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The original Thumb-2 enablement patches updated the stack realignment code in svc_entry to work around the lack of a STMIB instruction in Thumb-2, by subtracting 4 from the frame size, inverting the sense of the misaligment check, and changing to a STMIA instruction and a final stack push of a 4 byte quantity that results in the stack becoming aligned at the end of the sequence. It also pushes and pops R0 to the stack in order to have a temp register that Thumb-2 allows in general purpose ALU instructions, as TST using SP is not permitted. Both are a bit problematic for vmap'ed stacks, as using the stack is only permitted after we decide that we did not overflow the stack, or have already switched to the overflow stack. As for the alignment check: the current approach creates a corner case where, if the initial SUB of SP ends up right at the start of the stack, we will end up subtracting another 8 bytes and overflowing it. This means we would need to add the overflow check *after* the SUB that deliberately misaligns the stack. However, this would require us to keep local state (i.e., whether we performed the subtract or not) across the overflow check, but without any GPRs or stack available. So let's switch to an approach where we don't use the stack, and where the alignment check of the stack pointer occurs in the usual way, as this is guaranteed not to result in overflow. This means we will be able to do the overflow check first. While at it, switch to R1 so the mode stack pointer in R0 remains accessible. Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com> # ARMv7M |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.