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<title>uml: fix FP register corruption</title>
<updated>2008-02-24T01:12:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Dike</name>
<email>jdike@addtoit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-23T23:23:49+00:00</published>
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Commit ee3d9bd4de1ed93d2a7ee41c331ed30a1c7b8acd ("uml: simplify SIGSEGV
handling"), while greatly simplifying the kernel SIGSEGV handler that
runs in the process address space, introduced a bug which corrupts FP
state in the process.

Previously, the SIGSEGV handler called the sigreturn system call by hand - it
couldn't return through the restorer provided to it because that could try to
call the libc restorer which likely wouldn't exist in the process address
space.  So, it blocked off some signals, including SIGUSR1, on entry to the
SIGSEGV handler, queued a SIGUSR1 to itself, and invoked sigreturn.  The
SIGUSR1 was delivered, and was visible to the UML kernel after sigreturn
finished.

The commit eliminated the signal masking and the call to sigreturn.  The
handler simply hits itself with a SIGTRAP to let the UML kernel know that it
is finished.  UML then restores the process registers, which effectively
longjmps the process out of the signal handler, skipping sigreturn's restoring
of register state and the signal mask.

The bug is that the host apparently sets used_fp to 0 when it saves the
process FP state in the sigcontext on the process signal stack.  Thus, when
the process is longjmped out of the handler, its FP state is corrupt because
it wasn't saved on the context switch to the UML kernel.

This manifested itself as sleep hanging.  For some reason, sleep uses floating
point in order to calculate the sleep interval.  When a page fault corrupts
its FP state, it is faked into essentially sleeping forever.

This patch saves the FP state before entering the SIGSEGV handler and restores
it afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit ee3d9bd4de1ed93d2a7ee41c331ed30a1c7b8acd ("uml: simplify SIGSEGV
handling"), while greatly simplifying the kernel SIGSEGV handler that
runs in the process address space, introduced a bug which corrupts FP
state in the process.

Previously, the SIGSEGV handler called the sigreturn system call by hand - it
couldn't return through the restorer provided to it because that could try to
call the libc restorer which likely wouldn't exist in the process address
space.  So, it blocked off some signals, including SIGUSR1, on entry to the
SIGSEGV handler, queued a SIGUSR1 to itself, and invoked sigreturn.  The
SIGUSR1 was delivered, and was visible to the UML kernel after sigreturn
finished.

The commit eliminated the signal masking and the call to sigreturn.  The
handler simply hits itself with a SIGTRAP to let the UML kernel know that it
is finished.  UML then restores the process registers, which effectively
longjmps the process out of the signal handler, skipping sigreturn's restoring
of register state and the signal mask.

The bug is that the host apparently sets used_fp to 0 when it saves the
process FP state in the sigcontext on the process signal stack.  Thus, when
the process is longjmped out of the handler, its FP state is corrupt because
it wasn't saved on the context switch to the UML kernel.

This manifested itself as sleep hanging.  For some reason, sleep uses floating
point in order to calculate the sleep interval.  When a page fault corrupts
its FP state, it is faked into essentially sleeping forever.

This patch saves the FP state before entering the SIGSEGV handler and restores
it afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>uml: fix mm_context memory leak</title>
<updated>2008-02-08T17:22:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Dike</name>
<email>jdike@addtoit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-08T12:22:11+00:00</published>
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[ Spotted by Miklos ]

Fix a memory leak in init_new_context.  The struct page ** buffer allocated
for install_special_mapping was never recorded, and thus leaked when the
mm_struct was freed.  Fix it by saving the pointer in mm_context_t and freeing
it in arch_exit_mmap.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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[ Spotted by Miklos ]

Fix a memory leak in init_new_context.  The struct page ** buffer allocated
for install_special_mapping was never recorded, and thus leaked when the
mm_struct was freed.  Fix it by saving the pointer in mm_context_t and freeing
it in arch_exit_mmap.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>uml: style fixes in arch/um/os-Linux</title>
<updated>2008-02-08T17:22:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Dike</name>
<email>jdike@addtoit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-08T12:22:08+00:00</published>
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Style changes under arch/um/os-Linux:
	include trimming
	CodingStyle fixes
	some printks needed severity indicators

make_tempfile turns out not to be used outside of mem.c, so it is now static.
Its declaration in tempfile.h is no longer needed, and tempfile.h itself is no
longer needed.

create_tmp_file was also made static.

checkpatch moans about an EXPORT_SYMBOL in user_syms.c which is part of a
macro definition - this is copying a bit of kernel infrastructure into the
libc side of UML because the kernel headers can't be included there.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Style changes under arch/um/os-Linux:
	include trimming
	CodingStyle fixes
	some printks needed severity indicators

make_tempfile turns out not to be used outside of mem.c, so it is now static.
Its declaration in tempfile.h is no longer needed, and tempfile.h itself is no
longer needed.

create_tmp_file was also made static.

checkpatch moans about an EXPORT_SYMBOL in user_syms.c which is part of a
macro definition - this is copying a bit of kernel infrastructure into the
libc side of UML because the kernel headers can't be included there.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>uml: runtime host VMSPLIT detection</title>
<updated>2008-02-08T17:22:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Dike</name>
<email>jdike@addtoit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-08T12:22:07+00:00</published>
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Calculate TASK_SIZE at run-time by figuring out the host's VMSPLIT - this is
needed on i386 if UML is to run on hosts with varying VMSPLITs without
recompilation.

TASK_SIZE is now defined in terms of a variable, task_size.  This gets rid of
an include of pgtable.h from processor.h, which can cause include loops.

On i386, task_size is calculated early in boot by probing the address space in
a binary search to figure out where the boundary between usable and non-usable
memory is.  This tries to make sure that a page that is considered to be in
userspace is, or can be made, read-write.  I'm concerned about a system-global
VDSO page in kernel memory being hit and considered to be a userspace page.

On x86_64, task_size is just the old value of CONFIG_TOP_ADDR.

A bunch of config variable are gone now.  CONFIG_TOP_ADDR is directly replaced
by TASK_SIZE.  NEST_LEVEL is gone since the relocation of the stubs makes it
irrelevant.  All the HOST_VMSPLIT stuff is gone.  All references to these in
arch/um/Makefile are also gone.

I noticed and fixed a missing extern in os.h when adding os_get_task_size.

Note: This has been revised to fix the 32-bit UML on 64-bit host bug that
Miklos ran into.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Calculate TASK_SIZE at run-time by figuring out the host's VMSPLIT - this is
needed on i386 if UML is to run on hosts with varying VMSPLITs without
recompilation.

TASK_SIZE is now defined in terms of a variable, task_size.  This gets rid of
an include of pgtable.h from processor.h, which can cause include loops.

On i386, task_size is calculated early in boot by probing the address space in
a binary search to figure out where the boundary between usable and non-usable
memory is.  This tries to make sure that a page that is considered to be in
userspace is, or can be made, read-write.  I'm concerned about a system-global
VDSO page in kernel memory being hit and considered to be a userspace page.

On x86_64, task_size is just the old value of CONFIG_TOP_ADDR.

A bunch of config variable are gone now.  CONFIG_TOP_ADDR is directly replaced
by TASK_SIZE.  NEST_LEVEL is gone since the relocation of the stubs makes it
irrelevant.  All the HOST_VMSPLIT stuff is gone.  All references to these in
arch/um/Makefile are also gone.

I noticed and fixed a missing extern in os.h when adding os_get_task_size.

Note: This has been revised to fix the 32-bit UML on 64-bit host bug that
Miklos ran into.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>uml: redo the calculation of NR_syscalls</title>
<updated>2008-02-05T17:44:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Dike</name>
<email>jdike@addtoit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-05T06:31:29+00:00</published>
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Redo the calculation of NR_syscalls since that disappeared from i386 and
use a similar mechanism on x86_64.

We now figure out the size of the system call table in arch code and stick
that in syscall_table_size.  arch/um/kernel/skas/syscall.c defines
NR_syscalls in terms of that since its the only thing that needs to know
how many system calls there are.

The old mechananism that was used on x86_64 is gone.

arch/um/include/sysdep-i386/syscalls.h got some formatting since I was
looking at it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: WANG Cong &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Redo the calculation of NR_syscalls since that disappeared from i386 and
use a similar mechanism on x86_64.

We now figure out the size of the system call table in arch code and stick
that in syscall_table_size.  arch/um/kernel/skas/syscall.c defines
NR_syscalls in terms of that since its the only thing that needs to know
how many system calls there are.

The old mechananism that was used on x86_64 is gone.

arch/um/include/sysdep-i386/syscalls.h got some formatting since I was
looking at it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: WANG Cong &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>uml: remove unused fields from mm_context</title>
<updated>2008-02-05T17:44:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Dike</name>
<email>jdike@addtoit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-05T06:31:22+00:00</published>
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The 3-level page table fixes forgot to remove a couple now-unused fields from
struct mm_context.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The 3-level page table fixes forgot to remove a couple now-unused fields from
struct mm_context.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>uml: style fixes in arch/um/sys-x86_64</title>
<updated>2008-02-05T17:44:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Dike</name>
<email>jdike@addtoit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-05T06:31:20+00:00</published>
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Style fixes in arch/um/sys-x86_64:
	updated copyrights
	CodingStyle fixes
	added severities to printks which needed them

A bunch of functions in sys-*/ptrace_user.c turn out to be unused, so they and
their declarations are gone.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Style fixes in arch/um/sys-x86_64:
	updated copyrights
	CodingStyle fixes
	added severities to printks which needed them

A bunch of functions in sys-*/ptrace_user.c turn out to be unused, so they and
their declarations are gone.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>uml: SMP locking commentary</title>
<updated>2008-02-05T17:44:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Dike</name>
<email>jdike@addtoit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-05T06:31:17+00:00</published>
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Add some more commentary about various pieces of global data not needing
locking.

Also got rid of unmap_physmem since that is no longer used.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add some more commentary about various pieces of global data not needing
locking.

Also got rid of unmap_physmem since that is no longer used.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>uml: remove init_irq_signals</title>
<updated>2008-02-05T17:44:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Dike</name>
<email>jdike@addtoit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-05T06:31:16+00:00</published>
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init_irq_signals doesn't need to be called from the context of a new process.
It initializes handlers, which are useless in process context.  With that call
gone, init_irq_signals has only one caller, so it can be inlined into
init_new_thread_signals.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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init_irq_signals doesn't need to be called from the context of a new process.
It initializes handlers, which are useless in process context.  With that call
gone, init_irq_signals has only one caller, so it can be inlined into
init_new_thread_signals.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>uml: move sig_handler_common_skas</title>
<updated>2008-02-05T17:44:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Dike</name>
<email>jdike@addtoit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-05T06:31:12+00:00</published>
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This patch moves sig_handler_common_skas from
arch/um/os-Linux/skas/trap.c to its only caller in
arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c.  trap.c is now empty, so it can be removed.

This is code movement only - the significant cleanup needed here is
done in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This patch moves sig_handler_common_skas from
arch/um/os-Linux/skas/trap.c to its only caller in
arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c.  trap.c is now empty, so it can be removed.

This is code movement only - the significant cleanup needed here is
done in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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