From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
"Sebastian Andrzej Siewior" <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
"Rik van Riel" <riel@surriel.com>,
"Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"Michael Matz" <matz@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/22] x86/fpu: Remove fpu->initialized usage in copy_fpstate_to_sigframe()
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:00:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190122170023.GJ26587@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190122161551.GB9745@redhat.com>
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 05:15:51PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> I don't know... tried to google, found nothing.
>
> the comment in /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h mentions SysV/i386 ABI + historical
> reasons, this didn't help.
So I'm being told by one of the psABI folks that this is not really
written down somewhere explicitly but it is the result from the POSIX
and psABI treatise of signal handlers, what they're supposed to do,
caller- and callee-saved registers, etc.
And FPU registers are volatile, i.e., caller-saved. Which means, the
handler itself doesn't save them but the caller, which, doesn't really
expect any signals - they are async. So the kernel must do that and
slap the FPU regs onto the user stack...
Hohumm. Makes sense.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-09 11:47 [PATCH v6] x86: load FPU registers on return to userland Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 01/22] x86/fpu: Remove fpu->initialized usage in __fpu__restore_sig() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-14 16:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-05 10:08 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 02/22] x86/fpu: Remove fpu__restore() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 03/22] x86/fpu: Remove preempt_disable() in fpu__clear() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-14 18:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 04/22] x86/fpu: Always init the `state' " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-14 19:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 05/22] x86/fpu: Remove fpu->initialized usage in copy_fpstate_to_sigframe() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-16 19:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-16 22:40 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-17 12:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-18 21:14 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-18 21:17 ` Dave Hansen
2019-01-18 21:37 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-18 21:43 ` Dave Hansen
2019-01-21 11:21 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-01-22 13:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-22 16:15 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-01-22 17:00 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2019-02-05 11:34 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-02-05 11:17 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-02-26 16:38 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-03-08 18:12 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-02-05 14:37 ` [PATCH 05/22 v2] " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 06/22] x86/fpu: Don't save fxregs for ia32 frames " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-24 11:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-05 16:43 ` [PATCH 06/22 v2] x86/fpu: Don't save fxregs for ia32 frames in Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 07/22] x86/fpu: Remove fpu->initialized Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-24 13:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-05 18:03 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-02-06 14:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-07 10:13 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-02-07 10:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-05 18:06 ` [PATCH 07/22 v2] " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 08/22] x86/fpu: Remove user_fpu_begin() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-25 15:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-05 18:16 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 09/22] x86/fpu: Add (__)make_fpregs_active helpers Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-28 18:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-07 10:43 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-02-13 9:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-14 14:51 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 10/22] x86/fpu: Make __raw_xsave_addr() use feature number instead of mask Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-28 18:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 11/22] x86/fpu: Make get_xsave_field_ptr() and get_xsave_addr() " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-28 18:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-07 11:13 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-02-13 9:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 12/22] x86/fpu: Only write PKRU if it is different from current Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-23 18:09 ` Dave Hansen
2019-02-07 11:27 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 13/22] x86/pkeys: Don't check if PKRU is zero before writting it Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 14/22] x86/fpu: Eager switch PKRU state Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 15/22] x86/entry: Add TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-30 11:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-07 11:49 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-02-13 9:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-14 15:28 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 16/22] x86/fpu: Always store the registers in copy_fpstate_to_sigframe() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-30 11:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-07 13:28 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 17/22] x86/fpu: Prepare copy_fpstate_to_sigframe() for TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-30 11:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-30 12:28 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-30 12:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-07 14:10 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 18/22] x86/fpu: Update xstate's PKRU value on write_pkru() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-23 17:28 ` Dave Hansen
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 19/22] x86/fpu: Inline copy_user_to_fpregs_zeroing() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 20/22] x86/fpu: Let __fpu__restore_sig() restore the !32bit+fxsr frame from kernel memory Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-30 21:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 21/22] x86/fpu: Merge the two code paths in __fpu__restore_sig() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-09 11:47 ` [PATCH 22/22] x86/fpu: Defer FPU state load until return to userspace Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-31 9:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-15 12:44 ` [PATCH v6] x86: load FPU registers on return to userland David Laight
2019-01-15 13:15 ` 'Sebastian Andrzej Siewior'
2019-01-15 14:33 ` David Laight
2019-01-15 19:46 ` Dave Hansen
2019-01-15 20:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-01-15 20:54 ` Dave Hansen
2019-01-15 21:11 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-01-16 10:31 ` David Laight
2019-01-16 10:18 ` David Laight
2019-01-30 11:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-30 12:06 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-01-30 12:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-08 13:12 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-02-13 15:54 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-02-21 11:49 [PATCH v7] " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-02-21 11:50 ` [PATCH 05/22] x86/fpu: Remove fpu->initialized usage in copy_fpstate_to_sigframe() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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