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<title>linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S, branch v4.11</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2017-03-01T18:10:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-01T18:10:16+00:00</published>
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Pull more powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights include:

   - an update of the disassembly code used by xmon to the latest
     versions in binutils. We've received permission from all the
     authors of the relevant binutils changes to relicense their changes
     to the relevant files from GPLv3 to GPLv2, for inclusion in Linux.
     Thanks to Peter Bergner for doing the leg work to get permission
     from everyone.

   - addition of the "architected" Power9 CPU table entry, allowing us
     to boot in Power9 architected mode under a hypervisor.

   - updates to the Power9 PMU code.

   - implementation of clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte() to optimise
     unlock_page().

   - Freescale updates from Scott: "Highlights include 8xx breakpoints
     and perf, t1042rdb display support, and board updates."

  Thanks to:
    Al Viro, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balbir Singh, Douglas
    Miller, Frédéric Weisbecker, Gavin Shan, Madhavan Srinivasan,
    Michael Roth, Nathan Fontenot, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Peter
    Bergner, Paul E. McKenney, Rashmica Gupta, Russell Currey, Sahil
    Mehta, Stewart Smith"

* tag 'powerpc-4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (48 commits)
  powerpc: Remove leftover cputime_to_nsecs call causing build error
  powerpc/mm/hash: Always clear UPRT and Host Radix bits when setting up CPU
  powerpc/optprobes: Fix TOC handling in optprobes trampoline
  powerpc/pseries: Advertise Hot Plug Event support to firmware
  cxl: fix nested locking hang during EEH hotplug
  powerpc/xmon: Dump memory in CPU endian format
  powerpc/pseries: Revert 'Auto-online hotplugged memory'
  powerpc/powernv: Make PCI non-optional
  powerpc/64: Implement clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte()
  powerpc/powernv: Remove unused variable in pnv_pci_sriov_disable()
  powerpc/kernel: Remove error message in pcibios_setup_phb_resources()
  powerpc/mm: Fix typo in set_pte_at()
  pci/hotplug/pnv-php: Disable MSI and PCI device properly
  pci/hotplug/pnv-php: Disable surprise hotplug capability on conflicts
  pci/hotplug/pnv-php: Remove WARN_ON() in pnv_php_put_slot()
  powerpc: Add POWER9 architected mode to cputable
  powerpc/perf: use is_kernel_addr macro in perf_get_misc_flags()
  powerpc/perf: Avoid FAB_*_MATCH checks for power9
  powerpc/perf: Add restrictions to PMC5 in power9 DD1
  powerpc/perf: Use Instruction Counter value
  ...
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Pull more powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights include:

   - an update of the disassembly code used by xmon to the latest
     versions in binutils. We've received permission from all the
     authors of the relevant binutils changes to relicense their changes
     to the relevant files from GPLv3 to GPLv2, for inclusion in Linux.
     Thanks to Peter Bergner for doing the leg work to get permission
     from everyone.

   - addition of the "architected" Power9 CPU table entry, allowing us
     to boot in Power9 architected mode under a hypervisor.

   - updates to the Power9 PMU code.

   - implementation of clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte() to optimise
     unlock_page().

   - Freescale updates from Scott: "Highlights include 8xx breakpoints
     and perf, t1042rdb display support, and board updates."

  Thanks to:
    Al Viro, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balbir Singh, Douglas
    Miller, Frédéric Weisbecker, Gavin Shan, Madhavan Srinivasan,
    Michael Roth, Nathan Fontenot, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Peter
    Bergner, Paul E. McKenney, Rashmica Gupta, Russell Currey, Sahil
    Mehta, Stewart Smith"

* tag 'powerpc-4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (48 commits)
  powerpc: Remove leftover cputime_to_nsecs call causing build error
  powerpc/mm/hash: Always clear UPRT and Host Radix bits when setting up CPU
  powerpc/optprobes: Fix TOC handling in optprobes trampoline
  powerpc/pseries: Advertise Hot Plug Event support to firmware
  cxl: fix nested locking hang during EEH hotplug
  powerpc/xmon: Dump memory in CPU endian format
  powerpc/pseries: Revert 'Auto-online hotplugged memory'
  powerpc/powernv: Make PCI non-optional
  powerpc/64: Implement clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte()
  powerpc/powernv: Remove unused variable in pnv_pci_sriov_disable()
  powerpc/kernel: Remove error message in pcibios_setup_phb_resources()
  powerpc/mm: Fix typo in set_pte_at()
  pci/hotplug/pnv-php: Disable MSI and PCI device properly
  pci/hotplug/pnv-php: Disable surprise hotplug capability on conflicts
  pci/hotplug/pnv-php: Remove WARN_ON() in pnv_php_put_slot()
  powerpc: Add POWER9 architected mode to cputable
  powerpc/perf: use is_kernel_addr macro in perf_get_misc_flags()
  powerpc/perf: Avoid FAB_*_MATCH checks for power9
  powerpc/perf: Add restrictions to PMC5 in power9 DD1
  powerpc/perf: Use Instruction Counter value
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/8xx: Perf events on PPC 8xx</title>
<updated>2017-01-26T23:49:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-15T12:42:18+00:00</published>
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This patch has been reworked since RFC version. In the RFC, this patch
was preceded by a patch clearing MSR RI for all PPC32 at all time at
exception prologs. Now MSR RI clearing is done only when this 8xx perf
events functionality is compiled in, it is therefore limited to 8xx
and merged inside this patch.
Other main changes have been to take into account detailed review from
Peter Zijlstra. The instructions counter has been reworked to behave
as a free running counter like the three other counters.

The 8xx has no PMU, however some events can be emulated by other means.

This patch implements the following events (as reported by 'perf list'):
  cpu-cycles OR cycles				[Hardware event]
  instructions					[Hardware event]
  dTLB-load-misses				[Hardware cache event]
  iTLB-load-misses				[Hardware cache event]

'cycles' event is implemented using the timebase clock. Timebase clock
corresponds to CPU clock divided by 16, so number of cycles is
approximatly 16 times the number of TB ticks

On the 8xx, TLB misses are handled by software. It is therefore
easy to count all TLB misses each time the TLB miss exception is
called.

'instructions' is calculated by using instruction watchpoint counter.
This patch sets counter A to count instructions at address greater
than 0, hence we count all instructions executed while MSR RI bit is
set. The counter is set to the maximum which is 0xffff. Every 65535
instructions, debug instruction breakpoint exception fires. The
exception handler increments a counter in memory which then
represent the upper part of the instruction counter. We therefore
end up with a 48 bits counter. In order to avoid unnecessary overhead
while no perf event is active, this counter is started when the first
event referring to this counter is added, and the counter is stopped
when the last event referring to it is deleted. In order to properly
support breakpoint exceptions, MSR RI bit has to be unset in exception
epilogs in order to avoid breakpoint exceptions during critical
sections during changes to SRR0 and SRR1 would be problematic.

All counters are handled as free running counters.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;oss@buserror.net&gt;
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This patch has been reworked since RFC version. In the RFC, this patch
was preceded by a patch clearing MSR RI for all PPC32 at all time at
exception prologs. Now MSR RI clearing is done only when this 8xx perf
events functionality is compiled in, it is therefore limited to 8xx
and merged inside this patch.
Other main changes have been to take into account detailed review from
Peter Zijlstra. The instructions counter has been reworked to behave
as a free running counter like the three other counters.

The 8xx has no PMU, however some events can be emulated by other means.

This patch implements the following events (as reported by 'perf list'):
  cpu-cycles OR cycles				[Hardware event]
  instructions					[Hardware event]
  dTLB-load-misses				[Hardware cache event]
  iTLB-load-misses				[Hardware cache event]

'cycles' event is implemented using the timebase clock. Timebase clock
corresponds to CPU clock divided by 16, so number of cycles is
approximatly 16 times the number of TB ticks

On the 8xx, TLB misses are handled by software. It is therefore
easy to count all TLB misses each time the TLB miss exception is
called.

'instructions' is calculated by using instruction watchpoint counter.
This patch sets counter A to count instructions at address greater
than 0, hence we count all instructions executed while MSR RI bit is
set. The counter is set to the maximum which is 0xffff. Every 65535
instructions, debug instruction breakpoint exception fires. The
exception handler increments a counter in memory which then
represent the upper part of the instruction counter. We therefore
end up with a 48 bits counter. In order to avoid unnecessary overhead
while no perf event is active, this counter is started when the first
event referring to this counter is added, and the counter is stopped
when the last event referring to it is deleted. In order to properly
support breakpoint exceptions, MSR RI bit has to be unset in exception
epilogs in order to avoid breakpoint exceptions during critical
sections during changes to SRR0 and SRR1 would be problematic.

All counters are handled as free running counters.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;oss@buserror.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/32: Remove FIX_SRR1</title>
<updated>2017-01-26T23:49:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-13T16:57:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2add203169fd6bf419176e283f701d26944bce41'/>
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FIX_SRR1() is defined as blank. Last useful instance of FIX_SRR1()
was removed by commit 40ef8cbc6d360 ("powerpc: Get 64-bit configs to
compile with ARCH=powerpc") in 2005.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;oss@buserror.net&gt;
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FIX_SRR1() is defined as blank. Last useful instance of FIX_SRR1()
was removed by commit 40ef8cbc6d360 ("powerpc: Get 64-bit configs to
compile with ARCH=powerpc") in 2005.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;oss@buserror.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Revert the initial stack protector support</title>
<updated>2017-01-24T10:37:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-24T10:37:20+00:00</published>
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Unfortunately the stack protector support we merged recently only works
on some toolchains. If the toolchain is built without glibc support
everything works fine, but if glibc is built then it leads to a panic
at boot.

The solution is not rc5 material, so revert the support for now. This
reverts commits:

6533b7c16ee5 ("powerpc: Initial stack protector (-fstack-protector) support")
902e06eb86cd ("powerpc/32: Change the stack protector canary value per task")

Fixes: 6533b7c16ee5 ("powerpc: Initial stack protector (-fstack-protector) support")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Unfortunately the stack protector support we merged recently only works
on some toolchains. If the toolchain is built without glibc support
everything works fine, but if glibc is built then it leads to a panic
at boot.

The solution is not rc5 material, so revert the support for now. This
reverts commits:

6533b7c16ee5 ("powerpc: Initial stack protector (-fstack-protector) support")
902e06eb86cd ("powerpc/32: Change the stack protector canary value per task")

Fixes: 6533b7c16ee5 ("powerpc: Initial stack protector (-fstack-protector) support")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/32: Change the stack protector canary value per task</title>
<updated>2016-11-23T11:57:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-22T10:49:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=902e06eb86cd62753974c249bd1dedae2825b430'/>
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Partially copied from commit df0698be14c66 ("ARM: stack protector:
change the canary value per task")

A new random value for the canary is stored in the task struct whenever
a new task is forked.  This is meant to allow for different canary values
per task.  On powerpc, GCC expects the canary value to be found in a global
variable called __stack_chk_guard.  So this variable has to be updated
with the value stored in the task struct whenever a task switch occurs.

Because the variable GCC expects is global, this cannot work on SMP
unfortunately.  So, on SMP, the same initial canary value is kept
throughout, making this feature a bit less effective although it is still
useful.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Partially copied from commit df0698be14c66 ("ARM: stack protector:
change the canary value per task")

A new random value for the canary is stored in the task struct whenever
a new task is forked.  This is meant to allow for different canary values
per task.  On powerpc, GCC expects the canary value to be found in a global
variable called __stack_chk_guard.  So this variable has to be updated
with the value stored in the task struct whenever a task switch occurs.

Because the variable GCC expects is global, this cannot work on SMP
unfortunately.  So, on SMP, the same initial canary value is kept
throughout, making this feature a bit less effective although it is still
useful.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild</title>
<updated>2016-10-14T21:26:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-14T21:26:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=84d69848c97faab0c25aa2667b273404d2e2a64a'/>
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Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.

   This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
   checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
   working on a patch to fix this.

   Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
   change prototypes.

 - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
   Piggin

 - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.

 - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
   -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections

 - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell

 - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
  initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
  ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
  powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
  kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
  kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
  kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
  kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
  kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
  kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
  fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
  ia64: move exports to definitions
  sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
  [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
  sparc: move exports to definitions
  ppc: move exports to definitions
  arm: move exports to definitions
  s390: move exports to definitions
  m68k: move exports to definitions
  alpha: move exports to actual definitions
  x86: move exports to actual definitions
  ...
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<pre>
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.

   This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
   checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
   working on a patch to fix this.

   Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
   change prototypes.

 - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
   Piggin

 - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.

 - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
   -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections

 - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell

 - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
  initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
  ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
  powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
  kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
  kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
  kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
  kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
  kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
  kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
  fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
  ia64: move exports to definitions
  sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
  [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
  sparc: move exports to definitions
  ppc: move exports to definitions
  arm: move exports to definitions
  s390: move exports to definitions
  m68k: move exports to definitions
  alpha: move exports to actual definitions
  x86: move exports to actual definitions
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/32: Remove CLR_TOP32</title>
<updated>2016-09-22T21:54:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-05T11:27:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=148151a66a74bf43c6acc932a3f6cca464837b78'/>
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CLR_TOP32() is defined as blank. Last useful instance of CLR_TOP32()
was removed by commit 40ef8cbc6d360 ("powerpc: Get 64-bit configs to
compile with ARCH=powerpc") in 2005.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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CLR_TOP32() is defined as blank. Last useful instance of CLR_TOP32()
was removed by commit 40ef8cbc6d360 ("powerpc: Get 64-bit configs to
compile with ARCH=powerpc") in 2005.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ppc: move exports to definitions</title>
<updated>2016-08-08T03:50:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-14T04:33:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9445aa1a3062a75a4d9de78026816ebc941e7b99'/>
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<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc32: provide VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING</title>
<updated>2016-07-09T06:43:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-17T06:33:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c223c90386bc2306510e0ceacd768a0123ff2a2f'/>
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This patch provides VIRT_CPU_ACCOUTING to PPC32 architecture.
PPC32 doesn't have the PACA structure, so we use the task_info
structure to store the accounting data.

In order to reuse on PPC32 the PPC64 functions, all u64 data has
been replaced by 'unsigned long' so that it is u32 on PPC32 and
u64 on PPC64

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;oss@buserror.net&gt;
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This patch provides VIRT_CPU_ACCOUTING to PPC32 architecture.
PPC32 doesn't have the PACA structure, so we use the task_info
structure to store the accounting data.

In order to reuse on PPC32 the PPC64 functions, all u64 data has
been replaced by 'unsigned long' so that it is u32 on PPC32 and
u64 on PPC64

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;oss@buserror.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/kernel: Change the do_syscall_trace_enter() API</title>
<updated>2015-07-29T01:56:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-23T10:21:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d38374142b2560f233961ed3756416c68af6c6cb'/>
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The API for calling do_syscall_trace_enter() is currently sensible
enough, it just returns the (modified) syscall number.

However once we enable seccomp filter it will get more complicated. When
seccomp filter runs, the seccomp kernel code (via SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO), or
a ptracer (via SECCOMP_RET_TRACE), may reject the syscall and *may* or may
*not* set a return value in r3.

That means the assembler that calls do_syscall_trace_enter() can not
blindly return ENOSYS, it needs to only return ENOSYS if a return value
has not already been set.

There is no way to implement that logic with the current API. So change
the do_syscall_trace_enter() API to make it deal with the return code
juggling, and the assembler can then just return whatever return code it
is given.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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The API for calling do_syscall_trace_enter() is currently sensible
enough, it just returns the (modified) syscall number.

However once we enable seccomp filter it will get more complicated. When
seccomp filter runs, the seccomp kernel code (via SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO), or
a ptracer (via SECCOMP_RET_TRACE), may reject the syscall and *may* or may
*not* set a return value in r3.

That means the assembler that calls do_syscall_trace_enter() can not
blindly return ENOSYS, it needs to only return ENOSYS if a return value
has not already been set.

There is no way to implement that logic with the current API. So change
the do_syscall_trace_enter() API to make it deal with the return code
juggling, and the assembler can then just return whatever return code it
is given.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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