UML is using an obsolete itimer call for
all timers and "polls" for kernel space timer firing
in its userspace portion resulting in a long list
of bugs and incorrect behaviour(s). It also uses
ITIMER_VIRTUAL for its timer which results in the
timer being dependent on it running and the cpu
load.

This patch fixes this by moving to posix high resolution
timers firing off CLOCK_MONOTONIC and relaying the timer
correctly to the UML userspace.

Fixes:
 - crashes when hosts suspends/resumes
 - broken userspace timers - effecive ~40Hz instead
   of what they should be. Note - this modifies skas behavior
   by no longer setting an itimer per clone(). Timer events
   are relayed instead.
 - kernel network packet scheduling disciplines
 - tcp behaviour especially under load
 - various timer related corner cases

Finally, overall responsiveness of userspace is better.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov <aivanov@brocade.com>
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

We can use __NR_syscall_max.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

To support changing syscall numbers we have to store
it after syscall_trace_enter().

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

tracehook_report_syscall_entry() is allowed to fail,
in case of failure we have to abort the current syscall.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

Rework UML's uaccess code to reuse as much as possible
from asm-generic/uaccess.c.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

The linker script defines some variables which are declared either with
type char[] in include/asm-generic/sections.h or with a meaningless
integer type in arch/um/include/asm/sections.h.

Fix this inconsistency by declaring every variable char[].

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

arch/um/kernel/dyn.lds.S and arch/um/kernel/uml.lds.S define some
UML-specific symbols.  These symbols are used in the kernel part of UML
with extern declarations.

Move these declarations to a new header, asm/sections.h, like other
architectures do.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

At times where UML used the TT mode to operate it had
kind of SMP support. It never got finished nor was
stable.
Let's rip out that cruft and stop confusing developers
which do tree-wide SMP cleanups.

If someone wants SMP support UML it has do be done from scratch.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

Before we had SKAS0 UML had two modes of operation
TT (tracing thread) and SKAS3/4 (separated kernel address space).
TT was known to be insecure and got removed a long time ago.
SKAS3/4 required a few (3 or 4) patches on the host side which never went
mainline. The last host patch is 10 years old.

With SKAS0 mode (separated kernel address space using 0 host patches),
default since 2005, SKAS3/4 is obsolete and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

Ensure that a process cannot destroy his stub pages with
using MADV_DONTNEED and friends.

Reported-by: toralf.foerster@gmx.de
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>