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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-04 14:47:45 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-04 14:47:45 -0700 |
commit | 9ba27414f2ec2bfb019d9e9170fd2308aebab63a (patch) | |
tree | 1ecbed91b2c68b4c28709fcb36689236eac7d304 /arch/x86/kernel/process.c | |
parent | 0a72761b27fe3b10e3f336bf2f2aa22635504cdd (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull fork cleanups from Christian Brauner:
"This is cleanup series from when we reworked a chunk of the process
creation paths in the kernel and switched to struct
{kernel_}clone_args.
High-level this does two main things:
- Remove the double export of both do_fork() and _do_fork() where
do_fork() used the incosistent legacy clone calling convention.
Now we only export _do_fork() which is based on struct
kernel_clone_args.
- Remove the copy_thread_tls()/copy_thread() split making the
architecture specific HAVE_COYP_THREAD_TLS config option obsolete.
This switches all remaining architectures to select
HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS and thus to the copy_thread_tls() calling
convention. The current split makes the process creation codepaths
more convoluted than they need to be. Each architecture has their own
copy_thread() function unless it selects HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS then it
has a copy_thread_tls() function.
The split is not needed anymore nowadays, all architectures support
CLONE_SETTLS but quite a few of them never bothered to select
HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS and instead simply continued to use copy_thread()
and use the old calling convention. Removing this split cleans up the
process creation codepaths and paves the way for implementing clone3()
on such architectures since it requires the copy_thread_tls() calling
convention.
After having made each architectures support copy_thread_tls() this
series simply renames that function back to copy_thread(). It also
switches all architectures that call do_fork() directly over to
_do_fork() and the struct kernel_clone_args calling convention. This
is a corollary of switching the architectures that did not yet support
it over to copy_thread_tls() since do_fork() is conditional on not
supporting copy_thread_tls() (Mostly because it lacks a separate
argument for tls which is trivial to fix but there's no need for this
function to exist.).
The do_fork() removal is in itself already useful as it allows to to
remove the export of both do_fork() and _do_fork() we currently have
in favor of only _do_fork(). This has already been discussed back when
we added clone3(). The legacy clone() calling convention is - as is
probably well-known - somewhat odd:
#
# ABI hall of shame
#
config CLONE_BACKWARDS
config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
that is aggravated by the fact that some architectures such as sparc
follow the CLONE_BACKWARDSx calling convention but don't really select
the corresponding config option since they call do_fork() directly.
So do_fork() enforces a somewhat arbitrary calling convention in the
first place that doesn't really help the individual architectures that
deviate from it. They can thus simply be switched to _do_fork()
enforcing a single calling convention. (I really hope that any new
architectures will __not__ try to implement their own calling
conventions...)
Most architectures already have made a similar switch (m68k comes to
mind).
Overall this removes more code than it adds even with a good portion
of added comments. It simplifies a chunk of arch specific assembly
either by moving the code into C or by simply rewriting the assembly.
Architectures that have been touched in non-trivial ways have all been
actually boot and stress tested: sparc and ia64 have been tested with
Debian 9 images. They are the two architectures which have been
touched the most. All non-trivial changes to architectures have seen
acks from the relevant maintainers. nios2 with a custom built
buildroot image. h8300 I couldn't get something bootable to test on
but the changes have been fairly automatic and I'm sure we'll hear
people yell if I broke something there.
All other architectures that have been touched in trivial ways have
been compile tested for each single patch of the series via git rebase
-x "make ..." v5.8-rc2. arm{64} and x86{_64} have been boot tested
even though they have just been trivially touched (removal of the
HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS macro from their Kconfig) because well they are
basically "core architectures" and since it is trivial to get your
hands on a useable image"
* tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
arch: rename copy_thread_tls() back to copy_thread()
arch: remove HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
unicore: switch to copy_thread_tls()
sh: switch to copy_thread_tls()
nds32: switch to copy_thread_tls()
microblaze: switch to copy_thread_tls()
hexagon: switch to copy_thread_tls()
c6x: switch to copy_thread_tls()
alpha: switch to copy_thread_tls()
fork: remove do_fork()
h8300: select HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
nios2: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
ia64: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
sparc: unconditionally enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
sparc: share process creation helpers between sparc and sparc64
sparc64: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
fork: fold legacy_clone_args_valid() into _do_fork()
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c index fe67dbd76e51..4298634d3f85 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c @@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ static int set_new_tls(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long tls) return do_set_thread_area_64(p, ARCH_SET_FS, tls); } -int copy_thread_tls(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, - unsigned long arg, struct task_struct *p, unsigned long tls) +int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, unsigned long arg, + struct task_struct *p, unsigned long tls) { struct inactive_task_frame *frame; struct fork_frame *fork_frame; |