Currently parisc has the whole kernel marked as RWX, meaning any
kernel page at all is eligible to be executed. This can cause a
theoretical problem on systems with combined I/D TLB because the act
of referencing a page causes a TLB insertion with an executable bit.
This TLB entry may be used by the CPU as the basis for speculating the
page into the I-Cache. If this speculated page is subsequently used
for a user process, there is the possibility we will get a stale
I-cache line picked up as the binary executes.
As a point of good practise, only mark actual kernel text pages as
executable. The same has to be done for init_text pages, but they're
converted to data pages (and the I-Cache flushed) when the init memory
is released.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
This was used to flush a region even if the page table entry had been
cleared. In theory this was never necessary, but now we've switched to
alias based flushing, the whole set of code associated with it can be dumped.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
The kernel has an 8M tmpailas space (originally designed for copying
and clearing pages but now only used for clearing). The idea is
to place zeros into the cache above a physical page rather than into
the physical page and flush the cache, because often the zeros end up
being replaced quickly anyway.
We can also use the tmpalias space for flushing a page. The difference
here is that we have to do tmpalias processing in the non access data and
instruction traps. The principle is the same: as long as we know the physical
address and have a virtual address congruent to the real one, the flush will
be effective.
In order to use the tmpalias space, the icache miss path has to be enhanced to
check for the alias region to make the fic instruction effective.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
The EXTR, DEP and DEPI macros are unnecessary. There are PA 1.X
pneumonics available with the same functionality, and the DEP and DEPI
macros conflict with assembler pneumonics.
Tested on a variety of 32 and 64-bit systems.
Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
task->ptrace flags belong to generic code, so instead thief some
TIF_ bits to use. Somewhat risky conversion of code to test TASK_FLAGS
instead of TASK_PTRACE in assembly, but it looks alright in the end.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Implement TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME for most of those architectures in which isn't yet
available, and, whilst we're at it, have it call the appropriate tracehook.
After this patch, blackfin, m68k* and xtensa still lack support and need
alteration of assembly code to make it work.
Resume notification can then be used (by a later patch) to install a new
session keyring on the parent of a process.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
This patch adds the ftrace debugging functionality to the parisc kernel.
It will currently only work with 64bit kernels, because the gcc options -pg
and -ffunction-sections can't be enabled at the same time and -ffunction-sections
is still needed to be able to link 32bit kernels.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Introduce new convert_for_tlb_insert20 macro and use it to replace assembler
statements with hardcoded constants.
This change allows the parisc64 kernel to boot with 16kb default kernel page size,
aka CONFIG_PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_16KB=y.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
A few small fixups:
* _PAGE_SIZE_ENCODING_DEFAULT is wrong here, as one might assume that
it's possible to define the page size that way. This is wrong. Use 0 instead.
* use constants instead of hardcoded numerical values in depi and extru
while building the PFN out of the pte entry
* use SHRREG instead of extru (iitlba expects the PFN at bits {7..26})
Still wondering why we can use the same register (pte) as extru source
and target register, but it seems to work on PA1.1 and PA2.0...
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Add braces around the macro arguments, else for example
"shl %r1, 5-3, %r2" would not expand to what you would assume.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
This trivial patch fixes the following section warnings on PARISC:
> WARNING: vmlinux.o (.text.1): unexpected section name.
>The (.[number]+) following section name are ld generated and not expected.
> Did you forget to use "ax"/"aw" in a .S file?
> Note that for example <linux/init.h> contains
> section definitions for use in .S files.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Amazingly, parisc was the only arch effected by this...
Convert register-sized loads/stores to always be 32-bit for these fields.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Kyle,
This patch removes remnants of softirq support that we no longer need.
I suspect this was just overlooked when willy convert parisc to generic
IRQ support.
Tested on c3600 32-bit UP.
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
[and tested on a c8000 64-bit SMP --kyle]
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Abstract existing shift register left macros as shift register
right are. This lends itself to a nice clean up of some #ifdef
blocks in entry.S
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
The patch below corrects multiple occurances of "the the"
typos across several files, both in source comments and KConfig files.
There is no actual code changed, only text. Note this only affects the /arch
directory, and I believe I could find many more elsewhere. :)
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
ldcw,co should always be used on pa2.0, otherwise the strict cache
width alignment requirement is not relaxed.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
More work towards supporing multiple page sizes on 64-bit. Convert
some assumptions that 64bit uses 3 level page tables into testing
PT_NLEVELS. Also some BUG() to BUG_ON() conversions and some cleanups
to assembler.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
We were only copying 32-bits of the PTE/PFN, not the full 52-bits.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Document clobbers and args in entry.S and syscall.S.
entry.S: Add comment to indicate that cr27 may recycle and EDEADLOCK
detection is not 100% correct. Since this is only enabled when using
ENABLE_LWS_DEBUG, the user is warned by the comment.
Signed-off-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
remove the spurious do_softirq calls from entry.S
With these in we were calling do_softirq twice; plus the calls in
entry.S took no account of nesting.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Fix the alloc_slabmgmt panic
Hopefully this should also fix a lot of other intermittent kernel bugs.
The problem has been around since 2.6.9-rc2-pa6 when we allowed
floating point registers to be used in kernel code. The essence of
the problem is that gcc prefers to use floating point for integer
divides and multiples. Further, it can rely on the values in the no
clobber fp regs being correct across a function call. Unfortunately,
our task switch function only saves the integer no clobber registers,
not the fp ones, so if gcc makes a function call to any function in
the kernel which could sleep, the values it is relying on in any no
clobber floating point register may be lost. In the case of
alloc_slabmgmt, the value of the page offset is being stored in %fr12
across a call to kmem_getpages(), which sleeps if no pages are
available. Thus, the offset can be trashed and the slab code can end
up with a completely bogus address leading to corruption.
Kudos to Randolph who came up with the program to trip this problem at
will and thus allowed it to be tracked and fixed.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
convert some bl calls to b,l or bv to use longer offsets
Signed-off-by: Randolph Chung <tausq@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2.6.12-rc4-pa3 : first pass at making sure use of RFI conforms to
PA 2.0 arch pages F-4 and F-5, PA 1.1 Arch page 3-19 and 3-20.
The discussion revolves around all the rules for clearing PSW Q-bit.
The hard part is meeting all the rules for "relied upon translation".
.align directive is used to guarantee the critical sequence ends more than
8 instructions (32 bytes) from the end of page.
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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!
