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The problem is that GCC expects 16-byte alignment of the incoming stack
since early 2004, as Maciej found out [1]:
Having actually dug speculatively I can see that the psABI was changed in
GCC 3.5 with commit e5e10fb4a350 ("re PR target/14539 (128-bit long double
improperly aligned)") back in Mar 2004, when the stack pointer alignment
was increased from 8 bytes to 16 bytes, and arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S has
various suspicious stack pointer adjustments, starting with SP_OFF which
is not a whole multiple of 16.
Also, as Magnus noted, "ALPHA Calling Standard" [2] required the same:
D.3.1 Stack Alignment
This standard requires that stacks be octaword aligned at the time a
new procedure is invoked.
However:
- the "normal" kernel stack is always misaligned by 8 bytes, thanks to
the odd number of 64-bit words in 'struct pt_regs', which is the very
first thing pushed onto the kernel thread stack;
- syscall, fault, interrupt etc. handlers may, or may not, receive aligned
stack depending on numerous factors.
Somehow we got away with it until recently, when we ended up with
a stack corruption in kernel/smp.c:smp_call_function_single() due to
its use of 32-byte aligned local data and the compiler doing clever
things allocating it on the stack.
This adds padding between the PAL-saved and kernel-saved registers
so that 'struct pt_regs' have an even number of 64-bit words.
This makes the stack properly aligned for most of the kernel
code, except two handlers which need special threatment.
Note: struct pt_regs doesn't belong in uapi/asm; this should be fixed,
but let's put this off until later.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/alpine.DEB.2.21.2501130248010.18889@angie.orcam.me.uk/ [1]
Link: https://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/alpha/Alpha_Calling_Standard_Rev_2.0_19900427.pdf [2]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@unseen.parts>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
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On each context switch we save the FPU registers on stack
of old process and restore FPU registers from the stack of new one.
That allows us to avoid doing that each time we enter/leave the
kernel mode; however, that can get suboptimal in some cases.
For one thing, we don't need to bother saving anything
for kernel threads. For another, if between entering and leaving
the kernel a thread gives CPU up more than once, it will do
useless work, saving the same values every time, only to discard
the saved copy as soon as it returns from switch_to().
Alternative solution:
* move the array we save into from switch_stack to thread_info
* have a (thread-synchronous) flag set when we save them
* have another flag set when they should be restored on return to userland.
* do *NOT* save/restore them in do_switch_stack()/undo_switch_stack().
* restore on the exit to user mode if the restore flag had
been set. Clear both flags.
* on context switch, entry to fork/clone/vfork, before entry into do_signal()
and on entry into straced syscall save the registers and set the 'saved' flag
unless it had been already set.
* on context switch set the 'restore' flag as well.
* have copy_thread() set both flags for child, so the registers would be
restored once the child returns to userland.
* use the saved data in setup_sigcontext(); have restore_sigcontext() set both flags
and copy from sigframe to save area.
* teach ptrace to look for FPU registers in thread_info instead of
switch_stack.
* teach isolated accesses to FPU registers (rdfpcr, wrfpcr, etc.)
to check the 'saved' flag (under preempt_disable()) and work with the save area
if it's been set; if 'saved' flag is found upon write access, set 'restore' flag
as well.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
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- struct has as little information as possible. * I does not have*
+ struct has as little information as possible. *It does not have*
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
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license
Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2. Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:
NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.
Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier. The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception. SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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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>
Acked-by: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Acked-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
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