[PATCH] ARM: Move signal return code into vector page

Move the signal return code into the vector page instead of placing
it on the user mode stack, which will allow us to avoid flushing
the instruction cache on signals, as well as eventually allowing
non-exec stack.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
index 45d2a032d89..2fb0a4cfb37 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 #include <asm/traps.h>
 
 #include "ptrace.h"
+#include "signal.h"
 
 const char *processor_modes[]=
 { "USER_26", "FIQ_26" , "IRQ_26" , "SVC_26" , "UK4_26" , "UK5_26" , "UK6_26" , "UK7_26" ,
@@ -683,6 +684,14 @@ void __init trap_init(void)
 	memcpy((void *)0xffff0000, __vectors_start, __vectors_end - __vectors_start);
 	memcpy((void *)0xffff0200, __stubs_start, __stubs_end - __stubs_start);
 	memcpy((void *)0xffff1000 - kuser_sz, __kuser_helper_start, kuser_sz);
+
+	/*
+	 * Copy signal return handlers into the vector page, and
+	 * set sigreturn to be a pointer to these.
+	 */
+	memcpy((void *)KERN_SIGRETURN_CODE, sigreturn_codes,
+	       sizeof(sigreturn_codes));
+
 	flush_icache_range(0xffff0000, 0xffff0000 + PAGE_SIZE);
 	modify_domain(DOMAIN_USER, DOMAIN_CLIENT);
 }