From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>,
Richard Sandiford <richard.sandiford@arm.com>,
kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, libc-alpha@sourceware.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/28] arm64/sve: Signal handling support
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:30:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inglaaqb.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1504198860-12951-14-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> writes:
> This patch implements support for saving and restoring the SVE
> registers around signals.
>
> A fixed-size header struct sve_context is always included in the
> signal frame encoding the thread's vector length at the time of
> signal delivery, optionally followed by a variable-layout structure
> encoding the SVE registers.
>
> Because of the need to preserve backwards compatibility, the FPSIMD
> view of the SVE registers is always dumped as a struct
> fpsimd_context in the usual way, in addition to any sve_context.
>
> The SVE vector registers are dumped in full, including bits 127:0
> of each register which alias the corresponding FPSIMD vector
> registers in the hardware. To avoid any ambiguity about which
> alias to restore during sigreturn, the kernel always restores bits
> 127:0 of each SVE vector register from the fpsimd_context in the
> signal frame (which must be present): userspace needs to take this
> into account if it wants to modify the SVE vector register contents
> on return from a signal.
>
> FPSR and FPCR, which are used by both FPSIMD and SVE, are not
> included in sve_context because they are always present in
> fpsimd_context anyway.
>
> For signal delivery, a new helper
> fpsimd_signal_preserve_current_state() is added to update _both_
> the FPSIMD and SVE views in the task struct, to make it easier to
> populate this information into the signal frame. Because of the
> redundancy between the two views of the state, only one is updated
> otherwise. In order to avoid racing with a pending discard of the
> SVE state, this flush is hoisted before the sigframe layout phase,
> so that the layout and population phases see a consistent view of
> the thread.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> Cc: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
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From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>,
Richard Sandiford <richard.sandiford@arm.com>,
kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, libc-alpha@sourceware.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/28] arm64/sve: Signal handling support
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:30:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inglaaqb.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
Message-ID: <20170914093020.72eW_w1RfpsJkTNyE48MNCdvyiNOUpStlFSjFRHkRKg@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1504198860-12951-14-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> writes:
> This patch implements support for saving and restoring the SVE
> registers around signals.
>
> A fixed-size header struct sve_context is always included in the
> signal frame encoding the thread's vector length at the time of
> signal delivery, optionally followed by a variable-layout structure
> encoding the SVE registers.
>
> Because of the need to preserve backwards compatibility, the FPSIMD
> view of the SVE registers is always dumped as a struct
> fpsimd_context in the usual way, in addition to any sve_context.
>
> The SVE vector registers are dumped in full, including bits 127:0
> of each register which alias the corresponding FPSIMD vector
> registers in the hardware. To avoid any ambiguity about which
> alias to restore during sigreturn, the kernel always restores bits
> 127:0 of each SVE vector register from the fpsimd_context in the
> signal frame (which must be present): userspace needs to take this
> into account if it wants to modify the SVE vector register contents
> on return from a signal.
>
> FPSR and FPCR, which are used by both FPSIMD and SVE, are not
> included in sve_context because they are always present in
> fpsimd_context anyway.
>
> For signal delivery, a new helper
> fpsimd_signal_preserve_current_state() is added to update _both_
> the FPSIMD and SVE views in the task struct, to make it easier to
> populate this information into the signal frame. Because of the
> redundancy between the two views of the state, only one is updated
> otherwise. In order to avoid racing with a pending discard of the
> SVE state, this flush is hoisted before the sigframe layout phase,
> so that the layout and population phases see a consistent view of
> the thread.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> Cc: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
--
Alex Bennée
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From: alex.bennee@linaro.org (Alex Bennée)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 13/28] arm64/sve: Signal handling support
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:30:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inglaaqb.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1504198860-12951-14-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> writes:
> This patch implements support for saving and restoring the SVE
> registers around signals.
>
> A fixed-size header struct sve_context is always included in the
> signal frame encoding the thread's vector length at the time of
> signal delivery, optionally followed by a variable-layout structure
> encoding the SVE registers.
>
> Because of the need to preserve backwards compatibility, the FPSIMD
> view of the SVE registers is always dumped as a struct
> fpsimd_context in the usual way, in addition to any sve_context.
>
> The SVE vector registers are dumped in full, including bits 127:0
> of each register which alias the corresponding FPSIMD vector
> registers in the hardware. To avoid any ambiguity about which
> alias to restore during sigreturn, the kernel always restores bits
> 127:0 of each SVE vector register from the fpsimd_context in the
> signal frame (which must be present): userspace needs to take this
> into account if it wants to modify the SVE vector register contents
> on return from a signal.
>
> FPSR and FPCR, which are used by both FPSIMD and SVE, are not
> included in sve_context because they are always present in
> fpsimd_context anyway.
>
> For signal delivery, a new helper
> fpsimd_signal_preserve_current_state() is added to update _both_
> the FPSIMD and SVE views in the task struct, to make it easier to
> populate this information into the signal frame. Because of the
> redundancy between the two views of the state, only one is updated
> otherwise. In order to avoid racing with a pending discard of the
> SVE state, this flush is hoisted before the sigframe layout phase,
> so that the layout and population phases see a consistent view of
> the thread.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> Cc: Alex Benn?e <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>
Reviewed-by: Alex Benn?e <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
--
Alex Benn?e
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2017-08-31 17:00 [PATCH v2 00/28] ARM Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 01/28] regset: Add support for dynamically sized regsets Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 02/28] arm64: KVM: Hide unsupported AArch64 CPU features from guests Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-13 14:37 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-13 14:37 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-13 14:37 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-15 0:04 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-15 0:04 ` Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 03/28] arm64: efi: Add missing Kconfig dependency on KERNEL_MODE_NEON Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 04/28] arm64: Port deprecated instruction emulation to new sysctl interface Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 05/28] arm64: fpsimd: Simplify uses of {set,clear}_ti_thread_flag() Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 05/28] arm64: fpsimd: Simplify uses of {set, clear}_ti_thread_flag() Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 06/28] arm64/sve: System register and exception syndrome definitions Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-13 14:48 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-13 14:48 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-13 14:48 ` Alex Bennée
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 07/28] arm64/sve: Low-level SVE architectural state manipulation functions Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-13 15:39 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-13 15:39 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-13 15:39 ` Alex Bennée
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 08/28] arm64/sve: Kconfig update and conditional compilation support Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 09/28] arm64/sve: Signal frame and context structure definition Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-13 13:36 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-09-13 13:36 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-09-13 21:33 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-13 21:33 ` Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 10/28] arm64/sve: Low-level CPU setup Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-13 13:32 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-09-13 13:32 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-09-13 19:21 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-13 19:21 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-13 19:21 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-05 10:47 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-05 10:47 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-05 11:04 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2017-10-05 11:04 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2017-10-05 11:22 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-05 11:22 ` Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 11/28] arm64/sve: Core task context handling Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-13 14:33 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-09-13 14:33 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-09-14 19:55 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-14 19:55 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-20 13:58 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-09-20 13:58 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-10-03 11:11 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-03 11:11 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-04 17:29 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-10-04 17:29 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-10-03 11:33 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-03 11:33 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-05 11:28 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-10-05 11:28 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-10-06 13:10 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-06 13:10 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-06 13:36 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-10-06 13:36 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-10-06 15:15 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-06 15:15 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-06 15:33 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-10-06 15:33 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-09-13 17:26 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-09-13 17:26 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-09-13 19:17 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-13 19:17 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-13 22:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-09-13 22:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-09-14 19:40 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-14 19:40 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-19 17:13 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-09-19 17:13 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 12/28] arm64/sve: Support vector length resetting for new processes Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-14 8:47 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 8:47 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 8:47 ` Alex Bennée
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 13/28] arm64/sve: Signal handling support Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-14 9:30 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2017-09-14 9:30 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 9:30 ` Alex Bennée
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 14/28] arm64/sve: Backend logic for setting the vector length Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-13 17:29 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-09-13 17:29 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-09-13 19:06 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-13 19:06 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-13 22:11 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-09-13 22:11 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-10-05 16:42 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-05 16:42 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-05 16:53 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-10-05 16:53 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-10-05 17:04 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-05 17:04 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-20 10:57 ` Alan Hayward
2017-09-20 10:57 ` Alan Hayward
2017-09-20 10:59 ` Alan Hayward
2017-09-20 10:59 ` Alan Hayward
2017-09-20 11:09 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-20 11:09 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-20 18:08 ` Alan Hayward
2017-09-20 18:08 ` Alan Hayward
2017-09-21 11:19 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-21 11:19 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-21 11:57 ` Alan Hayward
2017-09-21 11:57 ` Alan Hayward
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 15/28] arm64: cpufeature: Move sys_caps_initialised declarations Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-14 9:33 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 9:33 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 9:33 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 9:35 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2017-09-14 9:35 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 16/28] arm64/sve: Probe SVE capabilities and usable vector lengths Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-14 9:45 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 9:45 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 9:45 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-28 14:22 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-28 14:22 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-28 17:32 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-28 17:32 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-28 17:32 ` Alex Bennée
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 17/28] arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around kernel-mode NEON use Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-14 10:52 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 10:52 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 10:52 ` Alex Bennée
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 18/28] arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around EFI runtime service calls Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-14 11:01 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 11:01 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 11:01 ` Alex Bennée
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 19/28] arm64/sve: ptrace and ELF coredump support Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-06 16:21 ` Okamoto, Takayuki
2017-09-06 16:21 ` Okamoto, Takayuki
2017-09-06 18:16 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-06 18:16 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-07 5:11 ` Okamoto, Takayuki
2017-09-07 5:11 ` Okamoto, Takayuki
2017-09-07 5:11 ` Okamoto, Takayuki
2017-09-08 13:11 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-08 13:11 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-14 12:57 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 12:57 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 12:57 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-28 14:57 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-28 14:57 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-29 12:46 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-29 12:46 ` Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 20/28] arm64/sve: Add prctl controls for userspace vector length management Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-14 13:02 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 13:02 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 13:02 ` Alex Bennée
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 21/28] arm64/sve: Add sysctl to set the default vector length for new processes Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-14 13:05 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 13:05 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 13:05 ` Alex Bennée
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 22/28] arm64/sve: KVM: Prevent guests from using SVE Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-14 13:28 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 13:28 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 13:28 ` Alex Bennée
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 23/28] arm64/sve: KVM: Treat guest SVE use as undefined instruction execution Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-14 13:30 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 13:30 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 13:30 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 13:31 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 13:31 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 13:31 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-29 13:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-29 13:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-29 14:43 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-29 14:43 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-29 14:43 ` Alex Bennée
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 24/28] arm64/sve: KVM: Hide SVE from CPU features exposed to guests Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-09-14 13:32 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 13:32 ` Alex Bennée
2017-09-14 13:32 ` Alex Bennée
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 25/28] arm64/sve: Detect SVE and activate runtime support Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 26/28] arm64/sve: Add documentation Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-05 16:39 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2017-10-05 16:39 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2017-10-05 17:02 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-05 17:02 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-06 15:43 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2017-10-06 15:43 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2017-10-06 17:37 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-06 17:37 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-09 9:34 ` Alex Bennée
2017-10-09 9:34 ` Alex Bennée
2017-10-09 9:34 ` Alex Bennée
2017-10-09 9:49 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-09 9:49 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-09 14:07 ` Alex Bennée
2017-10-09 14:07 ` Alex Bennée
2017-10-09 14:07 ` Alex Bennée
2017-10-09 16:20 ` Dave Martin
2017-10-09 16:20 ` Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` [RFC PATCH v2 27/28] arm64: signal: Report signal frame size to userspace via auxv Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:00 ` Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:01 ` [RFC PATCH v2 28/28] arm64/sve: signal: Include SVE when computing AT_MINSIGSTKSZ Dave Martin
2017-08-31 17:01 ` Dave Martin
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