This implements user-mode step-until-branch on x86 using the BTF bit
in MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR. It's just like single-step, only less so.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This adds low-level support for a per-thread value of MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR.
The per-thread value is switched in when TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is set.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This adds the (internal) Kconfig macro CONFIG_X86_DEBUGCTLMSR,
to be defined when configuring to support only hardware that
definitely supports MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR with the BTF flag.
The Intel documentation says "P6 family" and later processors all have it.
I think the Kconfig dependencies are right to have it set for those and
unset for others (i.e., when 586 and earlier are supported).
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This adds constant macros for a few of the bits in MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This makes ptrace_request handle PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK along with
PTRACE_CONT et al. The new generic code makes use of the
arch_has_block_step macro and generic entry points on machines
that define them.
[ mingo@elte.hu: bugfix ]
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This defines the new macro arch_has_block_step() in linux/ptrace.h, a
default for when asm/ptrace.h does not define it. This is the analog
of arch_has_single_step() for step-until-branch on machines that have
it. It declares the new user_enable_block_step function, which goes
with the existing user_enable_single_step and user_disable_single_step.
This is not used yet, but paves the way to harmonize on this interface
for the arch-specific calls on all machines.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This cleans up the 32-bit ptrace code to separate the guts of the
debug register access from the implementation of PTRACE_PEEKUSR and
PTRACE_POKEUSR. The new functions ptrace_[gs]et_debugreg match the
new 64-bit entry points for parity, but they don't need to be global.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This cleans up the ia32 compat ptrace code to use shared code from
native ptrace for the implementation guts of debug register access.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This cleans up the 64-bit ptrace code to separate the guts of the
debug register access from the implementation of PTRACE_PEEKUSR and
PTRACE_POKEUSR. The new functions ptrace_[gs]et_debugreg are made
global so that the ia32 code can later be changed to call them too.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This cleans up the 64-bit ptrace code to use task_pt_regs instead of its
own redundant code that does the same thing a different way.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This cleans up the 32-bit ptrace code to use task_pt_regs instead of its
own redundant code that does the same thing a different way.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This removes the handling for PTRACE_CONT et al from the powerpc
ptrace code, so it uses the new generic code via ptrace_request.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This defines the new standard arch_has_single_step macro. It makes the
existing set_single_step and clear_single_step entry points global, and
renames them to the new standard names user_enable_single_step and
user_disable_single_step, respectively.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This removes the handling for PTRACE_CONT et al from the 32-bit
ptrace code, so it uses the new generic code via ptrace_request.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This removes the handling for PTRACE_CONT et al from the 64-bit
ptrace code, so it uses the new generic code via ptrace_request.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This makes ptrace_request handle all the ptrace requests that wake
up the traced task. These do low-level ptrace implementation magic
that is not arch-specific and should be kept out of arch code. The
implementations on each arch usually do the same thing. The new
generic code makes use of the arch_has_single_step macro and generic
entry points to handle PTRACE_SINGLESTEP.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This changes the single-step support to use a new thread_info flag
TIF_FORCED_TF instead of the PT_DTRACE flag in task_struct.ptrace.
This keeps arch implementation uses out of this non-arch field.
This changes the ptrace access to eflags to mask TF and maintain
the TIF_FORCED_TF flag directly if userland sets TF, instead of
relying on ptrace_signal_deliver. The 64-bit and 32-bit kernels
are harmonized on this same behavior. The ptrace_signal_deliver
approach works now, but this change makes the low-level register
access code reliable when called from different contexts than a
ptrace stop, which will be possible in the future.
The 64-bit do_debug exception handler is also changed not to clear TF
from user-mode registers. This matches the 32-bit kernel's behavior.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This removes the single-step code from ptrace_32.c and uses the step.c code
shared with the 64-bit kernel. The two versions of the code were nearly
identical already, so the shared code has only a couple of simple #ifdef's.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This fixes the 64-bit single-step handling code's instruction
decoder to grok the 0xf0 (lock) prefix, which the 32-bit code
already does correctly.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This cleans up the single-step code to use the asm/segment.h macros
for segment selector magic bits, rather than its own constant.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This moves the single-step support code from ptrace_64.c into a new file
step.c, verbatim. This paves the way for consolidating this code between
64-bit and 32-bit versions.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This defines the new standard arch_has_single_step macro. It makes the
existing set_singlestep and clear_singlestep entry points global, and
renames them to the new standard names user_enable_single_step and
user_disable_single_step, respectively.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This gets rid of the local constant macro TRAP_FLAG.
It's redundant with the public constant macro X86_EFLAGS_TF.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This copies into asm-x86/segment_64.h some macros from asm-x86/segment_32.h
for dissecting segment selectors. This lets other code use these macros
uniformly on 32/64-bit rather than duplicating the constants elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This defines the new macro arch_has_single_step() in linux/ptrace.h, a
default for when asm/ptrace.h does not define it. It declares the new
user_enable_single_step and user_disable_single_step functions.
This is not used yet, but paves the way to harmonize on this interface
for the arch-specific calls on all machines.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[ mingo@elte.hu: cleanups and made dependent on CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM.
this caught a handful of bugs already, so lets apply it. If it gets
things wrong we'll disable it. ]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Actually, on 386, cmpxchg and cmpxchg_local fall back on
cmpxchg_386_u8/16/32: it disables interruptions around non atomic
updates to mimic the cmpxchg behavior.
The comment:
/* Poor man's cmpxchg for 386. Unsuitable for SMP */
already present in cmpxchg_386_u32 tells much about how this cmpxchg
implementation should not be used in a SMP context. However, the cmpxchg_local
can perfectly use this fallback, since it only needs to be atomic wrt the local
cpu.
This patch adds a cmpxchg_486_u64 and uses it as a fallback for cmpxchg64
and cmpxchg64_local on 80386 and 80486.
Q:
but why is it called cmpxchg_486 when the other functions are called
A:
Because the standard cmpxchg is missing only on 386, but cmpxchg8b is
missing both on 386 and 486.
Citing Intel's Instruction set reference:
cmpxchg:
This instruction is not supported on Intel processors earlier than the
Intel486 processors.
cmpxchg8b:
This instruction encoding is not supported on Intel processors earlier
than the Pentium processors.
Q:
What's the reason to have cmpxchg64_local on 32 bit architectures?
Without that need all this would just be a few simple defines.
A:
cmpxchg64_local on 32 bits architectures takes unsigned long long
parameters, but cmpxchg_local only takes longs. Since we have cmpxchg8b
to execute a 8 byte cmpxchg atomically on pentium and +, it makes sense
to provide a flavor of cmpxchg and cmpxchg_local using this instruction.
Also, for 32 bits architectures lacking the 64 bits atomic cmpxchg, it
makes sense _not_ to define cmpxchg64 while cmpxchg could still be
available.
Moreover, the fallback for cmpxchg8b on i386 for 386 and 486 is a
However, cmpxchg64_local will be emulated by disabling interrupts on all
architectures where it is not supported atomically.
Therefore, we *could* turn cmpxchg64_local into a cmpxchg_local, but it
would make the 386/486 fallbacks ugly, make its design different from
cmpxchg/cmpxchg64 (which really depends on atomic operations and cannot
be emulated) and require the __cmpxchg_local to be expressed as a macro
rather than an inline function so the parameters would not be fixed to
unsigned long long in every case.
So I think cmpxchg64_local makes sense there, but I am open to
suggestions.
Q:
Are there any callers?
A:
I am actually using it in LTTng in my timestamping code. I use it to
work around CPUs with asynchronous TSCs. I need to update 64 bits
values atomically on this 32 bits architecture.
Changelog:
- Ran though checkpatch.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The timer code always calls the clock_event_device set_net_event and
set_mode methods with interrupts disabled, so no need to use
spin_lock_irqsave / spin_unlock_irqrestore for those.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by:Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Use sparsemem as the only memory model for UP, SMP and NUMA. Measurements
indicate that DISCONTIGMEM has a higher overhead than sparsemem. And
FLATMEMs benefits are minimal. So I think its best to simply standardize
on sparsemem.
Results of page allocator tests (test can be had via git from slab git
tree branch tests)
Measurements in cycle counts. 1000 allocations were performed and then the
average cycle count was calculated.
Order FlatMem Discontig SparseMem
0 639 665 641
1 567 647 593
2 679 774 692
3 763 967 781
4 961 1501 962
5 1356 2344 1392
6 2224 3982 2336
7 4869 7225 5074
8 12500 14048 12732
9 27926 28223 28165
10 58578 58714 58682
(Note that FlatMem is an SMP config and the rest NUMA configurations)
Memory use:
SMP Sparsemem
-------------
Kernel size:
text data bss dec hex filename
3849268 397739 1264856 5511863 541ab7 vmlinux
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8242252 41164 8201088 0 352 11512
-/+ buffers/cache: 29300 8212952
Swap: 9775512 0 9775512
SMP Flatmem
-----------
Kernel size:
text data bss dec hex filename
3844612 397739 1264536 5506887 540747 vmlinux
So 4.5k growth in text size vs. FLATMEM.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8244052 40544 8203508 0 352 11484
-/+ buffers/cache: 28708 8215344
2k growth in overall memory use after boot.
NUMA discontig:
text data bss dec hex filename
3888124 470659 1276504 5635287 55fcd7 vmlinux
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8256256 56908 8199348 0 352 11496
-/+ buffers/cache: 45060 8211196
Swap: 9775512 0 9775512
NUMA sparse:
text data bss dec hex filename
3896428 470659 1276824 5643911 561e87 vmlinux
8k text growth. Given that we fully inline virt_to_page and friends now
that is rather good.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8264720 57240 8207480 0 352 11516
-/+ buffers/cache: 45372 8219348
Swap: 9775512 0 9775512
The total available memory is increased by 8k.
This patch makes sparsemem the default and removes discontig and
flatmem support from x86.
[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: allnoconfig build fix ]
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Remove repeated comment from the linker script for the x86-32 target.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
In init/main.c boot_cpu_init() does that later.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Sanitize user specified e820 memory ranges, using the same logic that is
applied to the values returned by the BIOS. This ensures consistent
handling regardless of the source of the memory mappings.
Allows overriding portions of the memory map without specifying one in
it's entirety (memmap=exactmap).
E.g. marking a range of bad RAM as reserved with memmap=48M$528M
BIOS supplied range
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fe80000 (usable)
becomes
user: 0000000000100000 - 0000000021000000 (usable)
user: 0000000021000000 - 0000000024000000 (reserved)
user: 0000000024000000 - 000000007fe80000 (usable)
Previously this did not work, as the original BIOS range was left
untouched while the user defined range was appended to the end of the
memory map.
[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Berezniker <vmpn@hitechman.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This consolidates the four different places that implemented the same
encoding magic for the GDT-slot 32-bit TLS support. The old tls32.c was
renamed and is now only slightly modified to be the shared implementation.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This renames arch/x86/ia32/tls32.c to arch/x86/kernel/tls.c, which does
nothing now but paves the way to consolidate this code for 32-bit too.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This replaces the desc_empty macro with an inline. It now handles
easily any of the four different types used between 32/64 code to
refer to these 8 bytes. It's identical in both asm-x86/processor_64.h
and asm-x86/processor_32.h, so if these files ever get merged this
function can be in the common code.
This also removes the desc_equal macro because nothing uses it.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The fs_base and gs_base fields are available in user_regs_struct.
But reading these via ptrace (PTRACE_GETREGS or PTRACE_PEEKUSR) does
not give a reliably useful value. The thread_struct fields are 0
when do_arch_prctl decided to use a GDT slot instead of MSR_FS_BASE,
which it does for a value under 1<<32.
This changes ptrace access to fs_base and gs_base to work like
PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL does. That is, it reads the base address that
user-mode memory access using the fs/gs instruction prefixes will
use, regardless of how it's being implemented in the kernel. The
MSR vs GDT is an implementation detail that is pretty much hidden
from userland in the actual using, and there is no reason that
ptrace should give the internal implementation picture rather than
the user-mode semantic picture. In the case of setting the value,
this can implicitly change the fsindex/gsindex value (also
separately in user_regs_struct), which is what happens when the
thread calls arch_prctl itself. In a PTRACE_SETREGS, the fs_base
change will come after the fsindex change due to the order of the
struct, and so a change the debugger made to fs_base will have the
effect intended, another part of the user_regs_struct will now
differ when read back from what the debugger wrote.
This makes PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL obsolete. We could consider declaring
it deprecated and removing it one day, though there is no hurry.
For the foreseeable future, debuggers have to assume an old kernel
that does not report reliable fs_base/gs_base values in user_regs_struct
and stick to PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL anyway.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This changes a couple of places to use the get_desc_base function.
They were duplicating the same calculation with different equivalent code.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This defines the get_desc_base function in asm-x86/desc_64.h to match the
one in desc_32.h. If these two files ever get merged together, this
function could be the same in both.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Some assembler versions automagically optimize .eh_frame contents,
changing their size. The CFI in sysenter.S was not using optimal
formatting, so it would be changed by newer/smarter assemblers.
This ran afoul of the wired constant for padding out the other vDSO
images to match its size. This changes the original hand-coded
source to use the optimal format encoding for its operations. That
leaves nothing more for a fancy assembler to do, so the sizes will
match the wired-in expected size regardless of the assembler version.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This cleans up the arch/x86/vdso/Makefile rules for vdso.so to
share more code with the vdso32-*.so rules and remove old cruft.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
