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* [PATCH] powerpc: Separate usage of KERNELBASE and PAGE_OFFSETMichael Ellerman2006-01-091-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch separates usage of KERNELBASE and PAGE_OFFSET. I haven't looked at any of the PPC32 code, if we ever want to support Kdump on PPC we'll have to do another audit, ditto for iSeries. This patch makes PAGE_OFFSET the constant, it'll always be 0xC * 1 gazillion for 64-bit. To get a physical address from a virtual one you subtract PAGE_OFFSET, _not_ KERNELBASE. KERNELBASE is the virtual address of the start of the kernel, it's often the same as PAGE_OFFSET, but _might not be_. If you want to know something's offset from the start of the kernel you should subtract KERNELBASE. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] ppc64 syscall_exit_work: call the save_nvgprs function, not its ↵David Woodhouse2006-01-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | descriptor. On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 18:52 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > This cleanup patch speeds up the null syscall path on ppc64 by about 3%, > and brings the ppc32 and ppc64 code slightly closer together. Needs this unless your binutils, like mine, are clever enough to notice my stupidity and fix it up automatically... Spotted by Paul. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] syscall entry/exit revampDavid Woodhouse2006-01-091-99/+115
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* powerpc: correct register usage in 64-bit syscall exit pathPaul Mackerras2005-12-201-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Since we don't restore the volatile registers in the syscall exit path, we need to make sure we don't leak any potentially interesting values from the kernel to userspace. This was already the case for all except r11. This makes it use r11 for an MSR value, so r11 will have an (uninteresting) MSR value in it on return to userspace. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] audit_sysctl_exit can only be used with CONF_AUDIT_SYSCTLHorms2005-11-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This section of code calls .audit_syscal_exit, but is inside CONFIG_AUDIT, so it will fail to build if CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is not defined. After discussion with David Woodhouse, change the ifdef to CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL Signed-off-by: Horms <horms@verge.net.au> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* powerpc: change sys32_ to compat_sys_Stephen Rothwell2005-10-181-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | This allows us to get rid of one type of entry in systbl.S. In passing we remove the duplicate compat_sys_getdents and compat_sys_utimes for which there are generic versions. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
* powerpc: Introduce entry_{32,64}.S, misc_{32,64}.S, systbl.SPaul Mackerras2005-10-101-0/+842
The system call table has been consolidated into systbl.S. We have separate 32-bit and 64-bit versions of entry.S and misc.S since the code is mostly sufficiently different to be not worth merging. There are some common bits that will be extracted in future. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>