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Tony Luck
4dcc29e157 [IA64] Workaround for RSE issue
Problem: An application violating the architectural rules regarding
operation dependencies and having specific Register Stack Engine (RSE)
state at the time of the violation, may result in an illegal operation
fault and invalid RSE state.  Such faults may initiate a cascade of
repeated illegal operation faults within OS interruption handlers.
The specific behavior is OS dependent.

Implication: An application causing an illegal operation fault with
specific RSE state may result in a series of illegal operation faults
and an eventual OS stack overflow condition.

Workaround: OS interruption handlers that switch to kernel backing
store implement a check for invalid RSE state to avoid the series
of illegal operation faults.

The core of the workaround is the RSE_WORKAROUND code sequence
inserted into each invocation of the SAVE_MIN_WITH_COVER and
SAVE_MIN_WITH_COVER_R19 macros.  This sequence includes hard-coded
constants that depend on the number of stacked physical registers
being 96.  The rest of this patch consists of code to disable this
workaround should this not be the case (with the presumption that
if a future Itanium processor increases the number of registers, it
would also remove the need for this patch).

Move the start of the RBS up to a mod32 boundary to avoid some
corner cases.

The dispatch_illegal_op_fault code outgrew the spot it was
squatting in when built with this patch and CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y
Move it out to the end of the ivt.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-05-27 13:24:39 -07:00
Petr Tesarik
8db3f52541 [IA64] remove duplicate code from arch_ptrace()
Remove all code which does exactly the same thing as ptrace_request().

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-03-05 15:49:11 -08:00
Petr Tesarik
eac738e6ce [IA64] convert sys_ptrace to arch_ptrace
Convert sys_ptrace() to arch_ptrace().

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-03-05 15:48:47 -08:00
Petr Tesarik
aa91a2e900 [IA64] Synchronize RBS on PTRACE_ATTACH
When attaching to a stopped process, the RSE must be explicitly
synced to user-space, so the debugger can read the correct values.

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
CC: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-02-08 12:01:29 -08:00
Petr Tesarik
3b2ce0b178 [IA64] Synchronize kernel RSE to user-space and back
This is base kernel patch for ptrace RSE bug. It's basically a backport
from the utrace RSE patch I sent out several weeks ago. please review.

when a thread is stopped (ptraced), debugger might change thread's user
stack (change memory directly), and we must avoid the RSE stored in
kernel to override user stack (user space's RSE is newer than kernel's
in the case). To workaround the issue, we copy kernel RSE to user RSE
before the task is stopped, so user RSE has updated data.  we then copy
user RSE to kernel after the task is resummed from traced stop and
kernel will use the newer RSE to return to user.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
CC: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-02-08 12:01:18 -08:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
b3f827cb0f [PATCH] Add regs_return_value() helper
Add the regs_return_value() macro to extract the return value in an
architecture agnostic manner, given the pt_regs.

Other architecture maintainers may want to add similar helpers.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02 07:57:16 -07:00
David Woodhouse
d5759641f5 [PATCH] Fix 'make headers_check' on ia64
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 17:44 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> asm-ia64/ptrace.h requires asm/asm-offsets.h, which does not exist
> asm-ia64/resource.h requires asm/ustack.h, which does not exist

Hide parts which shouldn't be visible to userspace.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-16 12:54:32 -07:00
David Woodhouse
62c4f0a2d5 Don't include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-04-26 12:56:16 +01:00
Al Viro
6450578f32 [PATCH] ia64: task_pt_regs()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:58 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
481bed4542 [PATCH] consolidate sys_ptrace()
The sys_ptrace boilerplate code (everything outside the big switch
statement for the arch-specific requests) is shared by most architectures.
This patch moves it to kernel/ptrace.c and leaves the arch-specific code as
arch_ptrace.

Some architectures have a too different ptrace so we have to exclude them.
They continue to keep their implementations.  For sh64 I had to add a
sh64_ptrace wrapper because it does some initialization on the first call.
For um I removed an ifdefed SUBARCH_PTRACE_SPECIAL block, but
SUBARCH_PTRACE_SPECIAL isn't defined anywhere in the tree.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:42 -08:00
Tony Luck
82f1b07b9a [IA64] fix circular dependency on generation of asm-offsets.h
Fix?  One ugly hack is replaced by a different ugly hack.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-13 08:50:39 -07:00
Keith Owens
e619ae0b96 [IA64] MCA/INIT: add an extra thread_info flag
Add an extra thread_info flag to indicate the special MCA/INIT stacks.
Mainly for debuggers.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-11 14:02:10 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
0013a85454 kbuild: m68k,parisc,ppc,ppc64,s390,xtensa use generic asm-offsets.h support
Delete obsoleted parts form arch makefiles and rename to asm-offsets.h

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-09 20:57:26 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00