linux.git/arch/s390/kernel/entry.h, branch v4.12

s390: add a system call for guarded storage

2017-03-22T07:14:25+00:00

This adds a new system call to enable the use of guarded storage for
user space processes. The system call takes two arguments, a command
and pointer to a guarded storage control block:

    s390_guarded_storage(int command, struct gs_cb *gs_cb);

The second argument is relevant only for the GS_SET_BC_CB command.

The commands in detail:

0 - GS_ENABLE
    Enable the guarded storage facility for the current task. The
    initial content of the guarded storage control block will be
    all zeros. After the enablement the user space code can use
    load-guarded-storage-controls instruction (LGSC) to load an
    arbitrary control block. While a task is enabled the kernel
    will save and restore the current content of the guarded
    storage registers on context switch.
1 - GS_DISABLE
    Disables the use of the guarded storage facility for the current
    task. The kernel will cease to save and restore the content of
    the guarded storage registers, the task specific content of
    these registers is lost.
2 - GS_SET_BC_CB
    Set a broadcast guarded storage control block. This is called
    per thread and stores a specific guarded storage control block
    in the task struct of the current task. This control block will
    be used for the broadcast event GS_BROADCAST.
3 - GS_CLEAR_BC_CB
    Clears the broadcast guarded storage control block. The guarded-
    storage control block is removed from the task struct that was
    established by GS_SET_BC_CB.
4 - GS_BROADCAST
    Sends a broadcast to all thread siblings of the current task.
    Every sibling that has established a broadcast guarded storage
    control block will load this control block and will be enabled
    for guarded storage. The broadcast guarded storage control block
    is used up, a second broadcast without a refresh of the stored
    control block with GS_SET_BC_CB will not have any effect.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390: restore address space when returning to user space

2017-02-23T09:06:38+00:00

Unbalanced set_fs usages (e.g. early exit from a function and a
forgotten set_fs(USER_DS) call) may lead to a situation where the
secondary asce is the kernel space asce when returning to user
space. This would allow user space to modify kernel space at will.

This would only be possible with the above mentioned kernel bug,
however we can detect this and fix the secondary asce before returning
to user space.

Therefore a new TIF_ASCE_SECONDARY which is used within set_fs. When
returning to user space check if TIF_ASCE_SECONDARY is set, which
would indicate a bug. If it is set print a message to the console,
fixup the secondary asce, and then return to user space.

This is similar to what is being discussed for x86 and arm:
"[RFC] syscalls: Restore address limit after a syscall".

Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/als: convert architecture level set code to C

2016-07-31T09:27:58+00:00

There is no reason to have this code in assembly language. Therefore
convert it to C.

Note that this code needs special treatment: it is called very early
and one of the side effects is that e.g. the bss section is not
cleared. Therefore the preferred way for static variables is to put
them on the stack which has a size of 16KB.

There is no functional change with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Reviewed-by: Sascha Silbe 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390: add missing declarations

2016-05-10T11:24:51+00:00

arch_dup_task_struct and the per cpu variable mt_cycles are globally
visible, but do not have any header file with a declaration.
Therefore add it so we have proper type checking in place.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/udelay: make udelay have busy loop semantics

2015-10-14T12:32:13+00:00

When using systemtap it was observed that our udelay implementation is
rather suboptimal if being called from a kprobe handler installed by
systemtap.

The problem observed when a kprobe was installed on lock_acquired().
When the probe was hit the kprobe handler did call udelay, which set
up an (internal) timer and reenabled interrupts (only the clock comparator
interrupt) and waited for the interrupt.
This is an optimization to avoid that the cpu is busy looping while waiting
that enough time passes. The problem is that the interrupt handler still
does call irq_enter()/irq_exit() which then again can lead to a deadlock,
since some accounting functions may take locks as well.

If one of these locks is the same, which caused lock_acquired() to be
called, we have a nice deadlock.

This patch reworks the udelay code for the interrupts disabled case to
immediately leave the low level interrupt handler when the clock
comparator interrupt happens. That way no C code is being called and the
deadlock cannot happen anymore.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Reviewed-by: Martin Schwidefsky 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/fpu: always enable the vector facility if it is available

2015-10-14T12:32:08+00:00

If the kernel detects that the s390 hardware supports the vector
facility, it is enabled by default at an early stage.  To force
it off, use the novx kernel parameter.  Note that there is a small
time window, where the vector facility is enabled before it is
forced to be off.

With enabling the vector facility by default, the FPU save and
restore functions can be improved.  They do not longer require
to manage expensive control register updates to enable or disable
the vector enablement control for particular processes.

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner 
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/signal: add sys_sigreturn and sys_rt_sigreturn declarations

2015-01-08T09:02:49+00:00

Get rid of sparse warnings like this one:
arch/s390/kernel/signal.c:244:1:
  warning: symbol 'sys_sigreturn' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

s390/kernel: add system calls for PCI memory access

2014-11-19T08:46:43+00:00

Add the new __NR_s390_pci_mmio_write and __NR_s390_pci_mmio_read
system calls to allow user space applications to access device PCI I/O
memory pages on s390x platform.

[ Martin Schwidefsky: some code beautification ]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Ishchuk 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390: add support for vector extension

2014-10-09T07:14:13+00:00

The vector extension introduces 32 128-bit vector registers and a set of
instruction to operate on the vector registers.

The kernel can control the use of vector registers for the problem state
program with a bit in control register 0. Once enabled for a process the
kernel needs to retain the content of the vector registers on context
switch. The signal frame is extended to include the vector registers.
Two new register sets NT_S390_VXRS_LOW and NT_S390_VXRS_HIGH are added
to the regset interface for the debugger and core dumps.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/idle: consolidate idle functions and definitions

2014-10-09T07:14:03+00:00

Move the C functions and definitions related to the idle state handling
to arch/s390/include/asm/idle.h and arch/s390/kernel/idle.c. The function
s390_get_idle_time is renamed to arch_cpu_idle_time and vtime_stop_cpu to
enabled_wait.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky