Extend the breakpoint insertion and catching functions to support Thumb
code.
As breakpoints are no longer of a fixed size, the flush_insns macro
is modified to take a size argument instead of an instruction count.
Note, we need both 16- and 32-bit Thumb breakpoints, because if we
were to use a 16-bit breakpoint to replace a 32-bit instruction which
was in an IT block, and the condition check failed, then the breakpoint
may not fire (it's unpredictable behaviour) and the CPU could then try
and execute the second half of the 32-bit Thumb instruction.
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Extend arch_prepare_kprobe to support probing of Thumb code. For
the actual decoding of Thumb instructions, stub functions are
added which currently just reject the probe.
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Fix up kprobes framework so that it builds and correctly interworks on
Thumb-2 kernels.
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
The str_pc_offset value is architecturally defined on ARMv7 onwards so
we can make it a compile time constant. This means on Thumb kernels the
runtime checking code isn't needed, which saves us from having to fix it
to work for Thumb.
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Move str_pc_offset into kprobes-common.c as it will be needed by common
code later.
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
This file will contain the instruction decoding and emulation code
which is common to both ARM and Thumb instruction sets.
For now, we will just move over condition_checks from kprobes-arm.c
This table is also renamed to kprobe_condition_checks to avoid polluting
the public namespace with a too generic name.
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Later, we will be adding a considerable amount of internal
implementation definitions to kprobe header files and it would be good
to have these in local header file along side the source code, rather
than pollute the existing header which is include by all users of
kprobes.
To this end, we add arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.h and move into this the
existing internal defintions from arch/arm/include/asm/kprobes.h
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
This file contains decoding and emulation functions for the ARM
instruction set. As we will later be adding a file for Thumb and a
file with common decoding functions, this renaming makes things clearer.
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
This patch allows undef_hook's to be specified for 32-bit Thumb
instructions and also to be used for thumb kernel-side code.
32-bit Thumb instructions are specified in the form:
((first_half << 16 ) | second_half)
which matches the layout used by the ARM ARM.
ptrace was handling 32-bit Thumb instructions by hooking the first
halfword and manually checking the second half. This method would be
broken by this patch so it is migrated to make use of the new Thumb-2
support.
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
The implementation of svc_exit didn't take into account any stack hole
created by svc_entry; as happens with the undef handler when kprobes are
configured. The fix is to read the saved value of SP rather than trying
to calculate it.
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
To get hundredths of MHz the rate needs to be divided by 10'000.
Here is an example:
twd_timer_rate = 123456789
Before the patch:
twd_timer_rate / 1000000 = 123
(twd_timer_rate / 1000000) % 100 = 23
Result: 123.23MHz.
After being fixed:
twd_timer_rate / 1000000 = 123
(twd_timer_rate / 10000) % 100 = 45
Result: 123.45MHz.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuzmichev <vkuzmichev@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Ensure that the meminfo array is sanity checked before we pass the
memory to memblock. This helps to ensure that memblock and meminfo
agree on the dimensions of memory, especially when more memory is
passed than the kernel can deal with.
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
armpmu_enable can be called in situations where no events are present
(for example, from the event rotation tick after a profiled task has
exited). In this case, we currently start the PMU anyway which may
leave it active inevitably without any events being monitored.
This patch adds a simple check to the enabling code so that we avoid
starting the PMU when no events are present.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Ashwin Chaugle <ashwinc@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
When we bring a CPU online, we should wait for it to become active
before entering the idle thread, so we know that the scheduler and
thread migration is going to work.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The "Thumb bit" of a symbol is only really meaningful for function
symbols (STT_FUNC).
However, sometimes a branch is relocated against a non-function
symbol; for example, PC-relative branches to anonymous assembler
local symbols are typically fixed up against the start-of-section
symbol, which is not a function symbol. Some inline assembler
generates references of this type, such as fixup code generated by
macros in <asm/uaccess.h>.
The existing relocation code for R_ARM_THM_CALL/R_ARM_THM_JUMP24
interprets this case as an error, because the target symbol appears
to be an ARM symbol; but this is really not the case, since the
target symbol is just a base in these cases. The addend defines
the precise offset to the target location, but since the addend is
encoded in a non-interworking Thumb branch instruction, there is no
explicit Thumb bit in the addend. Because these instructions never
interwork, the implied Thumb bit in the addend is 1, and the
destination is Thumb by definition.
This patch removes the extraneous Thumb bit check for non-function
symbols, enabling modules containing the affected relocation types
to be loaded. No modification to the actual relocation code is
required, since this code does not take bit[0] of the
location->destination offset into account in any case.
Function symbols are always checked for interworking conflicts, as
before.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Dump out the following 16-bit instruction to the faulting instruction
in the Code: line. This allows Thumb-2 instructions to be properly
encoded.
Tested-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
If the page to cmpxchg is user mode read only (not write),
we should simulate a data abort first.
Signed-off-by: Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert@faraday-tech.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
If the DT physical address is zero, this is equivalent to no DT.
Especially when the actual RAM physical address is not located at zero,
the result of phys_to_virt() would point to la-la-land and crash the
kernel, which crash is completely silent this early during boot.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch fixes the lockdep warning of "unannotated irqs-off"[1].
After entering __irq_usr, arm core will disable interrupt automatically,
but __irq_usr does not annotate the irq disable, so lockdep may complain
the warning if it has chance to check this in irq handler.
This patch adds trace_hardirqs_off in __irq_usr before entering irq_handler
to handle the irq, also calls ret_to_user_from_irq to avoid calling
disable_irq again.
This is also a fix for irq off tracer.
[1], lockdep warning log of "unannotated irqs-off"
[ 13.804687] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 13.809570] WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:3335 check_flags+0x78/0x1d0()
[ 13.816467] Modules linked in:
[ 13.819732] Backtrace:
[ 13.822357] [<c01cb42c>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x100) from [<c06abb14>] (dump_stack+0x20/0x24)
[ 13.831268] r6:c07d8c2c r5:00000d07 r4:00000000 r3:00000000
[ 13.837280] [<c06abaf4>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x24) from [<c01ffc04>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x5c/0x74)
[ 13.846649] [<c01ffba8>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x0/0x74) from [<c01ffc48>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x2c/0x34)
[ 13.856781] r8:00000000 r7:00000000 r6:c18b8194 r5:60000093 r4:ef182000
[ 13.863708] r3:00000009
[ 13.866485] [<c01ffc1c>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x0/0x34) from [<c0237d84>] (check_flags+0x78/0x1d0)
[ 13.875823] [<c0237d0c>] (check_flags+0x0/0x1d0) from [<c023afc8>] (lock_acquire+0x4c/0x150)
[ 13.884704] [<c023af7c>] (lock_acquire+0x0/0x150) from [<c06af638>] (_raw_spin_lock+0x4c/0x84)
[ 13.893798] [<c06af5ec>] (_raw_spin_lock+0x0/0x84) from [<c01f9a44>] (sched_ttwu_pending+0x58/0x8c)
[ 13.903320] r6:ef92d040 r5:00000003 r4:c18b8180
[ 13.908233] [<c01f99ec>] (sched_ttwu_pending+0x0/0x8c) from [<c01f9a90>] (scheduler_ipi+0x18/0x1c)
[ 13.917663] r6:ef183fb0 r5:00000003 r4:00000000 r3:00000001
[ 13.923645] [<c01f9a78>] (scheduler_ipi+0x0/0x1c) from [<c01bc458>] (do_IPI+0x9c/0xfc)
[ 13.932006] [<c01bc3bc>] (do_IPI+0x0/0xfc) from [<c06b0888>] (__irq_usr+0x48/0xe0)
[ 13.939971] Exception stack(0xef183fb0 to 0xef183ff8)
[ 13.945281] 3fa0: ffffffc3 0001500c 00000001 0001500c
[ 13.953948] 3fc0: 00000050 400b45f0 400d9000 00000000 00000001 400d9600 6474e552 bea05b3c
[ 13.962585] 3fe0: 400d96c0 bea059c0 400b6574 400b65d8 20000010 ffffffff
[ 13.969573] r6:00000403 r5:fa240100 r4:ffffffff r3:20000010
[ 13.975585] ---[ end trace efc4896ab0fb62cb ]---
[ 13.980468] possible reason: unannotated irqs-off.
[ 13.985534] irq event stamp: 1610
[ 13.989044] hardirqs last enabled at (1610): [<c01c703c>] no_work_pending+0x8/0x2c
[ 13.997131] hardirqs last disabled at (1609): [<c01c7024>] ret_slow_syscall+0xc/0x1c
[ 14.005371] softirqs last enabled at (0): [<c01fe5e4>] copy_process+0x2cc/0xa24
[ 14.013183] softirqs last disabled at (0): [< (null)>] (null)
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
32bit and 64bit on x86 are tested and working. The rest I have looked
at closely and I can't find any problems.
setns is an easy system call to wire up. It just takes two ints so I
don't expect any weird architecture porting problems.
While doing this I have noticed that we have some architectures that are
very slow to get new system calls. cris seems to be the slowest where
the last system calls wired up were preadv and pwritev. avr32 is weird
in that recvmmsg was wired up but never declared in unistd.h. frv is
behind with perf_event_open being the last syscall wired up. On h8300
the last system call wired up was epoll_wait. On m32r the last system
call wired up was fallocate. mn10300 has recvmmsg as the last system
call wired up. The rest seem to at least have syncfs wired up which was
new in the 2.6.39.
v2: Most of the architecture support added by Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
v3: ported to v2.6.36-rc4 by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
v4: Moved wiring up of the system call to another patch
v5: ported to v2.6.39-rc6
v6: rebased onto parisc-next and net-next to avoid syscall conflicts.
v7: ported to Linus's latest post 2.6.39 tree.
> arch/blackfin/include/asm/unistd.h | 3 ++-
> arch/blackfin/mach-common/entry.S | 1 +
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Oh - ia64 wiring looks good.
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch makes TTBR1 point to swapper_pg_dir so that global, kernel
mappings can be used exclusively on v6 and v7 cores where they are
needed.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Commit 228e548e (net: Add sendmmsg socket system call) added the new
sendmmsg syscall. Add this to the syscall table for ARM.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* To remove the risk of inconvenient register allocation decisions
by the compiler, these functions are separated out as pure
assembler.
* The apcs frame manipulation code is not applicable for Thumb-2
(and also not easily compatible). Since it's not essential to
have a full frame on these leaf assembler functions, the frame
manipulation is removed, in the interests of simplicity.
* Split up ldm/stm instructions to be compatible with Thumb-2,
as well as avoiding instruction forms deprecated on >= ARMv7.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
percpu: Unify input section names
percpu: Avoid extra NOP in percpu_cmpxchg16b_double
percpu: Cast away printk format warning
percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE
Fix up fairly trivial conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h as per Tejun
Rather than having each platform class provide a mach/smp.h header for
smp_cross_call(), arrange for them to register the function with the
core ARM SMP code instead.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
If a dtb is passed to the kernel then the kernel needs to iterate
through compiled-in mdescs looking for one that matches and move the
dtb data to a safe location before it gets accidentally overwritten by
the kernel.
This patch creates a new function, setup_machine_fdt() which is
analogous to the setup_machine_atags() created in the previous patch.
It does all the early setup needed to use a device tree machine
description.
v5: - Print warning with neither dtb nor atags are passed to the kernel
- Fix bug in setting of __machine_arch_type to the selected machine,
not just the last machine in the list.
Reported-by: Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
- Copy command line directly into boot_command_line instead of cmd_line
v4: - Dump some output when a matching machine_desc cannot be found
v3: - Added processing of reserved list.
- Backed out the v2 change that copied instead of reserved the
dtb. dtb is reserved again and the real problem was fixed by
using alloc_bootmem_align() for early allocation of RAM for
unflattening the tree.
- Moved cmd_line and initrd changes to earlier patch to make series
bisectable.
v2: Changed to save the dtb by copying into an allocated buffer.
- Since the dtb will very likely be passed in the first 16k of ram
where the interrupt vectors live, memblock_reserve() is
insufficient to protect the dtb data.
[based on work originally written by Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>]
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
In preparation for adding device tree support, this patch consolidates
all of the atag-specific setup into a single function.
v5: - drop double printk("Machine; %s\n", ...); call.
- leave copying boot_command_line in setup_arch() since it isn't
atags specific.
v4: - adapt to the removal of lookup_machine_type()
- break out dump of machine_desc table into dump_machine_table()
because the device tree probe code will use it.
- Add for_each_machine_desc() macro
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
When initialising a PMU, there is a check to protect against races with
other CPUs filling all of the available event slots. Since armpmu_add
checks that an event can be scheduled, we do not need to do this at
initialisation time. Furthermore the current code is broken because it
assumes that atomic_inc_not_zero will unconditionally increment
active_counts and then tries to decrement it again on failure.
This patch removes the broken, redundant code.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (44 commits)
debugfs: Silence DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS=y warning
sysfs: remove "last sysfs file:" line from the oops messages
drivers/base/memory.c: fix warning due to "memory hotplug: Speed up add/remove when blocks are larger than PAGES_PER_SECTION"
memory hotplug: Speed up add/remove when blocks are larger than PAGES_PER_SECTION
SYSFS: Fix erroneous comments for sysfs_update_group().
driver core: remove the driver-model structures from the documentation
driver core: Add the device driver-model structures to kerneldoc
Translated Documentation/email-clients.txt
RAW driver: Remove call to kobject_put().
reboot: disable usermodehelper to prevent fs access
efivars: prevent oops on unload when efi is not enabled
Allow setting of number of raw devices as a module parameter
Introduce CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE
driver: Google Memory Console
driver: Google EFI SMI
x86: Better comments for get_bios_ebda()
x86: get_bios_ebda_length()
misc: fix ti-st build issues
params.c: Use new strtobool function to process boolean inputs
debugfs: move to new strtobool
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/debugfs/file.c due to the same patch
being applied twice, and an unrelated cleanup nearby.
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits)
sched: Fix and optimise calculation of the weight-inverse
sched: Avoid going ahead if ->cpus_allowed is not changed
sched, rt: Update rq clock when unthrottling of an otherwise idle CPU
sched: Remove unused parameters from sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task()
sched: Shorten the construction of the span cpu mask of sched domain
sched: Wrap the 'cfs_rq->nr_spread_over' field with CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
sched: Remove unused 'this_best_prio arg' from balance_tasks()
sched: Remove noop in alloc_rt_sched_group()
sched: Get rid of lock_depth
sched: Remove obsolete comment from scheduler_tick()
sched: Fix sched_domain iterations vs. RCU
sched: Next buddy hint on sleep and preempt path
sched: Make set_*_buddy() work on non-task entities
sched: Remove need_migrate_task()
sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu
sched: Restructure ttwu() some more
sched: Rename ttwu_post_activation() to ttwu_do_wakeup()
sched: Remove rq argument from ttwu_stat()
sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu()
sched: Drop rq->lock from sched_exec()
...
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Fix rt_rq runtime leakage bug
* syscore:
PM: Remove sysdev suspend, resume and shutdown operations
PM / PowerPC: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdevs for PM
PM / UNICORE32: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdevs for PM
PM / AVR32: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdevs for PM
PM / Blackfin: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdevs for PM
ARM / Samsung: Use struct syscore_ops for "core" power management
ARM / PXA: Use struct syscore_ops for "core" power management
ARM / SA1100: Use struct syscore_ops for "core" power management
ARM / Integrator: Use struct syscore_ops for core PM
ARM / OMAP: Use struct syscore_ops for "core" power management
ARM: Use struct syscore_ops instead of sysdevs for PM in common code
This patch migrates the implementation of the ptrace interface for
the core integer registers, legacy FPA registers and VFP registers
to use the regsets framework.
As an added bonus, all this stuff gets included in coredumps
at no extra cost. Without this patch, coredumps contained no
VFP state.
Third-party extension register sets (iwmmx, crunch) are not migrated
by this patch, and continue to use the old implementation;
these should be migratable without much extra work.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
On some arches (x86, sh, arm, unicore, powerpc) the oops message would
print out the last sysfs file accessed.
This was very useful in finding a number of sysfs and driver core bugs
in the 2.5 and early 2.6 development days, but it has been a number of
years since this file has actually helped in debugging anything that
couldn't also be trivially determined from the stack traceback.
So it's time to delete the line. This is good as we need all the space
we can get for oops messages at times on consoles.
Acked-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'fixes' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
ARM: 6870/1: The mandatory barrier rmb() must be a dsb() in for device accesses
ARM: 6892/1: handle ptrace requests to change PC during interrupted system calls
ARM: 6890/1: memmap: only free allocated memmap entries when using SPARSEMEM
ARM: zImage: the page table memory must be considered before relocation
ARM: zImage: make sure not to relocate on top of the relocation code
ARM: zImage: Fix bad SP address after relocating kernel
ARM: zImage: make sure the stack is 64-bit aligned
ARM: RiscPC: acornfb: fix section mismatches
ARM: RiscPC: etherh: fix section mismatches
GDB's interrupt.exp test cases currenly fail on ARM. The problem is how do_signal
handled restarting interrupted system calls:
The entry.S assembler code determines that we come from a system call; and that
information is passed as "syscall" parameter to do_signal. That routine then
calls get_signal_to_deliver [*] and if a signal is to be delivered, calls into
handle_signal. If a system call is to be restarted either after the signal
handler returns, or if no handler is to be called in the first place, the PC
is updated after the get_signal_to_deliver call, either in handle_signal (if
we have a handler) or at the end of do_signal (otherwise).
Now the problem is that during [*], the call to get_signal_to_deliver, a ptrace
intercept may happen. During this intercept, the debugger may change registers,
including the PC. This is done by GDB if it wants to execute an "inferior call",
i.e. the execution of some code in the debugged program triggered by GDB.
To this purpose, GDB will save all registers, allocate a stack frame, set up
PC and arguments as appropriate for the call, and point the link register to
a dummy breakpoint instruction. Once the process is restarted, it will execute
the call and then trap back to the debugger, at which point GDB will restore
all registers and continue original execution.
This generally works fine. However, now consider what happens when GDB attempts
to do exactly that while the process was interrupted during execution of a to-be-
restarted system call: do_signal is called with the syscall flag set; it calls
get_signal_to_deliver, at which point the debugger takes over and changes the PC
to point to a completely different place. Now get_signal_to_deliver returns
without a signal to deliver; but now do_signal decides it should be restarting
a system call, and decrements the PC by 2 or 4 -- so it now points to 2 or 4
bytes before the function GDB wants to call -- which leads to a subsequent crash.
To fix this problem, two things need to be supported:
- do_signal must be able to recognize that get_signal_to_deliver changed the PC
to a different location, and skip the restart-syscall sequence
- once the debugger has restored all registers at the end of the inferior call
sequence, do_signal must recognize that *now* it needs to restart the pending
system call, even though it was now entered from a breakpoint instead of an
actual svc instruction
This set of issues is solved on other platforms, usually by one of two
mechanisms:
- The status information "do_signal is handling a system call that may need
restarting" is itself carried in some register that can be accessed via
ptrace. This is e.g. on Intel the "orig_eax" register; on Sparc the kernel
defines a magic extra bit in the flags register for this purpose.
This allows GDB to manage that state: reset it when doing an inferior call,
and restore it after the call is finished.
- On s390, do_signal transparently handles this problem without requiring
GDB interaction, by performing system call restarting in the following
way: first, adjust the PC as necessary for restarting the call. Then,
call get_signal_to_deliver; and finally just continue execution at the
PC. This way, if GDB does not change the PC, everything is as before.
If GDB *does* change the PC, execution will simply continue there --
and once GDB restores the PC it saved at that point, it will automatically
point to the *restarted* system call. (There is the minor twist how to
handle system calls that do *not* need restarting -- do_signal will undo
the PC change in this case, after get_signal_to_deliver has returned, and
only if ptrace did not change the PC during that call.)
Because there does not appear to be any obvious register to carry the
syscall-restart information on ARM, we'd either have to introduce a new
artificial ptrace register just for that purpose, or else handle the issue
transparently like on s390. The patch below implements the second option;
using this patch makes the interrupt.exp test cases pass on ARM, with no
regression in the GDB test suite otherwise.
Cc: patches@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch allows the provided CONFIG_CMDLINE to be concatenated
with the one provided by the boot loader. This is useful to
merge the static values defined in CONFIG_CMDLINE with the
boot loader's (possibly) more dynamic values, such as startup
reasons and more.
Signed-off-by: Victor Boivie <victor.boivie@sonyericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@sonyericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Oskar Andero <oskar.andero@sonyericsson.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Add some basic empty infrastructure for DT support on ARM.
v5: - Fix off-by-one error in size calculation of initrd
- Stop mucking with cmd_line, and load command line from dt into
boot_command_line instead which matches the behaviour of ATAGS booting
v3: - moved cmd_line export and initrd setup to this patch to make the
series bisectable.
- switched to alloc_bootmem_align() for allocation when
unflattening the device tree. memblock_alloc() was not the
right interface.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
The dtb is passed to the kernel via register r2, which is the same
method that is used to pass an atags pointer. This patch modifies
__vet_atags to not clear r2 when it encounters a dtb image.
v2: fixed bugs pointed out by Nicolas Pitre
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
When CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT is set, the wrapper for semtimedop does not
bound the nsops argument. A sufficiently large value will cause an
integer overflow in allocation size, followed by copying too much data
into the allocated buffer. Fix this by restricting nsops to SEMOPM.
Untested.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
- Remove coding standard violations reported by checkpatch.pl
- Delete comment about handling of conditional branches which is no
longer true.
- Delete comment at end of file which lists all ARM instructions. This
duplicates data available in the ARM ARM and seems like an
unnecessary maintenance burden to keep this up to date and accurate.
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Jon Medhurst