linux-stable.git/arch/sparc/kernel/process.c, branch linux-rolling-stable

sparc: Add architecture support for clone3

2026-02-06T14:03:43+00:00

Add support for the clone3 system call to the SPARC architectures.

The implementation follows the pattern of the original clone syscall.
However, instead of explicitly calling kernel_clone, the clone3
handler calls the generic sys_clone3 handler in kernel/fork.
In case no stack is provided, the parents stack is reused.

The return value convention for clone3 follows the regular kernel return
value convention (in contrast to the original clone/fork on SPARC).

Closes: https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues/10
Signed-off-by: Ludwig Rydberg 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson 
Tested-by: Andreas Larsson 
Tested-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260119144753.27945-3-ludwig.rydberg@gaisler.com
Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson

sparc: Synchronize user stack on fork and clone

2026-02-06T14:00:47+00:00

Flush all uncommitted user windows before calling the generic syscall
handlers for clone, fork, and vfork.

Prior to entering the arch common handlers sparc_{clone|fork|vfork}, the
arch-specific syscall wrappers for these syscalls will attempt to flush
all windows (including user windows).

In the window overflow trap handlers on both SPARC{32|64},
if the window can't be stored (i.e due to MMU related faults) the routine
backups the user window and increments a thread counter (wsaved).

By adding a synchronization point after the flush attempt, when fault
handling is enabled, any uncommitted user windows will be flushed.

Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31394
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/sparclinux/fe5cc47167430007560501aabb28ba154985b661.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/
Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson 
Signed-off-by: Ludwig Rydberg 
Tested-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260119144753.27945-2-ludwig.rydberg@gaisler.com
Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson

sparc: switch to kernel_clone()

2020-08-20T11:12:58+00:00

The old _do_fork() helper is removed in favor of the new kernel_clone() helper.
The latter adheres to naming conventions for kernel internal syscall helpers.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200819104655.436656-7-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com

arch: rename copy_thread_tls() back to copy_thread()

2020-07-04T21:41:37+00:00

Now that HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS has been removed, rename copy_thread_tls()
back simply copy_thread(). It's a simpler name, and doesn't imply that only
tls is copied here. This finishes an outstanding chunk of internal process
creation work since we've added clone3().

Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer A
Acked-by: Stafford Horne 
Acked-by: Greentime Hu 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven A
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

sparc: share process creation helpers between sparc and sparc64

2020-06-23T08:49:56+00:00

As promised in the previous patch, this moves the process creation
helpers into a common process.c file that is shared between sparc and
sparc64. It allows us to get rid of quite a bit custom assembler and the
to remove the separe 32bit specific sparc_do_fork() call.

One thing to note, is that when clone() was called with a separate stack
for the child the assembler would align it. But copy_thread() has always
been doing that too so that line wasn't needed and can thus simply be
removed.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: linux-csky@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200512171527.570109-3-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com

sparc: prepare kernel/ for unification

2008-12-04T17:17:20+00:00

o sparc32 files with identical names to sparc64 renamed to _32.S
o introduced a few Kconfig helpers to simplify Makefile logic
o refactored Makefile to prepare for unification
  - use obj-$(CONFIG_SPARC32) for sparc32 specific files
  - use _$(BITS) for files where sparc64 has a _64 variant
  - sparc64 directly include a few files where sparc32 builds them,
    refer to these files directly (no BITS)
  - sneaked in -Werror as used by sparc64
o modified sparc/Makefile to use the new names for head/init_task

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sparc: remove CONFIG_SUN4

2008-09-01T03:59:37+00:00

While doing some easy cleanups on the sparc code I noticed that the
CONFIG_SUN4 code seems to be worse than the rest - there were some
"I don't know how it should work, but the current code definitely cannot
work." places.

And while I have seen people running Linux on machines like a
SPARCstation 5 a few years ago I don't recall having seen sun4
machines, even less ones running Linux.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sparc: Use new '%pS' infrastructure to print symbols.

2008-07-18T05:11:32+00:00

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sparc/kernel/: possible cleanups

2008-07-18T04:37:46+00:00

This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make the following needlessly global code static:
  - apc.c: apc_swift_idle()
  - ebus.c: ebus_blacklist_irq()
  - ebus.c: fill_ebus_child()
  - ebus.c: fill_ebus_device()
  - entry.S: syscall_is_too_hard
  - etra: tsetup_sun4c_stackchk
  - head.S: cputyp
  - head.S: prom_vector_p
  - idprom.c: Sun_Machines[]
  - ioport.c: _sparc_find_resource()
  - ioport.c: create_proc_read_entry()
  - irq.c: struct sparc_irq[]
  - rtrap.S: sun4c_rett_stackchk
  - setup.c: prom_sync_me()
  - setup.c: boot_flags
  - sun4c_irq.c: sun4c_sbint_to_irq()
  - sun4d_irq.c: sbus_tid[]
  - sun4d_irq.c: struct sbus_actions
  - sun4d_irq.c: sun4d_sbint_to_irq()
  - sun4m_irq.c: sun4m_sbint_to_irq()
  - sun4m_irq.c: sun4m_get_irqmask()
  - sun4m_irq.c: sun4m_timers
  - sun4m_smp.c: smp4m_cross_call()
  - sun4m_smp.c: smp4m_blackbox_id()
  - sun4m_smp.c: smp4m_blackbox_current()
  - time.c: sp_clock_typ
  - time.c: sbus_time_init()
  - traps.c: instruction_dump()
  - wof.S: spwin_sun4c_stackchk
  - wuf.S: sun4c_fwin_stackchk
- #if 0 the following unused code:
  - process.c: sparc_backtrace_lock
  - process.c: __show_backtrace()
  - process.c: show_backtrace()
  - process.c: smp_show_backtrace_all_cpus()
- remove the following unused code:
  - entry.S: __handle_exception
  - smp.c: smp_num_cpus
  - smp.c: smp_activated
  - smp.c: __cpu_number_map[]
  - smp.c: __cpu_logical_map[]
  - smp.c: bitops_spinlock
  - traps.c: trap_curbuf
  - traps.c: trapbuf[]
  - traps.c: linux_smp_still_initting
  - traps.c: thiscpus_tbr
  - traps.c: thiscpus_mid

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sparc32: Don't twiddle PT_DTRACE in exec.

2008-05-10T07:31:28+00:00

That bit isn't used on this platform.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller