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@ 2015-09-05  7:32 Ingo Molnar
  2015-09-05  7:32 ` [PATCH 01/15] x86/headers: Fix (old) header file dependency bug in uapi/asm/sigcontext32.h Ingo Molnar
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From: Ingo Molnar @ 2015-09-05  7:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Mikko Rapeli, Andy Lutomirski, Andrew Morton, Denys Vlasenko,
	Brian Gerst, Peter Zijlstra, Borislav Petkov, H. Peter Anvin,
	Linus Torvalds, Oleg Nesterov, Thomas Gleixner

So Mikko Rapeli reported that sigcontext32.h does not build standalone,
and while trying to fix it I came up with this series that cleans up
all sorts of details and makes the sigcontext types (hopefully) much
more maintainable.

Before this series we had a somewhat messy duplication that resulted
in 3 type definitions (repeated for both sigcontext and for various
FPU state structures):

  - native 32-bit types      (only available on 32-bit kernels)
  - native 64-bit types      (only available on 64-bit kernels)
  - compat 32-bit types      (only available on 64-bit kernels)
  - wrappers defining _32 named variants of these types

... while in reality our compat 32-bit ABI structures are the same as
the native 32-bit ABI structures.

So after the series there's a clear, bitness independent definition
of all the relevant types:

	struct sigcontext_32  (available on all kernels)
	struct sigcontext_64  (available on all kernels)

	struct _fpstate_32    (available on all kernels)
	struct _fpstate_64    (available on all kernels)

and the kernel bitness dependent 'struct sigcontext' and 'struct _fpstate'
structures are then mapped to their respective types, depending on bitness.

Modern user-space can start using these cleaner types. (If they want to: all
old names are kept as well).

I have also extended/harmonized all the disjunct (and often hard to read)
comments in the various structure definitions. The patches add a lot of
new comments, this is why the diffstat shows only a modest line count
reduction:

 13 files changed, 324 insertions(+), 338 deletions(-)

Another effect of the series is that sigcontext32.h is gone (only
a wrapper to sigcontext.h is kept, in case existing user-space relies
on the header), and the kernel side asm/sigcontext.h file is gone as
well. This should solve the original build failure reported by Mikko
Rapeli.

All legacy names are still kept to make sure we don't break user-space
builds, and are collected at the end of the file, without confusing people
who'd only like to read the file to understand the kernel side code.

The various _ia32 names are mostly gone as well from the kernel side,
compatibility wrappers are kept for the user-space side.

There's one new type quirk in patch 11, which is the result of having unified
C code operating on a 32-bit pointer field both from 64-bit kernel and from
a native 32-bit kernel:

 int restore_sigcontext(struct pt_regs *regs, struct sigcontext __user *sc)
 {
 +       unsigned long buf_val;

 -               get_user_ex(buf, &sc->fpstate);
 +               get_user_ex(buf_val, &sc->fpstate);
 +               buf = (void __user *)buf_val;

this is the cleanest I could structure it. If this is the only quirk then I
think the advantages outweigh the ugliness - BYMMV.

So in general this is how I imagine our model should be to define ABIs
going forward.

Comments, suggestions are welcome!

    Ingo

============================>
Ingo Molnar (15):
  x86/headers: Fix (old) header file dependency bug in uapi/asm/sigcontext32.h
  x86/headers: Clean up uapi/asm/sigcontext32.h
  x86/headers: Clean up and better document uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
  x86/headers: Separate out legacy user-space structure definitions
  x86/headers: Use ABI types consistently in sigcontext*.h
  x86/headers: Unify register type definitions between 32-bit compat and i386
  x86/headers: Unify 'struct _fpstate_ia32' and i386 struct _fpstate
  x86/headers: Convert uses of _fpstate_ia32 to _fpstate_32
  x86/headers: Clean up the kernel's struct sigcontext types to be ABI-clean
  x86/headers: Move the 'struct sigcontext' definitions into the UAPI header
  x86/headers: Make sigcontext pointers bit independent
  x86/headers: Unify 'struct sigcontext_ia32' and 'struct sigcontext_32'
  x86/headers: Convert sigcontext_ia32 uses to sigcontext_32
  x86/headers: Remove direct sigcontext32.h uses
  x86/headers: Remove <asm/sigcontext.h>

 arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c              |   8 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/signal.h        |   2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/ia32.h              |   4 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h         |   2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h        |  79 ------
 arch/x86/include/asm/sigframe.h          |   8 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/signal.h            |   2 +-
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h   | 456 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext32.h |  73 +----
 arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c            |  18 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c             |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c                 |   4 +-
 arch/x86/math-emu/fpu_emu.h              |   2 +-
 13 files changed, 324 insertions(+), 338 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h

-- 
2.1.4


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