linux.git/arch/arm64/include, branch v3.7-rc2

arm64: fix alignment padding in assembly code

2012-10-20T10:12:01+00:00

An interesting effect of using the generic version of linkage.h
is that the padding is defined in terms of x86 NOPs, which can have
even more interesting effects when the assembly code looks like this:

ENTRY(func1)
	mov	x0, xzr
ENDPROC(func1)
	// fall through
ENTRY(func2)
	mov	x0, #1
	ret
ENDPROC(func2)

Admittedly, the code is not very nice. But having code from another
architecture doesn't look completely sane either.

The fix is to add arm64's version of linkage.h, which causes the insertion
of proper AArch64 NOPs.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier 
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

arm64: ptrace: make structure padding explicit for debug registers

2012-10-18T19:15:31+00:00

The user_hwdebug_state structure contains implicit padding to conform to
the alignment requirements of the AArch64 ABI (namely that aggregates
must be aligned to their most aligned member).

This patch fixes the ptrace functions operating on struct
user_hwdebug_state so that the padding is handled correctly.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

arm64: No need to set the x0-x2 registers in start_thread()

2012-10-18T19:14:01+00:00

For historical reasons, ARM used to set r0-r2 in start_thread() to the
first values on the user stack when starting a new user application. The
same logic has been inherited in AArch64. The x0 register is overridden
by the sys_execve() return value so it's always zero on success. The x1
and x2 registers are ignored by AArch64 and EABI AArch32 applications,
so we can safely remove the register setting for both native and compat
user space.

This also fixes a potential fault with the kernel accessing user space
stack directly.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Reported-by: Al Viro

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/arm64/include/asm

2012-10-11T10:05:13+00:00

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Dave Jones

arm64: Do not export the compat-specific definitions to the user

2012-10-11T09:39:08+00:00

This patch adds #ifdef __KERNEL__ guards around the COMPAT_* definitions
to avoid exporting them to user. AArch32 user requiring the kernel
headers must use those generated with ARCH=arm.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Acked-by: Will Deacon

arm64: Do not include asm/unistd32.h in asm/unistd.h

2012-10-11T09:39:08+00:00

This patch only includes asm/unistd32.h where necessary and removes its
inclusion in the asm/unistd.h file. The __SYSCALL_COMPAT guard is
dropped.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Acked-by: Will Deacon

arm64: Remove unused definitions from asm/unistd32.h

2012-10-11T09:39:08+00:00

This patch removes the compat __NR_* definitions from the unistd32.h
file and only keeps those that are used by the AArch64 kernel with a new
__NR_compat_* prefix. The additional wrapper definitions in
arch/arm64/kernel/sys32.S have been removed and the actual wrapper names
included in the asm/unistd32.h file.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Acked-by: Will Deacon

arm64: Use the generic compat_sys_sendfile() implementation

2012-10-08T15:03:42+00:00

The generic implementation of compat_sys_sendfile() has been introduced
by commit 8f9c0119. This patch removes the arm64 implementation in
favour of the generic one.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

Merge branch 'uapi-prep' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers

2012-10-06T22:55:10+00:00

Pull UAPI disintegration fixes from David Howells:
 "There are three main parts:

 (1) I found I needed some more fixups in the wake of testing Arm64
     (some asm/unistd.h files had weird guards that caused problems -
     mostly in arches for which I don't have a compiler) and some
     __KERNEL__ splitting needed to take place in Arm64.

 (2) I found that c6x was missing some __KERNEL__ guards in its
     asm/signal.h.  Mark Salter pointed me at a tree with a patch to
     remove that file entirely and use the asm-generic variant instead.

 (3) Lastly, m68k turned out to have a header installation problem due
     to it lacking a kvm_para.h file.

     The conditional installation bits for linux/kvm_para.h, linux/kvm.h
     and linux/a.out.h weren't very well specified - and didn't work if
     an arch didn't have the asm/ version of that file, but there *was*
     an asm-generic/ version.

     It seems the "ifneq $((wildcard ...),)" for each of those three
     headers in include/kernel/Kbuild is invoked twice during header
     installation, and the second time it matches on the just installed
     asm-generic/kvm_para.h file and thus incorrectly installs
     linux/kvm_para.h as well.

     Most arches actually have an asm/kvm_para.h, so this wasn't
     detectable in those."

* 'uapi-prep' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers:
  UAPI: Fix conditional header installation handling (notably kvm_para.h on m68k)
  c6x: remove c6x signal.h
  UAPI: Split compound conditionals containing __KERNEL__ in Arm64
  UAPI: Fix the guards on various asm/unistd.h files
  c6x: make dsk6455 the default config

compat: move compat_siginfo_t definition to asm/compat.h

2012-10-05T18:05:16+00:00

This is a preparatory patch for the introduction of NT_SIGINFO elf note.

Make the location of compat_siginfo_t uniform across eight architectures
which have it.  Now it can be pulled in by including asm/compat.h or
linux/compat.h.

Most of the copies are verbatim.  compat_uid[32]_t had to be replaced by
__compat_uid[32]_t.  compat_uptr_t had to be moved up before
compat_siginfo_t in asm/compat.h on a several architectures (tile already
had it moved up).  compat_sigval_t had to be relocated from linux/compat.h
to asm/compat.h.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Amerigo Wang 
Cc: "Jonathan M. Foote" 
Cc: Roland McGrath 
Cc: Pedro Alves 
Cc: Fengguang Wu 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds