kernel/arch/microblaze/include/asm/thread_info.h, branch linux-5.1.y

Construct init thread stack in the linker script rather than by union

2018-01-09T23:21:02Z

Construct the init thread stack in the linker script rather than doing it by means of a union so that ia64's init_task.c can be got rid of. The following symbols are then made available from INIT_TASK_DATA() linker script macro: init_thread_union init_stack INIT_TASK_DATA() also expands the region to THREAD_SIZE to accommodate the size of the init stack. init_thread_union is given its own section so that it can be placed into the stack space in the right order. I'm assuming that the ia64 ordering is correct and that the task_struct is first and the thread_info second. Signed-off-by: David Howells Tested-by: Tony Luck Tested-by: Will Deacon (arm64) Tested-by: Palmer Dabbelt Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner

signal: consolidate {TS,TLF}_RESTORE_SIGMASK code

2016-08-02T23:35:23Z

In general, there's no need for the "restore sigmask" flag to live in ti->flags. alpha, ia64, microblaze, powerpc, sh, sparc (64-bit only), tile, and x86 use essentially identical alternative implementations, placing the flag in ti->status. Replace those optimized implementations with an equally good common implementation that stores it in a bitfield in struct task_struct and drop the custom implementations. Additional architectures can opt in by removing their TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK defines. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8a14321d64a28e40adfddc90e18a96c086a6d6f9.1468522723.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Tested-by: Michael Ellerman [powerpc] Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Yoshinori Sato Cc: Rich Felker Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dmitry Safonov Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

microblaze: Remove signal translation and exec_domain

2015-04-12T18:58:25Z

As execution domain support is gone we can remove signal translation from the signal code and remove exec_domain from thread_info. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct

2015-02-13T02:54:12Z

If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting the restart block is a very juicy exploit target. This is because the restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack. Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by making the restart_block harder to locate. Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy targets, at least on some architectures. It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less identical on all architectures. [james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack] Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Al Viro Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kees Cook Cc: David Miller Acked-by: Richard Weinberger Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Russell King Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt Cc: Steven Miao Cc: Mark Salter Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot Cc: Mikael Starvik Cc: Jesper Nilsson Cc: David Howells Cc: Richard Kuo Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Acked-by: Michael Ellerman (powerpc) Tested-by: Michael Ellerman (powerpc) Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Chen Liqin Cc: Lennox Wu Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: James Hogan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

preempt: Make PREEMPT_ACTIVE generic

2013-11-13T19:21:47Z

No point in having this bit defined by architecture. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130917183629.090698799@linutronix.de

arch: Consolidate tsk_is_polling()

2013-04-08T15:39:22Z

Move it to a common place. Preparatory patch for implementing set/clear for the idle need_resched poll implementation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Paul McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Reviewed-by: Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat Cc: Magnus Damm Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130321215233.446034505@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

bury the rest of TIF_IRET

2012-10-01T13:58:13Z

Some architectures had blindly copied it for no reason whatsoever. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

sanitize tsk_is_polling()

2012-10-01T13:58:13Z

Make default just return 0. The current default (checking TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG) is taken to architectures that need it; ones that don't do polling in their idle threads don't need to defined TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG at all. ia64 defined both TS_POLLING (used by its tsk_is_polling()) and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG (not used at all). Killed the latter... Signed-off-by: Al Viro

set_restore_sigmask() is never called without SIGPENDING (and never should be)

2012-06-01T16:58:50Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

new helpers: {clear,test,test_and_clear}_restore_sigmask()

2012-06-01T16:58:47Z

helpers parallel to set_restore_sigmask(), used in the next commits Signed-off-by: Al Viro