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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-03-31 14:32:17 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-03-31 14:32:17 -0700 |
commit | 190f918660a69d1c56fd05dc8c6cbb8336a8a0af (patch) | |
tree | 2320b4aab7f048d97c35ac6ade5b7dedc71da89d /Documentation/xtensa/mmu.txt | |
parent | 176ab02d4916f09d5d8cb63372d142df4378cdea (diff) | |
parent | 1e4ec6217dcf4b26cf959b70298a3b990479c955 (diff) |
Merge branch 'compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Pull s390 compat wrapper rework from Heiko Carstens:
"S390 compat system call wrapper simplification work.
The intention of this work is to get rid of all hand written assembly
compat system call wrappers on s390, which perform proper sign or zero
extension, or pointer conversion of compat system call parameters.
Instead all of this should be done with C code eg by using Al's
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macro.
Therefore all common code and s390 specific compat system calls have
been converted to the COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macro.
In order to generate correct code all compat system calls may only
have eg compat_ulong_t parameters, but no unsigned long parameters.
Those patches which change parameter types from unsigned long to
compat_ulong_t parameters are separate in this series, but shouldn't
cause any harm.
The only compat system calls which intentionally have 64 bit
parameters (preadv64 and pwritev64) in support of the x86/32 ABI
haven't been changed, but are now only available if an architecture
defines __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PREADV64/PWRITEV64.
System calls which do not have a compat variant but still need proper
zero extension on s390, like eg "long sys_brk(unsigned long brk)" will
get a proper wrapper function with the new s390 specific
COMPAT_SYSCALL_WRAPx() macro:
COMPAT_SYSCALL_WRAP1(brk, unsigned long, brk);
which generates the following code (simplified):
asmlinkage long sys_brk(unsigned long brk);
asmlinkage long compat_sys_brk(long brk)
{
return sys_brk((u32)brk);
}
Given that the C file which contains all the COMPAT_SYSCALL_WRAP lines
includes both linux/syscall.h and linux/compat.h, it will generate
build errors, if the declaration of sys_brk() doesn't match, or if
there exists a non-matching compat_sys_brk() declaration.
In addition this will intentionally result in a link error if
somewhere else a compat_sys_brk() function exists, which probably
should have been used instead. Two more BUILD_BUG_ONs make sure the
size and type of each compat syscall parameter can be handled
correctly with the s390 specific macros.
I converted the compat system calls step by step to verify the
generated code is correct and matches the previous code. In fact it
did not always match, however that was always a bug in the hand
written asm code.
In result we get less code, less bugs, and much more sanity checking"
* 'compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (44 commits)
s390/compat: add copyright statement
compat: include linux/unistd.h within linux/compat.h
s390/compat: get rid of compat wrapper assembly code
s390/compat: build error for large compat syscall args
mm/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types
kexec/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types
net/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types
ipc/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types
fs/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types
ipc/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
fs/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
security/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
mm/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
net/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
kernel/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
fs/compat: optional preadv64/pwrite64 compat system calls
ipc/compat_sys_msgrcv: change msgtyp type from long to compat_long_t
s390/compat: partial parameter conversion within syscall wrappers
s390/compat: automatic zero, sign and pointer conversion of syscalls
s390/compat: add sync_file_range and fallocate compat syscalls
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