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* ARM: 8329/1: miscellaneous vdso infrastructure, preparationNathan Lynch2015-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Define the layout of the data structure shared between kernel and userspace. Track the vdso address in the mm_context; needed for communicating AT_SYSINFO_EHDR to the ELF loader. Add declarations for arm_install_vdso; implementation is in a following patch. Define AT_SYSINFO_EHDR, and, if CONFIG_VDSO=y, report the vdso shared object address via the ELF auxiliary vector. Note - this adds the AT_SYSINFO_EHDR in a new user-visible header asm/auxvec.h; this is consistent with other architectures. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* ARM: perf: add support for perf registers APIWill Deacon2013-09-30
| | | | | | | | | This patch implements the functions required for the perf registers API, allowing the perf tool to interface kernel register dumps with libunwind in order to provide userspace backtracing. Cc: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
* ARM: 7791/1: a.out: remove partial a.out supportWill Deacon2013-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | a.out support on ARM requires that argc, argv and envp are passed in r0-r2 respectively, which requires hacking load_aout_binary to prevent argc being clobbered by the return code. Whilst mainline kernels do set the registers up in start_thread, the aout loader has never carried the hack in mainline. Initialising the registers in this way actually goes against the libc expectations for ELF binaries, where argc, argv and envp are passed on the stack, with r0 being used to hold a pointer to an exit function for cleaning up after the dynamic linker if required. If the pointer is NULL, then it is ignored. When execing an ELF binary, Linux currently zeroes r0, then sets it to argc and then finally clobbers it with the return value of the execve syscall, so we actually end up with: r0 = 0 stack[0] = argc r1 = stack[1] = argv r2 = stack[2] = envp libc treats r1 and r2 as undefined. The clobbering of r0 by sys_execve works for user-spawned threads, but when executing an ELF binary from a kernel thread (via call_usermodehelper), the execve is performed on the ret_from_fork path, which restores r0 from the saved pt_regs, resulting in argc being presented to the C library. This has horrible consequences when the application exits, since we have an exit function registered using argc, resulting in a jump to hyperspace. This patch solves the problem by removing the partial a.out support from arch/arm/ altogether. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Ashish Sangwan <ashishsangwan2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/arm/include/asmDavid Howells2012-10-12
| | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* UAPI: (Scripted) Set up UAPI Kbuild filesDavid Howells2012-10-02
Set up empty UAPI Kbuild files to be populated by the header splitter. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>