19 Jun, 2007
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Move psw_set_key() from ptrace.h to processor.h which is a more
suitable place for it. In addition the moves makes the function
invisible to user space.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
06 Feb, 2007
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This provides a noexec protection on s390 hardware. Our hardware does
not have any bits left in the pte for a hw noexec bit, so this is a
different approach using shadow page tables and a special addressing
mode that allows separate address spaces for code and data.As a special feature of our "secondary-space" addressing mode, separate
page tables can be specified for the translation of data addresses
(storage operands) and instruction addresses. The shadow page table is
used for the instruction addresses and the standard page table for the
data addresses.
The shadow page table is linked to the standard page table by a pointer
in page->lru.next of the struct page corresponding to the page that
contains the standard page table (since page->private is not really
private with the pte_lock and the page table pages are not in the LRU
list).
Depending on the software bits of a pte, it is either inserted into
both page tables or just into the standard (data) page table. Pages of
a vma that does not have the VM_EXEC bit set get mapped only in the
data address space. Any try to execute code on such a page will cause a
page translation exception. The standard reaction to this is a SIGSEGV
with two exceptions: the two system call opcodes 0x0a77 (sys_sigreturn)
and 0x0aad (sys_rt_sigreturn) are allowed. They are stored by the
kernel to the signal stack frame. Unfortunately, the signal return
mechanism cannot be modified to use an SA_RESTORER because the
exception unwinding code depends on the system call opcode stored
behind the signal stack frame.This feature requires that user space is executed in secondary-space
mode and the kernel in home-space mode, which means that the addressing
modes need to be switched and that the noexec protection only works
for user space.
After switching the addressing modes, we cannot use the mvcp/mvcs
instructions anymore to copy between kernel and user space. A new
mvcos instruction has been added to the z9 EC/BC hardware which allows
to copy between arbitrary address spaces, but on older hardware the
page tables need to be walked manually.Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
02 Oct, 2006
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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
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Sep, 2006
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Major cleanup of all s390 inline assemblies. They now have a common
coding style. Quite a few have been shortened, mainly by using register
asm variables. Use of the EX_TABLE macro helps as well. The atomic ops,
bit ops and locking inlines new use the Q-constraint if a newer gcc
is used. That results in slightly better code.Thanks to Christian Borntraeger for proof reading the changes.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
27 Apr, 2006
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Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse
26 Apr, 2006
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Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse
07 Nov, 2005
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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
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle
Acked-By: David Howells
Acked-by: Russell King
Acked-by: Paul Mundt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Jun, 2005
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Improved machine check handling. Kernel is now able to receive machine checks
while in kernel mode (system call, interrupt and program check handling).
Also register validation is now performed.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 May, 2005
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Provide an easy way to define a non-zero storage key at compile time. This is
useful for debugging purposes.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Apr, 2005
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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!
