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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.
It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access. But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.
A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model. And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.
This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.
There were a couple of notable cases:
- csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.
- the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
really used it)
- microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout
but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.
I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something. Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We expect that a kernel with CONFIG_FPU=y can still support no-FPU
machines. To do so, the kernel should first examine the existence of a
FPU, then do nothing if a FPU does exist; otherwise, it should
disable/bypass all FPU-related functions.
In this patch, a new global variable, has_fpu, is created and determined
when parsing the hardware capability from device tree during booting.
This variable is used in those FPU-related functions.
Signed-off-by: Alan Kao <alankao@andestech.com>
Cc: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
Cc: Vincent Chen <vincentc@andestech.com>
Cc: Zong Li <zong@andestech.com>
Cc: Nick Hu <nickhu@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
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FPU codes have been separated from common part in previous patches.
This patch add the CONFIG_FPU option and some stubs, so that a no-FPU
configuration is allowed.
Signed-off-by: Alan Kao <alankao@andestech.com>
Cc: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
Cc: Vincent Chen <vincentc@andestech.com>
Cc: Zong Li <zong@andestech.com>
Cc: Nick Hu <nickhu@andestech.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
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FPU-related logic is separated from normal signal handling path in
this patch. Kernel can easily be configured to exclude those procedures
for no-FPU systems.
Signed-off-by: Alan Kao <alankao@andestech.com>
Cc: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
Cc: Vincent Chen <vincentc@andestech.com>
Cc: Zong Li <zong@andestech.com>
Cc: Nick Hu <nickhu@andestech.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
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This patch contains code that is in some way visible to the user:
including via system calls, the VDSO, module loading and signal
handling. It also contains some generic code that is ABI visible.
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
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Linus Torvalds
Alan Kao
Palmer Dabbelt