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When using syscall wrappers the __SYSCALL_DEFINEx() and related macros
add a "__powerpc_" prefix to all syscall entry points.
So for example sys_mmap becomes __powerpc_sys_mmap.
This risks breaking workflows and tools that expect the old naming
scheme. At a minimum setting a breakpoint on eg. sys_mmap with gdb no
longer works.
There seems to be no compelling reason to add the "__powerpc_" prefix,
other than that it follows what some other arches do (x86, arm64, s390).
But unlike other arches powerpc doesn't always enable syscall wrappers,
so the syscall entry points can change name depending on CONFIG options.
For those reasons drop the "__powerpc_" prefix, reverting to the
existing naming.
Doing so reveals two prototypes in signal.h that have the incorrect type
when syscall wrappers are enabled. There are already prototypes for both
functions in syscalls.h, so drop the ones from signal.h.
Fixes: 7e92e01b7245 ("powerpc: Provide syscall wrapper")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221006135940.1223988-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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Implement syscall wrapper as per s390, x86, arm64. When enabled
cause handlers to accept parameters from a stack frame rather than
from user scratch register state. This allows for user registers to be
safely cleared in order to reduce caller influence on speculation
within syscall routine. The wrapper is a macro that emits syscall
handler symbols that call into the target handler, obtaining its
parameters from a struct pt_regs on the stack.
As registers are already saved to the stack prior to calling
system_call_exception, it appears that this function is executed more
efficiently with the new stack-pointer convention than with parameters
passed by registers, avoiding the allocation of a stack frame for this
method. On a 32-bit system, we see >20% performance increases on the
null_syscall microbenchmark, and on a Power 8 the performance gains
amortise the cost of clearing and restoring registers which is
implemented at the end of this series, seeing final result of ~5.6%
performance improvement on null_syscall.
Syscalls are wrapped in this fashion on all platforms except for the
Cell processor as this commit does not provide SPU support. This can be
quickly fixed in a successive patch, but requires spu_sys_callback to
allocate a pt_regs structure to satisfy the wrapped calling convention.
Co-developed-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <rmclure@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmai.com>
[mpe: Make incompatible with COMPAT to retain clearing of high bits of args]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220921065605.1051927-22-rmclure@linux.ibm.com
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Cause syscall handlers to be typed as follows when called indirectly
throughout the kernel. This is to allow for better type checking.
typedef long (*syscall_fn)(unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long,
unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long);
Since both 32 and 64-bit abis allow for at least the first six
machine-word length parameters to a function to be passed by registers,
even handlers which admit fewer than six parameters may be viewed as
having the above type.
Coercing syscalls to syscall_fn requires a cast to void* to avoid
-Wcast-function-type.
Fixup comparisons in VDSO to avoid pointer-integer comparison. Introduce
explicit cast on systems with SPUs.
Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <rmclure@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220921065605.1051927-19-rmclure@linux.ibm.com
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The table of syscall handlers and registered compatibility syscall
handlers has in past been produced using assembly, with function
references resolved at link time. This moves link-time errors to
compile-time, by rewriting systbl.S in C, and including the
linux/syscalls.h, linux/compat.h and asm/syscalls.h headers for
prototypes.
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <rmclure@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220921065605.1051927-18-rmclure@linux.ibm.com
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Michael Ellerman
Rohan McLure