Re: [PATCH 14/20] arm64: ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it

From: Yury Norov
Date: Fri Jun 09 2017 - 03:06:42 EST


On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 04:05:36PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
> Hi Yury,
>
> On 04/06/17 13:00, Yury Norov wrote:
> > From: Andrew Pinski <apinski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Add a separate syscall-table for ILP32, which dispatches either to native
> > LP64 system call implementation or to compat-syscalls, as appropriate.
>
> (I'm still reading through this series trying to understand it, but spotted this: )
>
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> > index 279bc2ab10c3..7d52fe1ec6bd 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> > @@ -577,6 +594,7 @@ el0_svc_compat:
> > * AArch32 syscall handling
> > */
> > adrp stbl, compat_sys_call_table // load compat syscall table pointer
> > + ldr x16, [tsk, #TSK_TI_FLAGS]
> > uxtw scno, w7 // syscall number in w7 (r7)
> > mov sc_nr, #__NR_compat_syscalls
> > b el0_svc_naked
> > @@ -798,15 +816,21 @@ ENDPROC(ret_from_fork)
> > .align 6
> > el0_svc:
> > adrp stbl, sys_call_table // load syscall table pointer
> > + ldr x16, [tsk, #TSK_TI_FLAGS]
> > uxtw scno, w8 // syscall number in w8
> > mov sc_nr, #__NR_syscalls
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_ILP32
> > + tst x16, #_TIF_32BIT_AARCH64
> > + b.eq el0_svc_naked // We are using LP64 syscall table
> > + adrp stbl, sys_call_ilp32_table // load ilp32 syscall table pointer
> > + delouse_input_regs
> > +#endif
> > el0_svc_naked: // compat entry point
> > stp x0, scno, [sp, #S_ORIG_X0] // save the original x0 and syscall number
> > enable_dbg_and_irq
> > ct_user_exit 1
> >
>
> > - ldr x16, [tsk, #TSK_TI_FLAGS] // check for syscall hooks
>
> If built with CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING, ct_user_exit will call
> context_tracking_user_exit(), this will clobber x16 which you depend on not
> changing below:
>
>
> > - tst x16, #_TIF_SYSCALL_WORK
> > + tst x16, #_TIF_SYSCALL_WORK // check for syscall hooks
>
> > b.ne __sys_trace
> > cmp scno, sc_nr // check upper syscall limit
> > b.hs ni_sys

Hi James,

Thanks for the catch. I'll use x19 insteas - it's callee-saved.

Yury