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Dave Martin 94b07c1f8c arm64: signal: Report signal frame size to userspace via auxv
Stateful CPU architecture extensions may require the signal frame
to grow to a size that exceeds the arch's MINSIGSTKSZ #define.
However, changing this #define is an ABI break.

To allow userspace the option of determining the signal frame size
in a more forwards-compatible way, this patch adds a new auxv entry
tagged with AT_MINSIGSTKSZ, which provides the maximum signal frame
size that the process can observe during its lifetime.

If AT_MINSIGSTKSZ is absent from the aux vector, the caller can
assume that the MINSIGSTKSZ #define is sufficient.  This allows for
a consistent interface with older kernels that do not provide
AT_MINSIGSTKSZ.

The idea is that libc could expose this via sysconf() or some
similar mechanism.

There is deliberately no AT_SIGSTKSZ.  The kernel knows nothing
about userspace's own stack overheads and should not pretend to
know.

For arm64:

The primary motivation for this interface is the Scalable Vector
Extension, which can require at least 4KB or so of extra space
in the signal frame for the largest hardware implementations.

To determine the correct value, a "Christmas tree" mode (via the
add_all argument) is added to setup_sigframe_layout(), to simulate
addition of all possible records to the signal frame at maximum
possible size.

If this procedure goes wrong somehow, resulting in a stupidly large
frame layout and hence failure of sigframe_alloc() to allocate a
record to the frame, then this is indicative of a kernel bug.  In
this case, we WARN() and no attempt is made to populate
AT_MINSIGSTKSZ for userspace.

For arm64 SVE:

The SVE context block in the signal frame needs to be considered
too when computing the maximum possible signal frame size.

Because the size of this block depends on the vector length, this
patch computes the size based not on the thread's current vector
length but instead on the maximum possible vector length: this
determines the maximum size of SVE context block that can be
observed in any signal frame for the lifetime of the process.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2018-06-01 15:53:10 +01:00
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alpha mm: introduce MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE 2018-04-11 10:28:38 -07:00
arc kbuild: mark $(targets) as .SECONDARY and remove .PRECIOUS markers 2018-04-07 19:04:02 +09:00
arm Merge branch 'for-next/perf' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux 2018-05-31 18:09:38 +01:00
arm64 arm64: signal: Report signal frame size to userspace via auxv 2018-06-01 15:53:10 +01:00
c6x c6x: pass endianness info to sparse 2018-04-10 09:58:58 -04:00
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hexagon hexagon: export csum_partial_copy_nocheck 2018-05-01 15:49:50 -05:00
ia64 pci-v4.17-changes 2018-04-06 18:31:06 -07:00
m68k Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu 2018-04-09 09:15:46 -07:00
microblaze Microblaze patches for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-12 10:18:02 -07:00
mips MIPS fixes for 4.17-rc2 2018-04-20 08:25:31 -07:00
nds32 page cache: use xa_lock 2018-04-11 10:28:39 -07:00
nios2 nios2 update for v4.17-rc1 2018-04-11 16:02:18 -07:00
openrisc OpenRISC updates for v4.17 2018-04-15 12:27:58 -07:00
parisc parisc: Fix section mismatches 2018-05-02 21:47:35 +02:00
powerpc powerpc/kvm/booke: Fix altivec related build break 2018-04-27 16:36:03 +10:00
riscv drivers: base: cacheinfo: setup DT cache properties early 2018-05-17 17:27:49 +01:00
s390 s390: correct module section names for expoline code revert 2018-04-23 07:57:17 +02:00
sh Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-04-14 08:50:50 -07:00
sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc 2018-04-30 13:27:16 -07:00
um Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2018-04-11 16:36:47 -07:00
unicore32 unicore32: turn flush_dcache_mmap_lock into a no-op 2018-04-11 10:28:39 -07:00
x86 KVM fixes for v4.17-rc4 2018-05-06 05:46:29 -10:00
xtensa mm: introduce MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE 2018-04-11 10:28:38 -07:00
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