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Martin Schwidefsky 249c543b97 s390/vdso: optimize getcpu system call
Add the CPU number to the per-cpu vdso data page and add the
__kernel_getcpu function to the vdso object to retrieve the
CPU number in user space.

Suggested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2016-01-11 13:01:24 +01:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 0dab3e0e59 s390: drop smp_mb in vdso_init
The initial s390 vdso code is heavily influenced by the powerpc version
which does have a smp_wmb in vdso_init right before the vdso_ready=1
assignment. s390 has no need for that.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1452010645-25380-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2016-01-11 12:27:22 +01:00
Heiko Carstens c667aeacc1 s390: rename struct _lowcore to struct lowcore
Finally get rid of the leading underscore. I tried this already two or
three years ago, however Michael Holzheu objected since this would
break the crash utility (again).

However Michael integrated support for the new name into the crash
utility back then, so it doesn't break if the name will be changed
now.  So finally get rid of the ever confusing leading underscore.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2016-01-11 12:27:15 +01:00
Christian Borntraeger 33b5881d11 s390/vdso: use correct memory barrier
By definition smp_wmb only orders writes against writes. (Finish all
previous writes, and do not start any future write). To protect the
vdso init code against early reads on other CPUs, let's use a full
smp_mb at the end of vdso init. As right now smp_wmb is implemented
as full serialization, this needs no stable backport, but this change
will be necessary if we reimplement smp_wmb.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2015-10-14 14:32:01 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 5a79859ae0 s390: remove 31 bit support
Remove the 31 bit support in order to reduce maintenance cost and
effectively remove dead code. Since a couple of years there is no
distribution left that comes with a 31 bit kernel.

The 31 bit kernel also has been broken since more than a year before
anybody noticed. In addition I added a removal warning to the kernel
shown at ipl for 5 minutes: a960062e58 ("s390: add 31 bit warning
message") which let everybody know about the plan to remove 31 bit
code. We didn't get any response.

Given that the last 31 bit only machine was introduced in 1999 let's
remove the code.
Anybody with 31 bit user space code can still use the compat mode.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2015-03-25 11:49:33 +01:00
Andy Lutomirski a6c19dfe39 arm64,ia64,ppc,s390,sh,tile,um,x86,mm: remove default gate area
The core mm code will provide a default gate area based on
FIXADDR_USER_START and FIXADDR_USER_END if
!defined(__HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA) && defined(AT_SYSINFO_EHDR).

This default is only useful for ia64.  arm64, ppc, s390, sh, tile, 64-bit
UML, and x86_32 have their own code just to disable it.  arm, 32-bit UML,
and x86_64 have gate areas, but they have their own implementations.

This gets rid of the default and moves the code into ia64.

This should save some code on architectures without a gate area: it's now
possible to inline the gate_area functions in the default case.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Acked-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [in principle]
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> [for um]
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> [for arm64]
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <Nathan_Lynch@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-08 15:57:27 -07:00
Heiko Carstens 06aae6834e s390/vdso: fix access-list entry initialization
The access-list entry is supposed to have the fetch-only bit set, however
a reserved bit got set instead.
Userspace isn't able to write to the page anyway since the accessed page
has the read-only bit set. So this saves us only for bad surprises in the
future if the reserved bit gets used.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-12-02 15:31:09 +01:00
Martin Schwidefsky e258d719ff s390/uaccess: always run the kernel in home space
Simplify the uaccess code by removing the user_mode=home option.
The kernel will now always run in the home space mode.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-10-24 17:16:57 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky e509861105 s390/mm: cleanup page table definitions
Improve the encoding of the different pte types and the naming of the
page, segment table and region table bits. Due to the different pte
encoding the hugetlbfs primitives need to be adapted as well. To improve
compatability with common code make the huge ptes use the encoding of
normal ptes. The conversion between the pte and pmd encoding for a huge
pte is done with set_huge_pte_at and huge_ptep_get.
Overall the code is now easier to understand.

Reviewed-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-08-22 12:20:06 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 958d9072b6 s390: replace remaining strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul()
Replace the last two strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul().

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-08-22 12:20:00 +02:00
Heiko Carstens d1b0d842c4 s390/mm: rename addressing_mode to s390_user_mode
Renaming the globally visible variable "user_mode" to "addressing_mode" in
order to fix a name clash was not a good idea. (Commit 37fe1d73 "s390/mm:
rename user_mode variable to addressing_mode")
Looking at the code after a couple of weeks one thinks: addressing mode of
what?
So rename the variable again. This time to s390_user_mode. Which hopefully
makes more sense.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2012-09-26 15:45:05 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 37fe1d73a4 s390/mm: rename user_mode variable to addressing_mode
Fix name clash with user_mode() define which is also used in common code.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2012-07-30 11:03:11 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 0195c00244 Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h
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Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system

Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
 "Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
  separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
  dependencies.

  I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
  and made sure that they don't break.

  The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
  dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
  optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().

  This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
  asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.

  The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h.  It holds a number of
  low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
  memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
  aren't used in many places (eg.  switch_to()).

  These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:

    (1) asm/barrier.h

        Move memory barriers here.  This already done for MIPS and Alpha.

    (2) asm/switch_to.h

        Move switch_to() and related stuff here.

    (3) asm/exec.h

        Move arch_align_stack() here.  Other process execution related bits
        could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.

    (4) asm/cmpxchg.h

        Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
        frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().

    (5) asm/bug.h

        Move die() and related bits.

    (6) asm/auxvec.h

        Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.

  Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."

Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that.  We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..

* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
  Delete all instances of asm/system.h
  Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
  Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
  Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
  Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
  Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
  Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
  Create asm-generic/barrier.h
  Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
  ...
2012-03-28 15:58:21 -07:00
David Howells a0616cdebc Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
2012-03-28 18:30:02 +01:00
Jason Baron 909af768e8 coredump: remove VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag
The motivation for this patchset was that I was looking at a way for a
qemu-kvm process, to exclude the guest memory from its core dump, which
can be quite large.  There are already a number of filter flags in
/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter, however, these allow one to specify 'types'
of kernel memory, not specific address ranges (which is needed in this
case).

Since there are no more vma flags available, the first patch eliminates
the need for the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag.  The flag is used internally by
the kernel to mark vdso and vsyscall pages.  However, it is simple
enough to check if a vma covers a vdso or vsyscall page without the need
for this flag.

The second patch then replaces the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag with a new
'VM_NODUMP' flag, which can be set by userspace using new madvise flags:
'MADV_DONTDUMP', and unset via 'MADV_DODUMP'.  The core dump filters
continue to work the same as before unless 'MADV_DONTDUMP' is set on the
region.

The qemu code which implements this features is at:

  http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/qemu-dump/qemu-dump.patch

In my testing the qemu core dump shrunk from 383MB -> 13MB with this
patch.

I also believe that the 'MADV_DONTDUMP' flag might be useful for
security sensitive apps, which might want to select which areas are
dumped.

This patch:

The VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag is currently used by the coredump code to
indicate that a vma is part of a vsyscall or vdso section.  However, we
can determine if a vma is in one these sections by checking it against
the gate_vma and checking for a non-NULL return value from
arch_vma_name().  Thus, freeing a valuable vma bit.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23 16:58:42 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky 8b646bd759 [S390] rework smp code
Define struct pcpu and merge some of the NR_CPUS arrays into it, including
__cpu_logical_map, current_set and smp_cpu_state. Split smp related
functions to those operating on physical cpus and the functions operating
on a logical cpu number. Make the functions for physical cpus use a
pointer to a struct pcpu. This hides the knowledge about cpu addresses in
smp.c, entry[64].S and swsusp_asm64.S, thus remove the sigp.h header.

The PSW restart mechanism is used to start secondary cpus, calling a
function on an online cpu, calling a function on the ipl cpu, and for
the nmi signal. Replace the different assembler functions with a
single function restart_int_handler. The new entry point calls a function
whose pointer is stored in the lowcore of the target cpu and it can wait
for the source cpu to stop. This covers all existing use cases.

Overall the code is now simpler and there are ~380 lines less code.

Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2012-03-11 11:59:28 -04:00
Stephen Wilson cae5d39032 mm: arch: rename in_gate_area_no_task to in_gate_area_no_mm
Now that gate vma's are referenced with respect to a particular mm and not a
particular task it only makes sense to propagate the change to this predicate as
well.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>
Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-23 16:36:55 -04:00
Stephen Wilson 83b964bbf8 mm: arch: make in_gate_area take an mm_struct instead of a task_struct
Morally, the question of whether an address lies in a gate vma should be asked
with respect to an mm, not a particular task.  Moreover, dropping the dependency
on task_struct will help make existing and future operations on mm's more
flexible and convenient.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>
Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-23 16:36:54 -04:00
Stephen Wilson 31db58b3ab mm: arch: make get_gate_vma take an mm_struct instead of a task_struct
Morally, the presence of a gate vma is more an attribute of a particular mm than
a particular task.  Moreover, dropping the dependency on task_struct will help
make both existing and future operations on mm's more flexible and convenient.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>
Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-23 16:36:54 -04:00
Heiko Carstens e7828bbd5e [S390] vdso: dont map at mmap_base
The vdso object is currently always mapped with mm->mmap_base used as
requested address. In case of flexible mmap layout this means it gets
mapped above mmap_base and therefore potentially stealing a bit of
address space that is reserved for the stack.
In case of flexible mmap layout the object should be mapped below
mmap base. For legacy mmap layout above.
To fix this just don't request any specific address and let the mmap
code figure out an address that fits.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-01-12 09:55:24 +01:00
Martin Schwidefsky 14375bc4eb [S390] cleanup facility list handling
Store the facility list once at system startup with stfl/stfle and
reuse the result for all facility tests.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2010-10-25 16:10:21 +02:00
Christoph Egger a78f1c4c1d [S390] vdso: remove redundant check for CONFIG_64BIT
This is a check for CONFIG_64BIT inside a block that is only active when
CONFIG_64BIT is set. So the check is actually useless and potentially
irritating.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <siccegge@cs.fau.de>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2010-05-17 10:00:16 +02:00
Heiko Carstens cbb870c822 [S390] Cleanup struct _lowcore usage and defines.
Use asm offsets to make sure the offset defines to struct _lowcore and
its layout don't get out of sync.
Also add a BUILD_BUG_ON() which checks that the size of the structure
is sane.
And while being at it change those sites which use odd casts to access
the current lowcore. These should use S390_lowcore instead.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2010-02-26 22:37:31 +01:00
Martin Schwidefsky b11b533427 [S390] Improve address space mode selection.
Introduce user_mode to replace the two variables switch_amode and
s390_noexec. There are three valid combinations of the old values:
  1) switch_amode == 0 && s390_noexec == 0
  2) switch_amode == 1 && s390_noexec == 0
  3) switch_amode == 1 && s390_noexec == 1
They get replaced by
  1) user_mode == HOME_SPACE_MODE
  2) user_mode == PRIMARY_SPACE_MODE
  3) user_mode == SECONDARY_SPACE_MODE
The new kernel parameter user_mode=[primary,secondary,home] lets
you choose the address space mode the user space processes should
use. In addition the CONFIG_S390_SWITCH_AMODE config option
is removed.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2009-12-07 12:51:33 +01:00
Heiko Carstens 930e44fbea [S390] perf_counter: fix vdso detection
s390 version of f2053f1a "powerpc/perf_counter: Fix vdso detection".

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2009-10-06 10:35:09 +02:00
Tim Abbott abe1ee3a22 Use macros for .data.page_aligned section.
This patch changes the remaining direct references to
.data.page_aligned in C and assembly code to use the macros in
include/linux/linkage.h.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-21 06:27:08 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 7757591ab4 [S390] implement is_compat_task
Implement is_compat_task and use it all over the place.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2009-06-12 10:27:30 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky 7aa79f9487 [S390] vdso: kernel parameter syntax
The syntax of the vdso kernel parameter is documented as vdso=[on|off].
The implementation uses vdso=[0|1], an invalid parameter string disables
the vdso support. Fix the mismatch by adding vdso=[on|off] as additional
parameter syntax.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2009-06-12 10:27:28 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 6d54c5a3fb [S390] smp: fix memory leak on __cpu_up
If sigp_set_prefix fails on __cpu_up we leak the lowcore structures
and async+panic stacks for the failed cpu.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2009-03-26 15:24:30 +01:00
Heiko Carstens 81ffa0415b [S390] vdso: compile fix
!CONFIG_SMP:

arch/s390/kernel/vdso.c: In function 'vdso_init':
arch/s390/kernel/vdso.c:325: error: incompatible type for argument 2 of 'vdso_alloc_per_cpu'

Also move the code out of the BUG_ON statement since it won't be
executed on !CONFIG_BUG. And that would be a bug.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-09 12:15:06 +01:00
Martin Schwidefsky c742b31c03 [PATCH] fast vdso implementation for CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID
The extract cpu time instruction (ectg) instruction allows the user
process to get the current thread cputime without calling into the
kernel. The code that uses the instruction needs to switch to the
access registers mode to get access to the per-cpu info page that
contains the two base values that are needed to calculate the current
cputime from the CPU timer with the ectg instruction.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-12-31 15:11:49 +01:00
Martin Schwidefsky b020632e40 [S390] introduce vdso on s390
Add a vdso to speed up gettimeofday and clock_getres/clock_gettime for
CLOCK_REALTIME/CLOCK_MONOTONIC.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-12-25 13:38:55 +01:00